12.30 lunchtime

Thursday 29th November

2018 Season Finale Concert

The Two Classical Guitars of

Francisco Correa

&
 
David Massey


Venue: LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church
please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose
car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in Church Road



Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert &
Arts Society
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Programme

José Ferrer y Esteve de Fujadas (1835-1916)
Fantasía sobre motivos de 'La Traviata' (Verdi) (1891)
Fantasy on themes from Verdi's 'La Traviata'

Enrique Granados Campiña (1867-1916)
arr David Massey
Valses Poéticos (1895)

Leon Cardona Garcia (b1927)
Armonizando Ob 43 (1990)

Julio Gentil Albarracín Montaña (1942-2011)
Porro (music typical of the Colombian Atlantic coast)

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992)
from Tango Suite para duo de guitarras (1984)
Tango No 1
Tango No 2


Concert duration: 45 - 50 minutes
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Francisco Correa

Classical guitarist Francisco Correa was born in Colombia, but moved to Europe to study in 2006. He graduated in 2015 with his Masters degree at the Royal Academy of Music, and he is now enjoying a busy and varied freelance career in London. 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), and in a guitar duo with British guitarist David Massey. 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, and in Autumn 2016 he performed 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 Prior Park College in Bath, and at Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire.

www.franciscocorreaguitar.com
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David Massey

David Massey began his 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 with distinction in 2010 and furthered his studies with an 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. He 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 “intense and intimate”, marked by a “remarkable energy and range of tone and dynamics”. 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 car parks to art galleries, he is a musician willing to take risks and try new approaches.
In 2009 he met flautist Emily Andrews 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 Ständchen has over 217,000 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 David has also developed a strong teaching portfolio, ranging from private one-on-one tuition to small group guitar lessons in comprehensive and primary schools, passionately advocating classical guitar to a new generation.

www.davidmasseymusic.com
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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 video buttons below:

José Ferrer y Esteve de Fujadas (1835-1916)
Fantasía sobre motivos de 'La Traviata' (Verdi)
Fantasy on themes from Verdi's 'La Traviata'

The Jørgen Skogmo-Jens Franke Guitar Duo Live from "Guitar Spectacular" at the Milton Court Concert Hall (Barbican), London, November 2017:
 
Enrique Granados Campiña (1867-1916)
Valses Poéticos (1895)

Next we hear the Melis Duo perform the Valses Poéticos at the Changsha International Guitar Festival (Changsha is the capital of China's Hunan province):

Leon Cardona Garcia (b1927)
Armonizando Ob 43 (1990)

Let's double the musician count for this item. This is Cuarteto de clarinetes Boheme:

Julio Gentil Albarracín Montaña (1942-2011)
from No of 4 Suites Colombianas
Porro (music typical of the Colombian Atlantic coast)

Deion Cho plays this Porro on a Bernabe guitar at 'Spain's largest Spanish Guitar shop' - Guitarras de Luthier - in central Madrid:

Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992)
from Tango Suite para duo de guitarras (1984)
Tango No 1
Tango No 2

On the left Tango No 1 is played by Jonathan Paget and Craig Lake.

On the right Julian Vickers and Daniel Bovey, or the Vickers Bovey Duo, both recent RAM graduates, play the 2nd and 3rd Tangos of the set:

We hope you have enjoyed your  Concert at Home.
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