Violin & Piano Duo

New Album AEQUORA

This album is inspired by Iceland and the cultural legacy of its music, featuring works by several prominent Icelandic composers, including María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Daníel Bjarnason, and Páll Ragnar Pálsson.

Mina Gajić writes, “Zachary and I traveled to Iceland to experience the landscapes and to meet with several composers, exploring their work and observing where the connections between their interests and ours as a duo seemed congruous. María had been wanting to rework her Aequora, adding a violin to the piano and electronics, and Páll had been imagining adapting the harp part for piano in his work Notre Dame. Both turned out to be remarkably successful, and rewarding to study and perform. In exploring works to program alongside these, Anna’s Reminiscence and Daníel’s First Escape worked beautifully – solos complementing the other works while providing refreshing contrast to the duo works. We asked María to create an entirely new work for us with the goal of providing a contemplative environment for the audience, as a shared meditation, a community-building ritual. She composed an utterly gorgeous work, Re/fractions, casting light on what is possible when the intention is, as she so eloquently stated when we first met, ‘to refrain from adding noise to an already noisy world.’”

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Redefining virtuoso in the 21st Century.

Mystery Sonata’s recent history includes concert appearances in thirty nations, working alongside composers, dancers, multimedia artists, and filmmakers for bespoke, engaging music performances that redefine virtuoso in the 21st Century.

Mina Gajić and Zachary Carrettin's solo, duo, and collaborative recorded albums include Confluence, Bach UnCaged, Sonic Alchemy, Boulder Bach Festival, Boundless, Metamorphosis, and Aequora.

Classical World Music in thrilling, dynamic live performance.

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"Carrettin and Gajić work seamlessly as a team, and they bring expressive acuity and technical prowess… The scope of the sophistication (they) apply to all of this fare can be summed up in the title of a previous release… Boundless." 

–Gramophone Magazine