For Living Lovers Performs at The Church

The Church in Sag Harbor presents For Living Lovers, an acoustic duo with guitarist/composer Brandon Ross and acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi, performing on Thursday, August 15, at 7 p.m.

The stringed duo, primarily based out of New York City, has gained international success performing and recording in Japan, U.S. and Europe receiving rave reviews for their uniquely adventurous musical “sound-world,” The music of For Living Lovers, developed from the worlds of jazz and creative music, carries listeners into the gestures and rhythms of sound and silence, as they reveal hidden depths in Ross’s compositions and layer each moment with keen intentionality and poise.

Founded in 2002, For Living Lovers developed while Ross and Takeishi were band members in visionary composer, Pulitzer Prize-winner and NEA jazz master Henry Threadgill’s quintet, Make A Move. Realization of a shared musical sensibility and the subsequent influence of playing string instruments designed by legendary luthier Steve Klein, Ross and Takeishi premiered their collaboration in 2002 at the cutting edge venue Tonic on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

After the tenure with Threadgill, Ross featured the duo in his compositions.

The duo has performed in multiple editions of The New York Guitar Festival and in The Noguchi Museum Concert Series produced and curated by Bang on a Can. Following a summer residency stay at Avaloch Music Institute in New Hampshire, Ross and Takeishi were invited to perform in The Viljandi International Guitar Festival in Estonia in 2023. For Living Lovers is presently curating a new recording of live performances for a 2025 release.

Tickets for the concert are $30 (members $25), $15 for ages 18 and under at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street, Sag Harbor.