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Recitals – Concertos – Masterclasses – Events

Chester Music Society, Chester

THE SOCIETY'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON Wednesday 9 February 2022, 7.30pm St Mary's Creative Space A 75th Anniversary Celebrity Concert Homenaje a Segovia y Bream Torroba: Sonatina Rawsthorne: Elegy Tansman: Cavatina Bach: Prelude Fugue and Allegro BWV 998 Rodrigo: Tres Piezas Españolas Walton: Bagatelles for Guitar

Bledington Music Festival, The Cotswolds

St Leonard's Church, Bledington Bledington, Chipping Norton

Craig Ogden with Claire Bradshaw (mezzo soprano) Craig Ogden has presented a programme which he describes as ‘extremely listenable’. There is a happy balance between Solo Guitar and Guitar and Voice. Well-known favourites such as Lascia ch’io Pianga from Handel’s Rinaldo, Benjamin Britten’s arrangements of ‘I will Give my Love an Apple and O Waly Waly as well as Jerome Kern’s ‘The Folks Who Live on the Hill’. Guitar favourites by Rodrigo, Albeniz and Villa-Lobos and pieces by Scarlatti and J.S Bach.

St George’s Bristol, with Gary Ryan (guitar) and Exultate Singers

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

Spend an evening in the company of two charismatic and entertaining virtuosi of the guitar and Bristol’s accomplished chamber choir Exultate Singers. Exultate SingersCraig Ogden  Guitar Gary Ryan  GuitarDavid Ogden Conductor Ralph Vaughan Williams  Valiant-for-Truth Silence and Music Sonnet 71 A Choral Flourish – Exultate Deo Heart’s Music Gary Ryan Folk Song Suite Thomas Hewitt Jones The Lark Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Romancero Guitaro Juan de Anchieta Con amore, la mi madre Craig Ogden and Gary Ryan team up with the choir for this concert of songs from around the world including the first performance of a suite of folk songs for choir and two guitars. Falling in the […]

Royal College of Music, London – A Celebration of Julian Bream

Royal College of Music Prince Consort Rd, London, South Kensington

Finale for the RCM Guitar Festival celebrating the life of Julian Bream. Featuring performances by John Williams, John Etheridge, Christian Garrick, Craig Ogden, Ben Johnson, Matthew Wadsworth and Laura Snowden. The programme is to include Giuliani’s Variazioni Concertanti op130 for two guitars, Songs from the Chinese by Benjamin Britten and movements from Schubert’s Guitar Quartet in G, D96 after Matiegka.

Concerto Premiere with Ulster Orchestra, Ulster Hall, Belfast

Ulster Hall 34 Bedford Street, Belfast

BBC Radio 3 New Music Show Invitation Concert at the Ulster Hall on 12 January 2023 Ulster Orchestra David Brophy (conductor) Craig Ogden (guitar) Featuring contemporary works by four composers from the island of Ireland. The Ulster Orchestra is joined by the classical album chart topping guitarist Craig Ogden for the premiere of Greg Caffrey’s “Environments II”, a work written for solo guitar with strings and percussion, and mezzo-soprano Sarah Richmond performing Frank Corcoron’s “My Alto Rhapsodies” based on his poems from a collection called “Haikus”. There will also be performances of works by composers Anselm McDonnell and Ed Bennett. […]

Chiltern Arts, Henley-on-Thames

New Orleans Boat Hobbs of Henley, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Craig Ogden: Concert and Dinner on the Thames Aboard the New Orleans, Hobbs of Henley, Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 1AZ Join chart-topping guitarist Craig Ogden aboard Hobbs of Henley’s flagship vessel, the New Orleans for a truly special evening. After being welcomed on board, you’ll enjoy a glass of sparkling wine and canapés, followed by an hour of sublime music from Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo, Manuel de Falla and many more. After the concert a delicious two-course meal from Chef Chris Burns will be served while we make our way back along the river.

Burton Bradstock Festival, Dorset with David Juritz (violin) & Adrian Bradbury (cello)

St Mary's Church, Burton Bradstock Burton Bradstock, Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom

Spring Concert for Burton Bradstock Festival Baroque Variations: A Path Towards the Goldbergs Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Goldberg Variations BWV988 Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen (arranged David Juritz) Henry Purcell (1659-1695)  Music for a while Jean Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764)  Hippolyte et Aricie: Ritournelle Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 1704) Sans frayeur dans ce bois Marin Marais  (1656 – 1728)   Les voix humaines Francois Couperin (1668 – 1733)  La Couperin Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 – 1705) Imitazione delle Campane William Byrd (1540-1623)  Pavan ’The Earl of Salisbury’ Andrea Falconieri (1585/6–1656)  Pascalle Nicola Matteis (c.1650 –  c.1713)  Ground after the Scotch Humour James Oswald (1710–1769)  The Marvel of Peru ‘Comic’ Juan Arañés (died c. 1649)  Una sarao de la chacona, ‘A La vida bona’ Francesca Caccini  (1587 – d. after 1641)  Ciaccona Alessandro […]