An audience with Carlo Fierens
Thu 19 Jun 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
St. Georges Church, Woolhope, HR1 4QS
Description
Carlo is returning to Herefordshire by popular demand after his outstanding performance at Colwall Church in 2024. Carlo is playing in the Isle of Man and since he is flying from Birmingham is able to play two concerts for us in Herefordshire at a concessionary rate.
From the Colwall concert our harshest critic said' this was a performance of the highest professional quality. Carlo played brilliantly from memory without the need for any music and we were so fortunate in Herefordshire that Carlo found us'
CARLO FIERENS - CLASSICAL GUITAR
Born in Finale Ligure, Italy, Carlo Fierens started studying the guitar with his father Guillermo, an internationally celebrated guitarist. He later obtained a Diploma at the Conservatory for Music in Alessandria and a master’s degree in Guitar at the Trento Conservatory, both with top marks. He began his playing at an early age and won awards both nationally and internationally,including First Prize (one of more than ten such) at the International Guitar Competition Alirio Diaz in Rome and the Matinee Musicale competition in Indianapolis. In 2013 he was awarded the Italian National Prize for the Arts, presented to the year’s top music student by the Ministry of Education. He has performed across N. and S. America, Europe, Africa and Asia in such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Centre in Washington, in Hong Kong, Japan, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro as well as Milan and Rome.
Woolhope Church
“St George’s Church stands on a site which dates from pre-history. According to Alfred Watkins it stands on at least two ley lines, and the alignment with Mordiford and Hampton Bishop churches and All Saints in Hereford, easily seen on an OS map, is indisputable.
The structure of the church is largely Norman, from the second half of the 12th Century. The 13th Century tower commands the valley named after Wulviva who, with her more famous sister Godiva, gave the land to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The sisters are commemorated in a striking ‘Arts & Crafts’ period window in the North aisle.
Norman work is seen in the North arcade, a window in the Sanctuary and a carved head under the tower, but much of the present fabric, internal woodwork and fittings date from a major restoration in the 1880s under the benefaction of the Booker family of Wessington Court. The organ by William Vincent of Liverpool (1862) is particularly fine as are two remarkable coffin-lids from the 13th and 14th centuries and the beautiful “Elizabeth Window’ by Kempe in the South Aisle.
The church is approached from the south by a long path from the timbered ‘Skallenge’ (lych gate), dating from 1581. A preaching cross with a medieval base adjoins the path, and this older section of the churchyard contains some notable ‘tea caddy’ tombs and others from the Georgian and early Victorian periods.”
Location
St. Georges Church, Woolhope, HR1 4QS