Federation of Guitar Societies

A concert of ensemble and solo classical guitar by Diss Guitar Ensemble

Eleftheria Kotzia guitar and Wilf Murray piano

David Fennessy (b.1976)

Rosewood

Sofia Gubaidulina (b.1931)

Serenade

Toccata

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Suite in E minor BWV996

INTERVAL

Georges Lentz (b.1965)

Ingwe

SOLO Classical Guitar Ensemble play the music of Spain - Latin America and Classical Viennese.

Come and listen and have a drink in the Blackfriars Revue Bar.

Amanda started playing the guitar aged 7 in Bognor Regis and is a leading guitarist of her generation. She has performed and given masterclasses in the USA, South America and throughout Europe. She has performed and been broadcast live on television and radio, both abroad and in the UK and is now widely admired as an adjudicator

Tonight’s performance will be followed by a question and answer session with John Taylor in which the audience can talk to Sean about his music

Programme

A selection of Scottish lute manuscripts

Bach; Lute Suite in E minor, BWV996

Gubaidulina; Serenade and Toccata

Fennessy; Rosewood

Two virtuoso guitarists, Argentinian Daniela Rossi & American Valérie Hartzell both living in England, will share an evening with music from around the world. Note that the concert has been rescheduled from October 2019 to March 2020.

Musica de la tierrita" CD launch

Albéniz - Mallorca Op 202 (tr. by Francisco Correa)

Daniel Saboya - Suite Colombiana No.1

Agustín Barrios - Julia Florida; Vals Op.8 No.4

Lucas Saboya - Suite Ernestina

ILAMS series

John Williams, John Etheridge and Gary Ryan launch a new series of 2020 dates with 3 nights at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London.

Gary Ryan returns to Swansea Classical Guitar Circle to perform an evening recital.

Rodrigo Concerto Fantasia with the Camden Philarmonia Orchestra

Eleftheria Kotzia Guitar

Gary Ryan will be performing an evening recital for Old Bexley Music Society

The Segovia Legacy

Works written for, and by, Andrés Segovia including Ponce, Roussel, Moreno Torroba, Segovia, Tansman and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

All proceeds to the Alzheimer's Society

Taro Takeuchi, Jelma van Amersfoort, Oleg Timofeyev, and Richard Savino, play music, by Robert de Visee, Matteis, Salvador Castro de Gistau, Ignaz von Held and others, on ORIGINAL INSTRUMENTS …

In April 2020 the world’s leading expert on the Russian seven-string guitar Oleg Timofeyev will be touring the UK for the first time. For his Brighton and Hove concert, he will present a program of 19th and 20th century instrumental music and accompany Brighton’s own Russian singer Polina Shepherd a few songs in Russian and Yiddish.

My solo recital consisting of an evening of my arrangements of popular music over the last 100 years from the Beatles, to Bacharach and beyond , to every decade from the 1920s to the present day .

The evening will include music by Mertz, Piazzola, Villa-Lobos, Dyens, Legnani and Turina.

Chris and Ann MacCarthy, playing an evening of my classical duet arrangements with composers such as Grieg, Ravel, Borodin, Bartok, Debussy, Faure, and more besides.

Programme to be announced. Solos by Valerie Hartzell included.

Satuday 11th July is a morning class with Gordon Giltrap beginning at 9.15a.m.(£25) and a concert in the evening (£15), wherein he will no doubt be playing all his own compositions in his own inimitable way.

TBA