MAJORE DUO

Based in Cape Town

The Majore Duo was formed in 2001 when Sheryl Deane and Lucia Scott met in Cape Town.  They have since played for many embassies and corporate  functions, including playing for Prince Edward and Prince Philip in 2002 and 2003. Sheryl has also played solo guitar for Nelson Mandela. The duo combine two string instruments, one plucked and one bowed. The acoustic guitar is a versatile instrument because it can express so many styles from all over the world. The violin has a refined sound that can only be matched by the human voice and Lucia’s violin playing has that voice like quality.

Sheryl Deane graduated from the University of Natal in Durban with Dave Hewitt  as her  guitar teacher & Darius Brubeck as a jazz  composition teacher.    She went on to study guitar with John Mills in London and played with the Lauderdale ensemble in Highgate, London  for 5 years.  Since returning to Cape Town, she has played as a soloist at the Table Bay Hotel as well as playing concerts at Baxter, Lyndenburgh Arts, Artscape in Cape Town.

Italian born Lucia Di Blasio Scott started her performing career at the age of eight in Sanremo. She has been soloist with the F.Sfilio Chamber Orchestra both in  Italy and France, and she was one of the youngest to gain a Diploma in Italy, at age eighteen. She moved to South Africa in 1983 as Vice-Principal in the newly formed NPO> In Cape Town since 1993, she was Principal in the CTSO and the CTPO> She is no longer involved with any of the Cape Town orchestras, and is mainly dedicated to Chamber Music. She is a principal guest with the Baroque series organized by Prof. Shirley Gie as well as a member of the Palm Strings and the Michaelis Players. Lucia teaches violin at the university of Cape Town. Lucia recently performed with  El Divo at Kirstenbosch Concert in 2008 and is in great demand for recordings used world wide.

Majore Repertoire List

Classical Pieces arranged for violin and guitar , arr S Deane

Andaluz – Sarasate
Capprichio Arabe
Concerto Aranjuez – slow movement
Requerdos d’Lhambra
Pavane Op. 30 – G Faure
Menuet from L’Arlesienne – G Bizet
Air on a G String – Bach
Loure Suite – Bach
Ave Maria, Bach
Sinfonia from Cantata 156 – Bach
Turkisher March DV331 – Mozart
Marcia Nuziale F Mendelssohn
Prince of Denmark -  Clarke
Menuet – Boccherini
Humoresque – Dvorak
Gymnopedie no 1 E Satie
Chopin Waltz Op9 nr.2
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Mozart
Habernera  from Carmen – Bizet
Love Song for Mandolin and Violin, Don Giovani – Mozart
Andante from Sonata no 16 K V 545 – A Vivaldi
Sicilienne, Faure
Collection of Guilianni pieces for Violin and Guitar
Fur Elise – Beethoven
Largo from the Four Seasons – Vivaldi
Bolero
Lara’s Theme from Dr Czvago (Mandolin and Guitar)
Greensleves – English folk song
Spanish Romance - anon

Popular Ballads

Titanic theme Song – C Dion
Memory –  A. Lloyd Webber
All I ask of you – A. L Webber
The Moon and I – E Fitzgerald
Somewhere over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen
She – Charles Kretzmer
I’ll have to say I love you in a song – Jim Croce
Here there and everywhere – Lennon and McCartney
Misty - B Garner
Cavatina – S Meyers
Moon Dance – Van Morrison
La Vie en rose
Love Story – Francis Lai
My Way - Sinatra
Inspiration – Gypsy Kings
Volare – Gypsy Kings
My Way
Sunrise, Sunset
She (soundtrack from Nottinghill Gate)
New York New York
Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
Downtown
My Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
Killing Me Softly
You raise me up – Josh Grobin
Just the way you are – Billy Joel
Beatles – any song

Jazz Standards

Moon River
Shadow of your smile
All the things you are
What a wonderful world
Take Five
Classical Gas
Summertime – G Gershwin
Girl from Ipanema
Black Orpheus

Spanish & Latin Gypsy

Gypsy Kings- Volare, Bambeleo, Inspiration,Besame Mucho
Jose Feliciano  - Pagau
Classical Gas
La Comparsita
Malaguena
La Paloma
Czardos
Tico Tico
Tango Una Cabeza

A collection of Baroque Classics (Bach, Haydn, Purcell & Vivaldi)
A collection of Neopolitan  Tangos and popular songs
A collection of Irish and Scottish Music including - Riverdance
A collection of Cuban (Piazolla)  and Latin American Music