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After two years studying and playing together at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama we looked back and saw that while we have been in Scotland we have shared our time, thoughts, experiences and nationality. We have built up a good bond between clarinettist and pianist and have also made a strong link between composer and performer as Marcos has written many new compositions for clarinet which have been played by Samuel. It made us realise that we were consolidating our understanding about each other, which let us perform with the same ideas and allowed us to enhance our musical qualities in communicating with the audience.

We think we can contribute to the traditional repertoire for clarinet and piano, in terms of performance, but we are also interested in the 20th century works and new commissions that have an important feature of communication to the audience.

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Their repertoire includes the following pieces:

........Brahms, Sonata N. 2

........Poulenc, Sonata for clarinet and piano

........Lutoslawasky, Dance preludes

........Bela Kovacks, Homenaje a Falla

........Marcos Fernandez, Toccata for clarinet and piano

........A. Messager, Solo de concours

........Malcom Arnold, Sonata for clarinet and piano

........Baerman, Adagio

........Marcos Fernandez, Pasodoble Rapsodico

Born in Tenerife (Spain) in 1985, Samuel is currently studying a Masters degree with Maximiliano Martin at the RSAMD. Before coming to Glasgow he studied at the Conservatoire Superior of Canary Islands with Michael Kirby and was a member of the Tenerife Youth Symphony Orchestra. Samuel has performed in masterclasses throughout the EU with many prestigious players including Barnaby Robson,Thomas Friedli,, Michele Carulli, Joan Enric Lluna, Henry Bok and Sylvie Hue. Between 2007 and 2008 Samuel was selected for the Apprenticeship Schemes of “The Orchestra of Scottish Opera” (Bass Clarinet), the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He reached the final of the Governor´s Chamber Music Competition 2007and 2008.
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Samuel recently won the Governors Solo Competition for Woodwind and he play the Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Glasgow Orchestral Society and Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsody with the RSAMD Symphony Orchestra. He has played professionally with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Hebrides Ensemble, NYOS Futures, The Rehearsal Orchestra (London), El Paso Symphony Orchestra (Canary Islands) and is also principal clarinet of the Camerata Scotland and the La Laguna Symphony Wind Band (Canary Islands).
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Born in Barcelona, Marcos completed a piano degree in the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya with Maria Jesus Crespo and Ramon Coll. At the same time as this, he was undertaking six years of study in violin at the Conservatoire of Barcelona. During his career as a pianist he has won several piano competitions and also performed in various recitals in Spain. At the age of seventeen he was invited by an important theatre company (La puca) to work as a composer and pianist for a Melodrama touring in Spain. His compositions were awarded prizes including The Patron’s Fund Prize and the Stevenson Scholarship to study at the RSAMD - where he is currently studying with Rory Boyle. Marcos was also runner-up in the Dinnah Wolfe Memorial Award in 2007. In 2008 he received a commission from the RSAMD to write a clarinet concerto, which was premiered by Samuel Hernandez as part of the Buffet Clarinet Festival. Also during 2008, he wrote a piece and was given the opportunity of having it premiered by Maximilano Martín, virtuoso Spanish clarinetist and soloist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Recently, Marcos was selected to represent the RSAMD on the 2008 forum for the composers of British Conservatoires.
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They noramally offer a recital of one hour as the following programme, which could be extended if required.

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Dance preludes……………………….. W. Lutoslawsky

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Homenaje a M. de Falla (for clarinet)…………………. B. Kovacks

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Toccata for clarinet and piano……………. Marcos Fernández

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II

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Sonata for clarinet and piano……………. F. Poulenc

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Pasodoble Rapsodico (for piano)……………… Marcos Fernández

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Solo de concurso………………………… A. Messager