Fiona Harrison.
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 and was a guest artist with the “Stichting Gitaarorkest Nederland” early 2019.
Fiona has been a guest tutor for three consecutive summers at The Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival, 2017-2019, and taught for several years at the International Summer Guitar Festival, West Dean. Fiona worked for the ABRSM professional development team for many years and co-directed numerous very popular residential flute and guitar courses with Julie Wright and Atarah Ben-Tovim, MBE, in the UK and abroad.
Alongside performing and teaching, Fiona runs regular workshops in Surrey, has provided performance classes at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, 2019, and has adjudicated their prestigious Alison Stephens Competition. Fiona has also adjudicated various music festivals in the South East and worked as an external assessor for the Royal College of Music junior department. Fiona enjoyed working as a teacher assistant at Yale University and at various times has provided inset training sessions for the Surrey County Music Service.
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.
PROGRAMME
Sonata in D major D.
Scarlatti
Sonata in A major
Grande Ouverture op.61 Giuliani
Prelude no.3 Villa-Lobos
Aconquija Agustín
Barrios Mangoré
Danza de Altiplano Leo
Brouwer
Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios Agustín
Barrios Mangoré
Tango en Skaï Dyens
Registro from Suite Venezolana Lauro
Danza Española No.5 Granados
Oblivion Piazzolla
Danza Brasilera Morel
Koyunbaba Domeniconi
I Moderato
II Mosso
III Cantabile
IV Presto
