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Mark Ashford and Amanda Cook Classical guitar duo
West Sussex Guitar Club would like to invite all music enthusiasts to our forthcoming recital by the highly acclaimed classical guitar duo Mark Ashford and Amanda Cook. Mark was a student at Chetham's School of Music, followed by the Royal Academy of Music as a scholarship student with Michael Lewin. He is currently Head of Guitar at the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music.
Amanda studied with Charles Ramirez as a scholarship student at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music and then at the RCM as a Foundation Scholar. She continued her studies in New York with Benjamin Verdery.
They both are laureates of numerous national and international awards and have performed at the Regis School of Music as soloists and in ensembles; Amanda with 'The Appassionata Guitar Trio' and Mark with 'The Frontier Trio'. They both share a passion for chamber music and began working together ten years ago, with the critically acclaimed Vida Quartet whose other two members are Mark Eden and Chris Stell. Always looking for new ventures within music, Mark and Amanda mirrored Mark and Chris to form a duo, to augment and expand their performance possibilities rather than to replace the quartet.
The recital will include solos and duets of late nineteenth, early twentieth century Spanish music when the guitar was revered and the wealth of romantic composers were pushing the classical guitar out of the salon and onto the concert stage. Amongst other compositions, their programme will include 'Asturias', 'Granada' and 'Sevilla' from Albeniz's 'Suite Espanola', Tarrega's 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' and 'Valse Poeticos' by Enrique Granados.
Please join us to hear Mark& Mand (not Mork and Mindy!), as they are affectionately known, to perform a programme that encapsulates some of the vast range of 'Musica Espana' in the world.
Amanda studied with Charles Ramirez as a scholarship student at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music and then at the RCM as a Foundation Scholar. She continued her studies in New York with Benjamin Verdery.
They both are laureates of numerous national and international awards and have performed at the Regis School of Music as soloists and in ensembles; Amanda with 'The Appassionata Guitar Trio' and Mark with 'The Frontier Trio'. They both share a passion for chamber music and began working together ten years ago, with the critically acclaimed Vida Quartet whose other two members are Mark Eden and Chris Stell. Always looking for new ventures within music, Mark and Amanda mirrored Mark and Chris to form a duo, to augment and expand their performance possibilities rather than to replace the quartet.
The recital will include solos and duets of late nineteenth, early twentieth century Spanish music when the guitar was revered and the wealth of romantic composers were pushing the classical guitar out of the salon and onto the concert stage. Amongst other compositions, their programme will include 'Asturias', 'Granada' and 'Sevilla' from Albeniz's 'Suite Espanola', Tarrega's 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' and 'Valse Poeticos' by Enrique Granados.
Please join us to hear Mark& Mand (not Mork and Mindy!), as they are affectionately known, to perform a programme that encapsulates some of the vast range of 'Musica Espana' in the world.
ON: SATURDAY 7th December 2024
AT: Regis School of Music, 46 Sudley Road , Bognor Regis,
PO21 1ER
TIME 7.30pm
Tickets are available either at the door on the day or in advance from
01243 866462 or 01243 696762 or recital@tiscali.co.uk
www.westsussexguitar.org
£15 non members, £10 WSGC members, full time students half price,
Under 18's free
Free complimentary glass of juice or wine for over 18's
Free Car parking available adjacent to Regis School of Music
AT: Regis School of Music, 46 Sudley Road , Bognor Regis,
PO21 1ER
TIME 7.30pm
Tickets are available either at the door on the day or in advance from
01243 866462 or 01243 696762 or recital@tiscali.co.uk
www.westsussexguitar.org
£15 non members, £10 WSGC members, full time students half price,
Under 18's free
Free complimentary glass of juice or wine for over 18's
Free Car parking available adjacent to Regis School of Music
Regis School of Music
46 Sudley Road West Sussex PO21 1ER
Sat 7 December
Website:
www.westsussexguitarclub.org