In Sterio, a flute duo, strives to connect with its audience by playing outside of the classical realm that surrounds the instrument.   

The flute duo will play in the Music Hall on Friday, Nov. 1.

Shivhan Dohse and Erica Peel had originally met at a Masters class during the summer. Dohse invited Peel to play with her at her Masters Recital for two years, and in 2007 the group was created.

The classically trained pair writes and creates their own music. The duo cover and combine multiple genres of music while playing to an electronic back track.

“I think prior to even meeting each other we both knew we had to do something successful with music and something different,” Peel said. “Something that nobody else was doing, but didn’t exactly know what that was until we met each other. “

“I don’t think when we first started we knew exactly what we were going to do with it. We had no idea we’d be playing electronic back tracks and writing our own music,” Dohse said. “Through out the years everything just keeps evolving and progressing.”

In Sterio has published two CDs and is working on publishing sheet music to their originally composed songs. The duo plan to continue publishing the rest of its music throughout the year.

“Frequency,” the duo’s first CD, was released in 2010. The second album, “Awake,” was released this year.

“Awake” is a CD/DVD combo that takes the owner through a painting while listening to music. Each tune takes the listener through the painting that it was inspired by.

When asked which audience it preferred to play to, In Sterio responded that it liked playing in schools the most.

“We love playing for schools and playing for kids. Just to instill the notion that you can do anything with your instrument once you actually master your instrument,” Dohse said. “Play your scales, do everything, go through the lesson books, you can do anything and inspiring that at such a young age. Especially now when a lot of music programs are being cut, the kids aren’t having as much opportunities.”

“Kids are so uninhibited and so honest that I feel like with adult audiences sometimes they’re so proper that they feel like they can’t move or do anything,” Peel said. “With our music we feed off of the energy from the audience and whether they’re digging it or not. With the kids, they’re dancing around and they don’t care.”

Aside from In Sterio, Peel also plays in the Lincoln Symphony and in the Omaha Symphony on piccolo. Dohse teaches 19 students at Clark University, plays in the Ottumwa Symphony and occasionally subs in different orchestras.