Fareed Haque & Goran Ivanovic

The supple “conversations” that Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanović on their guitars are full of jazz improvisation, grounded in elegance and rigor – and generously influenced by their collective Pakistani, Chilean, Serbian, and Croatian heritages. The duo have been performing together for more than a decade and thread their way easily from classically inflected melodic pieces, to brilliant jazz improvisation, to wickedly virtuosic romps through genres like flamenco and Gypsy music. “[W]hen their two guitars play, cultural barriers melt away” (Chicago Tribune).