Duo Lóa , flautist April Clayton and harpist Kristi Shade, perform works by Arnold Bax, Atli Heimi Sveinsson, Daniel Dorff, Jean-Michel Damase, Harald Genzmer and Þórð Magnússon. The repertoire is the majority of an album that is expected later this year. Duo Lóa is a newly formed duo, but April and Kristi have played together in the trio Hat Trick since 2013.    

Kristi Shade  began studying and playing the harp at a young age, graduating from the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Florida. She is the principal harpist of the New York City Chamber Orchestra and frequently appears in Broadway musicals in New York City. She teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and also at the Brearley School and the Spence School. Kristi has appeared as a guest with symphony orchestras across the United States. She has released albums with the flute, viola, and harp trio Hat Trick ( Garden of Joys and Sorrows , 2017 and Big Sky , 2024), and with the harp duo Duo Scorpio ( Scorpion Tales , 2012 and Two Bridges , 2017). Her album with April Clayton is due out later this year.  

April Clayton  studied flute at Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory, and received her doctorate from the Juilliard School in New York. She was a longtime professor of flute at Brigham Young University, and currently teaches at Snow College, Utah Valley University, and Westminster University. She has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Haiti, and Barbados. April was a longtime member of the Orpheus Wind Quintet and currently plays with the Aspen Winds Quintet. Her flute, viola, and harp trio, Hat Trick, has released two albums ( Garden of Joys and Sorrows , 2017, and Big Sky , 2024), and she has two more albums due out later this year, one (piano and flute) with composer Miguel del Aguila and the other with harpist Kristi Shade as the duo Lóa .