Professional Concert Mark Ashford and Amanda Cook

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 started at age seven with our very own Sasha Levtov here in Bognor, for seven years.  She then 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.  

Please do join us!

£15 non members, £10 WSGC members, full time students half price, under 18s free

Free glass of juice, or wine for over 18s

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