Venue: St Matthews Church Hall, North Common Road, Ealing W5 2QA
(hall is at end of alleyway to the left of the church).
Admission: £13 / £10 concessions
Doors open at 7:00pm, recital at 7:30.
Doors open at 7:00pm, recital at 7:30.
Irish guitarist Manus Noble is one of the UK's leading classical guitarists, known for his strong, unique sound, original compositions and varied recital programmes that aim to break down audience's preconceptions of what is possible on the guitar. Noble studied with Craig Ogden, Gary Ryan and Michael Lewin, graduating from the Royal College of Music with First Class Honours and the Royal Academy of Music with Distinction. He then went on to launch his career to wide critical acclaim, winning awards from the Musician's Benevolent Fund, Ian Flemming Trust, Countess of Munster Trust, Ivor Mairants Guitar Competition, Royal College of Music Guitar Competitions and being accepted onto the Park Lane Group, Countess of Munster and Making Music Concert Series.
Career
highlights include recitals at major UK venues such as the Purcell
Rooms, Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Royal Festival Hall, Sage Gateshead, Bridgewater Hall, Kings Place and
Wigmore Hall, as well as giving recitals and masterclasses at Festivals
across the UK and Europe. Noble is also in high demand as a teacher,
teaching at the Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama as well as directing the National Youth Guitar Ensemble in
Wales.
In 2019 Noble graduated from the European Institute of Guitar Making under the tutelage of Stephen Hill
and Evan Kingma, and now works as a luthier out of his workshop in Oxford. For more information, click on 'Noble Guitars'. Manus
Noble uses Concerto
Carbon Cases, Knobloch Strings and performs on guitars made by Manus Noble and Stephen
Hill.
Programme
Almain
(Robert Johnson)
Prelude No.1
(Villa-Lobos)
Laputa : Castle In The Sky
Howl's Moving Castle
(Joe Hisaishi (arr. Noble))
Sakura Theme and Variations
(Yuquijiro Yocoh)
Out of The Night
(Manus Noble)
INTERVAL
Mirage
(Noble)
Out of Clonmel
(Gary Ryan)
Heal
(Manus Noble)
Railroad
Birds Flew Over The Spire
Rockweed
(Gary Ryan)
