Cellist Nicholas Canellakis, pianist Michael Brown at Wolf Trap Barns

Cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Brown have a lot of irons in the fire. They teach and have busy solo careers. Canellakis is the artistic director of the Sedona Winter Music Fest, Brown is a commissioned composer and both are artists with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. But it was their joint ventures that were on display at the Wolf Trap Barns on Friday, where their performance as the Canellakis-Brown Duo was prefaced in a pre-concert showing of a lighter side of the...