Professional Concert Mark Eden and Chris Stell

 

West Sussex Guitar Club would like to invite all music enthusiasts to our forthcoming recital  by the Eden Stell Guitar Duo. 

Mark Eden and Christopher Stell both graduated from the Royal Academy of Music as recipients of the Principals prize and the Julian Bream Prize. They  continued their studies in Brussels under the tutelage of the renowned Brazilian duo Sergio and Odais Assad with the aid of a grant from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Eden Stell are internationally known and respected for their virtuosity, innovative  programmes, and their meticulously closely woven performances doused with some good humoured banter.

Their many  recordings pay homage to the Spanish and South American masters of guitar compositions and also to British composers such as Michael Ball, Herbert Howell, Peter Maxwell-Davies, Gary Ryan and the late Stephen Dodgson. Their recently released album 'Homage to Ida Presti' pays tribute to a composer whose work elevated the guitar duo as an art form.

Mark and Chris are committed to music education through the Jackdaws Music Education Trust as well as their teaching posts at the Royal College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Both were elected as Associates of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of their outstanding musical achievements.

The Eden Stell duo first performed for the West Sussex Guitar Club in 1996 and have also joined Mark Ashford and Amanda Cook on the Regis School of Music stage as the internationally acclaimed Vida Quartet.  We are delighted that this energetic and versatile duo will once again be  joining us.  The proposed programme for the evening is:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Sonata No.4 K282 arr. M. Eden
Adagio
Minuet I Minuet II

Allegro 

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

Les Guitares bien Tempérées

Prelude and Fugue I G minor

Prelude and Fugue II D major

Prelude and Fugue III A minor

Prelude and Fugue IV E major

Prelude and Fugue V B minor

Prelude and Fugue VI F# major

Ida Presti (1924-1967)

Étude fantasque

INTERVAL

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Concerto in D minor BWV 974 after Alessandro Marcello arr. C. Stell

I Andante e spiccato

II Adagio

III Presto

Arno Babajanyan (1921-1983)

Three Pieces arr. C. Stell

Prelude

Impromptu

Elegy

Andrè Jolivet (1905-1974)

Sérénade (1956)

I Preludio e canzona

II Allegro Trepidante

III Andante Malinconico

IV Con Allegria

£15 non members, £12 WSGC members, full time students half price, under 18s free.

Free glass of juice, or wine for over 18s

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