'Duo' is a love story and a dialogue in four scenes. The dramatis personae are A Man (played by the violin) and A Woman (played by the harp). The Meeting, initiated by the violin, develops into a flirtatious waltz and an awakening of tender love. Then follows Prayer a tender love-song with a beautiful violin melody over a rocking, hypnotic harp part. However, the course of true love never did run smooth and

The three pieces in the set were written for Artemy Izmaylov, fourth generation harpist, and son of the composer, when he was eight or nine years old.

A Dream, the nocturne-like first movement, concentrates on arpeggios and a singing tone, whilst the second, Sad Waltz, has a slightly more difficult left hand, supporting a legato melody in the right hand. Both pieces are Grade 3 standard. The Toccata which

This work was written for the USA International Harp Competition 2012 Composition Contest, Bloomington, Indiana, USA and, incorporating authentic North American Indian tunes as it does, inevitably, it could only be called Indiana. However, Indiana was actually composed on the other side of the world in a small village called Angen-Lakhta in Karelia, Northwestern Russia, 450 Km (300 miles) north of St. Petersburg,

Saint Petersburg-Vienna Concerto-Waltz celebrates the link, via the Waltz, between two of the greatest musical cities of the nineteenth century.

The Viennese waltz is the oldest of all ballroom dances. The charm, elegance, vivacity and sophistication of this music mirrored the glitter and the joie de vivre of old Vienna, and by the

Toward the Sun, a duo for two harps, described by Andres Izmaylov as 'a little Jazzy Joke', was written for the composer and his young son, then ten years old, to play together. Delightful, witty and amusing for audience and performers alike, the two parts are well adapted for teacher or advanced student (Grades 6-7) playing with a younger student or less advanced pupil. The second harp part is well within