Cantolegno – the name also expresses the young duo's musical aim: The wood (ital.: legno) of the violin and the guitar begins to vibrate and to sing (ital.: canto), deeply moving the souls of their listeners. Founded in 2012, their repertoire contains a wide range of baroque and classical sonatas, as well as romantic and contemporary works. Furthermore, this duo especially focuses on Latin American and Spanish music, as well as self-penned compositions, giving the concerts various personal and individual elements. The guitarist Matthias Greenslade and the violinist Julia von Allwörden-Eberling graduated from Hanover's, Hamburg's and Berlin's colleges of music. They worked in chamber music lessons and in masterclasses with professors like Anita Rennert, Olaf van Gonissen, Kana Sugimura, Thomas Müller-Pering, Anna Melkonyan and Sanel Redžić. Regular concerts lead the young musicians to many extraordinary places like the University of the arts Berlin, the castle of Meiningen or the „Musikwoche Hitzacker“ festival. In 2015 Duo Cantolegno was given a scholarship by „Yehudi Menuhin – Live Music Now Hamburg“, bringing music to people who cannot go to concerts due to their circumstances. Duo Cantolegno attaches great importance to communicating with their audience, especially by presenting their concerts and by playing expressively. This could also be seen when they developed an exchange of ideas between themselves and their audience using postcards.www.duocantolegno.de