The Two Classical Guitars of Francisco Correa and David Massey
Francisco Correa
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David Massey
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12.30 lunchtime, Thursday 25th August 2016
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church
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Sponsor:
2016 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
The programme will include:
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) from 12 Danzas españolas (1890) Dance No 2 "Oriental" Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) arr David Massey Adagio for Mandolin and Harpsichord in Eb WoO 43b Francisco Solo: Daniel Saboya (b1980) Guabina para un músico del Sur Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) from Tango Suite, for 2 guitars Tango No 2 (andante, rubato, melancolico) David Solo: from Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang arr Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) Aufenthalt (Resting Place) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) from Les guitares bien tempérés Op 199 (1962) No 3 Prelude et fugue en La mineur (A minor) No 4 Prelude et fugue en Mi majeur (E major) |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
David Massey returns on November 24th with his duo partner, the flautist Emily Andrews (who is married to Francisco Correa). Emily and David will spend the morning playing for and demonstrating their instruments to the pupils at Leatherhead Trinity School before coming to LMC to perform in our lunchtime concert.
David Massey returns on November 24th with his duo partner, the flautist Emily Andrews (who is married to Francisco Correa). Emily and David will spend the morning playing for and demonstrating their instruments to the pupils at Leatherhead Trinity School before coming to LMC to perform in our lunchtime concert.
Francisco Correa
Classical guitarist Francisco Correa was born in Colombia, but moved to Europe to study in 2006. He graduated in 2015 from his Masters degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he is now enjoying a busy and varied freelance career. He also holds a Masters degree from Barcelona, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Bogotá.
A prize winner in many classical guitar competitions in Colombia, he has also been awarded the "Médaille d’Or", as well as the "Prix de Perfectionnement" from the Conservatoire de Saint Germain en Laye, and d´Aulnay-sous-Bois both in France where Francisco studied with Judicael Perroy.
Francisco has performed many concertos with orchestra, both in England and Colombia, and has appeared on Colombian radio and television as a soloist performing the Aranjuez Concerto with the Bogota Philharmonic under the direction of Irwin Hofman. He is a regular recital soloist, and is often invited abroad to perform in festivals (most recently in Mexico, France, and Colombia).
As well as his solo career, Francisco is an enthusiastic chamber musician: he performs regularly with flautist Samantha Pearce as the Alba Duo (www.albaduo.com). He also has performed on an ad-hoc basis in England, France and Colombia with his wife, flautist Emily Andrews, and with multiple prize-winning sopranos Charlotte Schoetters and Lorena Paz.
Francisco also works regularly as a multi-instrumentalist in orchestras, including playing guitar and mandolin in various performances of Mahler 7, and Hawaiian guitar in Shostakovich's Jazz Suite, and guitar, banjo, mandolin and steel-stringed guitar in the musical "A Man of No Importance". Throughout the Autumn season 2015 he performed guitar on stage with Glyndebourne On Tour in their production of Don Pasquale. Francisco is looking forward to working with Glyndebourne On Tour again this upcoming Autumn 2016 performing the mandolin solo in their Don Giovanni production.
Francisco's passion for folk music inspired him to tour Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Czech Republic and Poland as a multi-instrumentalist with the folk ballet of Tundama, as well as Scotland with Colombian family folk group "Familia Correa".
As part of his upcoming projects Francisco is preparing to record and release his first CD, a collection of original guitar music from young Colombian composers.
Fluent in three languages, Francisco is an experienced guitar teacher having taught in schools in Bogota and Paris and currently he is guitar teacher at Woodside Academy in Walthamstow, and at Wycombe Abbey School in Buckinghamshire.
www.franciscocorreaguitar.com
A prize winner in many classical guitar competitions in Colombia, he has also been awarded the "Médaille d’Or", as well as the "Prix de Perfectionnement" from the Conservatoire de Saint Germain en Laye, and d´Aulnay-sous-Bois both in France where Francisco studied with Judicael Perroy.
Francisco has performed many concertos with orchestra, both in England and Colombia, and has appeared on Colombian radio and television as a soloist performing the Aranjuez Concerto with the Bogota Philharmonic under the direction of Irwin Hofman. He is a regular recital soloist, and is often invited abroad to perform in festivals (most recently in Mexico, France, and Colombia).
As well as his solo career, Francisco is an enthusiastic chamber musician: he performs regularly with flautist Samantha Pearce as the Alba Duo (www.albaduo.com). He also has performed on an ad-hoc basis in England, France and Colombia with his wife, flautist Emily Andrews, and with multiple prize-winning sopranos Charlotte Schoetters and Lorena Paz.
Francisco also works regularly as a multi-instrumentalist in orchestras, including playing guitar and mandolin in various performances of Mahler 7, and Hawaiian guitar in Shostakovich's Jazz Suite, and guitar, banjo, mandolin and steel-stringed guitar in the musical "A Man of No Importance". Throughout the Autumn season 2015 he performed guitar on stage with Glyndebourne On Tour in their production of Don Pasquale. Francisco is looking forward to working with Glyndebourne On Tour again this upcoming Autumn 2016 performing the mandolin solo in their Don Giovanni production.
Francisco's passion for folk music inspired him to tour Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Czech Republic and Poland as a multi-instrumentalist with the folk ballet of Tundama, as well as Scotland with Colombian family folk group "Familia Correa".
As part of his upcoming projects Francisco is preparing to record and release his first CD, a collection of original guitar music from young Colombian composers.
Fluent in three languages, Francisco is an experienced guitar teacher having taught in schools in Bogota and Paris and currently he is guitar teacher at Woodside Academy in Walthamstow, and at Wycombe Abbey School in Buckinghamshire.
www.franciscocorreaguitar.com
David Massey
David began studies with David Burden at his local music centre in Hertfordshire. In 2006 he was the strings finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition, performing Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre live on BBC Two from the Sage Gateshead.
He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Lewin, where he graduated wtih distinction in 2010 and furthered his studies with a MMus in 2012. During this time he continued to perform guitar recitals at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, King’s Place, St Martin in the Fields, and expanded his musical experience in chamber music and orchestral playing, taking up instruments such as mandolin and banjo in orchestral, music theatre and operatic music from Mozart and Respighi to John Adams and Peter Maxwell Davies.
His solo performances have been described as ìintense and intimateî, marked by a ìremarkable energy and range of tone and dynamicsî. On hearing his playing, Julian Bream praised his sound and communication of musical structure. He has received tuition and masterclasses from David Russell, Fabio Zanon, John Mills and Timothy Walker, combining a love for both the traditional guitar repertoire as well as contemporary and new works, of which he has premiered several. From performances in multi-storey carparks to art galleries, he is a musician willing to take risks and try new approaches.
In 2009 he met flautist Emily Andrews at and founded the Andrews Massey Duo (www.andrewsmasseyduo.com), with whom he has released three acclaimed self-produced CDs and toured extensively. Their video of David’s arrangement of Schubert’s “Standchen” has over 60,000 views on YouTube (making it one of the most watched flute and guitar videos), and the sheet music has been downloaded and played by other guitar and flute duos all around the world.
Since graduating he has also developed a strong teaching portfolio, ranging from private one-on-one tuition to small group guitar lessons in comprehensive primary schools, passionately advocating classical guitar to a new generation.
www.davidmasseymusic.com
He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Lewin, where he graduated wtih distinction in 2010 and furthered his studies with a MMus in 2012. During this time he continued to perform guitar recitals at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, King’s Place, St Martin in the Fields, and expanded his musical experience in chamber music and orchestral playing, taking up instruments such as mandolin and banjo in orchestral, music theatre and operatic music from Mozart and Respighi to John Adams and Peter Maxwell Davies.
His solo performances have been described as ìintense and intimateî, marked by a ìremarkable energy and range of tone and dynamicsî. On hearing his playing, Julian Bream praised his sound and communication of musical structure. He has received tuition and masterclasses from David Russell, Fabio Zanon, John Mills and Timothy Walker, combining a love for both the traditional guitar repertoire as well as contemporary and new works, of which he has premiered several. From performances in multi-storey carparks to art galleries, he is a musician willing to take risks and try new approaches.
In 2009 he met flautist Emily Andrews at and founded the Andrews Massey Duo (www.andrewsmasseyduo.com), with whom he has released three acclaimed self-produced CDs and toured extensively. Their video of David’s arrangement of Schubert’s “Standchen” has over 60,000 views on YouTube (making it one of the most watched flute and guitar videos), and the sheet music has been downloaded and played by other guitar and flute duos all around the world.
Since graduating he has also developed a strong teaching portfolio, ranging from private one-on-one tuition to small group guitar lessons in comprehensive primary schools, passionately advocating classical guitar to a new generation.
www.davidmasseymusic.com
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:
We open with a rarity, Granados playing Granados. It's his beautiful, delicate Oriental, from the
Spanish Dances - Danzas Españolas - which he recorded onto a piano roll. On the right the
Duo Françaix - Isabella Selder and Eliška Lenhartová - play the same work as a guitar duo.
Spanish Dances - Danzas Españolas - which he recorded onto a piano roll. On the right the
Duo Françaix - Isabella Selder and Eliška Lenhartová - play the same work as a guitar duo.
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We will be hearing a rather more polished performance than the one below but this merging of
Philidelphia's Mandolin & Guitar Ensemble with its Classical Guitar Society will give you a fair idea of
Beethoven's Adagio ma non troppo for Mandolin and harpsichord, in this arrangement for ensemble.
Philidelphia's Mandolin & Guitar Ensemble with its Classical Guitar Society will give you a fair idea of
Beethoven's Adagio ma non troppo for Mandolin and harpsichord, in this arrangement for ensemble.
You do deserve more polish than that so here is Marinko Lasan Zorobabel playing the mandolin in his graduation concert at the Jopis Hatze Music School, Split, Croatia, accompanied by Tomislav Šošić at the piano.
Here, at last, is a version played on the harpsichord and mandolin. The mandolin is in the hands of Ukrainian folk-musician Yuri Yatsenko. You will hear more of his playing on the page linked below.
Here's another opportunity to listen to a work played by its composer. Colombian Daniel Saboya next, with his Guabina para un Músico del Sur:
We will only have time for the second tango in Piazzolla's Tango Suite for two guitars. Here are all three tangos, and the performers are Renato Serrano and Bin Hu, both teaching assistants for Bolton Guitar Studies at the University of Arizona:
We've heard Granados playing Granados, next we have Daniel Saboya with his own composition,
Guabina para un Músico del Sur:
Guabina para un Músico del Sur:
In today's concert we will be hearing the second tango from Astor Piazzolla's Tango Suite for two guitars. Here, with all three tangos, are the Duo Pace Poli Cappelli - Andrea Pace and Cristiano Poli Cappelli :
The Schubert song Aufenthalt - Resting Place - comes from his Swansong (Schwanengesang).
It is one of six Schubert songs that Johann Mertz arranged for guitar.
The performer in this recording is Fernando Riscado Cordas:
It is one of six Schubert songs that Johann Mertz arranged for guitar.
The performer in this recording is Fernando Riscado Cordas:
Francisco and David had been working on Truco by Javier Contreras, but realised there would not be time in the lunchtime concert for everything they had ready. As you can choose your timing, here is the composer,
Javier Contreras, with José Antonio Escobar - the Duo Súd-Americano - and Truco:
Javier Contreras, with José Antonio Escobar - the Duo Súd-Americano - and Truco:
Our concert draws to its close with two Preludes and Fugues from Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Les Guitares bien tempérées - a writing challenge he set himself, mirroring and paying tribute to Bach's 24 Preludes and Fugues in the Well-Tempered Klavier. First we hear Duo Batendo with No 3 in A minor:
And finally, here are Duo Batendo with Prelude and Fugue No 4 in E major:
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
