Formed in 2008, Svyati Duo take their name from their first collaboration as cellist and conductor in a performance of Sir John Tavener's masterpiece Svyati for choir and cello solo. Since then they have established a tremendous rapport as the only regular cello and organ duo in the UK, gaining an outstanding reputation for their innovative concerts. Tavener became their patron in 2009, and they now pursue a busy concert schedule, taking their seldom heard instrumental combination to venues across the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States of America. Their tireless search for repertoire has rewarded them with many unjustly neglected works, some of which they have now recorded on a disc for Regent Records. Equally at home in the vast surroundings of a concert hall or cathedral, or the intimacy of a small church, their wealth of experience allows them to adapt to almost any setting.