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Irish flautist Aisling Agnew and Scottish Guitarist Matthew McAllister are internationally recognised as one of the leading Flute & Guitar Duos. They are renowned for deeply engaging performances, imaginative programming and consummate artistry. Since giving their first concert together in Belfast in 2001 they have performed extensively around the world earning the highest admiration from audiences.


Recent performances include two US tours as well as concerts in Italy, Austria, Holland, Peru, Costa Rica, Malaysia, UK and Ireland. The Duo recorded their critically acclaimed début CD Recital in 2006 with Natural Studio Records, they have also recorded for RTE Lyric FM, as featured on the CD release Hiccup.

As this highly expressive form of chamber music continues to grow in popularity, Aisling & Matthew are at the forefront of it’s evolution through their insightful transcriptions, inspiring arrangements and innovative new works they commission.

In 2011 Aisling and Matthew will celebrate the past 10 years of working together with a wide variety of concerts, commissions and live recordings.

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“The programme which they had assembled was perfectly chosen – something old, something modern, something quite unknown, and a classic of the repertoire, all played with skill and insight by two gifted young musicians…”

The Courier

Posted on Monday, August 8th 2011

“The fireworks were hugely in evidence as both players met the piece’s extreme difficulties with disarming ease… Altogether this was a fabulous concert of wonderfully diverse music played by a quality duo that deserves to be heard by anyone interested in good music.”

Classical Guitar Magazine

Posted on Friday, August 5th 2011

Reflected in the glass on Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

Reflected in the glass on Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

Posted on Thursday, August 4th 2011

Performance of a Carulli Serenade at the Gitaar Salon in Enkhuizen, Holland

Posted on Wednesday, August 3rd 2011

“The Agnew / McAllister duo once again show their talents as arrangers in a super presentation of the Fantasie from ‘Carmen’ where Aisling Agnew displays her highly polished, fluid technique to its best advantage. The programme concludes in French style with,once again two enjoyable performances of the Poulenc and Ravel works. Throughout this recording the duo handles all the technical and musical requirements with aplomb and have produced a most alluring disc.”

Classical Guitar Magazine

Posted on Monday, August 1st 2011

“Bizet’s schizophrenic opera, with its sexy, seductive, and erotically playful heroine come to a decidedly unplayful end, is difficult enough to capture in full productions without sacrificing either the playful or the tragic. And often arrangements of opera for instruments can sound rather like a school exam exercise, technically impressive but lacking in the essential heart of the original. Not so with this marvelous adaptation by Agnew and McAllister. The guitar work, substituting for a more ambitious orchestra, carries the burden of shading the bright, optimistic, and virtuosic flute with all the dark foreboding of the drama. McAllister accomplishes this brilliantly with great understatement, never intruding, yet always pointing to the tragedy.”

Classical Music Guide 

Posted on Monday, August 1st 2011

The Agnew / McAllister Duo performing the Allegro movement from the G Major Sonata by Italian composer Pietro Locatelli live in concert at the Hudson Hall, Salem Oregon.

Posted on Monday, August 1st 2011

Film documenting the Agnew McAllister 2009 tour of Peru & Costa Rica.

Posted on Friday, May 20th 2011