Duo CPE

Andréa Walker is hailed as “luminous” and “a force to be reckoned with” (Seen and Heard International). Dedicated to heartfelt and dramatic historically informed performance, she sings across the country with ensembles including the GRAMMY® Award-winning orchestra Apollo’s Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Pegasus Early Music, NYS Baroque, Harmonia Stellarum Houston, and Ars Lyrica. Other recent solo engagements include her Lincoln Center debut in Telemann's Der Tag des Gerichts with Masaaki Suzuki/Juilliard415 and the 2025 Carmel Bach Festival, where she was a Virginia Best Adams vocal fellow.

Andréa received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in historical performance practice at Case Western Reserve University, where she took scholarly interest in keyboard/vocal music of the German salon c. 1800 and the performance of French Baroque gesture in sacred drama. Prior to her time in Cleveland, she graduated with a Master's in vocal performance from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she specialized in early music, oratorio, and art song.

Mikhail Grazhdanov is a multi-keyboardist from Russia. He regularly performs in the Cleveland area as a harpsichordist, fortepianist, and organist, both as a soloist and in ensembles. In the summer of 2024 he participated in two major early music competitions: the 10th Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition in Montreal (most promising semifinalist prize) and the Musique Antique Fortepiano Competition in Brugge (semifinals).

Currently he is pursuing a DMA in historical performance at Case Western Reserve University, where he studies with Francesca Brittan (fortepiano), Peter Bennett (harpsichord), Jonathan Moyer (organ). In addition to performing, Mikhail is dedicated to research in historical performance practices. He recently presented a lecture-recital on gigues in binary meters at the Ludus Chronalis organ conference at the University of Michigan. His current research centers on the revolutionary, yet little-known, fortepiano treatise by Hélène de Montgeroult.