Ryedale Festival, Yorkshire with Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

An event unique to the Ryedale Festival, the Triple Concert features three contrasting concerts in different areas of the stunning country house Castle Howard. Each concert is presented three times, with the audiences rotating after each performance.

Thaxted Festival with London Tango Quintet

Taking place in Thaxted’s magnificently spacious Parish Church, Thaxted Festival offers a relaxed atmosphere, the highest standards of performance from renowned professional artists, the superb natural acoustics of Thaxted Church, and a warm welcome in beautiful historic surroundings.

Craig Ogden joins London Tango Quintet for a breathtaking evening of scintillating tango as this virtuoso quintet bring the sound of South America to Thaxted Festival.

Concerto with Stockport Symphony Orchestra

Robert Guy – conductor
Craig Ogden – guitar
Helen Brackley Jones – violin

Glazunov Summer
Glinka Summer Night in Madrid
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Craig performs Rodrigo’s most famous guitar concerto, Concierto de Aranjuez, with Stockport Symphony Orchestra in the stunning surroundings of Stockport Town Hall.

The orchestra was formed in 1975 as the New Orchestra of Manchester and performs eight concerts every season at the Town Hall with professional conductors and both established and rising stars of the classical music world.

Sandbach, Cheshire for Sandbach Concerts with Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

The opening concert in Sandbach Concerts’ 15 years celebratory weekend features the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet with good friend of the concert series Craig Ogden, now a member of the quartet.

“If one guitar quartet can give a traditional string quartet a run for its money in terms of abundant technique and breath-taking artistry, it is the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet” International Record Review

 

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.

Arnold & Vivaldi Concertos with Worthing Symphony Orchestra

Craig returns to Worthing to play two concertos with Worthing Symphony Orchestra (John Gibbons, conductor)

Malcolm Arnold – Guitar Concerto

Vivaldi – Guitar Concerto in D Major

Mozart – Symphony No. 41 in C, K551 ‘Jupiter’

 

New Paths Music Festival, Beverley, Yorkshire

Craig Ogden (guitar) | Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) | Fiona Colville (flute) | Libby Burgess (piano)

Borne: Carmen Fantasy | Tárrega: Capricho árabe | Rodrigo: 3 Piezas Españolas | Shostakovich: Spanish Songs | Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

A Spanish feast launches this year’s festival! Renowned guitarist Craig Ogden conjures up Iberian scenes from fandango to pensive passacaglia in music by Rodrigo – best known for his Concierto de Aranjuez, but here in intimate mode.

Meanwhile celebrated bass-baritone Ashley Riches paints Spain through the lens of two composers whose anniversaries fall this year: Shostakovich in folksong, and Ravel in irreverent settings of the Don Quixote tale, from romance to drinking song. Bizet’s much-loved Spanish melodies from the opera Carmen are reworked into flute fireworks to kickstart the festival. Mucho gusto!

 

St Mary’s Church, Yatton, Somerset with WAGO

Craig is passionate about supporting classical guitarists and has worked with WAGO on a number of occasions.  WAGO is the Wyvern Afinado Guitar Orchestra (WAGO) – a group of local amateur classical guitarists centred on Hewish & Puxton, North Somerset.

The programme will include a solo set from Craig, together with duets, quartets, and full guitar orchestral pieces with Craig as a member and soloist. The programme will also include a world premiere of music written specifically for the group.

The concert takes place in the beautiful St Mary’s Church in the village of Yatton.