Concerto Premiere with Ulster Orchestra, Ulster Hall, 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. Anselm McDonnell’s “Coruscate”- which means bursts of light.

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

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.

Masterclass – Royal College of Music, London

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

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 week of the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of Britain’s best-loved composers, the concert includes some of his most beautiful unaccompanied choral pieces and explores his legacy as an important collector and arranger of folk songs. The Lark by Thomas Hewitt Jones is a setting of lines from the poem that inspired Vaughan Williams’ most famous piece The Lark Ascending.

The programme features music and sounds of Spain, with the inclusion of duets for two guitars and the set of Spanish poems Romancero Guitaro for choir and guitar by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Brickwall Music & Arts Society – Frewen College, Rye, East Sussex

Solo recital in the beautiful hall at Frewen College.

Sandbach Concert Series, Cheshire with Paul Edmund-Davies (flute)

Bledington Music Festival, The Cotswolds

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.

Leeds International Concert Season, Leeds

Leeds Lunchtime Chamber: Craig Ogden

Wed 2 Feb, 1:05pm

The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire

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

Royal Northern Sinfonia, Newcastle

Jaume Santonja conductor
Craig Ogden guitar
Royal Northern Sinfonia

Boccherini Symphony No.6 ‘La Casa del Diavolo’
Rodrigo Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Interval
De Falla Three Cornered Hat Suite No.1
Granados Intermezzo from Goyescas
De Falla El Amor Brujo Suite