On Sunday, January 29 at 2:30 p.m., the Niagara Symphony presents its neat solution to an artist cancellation: hire his twin brother, instead.

The NSA had originally scheduled a program that would be led by its music director, Bradley Thachuk, and also feature him as guitar soloist. Plagued by a recurrence of tendinitis, Maestro Thachuk withdrew – and the engagement was offered to his twin brother, Steven, instead. It’s no patronage appointment, either: brother Steven currently serves as Professor of Guitar/Chair of Guitar Studies at California State University, Northridge, following faculty appointments at the University of Toronto, the Royal Conservatory of Music‘s Glenn Gould School and Queen’s University. The twin brothers started studying together at age 5, going on to form a “hair metal” band in their teens, before pursuing careers in classical music.

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