LIVE CLASSICAL FLAMENCO GUITARIST

We have live music most Fridays & Saturdays.
Performed by either internationally renowned classical and flamenco guitarist Robin Hill or Galina Vale, Robin and Galina having played with us for the last 4 1/2 years have gathered quiet a following from our customers.

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Biography

Robin Hill was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England and educated at Bolton School. He studied at Huddersfield College of Music and later participated in master classes with Venezuelan guitarist, Alirio Diaz, and has collaborated with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the BBC Concert Orchestra (under Barry Wordsworth), the Irish National Symphony Orchestra, the Caracas Symphony Orchestra and many other fine orchestras.

Robin has since gone on to play with artists as diverse as the legendary tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, soprano Lesley Garrett, tenor, Russell Watson, soprano Denise Greaves at the 2003 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and from British rock bands Jethro Tull and Deep Purple, to American jazz/soul singer, Madeline Bell.

Robin has travelled extensively with 6 star Crystal Cruises and Cunard�s QE2 and QM2, performing highly acclaimed recitals on board, from the Antarctic, South America, Hawaii, Japan, India, Thailand, North America, the Caribbean, and many more countries of the world.

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Biography

Galina Vale was born  in the Ukraine and comes from a family of musicians.
She began studying the guitar and made her first public appearance on state television at the age of eight, from twelve she was performing major guitar concertos with the Kharkov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.  From 1991 to 1995 she studied at the Moscow Gnesiny Music College while also employed  as a principal guitarist with the Kharkov State Philharmonia from 1986 until 1997.

Galina has won prizes at international guitar and  music  competitions in  Poland, Italy, Hungary, Spain, the United Kingdom, and  has  performed over  2000  concerts  across West and Eastern  Europe .

In 1996  the  British  Ambassador and  High Commissioner to Kenya invited her to Africa for a concert tour and television appearances.
Her recitals have included very technically demanding works, such as the arrangement by Japanese virtuoso guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita of  "The Bogatyr Gate of Kiev" (from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky), considered "impossible for guitar" (Goniezc Pomorsky) alongside her own arrangements of works like Rachmaninov's  "Prelude no.5 in G-minor" and "Hungarian Dance no.5" by Brahms