Praised by the New York Times for her "rich tone and virtuosic panache" and by The Arts Journal for playing of "taste, mastery, sensuality," Anderegg brings warmth and expressive directness to a program that spans samba, choro, frevo, bossa nova, and the grand sweep of Villa-Lobos and Camargo Guarnieri. Her partner, Erika Ribeiro, is one of the most distinctive pianists of her generation in Brazil — a Latin GRAMMY™-nominated artist celebrated for dissolving the boundaries between "classical" and "popular" from within.

Their two albums — Images of Brazil (2018) on Naxos Records and Navigator of Silences (2024), streamed over a million times — were received with critical acclaim that confirmed the project's place in a broader conversation about how classical musicians engage with living musical traditions. "The most delightful disc of Brazilian chamber music to come along in years," wrote Fanfare Magazine. "An intoxicating collection…filled with a deep sense of yearning," wrote CBC Music.

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‍ABOUT FRANCESCA ANDEREGG

Lauded by the New York Times for her "rich tone" and "virtuosic panache," violinist Francesca Anderegg has built a career at the intersection of interpretive elegance and fearless artistic inquiry. Since her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008, Anderegg has appeared to rave reviews in national and international venues, including Brooklyn's National Sawdust, the Arts Club of Washington, and the National Museum of Colombia in Bogotá. Her performances have been praised for their "astonishing assurance" (Chicago Sun-Times) and "taste, mastery, sensuality" (The Arts Journal). As a soloist she has performed with orchestras across the United States, Costa Rica, and Brazil — including the Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Cláudio Santoro in Brasília and the Municipal Orchestra of Campinas — in repertoire ranging from Mozart and Prokofiev to Guarnieri and Coleridge-Taylor.‍

‍Anderegg's four recordings trace a wide artistic arc: from the Viennese tradition paired with American modernism on her debut album, to Wild Cities (New Focus Recordings), a survey of young American composers. Images of Brazil was called "the most delightful disc of Brazilian chamber music to come along in years" (Fanfare Magazine), and her most recent release, Navigator of Silences, was called "an intoxicating collection…filled with a deep sense of yearning" by CBC Music. Across these albums, her playing has been praised for its "stunning virtuosity" (Fanfare Magazine), "lustrous tone" (The Strad), and "riveting" listening experience (Second Inversion).‍

‍Anderegg holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and Master's and Doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School, where her teachers included Robert Mann, Ronald Copes, and Naoko Tanaka. She is a laureate of the Corpus Christi International Competition, a prizewinner of the American Prize in Strings (Professional Division), and a recipient of fellowships from the McKnight Foundation and the Leonore Annenberg Fund. She served as Associate Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, and has taught in the summers at the Sarasota Music Festival, Interlochen Arts Camp, and Brevard Music Center.

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ABOUT ERIKA RIBEIRO

Renowned for her remarkable musicality, transparency, and the spontaneity of her pianism, Latin Grammy nominee Erika Ribeiro is a truly 21st-century artist always on the search for new performance approaches, and combining diverse styles in her playing and programming.‍

‍Winner of 10 piano competitions in Brazil - including the III Nelson Freire Competition, and awarded in more than 20, Erika has performed extensively in her native Brazil, as well as in United States, Europe and Latin America. She has played at prestigious venues such as Sala São Paulo, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro, Sala Minas Gerais, Cecilia Meireles Hall, among others. She has been a frequent guest soloist of main Brazilian orchestras, including the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, Minas Gerais Philharmonic, OSUSP, and many others; in Europe, she performed with the Kalisz Philharmonic (Poland) and the Gaia Philharmonic Orchestra (Portugal). As a chamber musician, Erika frequently collaborates with diverse singers and instrumentalists.‍

‍Her first solo album Erika Ribeiro (Igor Stravinsky, Hermeto Pascoal, Sofia Gubaidulina) was nominated for the Latin Grammy 2022 as Best Classical Album, and was selected as Best Album of the Year by brazilian magazine Concerto. In this work, Erika originally transcribed pieces by Stravinsky and Pascoal for the piano, including rare pieces written by Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. She also worked closely with american violinist Francesca Anderegg with whom she recorded two albums: Images of Brazil  (released in 2018 by Naxos Music) and Navigator of silences (2024) both with contrasting styles of brazilian repertoire for violin and piano. Entre Luas  with singer Tatiana Parra was released in 2023.

‍‍Ms. Ribeiro holds a B.A and M.A in Music (University of São Paulo). Recently she finished her PhD/UNIRIO where she studied the concept of pianism and pianist-composer Egberto Gismonti. She also studied Piano at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin, Germany (2003-05), and chamber music at Écoles d 'Art de Fontainebleau, France (2008). She has attended music festivals in the U.S., Switzerland and France, where she received the highest honors in performance at the Fontainebleau Academy. Ms. Ribeiro is currently Piano and Chamber Music Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO).