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Hachidori was born in Tallahassee, Florida in the summer of 1998 when two college friends gathered to play violin-cello duets together on a glass of wine. Shortly afterwards the enthusiasm resulted in a recital with the "modest" title pieces in the program: Duos by J.B. Cirri, L. van Beethoven, and Z. Kodály. It was the sonorous splendor, a perfect combination of just two instruments supplementing each other in such a wonderful gamut of color, technique, and a tone range of more than six octaves that impassioned the young musicians. In the affectionate musical realm that they were living in, it was a secret but marvelous door that opened for them. Jen and Gene, as their friends call them, were pursuing their Masters degree in Violin/Cello Performance at Florida State University at the time. They fervently started researching the violin-cello repertoire and played whatever they could find for that combination. By the end of their graduation as Doctors in Musical Arts, that list included composers from the Medieval period going through Haydn, Beethoven, Honegger, Martinu, and Ravel, up to living composers. Jennifer's doctoral dissertation was even associated with that topic. It explores more than sixty works written for violin and cello with an orchestral accompaniment. However, that was not enough for the couple. In the summer of 2001 both friends, already betrothed to each other, got married in Virginia. They did it again in the quaint sunny town of Russe, Bulgaria two weeks later. ...and... even
that is not enough...
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