When: February 24th at 6 pm - Where: Pianoforte Foundation, 1335 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Formed in 1994 during the studies at the Juilliard School in New York, the Zappa-Mainolfi duo had its debut as part of the Chamber Music Series in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in 1994. Continuing its training, the duo has worked with such artists as Harvey Shapiro, Felix Galimir and Oxana Yablonskaya in New York, Thomas Demenga and Gérard Wyss in Basel, Maria Curcio in London, Ferenc Rados, Andràs Schiff and Steven Isserlis at the IMS Seminars in Cornwall. They recently performed extensively throughout Europe as well as in the U.S.A. and in Southafrica, and recorded for Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2, Radio DRS 2 Radio della Svizzera italiana, for the italian label Claves Records.