Details
Holy Trinity Church
Church Lane
Weston
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG4 7DJ
England
Programme
Johann Kaspar Mertz – Elegie
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Capriccio Diabolico
Niccolo Paganini – Romanze
George Rochberg – Excerpts from Caprice Variations
Isaac Albéniz – Asturias
~ Interval ~
Agustín Barrios Mangoré – Un sueño en la floresta
Manuel Ponce – Allegretto Vivo:piu lento espressivo
Frédéric Chopin – Waltzes, Op.64
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in E flat major, Op.9 no.2
Frédéric Chopin – Prelude in E minor, Op.28 no.4
Performers
Laura Lootens – guitar
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Programme Note
Laura Lootens has been selected by Classic FM as one of their 30 'Rising Stars of 2024'. Having played the guitar since the age of eight, she was awarded a scholarship from the German Music Competition for all instruments. Her concert career took off following her performance at the Gasteig, Munich, in the internationally acclaimed ‘Winners and Masters’ series. She went on to win the coveted Andres Segovia International Classical Guitar Competition in Spain in 2022, scoring a further success when the renowned German Music Competition selected her for a scholarship; on the same occasion, she was awarded the Special Prize of the German Musikleben Foundation.