Duo Licht

Andy is excited to be fulfilling a well-rounded career in music. Andy is a current member of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra as a section first violin. Since 2017, Andy serves as an assistant teacher through the Winston-Salem Symphony’s P.L.A.Y Music Program. This program teaches violin to Elementary schools across Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools. Being active in his community, Andy served for 2 years as a full time volunteer with ArtistCorps. This service is an AmeriCorps program geared at bringing arts through teaching and performing to local schools. Through ArtistCorps, Andy assisted the orchestra program at Diggs-Latham Elementary School, Wiley Middle School, Wake Forest University’s summer Freedom School, Old Town Elementary School, and the Salvation Army.

Andy is a native of Massachusetts, and holds a bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a Masters of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Andy’s violin teachers include Kevin Lawrence, (UNCSA) and Elizabeth Chang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).

Andy also has an interest in composition and arranging. He has been writting and arranging music for his wife and him to play (Duo Licht). Most of what is played at weddings are his own arrangements especially made for the violin and viola duo. His composiiton "The Raven" for violin and viola with narrator, based off of the Edgar Allan Poe poem, was featured on Fox 8 News station.

Born and raised in Australia, Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg began studies on the violin when she was eight years old. A year and a half later she performed with her father accompanying on the piano for the opening of a “Morning Melodies” concert featuring the singer Kamahl in the Melbourne Town Hall. She grew up playing with music societies and community orchestras in the Mornington Peninsula region of Victoria and when she was 12 years old performed the Concerto for Two Violins with the Frankston Symphony Orchestra.

Lilian-Terri holds associate music diplomas from the Australian Music Examinations Board in violin and viola. During her undergraduate degree she switched to viola full time. She has bachelor of music from the University of Melbourne and an honours degree from the Elder Conservatorium, South Australia. She has been a participant in the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and orchestral training programs with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestra, Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.

Prior to coming to the United States, Lilian-Terri was based in Adelaide, South Australia where she was teaching violin and viola privately and in schools including Prince Alfred College and for the junior program at the Elder Conservatorium. She was also a member of the Zephyr String Quartet where she performed across a range of genres and collaborated with art forms such as painting, dance and poetry. During her time with the quartet they received an APRA/AMCOS Australian Art Music Award. Performances included the Adelaide and Perth Fringe Festivals, the Edinburgh International Festival with the Leigh Warren Dance Company and for the Australian Embassy in Manila, Philippines.

In 2012 Lilian-Terri was a recipient of a teaching assistantship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she completed a master of music degree. She continued further studies in Boston as the Jack Megan Outreach Scholar with a teaching assistantship at the Longy School of Music of Bard College where she holds a graduate performance diploma. Lilian-Terri has been a participant at the Colorado College Music Festival (2014) and was awarded a full scholarship to participate in the Cremona International Music Academy in Italy (2016). She has also adjudicated for the Massachusetts Music Educators All-State Orchestra program (2014, 2015, 2017).

Since moving to North Carolina in 2017, she has been working as a teacher and performer. Lilian-Terri is a lead teacher for the Winston-Salem Symphony’s P.L.A.Y. Music program, holds the principal viola position for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, is a viola sub for the Winston-Salem Symphony and has also appeared as guest principal viola for the Spartanburg Philharmonic in SC. She maintains a growing private studio of violin and viola students, has adjudicated for Winston-Salem Forsyth County NC auditions (2018) and was the viola clinician for the audition boot camp hosted by the American String Teachers Association in Winston-Salem (2019).