Local couple Siok Tan and Tze Lim will be performing together as a part of Oxford’s Red Door Community Concert series Feb. 16 at 12:15 p.m.
Originally from Malaysia, Tan and Lim first met when they were a part of a youth symphony orchestra and eventually came to the U.S. to study together at University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.
“She was playing the viola at the time,” Lim said.
Now, over 30 years later, the couple lives in Oxford, where Tan is a professor of music at Miami University and Lim has a studio in Cincinnati where he teaches violin.
“We are really lucky at Miami because we get to choose what we want to play,” Tan said. “It’s nice to have that artistic freedom as a professor.”
In addition to teaching music, Tan and Lim said they enjoy traveling and performing different types of chamber music at conferences like in Malaysia, Australia and Estonia.
The duo’s concert will feature pieces by twentieth-century composers from the Americas with a focus on composers of color, including William Grant Steele, Carlos Castillo and Manuel Ponce.
The performance will be free to the public as the fourth concert of the third season of the Red Door Community Concert series at the 25 E. Walnut St. church. It will also be streamed on the church’s YouTube channel.
