The JKL DUO, comprised of Jacopo Lazzaretti and Kerry Lynch, play music straight from the heart, using the flute and classical guitar to speak to listeners acrossthe world. Since February 2022, they have been touring around concert series and festivals in many Scottish cities such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee and the Isle of Skye,  and have beendescribed as ‘Simply stunning’ (Skye Chamber Music) and ‘Robert Burns as you've never heard him before’ (West Linton Village Centre). Since the album release in 2023, the tracks have been broadcast extensively in Scotland with them beingawarded ‘Album of the Week’ at Celtic Music Radio and being nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award. Further reviews described it as ‘a stimulating and thought-provoking take on the music found by Robert Burns’ (Kate Calder, Edinburgh Music Review) and ‘To see such a unique, well-executed, and fresh concept for a chamber music album is a rare delight, and the world is all the richer for JKL DUO's cheek in attempting such a project’ (Michael Ibsen).

Jacopo Lazzaretti (b. 1994) is “an accomplished guitarist” (Classic Music Live! Falkirk – March 2022) from Rome, currently based in Glasgow and active as a soloist, chamber musician, educator and recording artist. His recent musical activity (2019-2022) includes concerts at the Stromness Town Hall for the St Magnus International Festival, in Edinburgh at the Usher Hall, Greyfriars’ Kirk, St. Giles Cathedral, National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Gallery, Costorphine Dower House as well as at the Paisley Abbey, the Music Society of Helensburgh and at the Macrobert Art Centre in Stirling.

Kerry Lynch is a Scottish Flautist/Whistle player and began her formal studies at the Junior Conservatoire of Scotland (Classical Guitar and Flute) at an early age and has since trained and performed in masterclasses with artists like Ian Clark, Ruth Morley and Gareth McLearnon.

Programme:

First Half - Solo Guitar

· A Scottish Tune & Canaries, Scottish Lute Pieces from the Rowallan & Straloch Manuscripts (17th Century)

· 2 Preludes by Heitor Villa-Lobos

· Northern Lights by Jan Depreter

· Wild Mountain Thyme, Celtic Traditional – arranged by Scott Tennant

· Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconi

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Second Half - The International Poet

· Breton Fantasy on Ye Jacobites  by Laura Snowden

· The Lea Rig by Stevie Lawrence

· The Deil’s Awa wi’ the Exciseman & Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonny Doon  by Savourna Stevenson

· John Anderson, My Jo by Amit Anand

· The Betrayed Melody (after Robert Burns) by Francesco Leineri

· Red Red Rose by Stevie Lawrence

· Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad? (Fantasia on a Theme by Robert Burns) by Vasily Antipov

· Auld Lang Syne Samba by Celso Machado

· Ae Fond Kiss by Roberto Kuhn Versluys