Wolfgang Fetsch and Anita Fetsch Felix

After decades of successful careers as soloists, chamber musicians and orchestra playing, pianist Wolfgang Fetsch and his daughter, violinist Anita Fetsch Felix, have combined their talents to present virtuosic violin and piano duo literature. Their music outreach has extended from Mendocino to San Diego, including San Francisco, Fresno, Berkeley, Monterey, San Joaquin valley and to Colorado. Felix and Fetsch are Roster Artists of the California Arts Council's Touring and Presenting Program.

Duo Concertante came into existence in 1994. Fetsch had recently retired as Professor of Piano and Chairman of Applied Music from the University of the Pacific and Felix found herself without a performance venue following the collapse of the Sacramento Symphony. Rehearsals posed a challenge. Felix lives with her husband and two young daughters in Sacramento while Fetsch resides in Stockton. They work together several times a week taking turns driving to each others' homes.

Anita Felix, Concertmaster of the Sacramento Gold Country Chamber Orchestra and Folsom Lake Symphony Orchestra, is currently in her seventh season with the Sacramento Philharmonic and performs regularly with the orchestras of the Sacramento Opera, Sacramento Choral Society, Sacramento Ballet and the Elk Grove Strauss Festival. She was formerly assistant Concertmaster of the Stockton Symphony. She began her artitic endeavors as a ballet dancer but later changed to violin. After attending the University of the Pacific, Drake University and the Univerity of Wisconsin-Madison, she became a member of the Omaha Symphony, Nebraska Sinfonia and Omaha Symphony String Quartet. She has also performed in the former Sacramento Symphony, Festival of New American Music, Colorado Music Festival, Festival of the Lakes, Festival of the Desert, International Music Festival, Music from Bear Valley, Peter Britt Festival, Mendocino Music Festival and the Sacramento area Bach Festival Orchestra. Anita has instilled the love of music and dance in her two daughters who both study ballet, violin and flute.

Born in Germany, Wolfgang Fetsch began his musical education with his father, pianist-conductor Rudolf Fetsch. He continued his studies at Indiana University, earning the doctorate in Piano Literature and Performance. He performed extensively as recitalist and soloist with orchestras in the United States and Japan and taught in North Carolina, Texas and California. The University of the Pacific honored him with the Distinguished Faculty Award. Although he is retired from university teaching, he remains active as a private teacher of piano and as a performer of chamber music.