12.30 lunchtime, Thursday 24th November 2016
make merry
arrangements of seasonal music
Andrews Massey Duo Emily Andrews, flute David Massey, classical guitar Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Sponsor: 2016 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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"Setting free their imagination, the Andrews Massey Duo have reinvented the Christmas carol. Their album, Make Merry, brings a fresh take to the festive classics. |
Programme
make merry
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
The Coventry Carol
Good King Wenceslas
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Allegro in Eb major, from BWV 998
Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Vergin tutto amor
While Shepherds Watched
We Three Kings of Orient Are
Away in a Manger
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Deck the Halls
All musical arrangements by the Andrews Massey Duo
Copies of the Andrews Massey Duo's CD make merry will be on sale after the concert, and can also be ordered from the Duo's website.
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
The LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity Project
Leatherhead Trinity School Key Stage 1 pupils enjoying Mardi Brass, in June 2016
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Emily and David, the Andrews Massey Duo, come to us today after a morning performing and demonstrating their instruments to the pupils at Leatherhead Trinity School. We hope to raise enough today to fund both the lunchtime concert and the work with the School. Picture: Leatherhead Trinity School KS1 pupils enjoying Mardi Brass, in June 2016 |
This is the first year LCAS Music on Thursdays has engaged in this kind of outreach work. It is a worthwhile project that our Trustees and our audience of music-lovers are keen to develop.
We are extremely grateful for financial support for the project given by Julie West Solicitor and by a former pupil of the Poplar Road School, one of the schools that merged to form Leatherhead Trinity.
We are extremely grateful for financial support for the project given by Julie West Solicitor and by a former pupil of the Poplar Road School, one of the schools that merged to form Leatherhead Trinity.
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If you would like to contribute to our project
which aims to bring the sounds of orchestral instruments to the pupils of Leatherhead Trinity School, please send your donation to us at: LCAS Treasurer, 1 Monks Green, Fetcham, KT22 9TL or print out the donation form on this link ►►► |
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We are grateful to Julie West Solicitor
of Leatherhead, for sponsoring the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity Project, bringing the sounds of professional performance to pupils at the School. |
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Andrews Massey Duo
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Emily Andrews (flautist) and David Massey (guitarist) met in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Music in London while playing in the orchestra for a musical, and they have been playing together as a duo ever since.
The duo is going from strength to strength. Their competition successes include being prestigious Tunnell Trust Award Winners 2012-2013, and three-times semi-finalists in the Royal Overseas League competition. As recitalists they have performed concerts all over the UK, including the top London venues Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, and St James Piccadilly, as well as abroad in Italy and Sweden. Emily and David play many different styles of music, and like to programme familiar favourites with lesser-known works. They have released three CDs together, "...from the Roots", "Make Merry" and "Stolen Serenades", all of their own arrangements of traditional repertoire from the classical and folk worlds. For more information about this versatile and dynamic duo please see their website: www.andrewsmasseyduo.com |
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Emily Andrews, flute
In 2010 Emily Andrews graduated with Distinction from her Masters degree in flute performance at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Clare Southworth and Kate Hill. An unusual career path: Emily’s first degree was in Mathematics at Cambridge University, and she worked as IT consultant for two years before becoming a full-time musician.
Emily is a passionate chamber musician as well as a soloist. She has performed second flute with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra and Scottish Opera, among other orchestras, and she has performed recitals in many prestigious UK venues including the Wigmore Hall and St Martin in the Fields, as well as abroad.
Emily's "exquisite phrasing", beautiful singing tone and natural musicality have been noted by many prominent musicians, - Lorna McGhee, Ransom Wilson, Mark Van de Wiel, Neil Black OBE, & William Bennett OBE. The British Flute Society's review of her performance of the Liebermann flute concerto cited Emily as "definitely one of Britain's most promising young professionals".
Her prize-winning flute and guitar duo, the Andrews Massey Duo, recently brought out its third CD. For more information, please visit: www.emilyandrewsflute.com
Emily is a passionate chamber musician as well as a soloist. She has performed second flute with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra and Scottish Opera, among other orchestras, and she has performed recitals in many prestigious UK venues including the Wigmore Hall and St Martin in the Fields, as well as abroad.
Emily's "exquisite phrasing", beautiful singing tone and natural musicality have been noted by many prominent musicians, - Lorna McGhee, Ransom Wilson, Mark Van de Wiel, Neil Black OBE, & William Bennett OBE. The British Flute Society's review of her performance of the Liebermann flute concerto cited Emily as "definitely one of Britain's most promising young professionals".
Her prize-winning flute and guitar duo, the Andrews Massey Duo, recently brought out its third CD. For more information, please visit: www.emilyandrewsflute.com
David Massey, classical guitar
David Massey studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Lewin, receiving both a BMus and MMus with distinction. He has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, Royal Albert Hall, St Martin in the Fields, amongst others, and premièred several new works.
In 2006 he became the first guitarist in over twenty years to win the BBC Young Musician strings category. He has a particular interest in transcriptions and collaboration, and has an ongoing duo partnership with flautist Emily Andrews (www.andrewsmasseyduo.com), with whom he has released three CDs. He teaches guitar privately and in schools across North London.
Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
First, here are the Andrews Massey Duo with their recording of Good King Wenceslas:
Next we hear a complete performance of Bach's BWV 998 Prelude, Fugue & Allegro.
David Massey is the performer in the first two movements, in the familiar surroundings of
his July 2015 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
The recording of the Allegro is by Tim Beattie, in November 2014 in
the Mazzoleni Hall of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
David Massey is the performer in the first two movements, in the familiar surroundings of
his July 2015 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
The recording of the Allegro is by Tim Beattie, in November 2014 in
the Mazzoleni Hall of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
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Here is a performance of Vergin tutto amor - Virgin Mary, Full of Love - by Gruppo Cameristico Alfonsiano, who are Simona Peluso, voice, Francesca Aybar, flute, and Salvatore Esposito Ferraioli, guitar:
To finish this week's recordings, here are the Duo again with their instrumental arrangements of
Away in a Manger, and God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen:
Away in a Manger, and God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen:
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We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
Our next concert will be at 3pm on February 23rd 2017 (following our AGM).
All are welcome to attend the 2pm AGM.
All are welcome to come to the 3pm concert.
The performers will be piano duo Jan and Ian Assersohn,
playing our lovely Schiedmayer baby grand and
bringing the magic of 4 hands on 1 piano.
If you would like us to keep in touch, telling you about more local music-making, and about our new season for 2017, please send your request to: musiconthursdays@gmail.com
All are welcome to attend the 2pm AGM.
All are welcome to come to the 3pm concert.
The performers will be piano duo Jan and Ian Assersohn,
playing our lovely Schiedmayer baby grand and
bringing the magic of 4 hands on 1 piano.
If you would like us to keep in touch, telling you about more local music-making, and about our new season for 2017, please send your request to: musiconthursdays@gmail.com
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We are grateful to Julie West Solicitor
of Leatherhead, for sponsoring the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity Project, bringing the sounds of professional performance to pupils at the School. |
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