Duo Andaluz Guitare Violon

Welcoming Duo Andaluz Guitare Violon to Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon

We are delighted to open our doors at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon to the intimate, sun‑lit sonorities of Duo Andaluz Guitare Violon. From our vantage as a venue rooted in the historic heart of the city, we shape the listening experience around proximity and nuance: the rasp of bow on string, the luminous snap of guitar rasgueado, and the fleeting silences where the room’s natural resonance takes over. The duo’s interplay—violin singing with cantabile elegance, guitar answering with rhythmic fire—thrives in our warm, stone-and-wood acoustics. With staging designed to keep artists and audience within a shared circle of attention, every gesture reads clearly and every color lands with intention. Expect a living conversation between classical refinement and Andalusian pulse: lyrical lines that unfurl like cante jondo, dances that tease the edge of improvisation, and harmonies that travel from the sun-baked courtyards of the South to the shaded alleys of our Old Town. As hosts, we craft the evening’s arc so that each piece becomes a vignette—an invitation to hear not only technique, but also place, memory, and movement.

Artistic momentum and what awaits you in Lyon

From our programming perspective, Duo Andaluz Guitare Violon arrives with the kind of artistic momentum that makes a room lean forward. Their current concert work emphasizes new dialogues between violin phrasing and the percussive vocabulary of the guitar, weaving Andalusian colors with Mediterranean and Latin resonances. Rather than treating styles as fixed categories, the duo animates forms—fandango, soleá, alegrías—as living languages that invite ornament, rubato, and spontaneous exchange. In recent seasons they have expanded their palette with fresh arrangements and original pages tailored to intimate halls like ours, where the gradient between whisper and blaze can be drawn in fine detail. We curate the program here to spotlight that duality: shadow and light, gravity and dance, the tingle of harmonics mirrored by the earthy heel of a rhythmic accent. The evening unfolds as a journey of timbre and texture, with the violin’s velvet low register melting into the guitar’s warm middle strings before both take flight in passages of heady virtuosity. What emerges is a narrative without words—one that our listeners in Vieux Lyon will experience as both refined recital and shared celebration.

At Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon, we champion performances that reward close listening and reward the city’s appetite for craft. For Duo Andaluz Guitare Violon, that means a set shaped for our space: entrances calibrated to the room’s natural decay, cadences placed so a final note can bloom against stone, and pacing that alternates reflective miniatures with exuberant dance episodes. The duo’s artistry also extends to storytelling; they relish the moment before a piece to sketch a scene or trace a rhythm back to its roots, which aligns with our philosophy of bringing audiences inside the creative process. We position the ensemble at a distance that lets fingers and bow strokes remain visible—an embodied reminder that sound is movement. As night falls over the cobbled streets outside, the hall gathers a soft hush, and the first chords sketch a horizon only the music can cross. It is in that meeting point—artist and listener, tradition and renewal, Old Lyon and the South—that our venue finds its purpose and where this duo’s voice feels unmistakably at home.