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For newly married violinist-and-pianist duo Elena Urioste and Tom Poster, 2020 kicked off with a definite sense of optimism. The release of their second album together was imminent, and a honeymoon road trip around California would follow shortly after, with various concert appearances scheduled along the way. But then COVID-19 came along, and lockdown left them stuck on opposite sides of the globe – Poster on tour in India, Urioste in the US. ‘We realised that if I didn’t get to the States, we didn’t know when we would next see each other,’ explains Poster. ‘I got into the country about six hours before Trump closed the borders. Overnight, our diaries were obliterated. Everything we’d been looking forward to and excited about was gone.’ COUPLES LIKE Poster and Urioste were, however, the envy of musicians the world over: locked down with an equally accomplished performer for company. Poster has previously released several solo piano albums and recorded with trumpeter Alison Balsom, cellist Guy Johnston and violinist Jennifer Pike, while Urioste balances a solo career as a violinist on both sides of