ALL Saints’ Church’s spring season of Music at Lunchtime recitals will be brought to an end Monday, June 13.

Providing the entertainment for this final concert will be classical guitarists Kianush Robeson and Simon Pearce.

Kianush Robeson has been playing classical guitar for many years and achieved a place at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama to study under the tutelage of John Mills. He regularly performs in South Wales and England, most recently in Swansea guitar circle, Bridgend, Cardiff and Bristol guitar society.

In 2016 he won the prestigious John Mills Guitar Prize. He is currently completing his third year of study at the RWCMD. He has participated in master classes with John Williams, Graham Devine, Eduardo Catemario, Chris Stell, Mark Eden, Gerald Garcia, Eleftheria Kotzia, Gary Ryan and many more.

Kianush’s programme at All Saints will include the Nocturnal after John Dowland - Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) which is one of the most substantial and complex pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. It is a set of variations on a song by the British renaissance composer John Dowland called Come Heavy Sleep. These involve a variety of different styles and techniques, which, at the end climax with extraordinary ferocity and are sure to leave the audience enthralled.

Simon Pearce took up the classical guitar at the age of nine.

After this he began to attend the Amersham Music Centre and eventually gained a Saturday morning scholarship studying with Debbie Cracknell, whilst also learning the piano and the violin. Along with the support of his parents who are also keen guitarists, the time he spent at the music centre over the next eight years was the main inspiration for his chosen musical direction.

In 2010 Simon successfully gained a place in the National Youth Guitar Ensemble under the direction of Gerald Garcia. After three years in the ensemble and seven years at St Clement Danes School in Hertfordshire, Simon gained a place to study with John Mills at the RWCMD.

During the four years completing his studies Simon has played in many master classes with great guitarists including Xuefei Yang, Marcin Dylla and John Williams. Immediately after graduating with a BMus(Hons) Simon will be working as a guitar teacher with the Berkshire Maestros along with playing at a variety of different performance venues.

Simon’s repertoire on Monday will include Four Movements from Suite in Modo Polonico by Alexandre Tansman – pieces which were written for the Spanish virtuoso Andres Segovia in the early 1920s and are in fact the original set.

Tansman added to the suite again in the early 1960s. These pieces are very much inspired by the music of Tansman’s homeland in Poland, featuring many aspects of its musical heritage such as folk melodies and different Polish dance forms such as the Mazurka.

Entry to this recital, as with all the All Saints Music at Lunchtime events is free and hot and cold drinks are provided. Visitors are welcome to bring their lunch. All Saints Church is completely accessible to all and all are very welcome.

More details about the event is available from the parish administrator, Dafydd G Jones on 029 2070 3170, email admin@allsaintspenarth.org.uk or visit the church’s website at allsaintspenarth.org.uk