Edoardo Catemario at the Wigmore 25th March 2012

Acclaimed Italian guitarist Edoardo Catemario is giving a recital  at the Wigmore Hall on Sunday 25 March 2012 at 7.30pm.
Edoardo Catemario will be demonstrating his extreme virtuousity, musicality and technique in a fascinating programme which showcases some of the best-loved works in the repertoire, including those by Sor, Falla, Tárrega and Albéniz.

About Edoardo Catemario

Edoardo Catemario was born in Naples and studied guitar with Salvatore Canino, Antimo Pedata, José Tomás, Stefano Aruta and Maria Luisa Anido. At the age of 11 he gave his first solo recital. In January 1991 he won first prize in the Andrés Segovia guitar competition in Almuñécar (Spain), and in 1992 in the Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition in Alessandria (Italy).
 
He has performed across Europe, the United States and South America in venues such as the Grosser Saal of the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna, the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is frequently invited as a guest soloist by various orchestras, and has collaborated with many of the world's chamber musicians. He has recorded for the Decca, ARTS Music, and Koch Schwann labels.


Edoardo Catemario is also a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and taught in the "Sommer Akademie" of the Salzburg Mozarteum. He owns and plays on his collection of instruments dating between 1890 and 1935.

What others have said about Edoardo Catemario



“The interpretation of this music is sparkling and full of fireworks”

Compact Disc Classics

“The performances are consistently spirited and energetic, and Catemario’s charisma comes through even on recording. His technique is formidable and his tempos fearless”

American Record Guide

Visit www.catemario.com where you can find more information and media
 
How to book tickets to the Wigmore Hall recital


Tickets can be booked in person at the Wigmore Hall box office, by telephone on 020 7935 2141 or online at the link below, which also includes full details of Edoardo's programme: http://www.blogger.com/goog_869723582

February Meeting

The February Meeting was very well-attended and a great deal of good work was put into the preparation of our FGS Day / Beck Fest pieces. There were also excellent individual contributions from members. We welcomed Miles Roberts, Tom Rimmer and Tessa Protheroe from Wealden, Tessa making her first visit to BGS. We also welcomed Ray Butcher, one of our Society’s stalwarts.
 
From 6:45 pm until 8:00 pm, Rob Sellery led us through an exhaustive and detailed analysis of the Minuet and Trio. After a shorter than usual refreshment break it was suggested that, due to possible timing constraints, we should rehearse Joropo, before proceeding with members’ individual performances. Consequently, John Mann worked very hard to coax an ever-improving performance of Joropo, at a final tempo which surprised us all!!

The current attendance at our meetings and enthusiasm for these ensembles is really most encouraging. All credit to John and Rob for their diligent work.
 
There was, fortunately, sufficient time to accommodate most of those players who wished to perform:-
 
 
Jenny Wormald.            “Mermaid’s Beads” and “Twist and Shout”, by Luke Dunlea.
 
Danny Kim.                  “Coming Back To Reality”, own composition.
 
Trevor Pike.                  “Georgia On My Mind”, by Hoagy Carmichael.
 
Tom Rimmer.               “Fortune My Foe”, by John Dowland.
 
Freddy Carvalho.           “Study in A”, by Francisco Tarrega.
 
Vince Chittenden.          “Derniere Estudine”, by Francis Kleynjans.
 
Miles Roberts.               “Coral” and “Cancion”, from “Suite Compostelana”, by Federico Mompou.

Click here to listen to the pieces
 
 
Thanks, as always, to the ever-faithful Trevor for refreshments and the meeting finished at almost ten-o-clock

Paco Pena - Flamenco Mass at Manchester Cathedral

The world's foremost flamenco guitarist, Paco Pena, is set to perform his astonishing and utterly riveting 'Flamenco Mass' with full choir, flamenco guitarists, singers and dancers live in the grand surroundings of Manchester Cathedral on Friday 20th April 2012 for an exclusive UK show.



Born and raised in the Spanish heartland of Cordoba, Paco Pena is considered one of the world's greatest living exponents of the haunting and passionate art of Flamenco. His virtuoso guitar playing, alongside his Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Company, has toured all the major concert halls of the world to huge international acclaim.



Now considered one of his greatest works, Pena has re-written the traditional church mass for flamenco guitars, dancer and large-scale choir to brilliant effect. By combining the melodic and rhythmic nuances from flamenco with the texts of the Liturgy, Paco Pena creates something that is revelatory and joyous to watch in equal measure.



The concert will feature Paco Pena on flamenco guitar, a full choir as well as flamenco guitarists, singers and flamenco dancers live.



“His total dedication of almost incredible technical skill so ensuring that listeners, held a packed house enraptured.” -The Daily Telegraph



Tickets/Info: http://bandonthewall.org/events/3371/



Tickets also available by calling 0845 2 500 500.

London Guitar Festival 8-10th March 2012

Hi Folks

Fed up with the bonus culture?  Depressed about the austerity cuts, politicians, big society, miserable weather? Missed out on getting your tickets for the Olympic Games?
Time to cheer up and  join in the London Guitar Festival !

The Festival has some great concert highlights including performances from Hemanos Cuenca and Fernando Espi, The Vida Guitar Quartet, David Gibb and Elly Lucas  and the hosting of the final for the London International Guitar Competition (far more entertaining than the Olympic Opening ceremony and not ONE IOC official in sight!!)

Visit the London Guitar Festival Website for more information. More information and flyers will be available at the next BGS Meeting (Saturday 18th Feb).

Federation of Guitar Societies

Annual General Meeting to be held on 24th June 2012


The AGM of the Federation of Guitar Societies will take place on Sunday 24th June 2012. This year it will be hosted by the North Bucks Guitar Club and held at Woburn Village Hall - Crawley Road, Woburn MK17 9QD
The day will start at 10.30am and end at 4.30pm. Peter Nuttall will be leading us in the ensemble work, and in the afternoon each society will have 10 minutes to play its own musical piece(s). This event is also a fun social occasion for us all to meet and we hope we can get all societies represented on the day.


There will be a charge of £10 per person to cover the cost of the hire of the hall, refreshments etc. We would be grateful if each society would nominate someone to liaise with Wendy Wagstaffe at the North Bucks Guitar Club, and let her know how many people will be attending. Please inform your members who do not have access to the Federation's website about this event.

Emails please asap to wendy.wagstaffe@yahoo.co.uk with the contact details of the society’s representative. The numbers of those attending from each society should reach Wendy by 31st MARCH - please note that we can acommodate a total of sixty people. Alternatively, you can telephone her on 01462 621920

January Meeting

Your correspondent receiving some much needed
advice from his grandson

A belated Happy New Year to all members of the Bromley Guitar Society!

Unfortunately I missed the last meeting which explains my absence from the photo in the last issue...probably just as well- an overweight Aussie is not a pretty sight!! Still it is great to return back from Australia, after a stint of grand parenting, to take up the cudgels once more and faithfully record the highs and lows (not that there are too many of those) of life in the BGS.

I have also been a bit remiss in keeping abreast with developments in the Classical Guitar World and I hope to put that right this year! One of my New Year Resolutions!!

Upon returning for the first meeting this January, I was pleased (and secretly terrified) to note how advanced the standard of ensemble performance was since I attended the November Meeting. Tributes have to be paid to members John Mann and Rob Sellery who have proved to be worthy successors to Ray Butcher in organising and ably leading everyone through the mysteries of Joporo (Forrest) and Minuet and Trio (Von Calls). We were introduced to these pieces in November and the reason for my terror is that everyone has steamed ahead with the pieces with the exception of yours truly who has a bit of work on his hands in order to catch up!!

 I am indebted (along with all the other players of Guitar part 1) to Den Stockton for annotating the Joporo piece with finger placement guides which were invaluable! And it was great to see the return of our old Enfield task master Ray Butcher , who dropped in after a long absence! And he is still on form!!

As per usual we were treated to an evening of excellent solo performances as well.

Solos included
Falling Tears composed and performed by Danny Kim
Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin) performed by Freddie Carvalho
Pla-it Cool (Dunlea)
That's a Wrap (Dunlea)
Stripey Strips (Dunlea) All three pieces performed by Jenny Wormald

11 Junction St, Newstead (composed and performed by Andrew Ferrier and dedicated to his Grandson)

Stairway to Heaven  and Joropo (Merlin) performed by Dave Hampton
 Vals Poetico No.1 (Granados) Larisa Lieberman and Vince Chittenden
Scarborough Fair performed by Vince Chittenden

We are grateful to Vince and his sound pixies for recording and publishing the solos.
 The link can be found here http://www.questel.co.uk/bgs/bgs21.shtml

Special thanks to Rob and John for the work they have put into the ensemble work.  Thanks to their efforts,  we are confident that we will have something to show for the Federation of Guitar Societies meeting in July (need to check) as well as the next Beckenham Music festival.

And my thanks to Larisa who organised the refreshments for the evening.

See you all soon

Andrew Ferrier Hon Sec BGS

December Meeting 2011

The December meeting was well attended and we all worked very hard for a total of two hours on our ensemble pieces. Rob Sellery spent the first hour on “Leonard Von Call’s Minuet and Trio” and, by the coffee break, we had made considerable progress with not only the notes, but also the performance directions which Rob gave us.

After the coffee break, courtesy of Trevor and his home made biscuits, the following members played their chosen pieces:-

Freddy Carvalho            Amazing Grace & Silent Night.

Danny Kim                   A Blue Article.

Trevor Pike                   Away In a Manger.

Alan Green                   Salida Del Sol by Dieter Kreidler.

Larisa & Vince               Greensleeves.

John Mann then spent an hour helping us to unravel the rhythmical intricacies of “Andrew Forrest’s Joropo”. Make no mistake about it, this piece is clearly going to give us all a run for our money, so please practise your part at home and don’t rely on your sight-reading skills alone. John really had his work cut out as this is a tricky tune. Perhaps even the most experienced of us need to anticipate cadential sequences and to generally have a sense of cadence, combined with dynamic contrast. John also gave us guidance on the performance directions.

Because of the amount of work which, of necessity, we put into the ensemble pieces, we did not have time to play some Festive music brought along by John Mann and Freddy Carvalho. My apologies for these omissions but we simply ran out of time.

However, in my opinion it was a very good and productive meeting. I pointed out the obvious necessity for us to attend every future meeting, in order to attain a good standard in what is only a comparatively short time remaining.”

Den.