Matthew Fagan 10 String – Spanish Classical Guitarist Presents “Virtuoso”A Homage to my Ancestors and highlights from “Lord of the Strings”! Sunday 13th April 2pm-5pm (Door opens 1.30pm) Gemco Players Community Theatre 19 Kilvington Rd, Emerald COST: $20/ $15 Conc, Bookings: Online: trybooking/77381 Also Cash Payment on Door Available, CD’s available for $10 Enquiries: e. mjb2fagan@gmail p. 0438 881 985 Door opens 1/2 hour before show Matthew Fagan 10 String – Spanish Classical Guitarist Presents “Virtuoso”A Homage to my Ancestors and highlights from “Lord of the Strings”! In a Brilliant exciting New Show, Matthew Fagan proudly presents a special Spanish and Classical Guitar concert “Virtuoso” -A Homage to my Ancestors, a spectacular musical journey celebrating the Parkes family, his internationally renowned Virtuoso Ancestors. Matthew will also be launching the CD “Virtuoso”- A Homage to my Ancestors which includes music repertoire of his Parkes Ancestors arranged for Spanish Guitar. Highlights of the show include Flight of the Bumblebee-Rimsky-Korsakov, Caprice No. 24-Niccolò Paganini, Rondo `A La Turca`-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Czardas Hungarian Dance-Vittorio Monti ,Traditional Summer and Winter 1st Movements from “The Four Seasons”-Antonio Vivaldi, Flamenco Dance “Solearas” and “El Vito” & “La Partida” Spanish Dances. Matthew has recorded these stunning virtuosic concert pieces as a homage to his Grandfather and Great Uncles on “ Virtuoso”, already receiving rave reviews. The show will open with film footage of Matthew’s Great Uncle, child Prodigy Violinist Cecil Parkes. The film was retrieved from the National Film archives and is one of the first audio films from EFTEE productions from the 1930’s. Cecil had a long prodigious career as a concert violinist with his family and toured with International star soprano Dame Nellie Melba. Cecil, at age 7 Boarded the S.S. Sonoma from Sydney Australia to San Francisco in 1916 for a virtuoso tour of concert Halls of the U.S.A. Cecil is the older brother of Milton (Child Concert Pianist, Grandfather of Matthew), and youngest brother Violinist Kingsley. Matthew’s grandfather Milton was a celebrated concert pianist, accompanying his brothers and also a concert soloist. Milton died tragically early in life at the age of 27, his only child daughter, Noela being Matthew’s mother. The boys father Albert Parkes, a celebrated concert violinist from Covent Garden, Great Britian emigrated to Australia in the 1890’s. Their descendent, Matthew Fagan has followed in the footsteps of his Ancestors and has toured with an extraordinary array of the worlds greats, including: Natalie Cole; The Original Buena Vista Social Club; Shirley Bassey; Michael Crawford and Billy Connolly. Billy quoted that Matthew is the best Guest Artist that I have ever toured with. Matthew will also present excerpts from his successful show Lord of the Strings for those of you that missed it. A particular highlight of Matthews performance is his virtuosic hit rendition of J.S Bachs Toccata on Celtic Steel String Guitar which featured as the climax on the final episode on the Australian ABC TV1 Television Production A Moody Christmas youtu.be/NBHY4wdDHys Other highlights include Malaguena, Classical Gas, Over the Rainbow and the Celtic Reel Lead the Knave. Matthew has developed very unique and versatile performances always surprising the audience with his modern interpretation and original arrangements and compositions with a magical repertoire that crosses from Classical, Spanish Classical and Flamenco, Celtic, Latin American, World Music, Ambient music to Blues, Bluegrass, Rock & Contemporary music. Come prepared with some requests of your favourite Guitar/Uke tunes you would like Matthew to perform in the hilarious Guitar Challenge Hola Maestro, The Tocata was a masterpiece: a fusion that leans towards J.S. Bach in one direction ....&Paco Pena in the other! David el Rasquito de Cord Matthew performs with charisma and a gentle humour that people love. He is affectionate with the audience and wins them over with his unaffected charm. Hes a natural. Zelda Cawthorne - Freelance Journalist
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:43:10 +0000
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