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LYNN ARNOLD AND CHARLES MATTHEWS PIANO DUET

Vaughan Williams - Suite

Maconchy - Preludio, Fugato e Finale

Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony, movements 2 & 3

Debussy - 6 Epigraphes Antiques (1-3)

Walton - Crown Imperia

Pianists Lynn Arnold and Charles Matthews have performed as a duet across England for some years and individually on an international basis. Nurturing their zeal for the piano duet idiom, they have explored and performed much of the core repertoire for this ensemble in terms of both original compositions and inded transcriptions. A mutual passion for English music features significantly in their choice of repertoire; Lynn and Charles were delighted to feature at the 2019 English Music Festival. Their repertoire includes the complete works for piano duet by York Bowen, as well as works by Holst, Delius, Quilter and other composers active in the early twentieth century. Charles and Lynn are also keen to promote more recent British works, such as those by Maconchy (1967), Francis Routh (1991) and John Rushby-Smith (1994). Charles and Lynn both accompany and teach at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music respectively and support the charity Music in Hospitals and Care, "bringing joy to those in need through live music."