Duo Andaluz Guitare Violon

Duo Andaluz – guitare & violon at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon

At Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon, we are delighted to host Duo Andaluz for an evening shaped by the living dialogue between guitare and violon. Our intimate stone-lined room, with its warm, resonant acoustics, allows every nuance of the plucked string and every shade of the bow to bloom—ideal conditions for a program that moves from Andalusian fire to lyrical contemplation. In this setting, the duo’s interplay becomes a choreography of tone and silence: a tremolo that hangs in the air, a soaring cantilena answered by a spirited rasgueado. Without reducing the surprise of discovery, expect the program to trace a path through Spanish and Mediterranean colors, where classical refinement meets flamenco pulse. Listeners will sense the spirit of emblematic pages like Asturias (Leyenda), Capricho Árabe, Zigeunerweisen, or even intimate echoes of Concierto de Aranjuez reframed in duo textures—not as a museum of favorites, but as living material shaped by two artists who listen deeply to one another and to the room itself.

An artistically vibrant season, heard up close

Right now, Duo Andaluz is exploring a vibrant artistic moment, crafting fresh arrangements that make space for shared storytelling. The violon often carries a vocal line with the flexibility of cante, while the guitare anchors compás, invites counterpoint, and occasionally steps forward with crystalline solos. Their recent concert sets have favored contrasts: whispered romances unfolding beside quicksilver dances, free rubato introductions melting into precise rhythmic grooves, and improvisatory bridges that weave palos such as bulería or soleá into modern chamber-sonorities. This balance between fidelity and invention defines their stage identity: the music feels rooted yet never static, traditional forms illuminated by contemporary finesse. In our hall, the duo’s dynamic range—delicate harmonics, brushed arpeggios, and bold violin declamation—becomes particularly vivid. Every gesture gains dramatic clarity, from a quietly turning ostinato to a climactic flourish that seems to gather the centuries of Iberian music into a single breath. For audiences discovering the duo’s current work, that means a night of new arrangements, refined transitions, and storytelling arcs that make time feel elastic.

Presenting Duo Andaluz here also means inviting you into the neighborhood’s own sense of time. The Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon sits amid cobbled streets and courtyards that echo with history; inside, we tune light and sound for warmth and presence so that the smallest detail—the brush of a fingertip on a string, the soft intake of breath before a cadence—reaches every listener. Our room encourages attentive listening, a closeness that suits pieces where intimate lyricism can suddenly ignite into dance. We encourage you to let the space become part of the music: to notice how a guitar’s resonance blooms against stone, how a violin’s line hangs in the air, how a hush gathers after a final chord. Arrive a little early to settle into the atmosphere of Vieux Lyon, and then lean into the conversation that Duo Andaluz creates—one in which heritage and spontaneity, discipline and freedom, meet in sound and become, for an evening, the heartbeat of our stage.