Chance

Ed Willett and Cheryl Leah, collectively known as Chance, have performed together as a lifelong art project. Over the past eighteen years, their multi-influenced music has intrigued wildly diverse audiences. From composing a song for television’s “Northern Exposure” to touring with the Native American Rock Ballet and the Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, their history is a litany of symphonic orchestras, film production, ensembles, classrooms and concerts unending.

Their tours have included performances in numerous universities and a wide array of arts venues. They have devoted themselves to exploring the wedding between two icons of power and passion, the cello and the human voice. Theirs is a hybrid musical form that springs from classical chamber music, folk, and jazz. They find themselves a part of the emerging genre known as World Chamber Music. Their style is dramatic, thought provoking, and often amusing. There is strong melodic and poetic content throughout the compositions, and they perform them with a great lightness of spirit.