Emma Smith and Sam Rodwell formed their guitar duo in 2014 while studying at the Royal Northern College of music, Manchester. They perform regularly at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall as well as appearing at venues round the UK such as St-Martin-in-the Fields, Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre, Cardiff Guitar Festival, Nanpantan Festival (near Loughborough) , Ribfest (Cornwall) , Weston Concerts and Grimsby Concert Society. The duos highly regarded first album 'Canonica', contains music from today's programme as well as other works from the duo's extensive repertoire. Sam and Emma's popularity has attracted new compositions from prominent composers including Yvonne Bloor and Mark Houghton.

Programme: -
Farewell to Stromness - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Serenade in A, op.96 - Ferdinando Carulli
Bad Boy - Toru Takemitsu
Sonatina Canonica - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Nagoya Guitars - Steve Reich
Balkan Express - Vojislav Ivanovic
INTERVAL
Lo Que Vendra - Astor Piazzolla
Tres piezas de otono - Maximo Diego Pujol
Partita: I.Festival II. Heath Haven III. Waltham Chase
(for Roth Guitar Duo) - Mark Houghton
La Vida Breve - Manuel de Falla
Always Good to Me (for Roth Guitar Duo) - Yvonne Bloor