Cirencester with the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet & Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble

Cirencester is excited to welcome the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet – one of the world’s leading guitar ensembles to an exciting evening of classical guitar music.  In the first half they will be joined by the Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble and performing a variety pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov and Delibes as well as popular classics including Palladio by Karl Jenkins.
For the second half this incredible quartet will thrill the audience with their amazing repertoire of pieces.

The Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble is a group of over 50, talented and successful, classical guitarists of Primary school age upwards, based in the Cotswolds and performing classical, Spanish, Latin and popular music, directed by Sandra Dukes.

The Quartet are delighted to be giving workshops and classes with the Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble during the day.

Thaxted Festival Launch with Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

The launch of our 2026 summer season will take place on 22 February in Thaxted Parish Church at 3pm.

After Craig Ogden’s success this summer when he performed with the London Tango Quintet, he was the perfect choice to launch our 2026 season with the dynamic and innovative guitar quartet Aquarelle. Expect extraordinary performances and an expansive repertoire. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear their arrangements of music from various genres and works from major international composers. Our new Artistic Director, Christopher Weston has been curating our 40th anniversary Festival season and he and our Chair, Peter Donovan look forward to talking through the highlights with you during the afternoon (General booking opens on 16 March).

Join us for drinks and nibbles and enjoy the suitably warming music from Aquarelle to get us into the summer spirit!

Music at Stow, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cotswolds with the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

Recognised as one of the world’s leading guitar quartets, the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet is a dynamic and innovative group known for its extraordinary ensemble in performance, expansive repertoire and ground-breaking work in developing the guitar quartet medium. Originally formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1999 under the guidance of Craig Ogden and Gordon Crosskey, the quartet continued their studies with guitarists including Sérgio Assad, Oscar Ghiglia and Scott Tennant. Their early successes included winning awards from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Tillett Trust and Tunnell Trust.

MUSIC AT STOW was founded in 2014 and is based in Stow-on-the-Wold in the heart of the Cotswolds, in rural Gloucestershire.It hosts an annual music festival each September, along with standalone events during the year, presenting world-class artists from every genre including classical, jazz, blues & classic bands from the sixties.