A b o u t U s

Our Musical Story

from Australia and Massachusetts,

Calling Winston-Salem, NC our home

Musicians Andy Licht and Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg at Bailey Park in the Innovation Quarter of Winston-Salem. — Duo Licht at Bailey Park in the Innovation Quarter of downtown Winston-Salem
Photo by: Amber Renea Photography

Hi! Welcome to our website!

We’re Andy Licht and Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg. We met in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2012. We maintained our friendship through our own musical endeavors where in 2014, Andy moved to North Carolina and Lilian-Terri moved to Boston in 2015. As our relationship grew, so did a shared vision for the roles we saw ourselves as musicians within a community. In 2017 we married and adopted Winston-Salem as our home. We love the accessibility of downtown and everything it has to offer, from food to watching a baseball game.

We are inspired and motivated by a spirit of entrepreneurship we are witnessing around us in our city known as “City of the Arts and Innovation”. We appreciate the rich history of entrepreneurship that can be traced back to 1772 where a group of unmarried Moravian women built a school for girls. In 1949 the first arts council in the United States was founded and created here in Winston-Salem.

We want to be a part of the entrepreneurial spirit of our active community and to contribute to the cultural growth of Winston-Salem. We established our small music business in 2019. Although we are a newly formed business we are experienced in the life of working as musicians. Our mission with music is deeply personal and has been an organic evolution of our experiences, both good and bad. Our relationship began as friends who initially connected over what music means to us and how it can be a vehicle for change. We are grateful that Duo Licht has naturally evolved to become our full time expression of those very ideals that initially brought us together. Everything we do as Duo Licht is an honest desire to make meaningful connections through music.

Lilian-Terri dahlenburg - Viola

Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg: Violist of Duo Licht at Bailey Park in Downtown Winston-Salem — Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg: Violist of Duo Licht
Photo By: Amber Renea Photography

Born and raised in Australia, Lilian-Terri Dahlenburg began studies on the violin when she was eight years old. A year and a half later she performed with her father accompanying on the piano for the opening of a “Morning Melodies” concert featuring the singer Kamahl in the Melbourne Town Hall. She grew up playing with music societies and community orchestras in the Mornington Peninsula region of Victoria and when she was 12 years old performed the Concerto for Two Violins with the Frankston Symphony Orchestra.

Lilian-Terri holds associate music diplomas from the Australian Music Examinations Board in violin and viola. During her undergraduate degree she switched to viola full time. She has bachelor of music from the University of Melbourne and an honours degree from the Elder Conservatorium, South Australia.  She has been a participant in the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and orchestral training programs with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, Australian Youth Orchestra, Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.

Prior to coming to the United States, Lilian-Terri was based in Adelaide, South Australia where she was teaching violin and viola privately and in schools including Prince Alfred College and for the junior program at the Elder Conservatorium.  She was also a member of the Zephyr String Quartet where she performed across a range of genres and collaborated with art forms such as painting, dance and poetry.  During her time with the quartet they received an APRA/AMCOS Australian Art Music Award.  Performances included the Adelaide and Perth Fringe Festivals, the Edinburgh International Festival with the Leigh Warren Dance Company and for the Australian Embassy in Manila, Philippines.

In 2012 Lilian-Terri was a recipient of a teaching assistantship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she completed a master of music degree.  She continued further studies in Boston as the Jack Megan Outreach Scholar with a teaching assistantship at the Longy School of Music of Bard College where she holds a graduate performance diploma.  Lilian-Terri has been a participant at the Colorado College Music Festival (2014) and was awarded a full scholarship to participate in the Cremona International Music Academy in Italy (2016).  She has also adjudicated for the Massachusetts Music Educators All-State Orchestra program (2014, 2015, 2017).

Since moving to North Carolina in 2017, she has been working as a teacher and performer.  During 2018-2020 Lilian-Terri was a lead teacher for the Winston-Salem Symphony’s P.L.A.Y. Music program, and also performed as a member of the viola sub list for the symphony. From 2018-2023 she held the principal viola position for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared as guest principal viola for the Spartanburg Philharmonic in SC.  She has adjudicated for Winston-Salem Forsyth County NC auditions (2018) and was the viola clinician for the audition boot camp hosted by the American String Teachers Association in Winston-Salem (2019).

Currently Lilian works full time as a co-owner of Duo Licht’s teaching studio and chamber ensemble. She is proud of what she and Andy are building together and enjoys being involved in all aspects of their mission to bring joy, hope and connection through music.

Andy Licht - Violin

Andy is excited to be fulfilling a well-rounded career in music as part of Duo Licht. He enjoys that he is fully devoted to Duo Licht, and it has become his full time commitment. Not only does Andy perform and teach, but he composes, arranges all the music for him and Lilian-Terri to perform. He has currently arranged over 600 pieces of music especially for the violin and viola duo. As a composer, he has been commissioned to write music for people’s special occasions. He also enjoys combining music and written words. His musical setting of “The Raven” was shown on Fox 8 news.

Prior to Duo Licht, Andy was a member of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra from 2016 - 2023 as a section first violin. He has been on the sub list for the Winston-Salem Symphony. With the Winston-Salem Symphony’s P.L.A.Y. Music program, Andy served as a teaching assistant from 2017-2020. He also started and led the music theory and composition classes where he had taught group classes and wrote the curriculum. Before joining P.L.A.Y. Music, he served for 2 years as a full time volunteer with ArtistCorps. This service is an AmeriCorps program geared at bringing arts through teaching and performing to local schools. Through ArtistCorps, Andy assisted the orchestra program at Diggs-Latham Elementary School, Wiley Middle School, Wake Forest University’s summer Freedom School, Old Town Elementary School, and the Salvation Army.

Andy is a native of Massachusetts, and holds a bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a Masters of Music degree in Violin Performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Andy’s violin teachers include Kevin Lawrence, (UNCSA) and Elizabeth Chang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst).