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Text Box: Chris Allen was born in 1954 in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk. He began learning to play the clarinet at the age of thirteen with George Adam, and went on to study at the Royal College of Music with Colin Bradbury and Stephen Trier. Following a varied freelance career, performing with D’Oyly Carte, London Festival Ballet and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, he settled in Bedfordshire where he divides his time between performing, composing, music-copying and teaching. Text Box: Chris Allen and Richard Heyes formed their duo during 2004 and have performed in a number of venues in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Their repertoire extends outwards from the cornerstone sonatas of Brahms and Reger to encompass pieces from the classical period up to the present day. These two musicians are pleased to offer a variety of programmes for both evening and lunchtime events, any of which may include solos for either instrument if required. Their current repertoire includes works by , Brahms, Debussy, Finzi, Gade, Hindemith, , Lutoslawski, Martinu, Poulenc, Reger, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Stanford and Weber. Text Box: Hindemith – Sonata Debussy – Clair de Lune Poulenc – Sonata Text Box: Schumann – Fantasiestücke Sutermeister – Capriccio Reger – Sonata in F sharp minor op.49, No.2 Text Box: Poulenc – Sonata Stanford – 3 Intermezzi Martinu – Sonatina *** Ferguson – 5 Bagatelles Weber – Grand Duo Concertant

Example lunchtime programmes:
 
Text Box: For further information about the Allen-Heyes Duo please e-mail: Allen-Heyes Duo

Example evening programmes:
 
Text Box: Gade – Fantasistykker Lutoslawski – Dance Preludes Horovitz – Sonatina *** Mendelssohn – Songs without Words Brahms – Sonata in E flat major op.120, No.2 Text Box: Finzi – 5 Bagatelles Horton – Black Ireland – Fantasy Sonata *** Bridge – 3 Sketches Stanford – Sonata Text Box: The Brahms Experience: Sonata in F minor op.120, No.1 Sonata in E flat major op.120, No.2

          

        CHRIS ALLEN – clarinet

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                         RICHARD HEYES – piano

 
 
Text Box: Richard Heyes was born in 1955 in Chester and began learning piano at the age of nine with Harold Kirkham in Nantwich. He trained with Sybil Barlow and Alexander Kelly at the Royal Academy of Music and at Cambridge Universtity as organ scholar of Gonville and Caius College. In 1979 he participated in Tatiana Nikolaieva’s master classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer School. He has been head of the flourishing piano department at Bedford School since 1982. He performs regularly as a soloist, duettist and accompanist.