WCGS News
Hayley Savage and Dmitris Dekavallas in concert
Hayley Savage and Dmitris Dekavallas
This next concert, featuring our patron Hayley Savage and fellow award winning guitarist Dmitris Dekavallas is a special event we have brought to you. It features the programme they will be giving at the South Bank in London in May 2011. The programme combines music from across the centuries with newly commisioned works in a show guarenteed to please the most discerning of afficionados.
Please visit In Focus for more details.
Duo Transatlantique in concert
Maud Laforest and Ben Beirs (sounds like "wires") are in countdown to their UK tour and will be kicking off with a concert at the Kidderminster Library on 24th September at 7.30.
In a unique spin-off from the New Artist's Scheme, the duo were promoted by the Stephen Begley of the society and this tour which takes in seven dates and a recording session over three days with the legendary recording engineer John Taylor is the culmination of eighteen months of planning and perspiration with a hint of inspiration thrown in for good measure.
A great duo, destined for ever greater things.
Please visit Duo Transatlantique for more details
GUITARISSMO
No other word can describe the superlative qualities of this event coming to you this very November... Not only do we have the solo talents of our music director Stephen Begley... Not only do we have the solo talents of the rising new star, Jake Brooks... Ladies and Gentlemen, we once again bring you the harmonious sonority of the Worcester Classical Guitar Quartet but we shall not be stopping there, No! We bring you, not one, not two but three guitar orchestra's combined in a single performance - a feat never before accomplished before an audience of the good folk of Worcestershire. And we do not stop there, no! Because sitting atop this heavenly chorus of strings we will be presenting to you the divine solo talents of our patron. The goddess of guitar. The queen of quick fingers. The princess of plucking. HAYLEY SAVAGE.
Please visit Guitarissimo for more details.
Other News
Our patron, Hayley Savage has a swish new website with lots of new features. Same address » www.hayleysavage.co.uk
Also with a new website Xuefei Yang » www.xuefeiyang.com
WCGO take second place in the Federation Cup.
The British Banjo Mandolin Guitar Federation Rally held over the weekend of 5th - 7th March 2010 was a well attended and well organised event, and our thanks go to Danielle and her helpers in the Midlands Fretted Orchestra for having put so much energy and effort into the occasion.
The British Banjo Mandolin Guitar Federation Rally is a nomadic festival celebrating fretted music in all shapes and sizes that tours the country, being hosted by member organisations every two years.
This event ran over three days and included two days of performances and workshops with a final day of competitions. The WCGO took part in the orchestral competition on the final day and were the only classical-guitar-only group among the eight competing organisations. The first prize, in all three competitions (the Federation Cup for musicianship, the Coronation Trophy for entertainment and the John Alvey Turner Shield for presentation, professionalism and performance) went to Da Capo Alba; deserving winners with an accomplished performance of two works, the Allegro from a symphony by William Boyce and The Song of Japanese Autumn by Yasuo Kuwahara.
The second prize in the Federation Cup for muscianship went to the WCGO with our performance of Farewell to Inverness by Chris Kilvington. Frances Taylor, the awarding judge commented afterwards:
"You were the only guitar-only group but created a fantastic sound world. Beautiful soft reflective moment contrasted with moments of menace and fleeting arpeggio figures. Excellent focus and ensemble work. Neat and precise playing technically."
Thank you Frances, and thanks to all who made this such a wonderful experience.
Page updated: September 20, 2010