When:

Sat, 5 Oct 2019 Saturday 5th of October, 2019, at 7:30pm

Where:

St Pauls Lutheran Church, 54 Poplar Avenue, Shepparton, VIC, 3630

Cost:

Prebooked: Adult: $35, Concession: $30 (Inc. Pensioners, Seniors & Students), Family: $50 (2 Adults + 2 Children), Child U16: $10 Door Sales: Extra $5 per ticket SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY

Contact:

Kellie Grattidge on 0438 881 985 or

Website:

elvitoshepparton.eventbrite.com

Doors open at 7.00pm. Members of St Paul's Lutheran Church invite you to stay after the concert to meet and greet the artists and enjoy a light supper.  Donations appreciated.

Continuing their ground-breaking 2018 tour collaborations including SOLD OUT shows at the Sydney Opera House, Canberra and Regional Australia Internationally acclaimed, award winning concert pianist, ‘Young Steinway Artist’ and Alumnus of the ANAM Professional Performance Program and Fellowship Nicholas Young joins internationally renowned 10-string virtuoso Guitarist Matthew Fagan, combining musical passion and virtuosity to celebrate the Spirit of Spain, El Vito and Tango.

The duo perform Spanish repertoire from classical to flamenco, plus the colourful and rhythmic sounds of South American Classical and Latin masterpieces and modern jazz infusing the exhilarating traditional flamenco elements of Spanish Guitar with the classical, virtuoso pianism, and transform masterpieces by Joaquin Rodrigo, Isaac Albeniz, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Astor Piazzolla, Chick Correa, Maurice Ravel, Claude Bolling and more into stunning new arrangements.

REVIEWS

Clinton White, Canberra Reviewers Circle

“There’s no doubt pianist, Nicholas Young, and guitarist, Matthew Fagan, are virtuosi. Their credentials are undeniable and their technical skills were quite astounding, especially their precise timing. Even long vivace sequences of notes played in unison were perfect.

The pairing of the piano and guitar was an inspired choice. There was a beautiful complementarity between the two. The mainly well-known pieces by Spanish greats such as Albeniz, de Falla and Rodrigo certainly were crowd-pleasers.

Rob Kennedy - City News Canberra

This reviewer found the class of playing better than almost any other performance he has heard. The capacity audience gave a standing ovation and deservedly so.

Watch a snippet from the show

Manuel de Falla, 'Danse espagnole' 

Gismonti/de Lucia/McLaughlin, 'Frevo Rasgado' 

Audience Review on video 

Artist Biographies

MATTHEW FAGAN- 10 String Spanish Classical Guitar and 6 String Nylon Classical Godin Guitar Matthew Fagan has long been established as one of Australia’s finest exponents of the guitar. Matthew has toured with Billy Connolly, The Buena Vista Social Club, Shirley Bassey, Natalie Cole and Michael Crawford. Matthew’s virtuosic rendition of Bach’s famous Toccata in D Minor featured on ABC TV.

Matthew has performed in more than 120 countries worldwide as a soloist, with orchestra and bands including extensive touring across Europe, South America, Alaska, Canada, China, Japan and South East Asia.

Matthew’s music education has been at the Victorian College of the Arts (Performance -Classical and improvisation), Monash University (Ethnomusicology, Composition Education) and a Masters PHD of Cultural Development at the University of Melbourne. Matthew has studied and/or performed with masters John Williams, Paco Pena, Leo Kottke, Martin Taylor, Joe Pass amongst others.

'Matthew has a Latin Soul and we love his playing so much that we want to take him back home to Cuba' - Ibrahim Ferrer- The Original Buena Vista Social Club

'A True Artist' - Paco Peña

www.matthew-fagan.com
www.youtube.com/mjb1fagan

NICHOLAS YOUNG- Piano Australian pianist and Young Steinway Artist Nicholas Young completed his Bachelor of Music (Performance) with Daniel Herscovitch at Sydney Conservatorium in 2013 with First Class Honours and University Medal, and graduated from Master Solo Piano with Distinction at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in 2015, studying with Claudius Tanski. He is currently continuing studies with Timothy Young at the Australian National Academy of Music. Alongside formal training, Nicholas has taken masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Christian Zacharias, Robert Levin, Dominique Merlet, Jacques Rouvier, Lars Vogt, Lang Lang and many other esteemed teachers.

Nicholas’s first major prize as winner of the 8th Yamaha Australian Youth Piano Competition in 2007 was followed by further accolades including Winner of the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards (Keyboard Category), Runner-Up Prize of the 2012 Australian Youth Classical Music Competition, and Second Prize of the 2012 Australian National Piano Award in Shepparton.

In 2015, Nicholas extended his successes to the international level, receiving First Prize and Best Beethoven Performance of the ‘Grand Prize Virtuoso’ International Music Competition (London), Nicholas appeared as guest performer in the Australian Showcase of the Sydney International Piano Competition.

Nicholas has regularly given recitals throughout Australia and Europe. He has appeared as soloist in concertos with the West Australian, Queensland, Adelaide and Willoughby Symphony Orchestras and his performances have been broadcast by Fine Music FM and ABC Classic FM. In 2014, Nicholas was invited to perform with the Vienna International Orchestra as part of the Center for Musical Excellence’s Vienna ConcertoFest.

A strong advocate of new music, Nicholas has performed in national and/or world premieres of several new solo and ensemble works including Calogero Panvino’s Sonata 101 (2010), Huck Hodge’s Omen, unscroll a canon war! (Hommage à Nancarrow) (2010), David Fulmer’s Vor den Morgengrauen (2011), Kevin Lang’s Amidst marbled silhouettes (2013) and Hakan Ulus’ Gumu’ah (2015) and Alaq (2015). In support of his continuing work in this field, Nicholas has been selected as joint winner of the prestigious 2016 Michael Kieran Harvey Scholarship.

‘Commanding performance...consummate skill, virtuosity and panache.’ - Limelight Magazine

www.nicholasyoungpiano.com