Music @ Malling, Kent – solo recital

Torroba – Sonatina
Torroba – Madroños
Philip Houghton – Kinkaschoo I Love You
Marais – Les Voix Humaines
Nikita Koshkin – The Usher Waltz
Piazzolla – Invierno Porteño
Reinhardt arr. Roland Dyens – Nuages
George Shearing – Lullaby of Birdland
Poulenc – Sarabande

World renowned guitar virtuoso Craig Ogden performs an eclectic solo programme including works by Astor Piazzolla, jazz legends Django Reinhardt and George Shearing as well as music by Marais – a court musician at Versailles and Francis Poulenc’s meditative Sarabande written in 1969 and dedicated to the renowned classical guitarist Ida Presti.

Hawkwood

Craig Ogden Classical Guitar Course, Hawkwood, Cotswolds

Classical Guitar Course for Intermediate/Advanced Guitarists.

Craig Ogden is one of the world’s leading classical guitarists who is well-known to UK audiences. He is Director of Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and brings 30 years of teaching and performing experience to offer this unique course.

This course is for accomplished and enthusiastic guitarists who want to improve their playing and performance. Craig covers a wide range of skills, techniques and methods to enable students of the guitar to take charge of their own practice and progress.

Dean & Chadlington Summer Music Festival, The Cotswolds

Candlelit Twilight Concert 

Craig Ogden brings the festival to a beautifully reflective close with a selection of pieces to be included on his upcoming Chandos Records release which explores some of the most calming music in the repertoire.

Doncaster, Music in the Round

Craig Ogden is one of the greatest classical guitarists of our time, whose incredible career over three decades has included a stream of best-selling albums, appearances with the world’s finest orchestras and a constant presence on Classic FM, where he’s long been a favourite artist with the station’s listeners.

Programme includes:

VILLA-LOBOS Chôros No.1
JS BACH Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV998 
REINHARDT Nuages 
RODRIGO Tres piezas españolas
ALBENIZ Torre Bermeja, Sevilla

Southend-on-Sea Concerts

Solo recital at this well established concert series run by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council. The concert will take place in the unique intimate venue of the council chamber!

Programme to include works by Bach, Vivaldi, Sally Beamish, William Lovelady, Scarlatti and Paula Child.

Northern Ireland, The Portico of Ards & The Ards International Guitar Festival

The Portico of Ards (‘Portico’) is an Arts and Heritage Centre in Portaferry, County Down, at the mouth of Strangford Lough in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (45 mins south of Belfast).

Built in 1841, Portico is a venue with unique grade A listed Greek architecture. Portico was restored and reopened in 2016 as a venue for events.

Craig’s concert is also part of the Ards International Guitar Festival which takes place annually in Newtownards, Co. Down with a programme of guitar inspired gigs, free fringe events, guitar clinics with industry professionals and exhibitions!