Alice Martelli and Alex Lee met in 2019 as performers in the Lincoln Center Stage chamber music program serving Holland America Line cruises.  The two have played over 1000 concerts together on sea and land since then, either as a duo or in collaboration with other musicians, and have done it all while seeing the world.

Alice, from Bologna, Italy, began her piano studies at the age of six. At eight, she joined the treble choir at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, where she was sang for many operas. She attended the Conservatorio di Musica "A. Boito" in Parma from 2008 to 2018, obtaining both Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in Piano Performance, followed by additional Master’s degrees in Chamber Music and Vocal Chamber Music. During this period, she also spent a year at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna on an Erasmus Scholarship.  Alice has served as accompanist and vocal coach for the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the AsLiCo Opera Company in Como, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opera studio in Florence, and on tour to Japan with the Coro Verdianeum. As a chamber musician, Alice was awarded 1st Prize in the Chamber Music category of the 2015 “Premio Crescendo” International Competition in Florence. She has performed in concerts with the Kodaly Quartet and with clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy. Her discography includes a 29-pianist collaboration for Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Aura Music Label and guitar and piano duos by Rodrigo and Castelnuovo-Tedesco for RAI Radio 3, the cultural station of Italy’s national public radio.

Alex, who hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also began to study the violin at six years old, first with John McCarthy and later with Eugene Phillips. His time in Pittsburgh included a concertmaster position with the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra and soloist performances with both PYSO and the Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra. After high school, Alex went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where he studied with Zvi Zeitlin and Charles Castleman. There, he served as concertmaster of the Eastman Philharmonia, the Collegium Musicum Baroque Ensemble, and multiple Contemporary music groups. He performed the Beethoven concerto with the school orchestra, and his chamber groups participated in the Chamber Music Intensive Seminar and Honors Recitals. After Eastman, Alex received a fellowship with the New World Symphony in Miami under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, where he was also able to regularly serve as concertmaster. In his summers, Alex has been a part of the Artosphere Festival, Castleman Quartet Program, National Repertory Orchestra, Music Academy of the West, and the Meadowmount School of Music.  Alex performs on a violin made in 2014 by New York-based luthier Jason Viseltear.