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CarmenCo

Event date: 24/10/2024 Export event

Event Location: The Fratry Hall

Thursday 24 October

This event is presented by the Carlisle Music Society at the Fratry Hall, within the grounds of Carlisle Cathedral.

CarmenCo is an ensemble comprising flautist and mezzo, Emily Andrews, and guitarists David Massey and Francisco Correa. Exploiting the rich texture of two guitars with or without flute or voice. As well as their skills in arranging, they perform vibrant, visual, and varied programmes.

In 2019 they won a generous Arts Council England grant to develop and tour a new concert-play “Creating Carmen”, using their music and arrangements of music, but adding two actors, lighting, director, and script writer.

The trio was formed when international solo guitarist Francisco Correa joined the Andrews Massey Duo, formed by Emily and David in 2009. This duo has a fine pedigree: won the Tunnell Trust Award 2012-2013, were Royal Overseas League Competition semi-finalists three times, and have appeared at Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Kings Place as well as in Germany, Italy, and Sweden. They have made three CDs. One of their videos had 240,000+ YouTube views.​

The programme:

CarmenCo is more than a concert: it occupies the borders between a play and a concert, with 80/20 music to spoken word following the story of Bizet’s opera ‘Carmen’ but told from her point of view.

A fun-filled evening of fantasy, comedy, drama, and tremendous music arranged from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ and Spanish and Spanish-inspired music by Boccherini, da Falla, Garcia-Lorca, Granados, Ravel, and Albeniz, all arranged by the musicians for guitars and flute / voice.

The three musicians perform entirely from memory, enabling them to act with each other and to engage the audience members.

For further information visit carlislemusicsociety.weebly.com

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