Jenny Janse & Fiona Harrison

Jenny Janse (cello)

Jennifer read music at Cambridge before winning several scholarships to study the cello at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Through Yehudi Menuhin’s ‘Live Music Now’, Jennifer gave more than a hundred solo recitals throughout England and featured on a documentary with Yehudi.

For more than twenty years she performed, broadcast and recorded across Europe with her ensemble, The Musicke Companye

Fiona Harrison (guitar)

Fiona Harrison graduated from the Royal College of Music and with a Masters degree from Yale University, USA. The later degree was enabled through a scholarship from Yale and an Award from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.

Fiona has given numerous solo recitals throughout the country, broadcast live on BBC radio, been featured on television and performed in ensemble at The Barbican Centre and London Purcell Room. She has performed Rodrigo’s “Concierto d’Aranjuez” numerous times in the UK and Spain.

www.fionaharrison.co.uk

Programme

Irish traditional Reel ‘Drowsie Maggie’ - ‘Danny Boy’
Vivaldi - Andante in E minor from Concerto for two mandolins (RV 532)
Tchaikovsky - Valse sentimentale (Op. 51, No. 6)
Weber - Two songs from the ghetto:
‘Wiegela’
‘Und der Regen rinnt‘ (‘And the rain keeps falling‘)
Charlton - ‘As the Rain Passes… Stars Shine’ (2020)
Tárrega - ‘Capricho Arabe’
Ravel (arr. Greg Nestor) - Three pieces from ‘Don Quichotte è Dulcinée’
Chanson Romanesque
Chanson Épique
Chanson á Boire