Annual Programme 2025
We’re proud to present a very exciting 2025 line-up! In addition to the usual monthly meetup format, where we have solo and ensemble sessions, we’ll have:
- 4 talks by members with topics “Software tools for ensemble practice“
- 3 Visiting Artist short concerts and lectures during meetups: Sam Brown, the Mosaic Guitar Ensemble, Steve Toon
- 4 recitals by IGF Young Artists 2025
- Members’ Summer and Winter concerts
- BCGS Concert Series: Pavel Ralev, Sat 15 Mar 2025
- BCGS Concert Series: Eden-Stell Duo, Sat 14 June 2025
- BCGS Concert Series: Zoran Dukić, Sat 15 November 2025
Theme Nights for Solos
Classical Guitar Summer Schools, Events and Conventions 2025
Guest Artists and Speakers
Concert Reviews
Previous year’s events
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Our Members’ Concerts
Our Members’ Concerts are an important element of our Annual Programme. They represent a very good opportunity for members to play in front of an audience and showcase their own playing.
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Better Call Duo (14/03/2024)
Chieko Hata and Stefano Palamidessi entertained us with a themed recital entitled Meaningful Pop. This programme of 20th century repertoire was performed on the Bristol leg of their tour of Italy, the UK and Japan which returned to Radio Vatican in May. It was hard to believe that they have only been performing together as…
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Classical Guitar Summer Schools, Events, and Conventions 2024
There are a number of exciting Summer Schools and other guitar events happening in 2024! Even if you do not attend the courses themselves, each of them include numerous concerts, all of which are well worth putting in the diary. The places can also fill up quite quickly. Guitar Foundation of America Date: 17 –…
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2024 Updated Constitution
At the 2024 AGM, we agreed to introduce a new committee role (Data Protection and Asset Management Officer). We also discussed amending the constitution to allow committee members to retire and change outside of the the annual AGM cycle, and identified some discrepancies around the number of committee members needed to form a quorum, and…
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Theme Nights for Solos in 2024
As part of the AGM in 2024, we agreed to try theming the solos in each month, to inspire more people to play. Themes are entirely optional – if you’ve got something else you’d like to play that doesn’t fit in with the theme, play it anyway! The themes are:
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Joining
How it works If you’d like to see what we’re about, just email enquiries@bristolclassicalguitarsociety.org to introduce yourself and then come along to one of our monthly meetings! If you enjoy the meeting you attend, you might like to join as a member. We welcome players from a wide variety of ages, backgrounds and skill levels.…
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BCGS Winter Concert 2023
Thu 7 December 2023, 20h00 Anthony Mulholland Meditation from Thais – J Massenet (arr. B Mermikides) Steve Moran Suite Antigua – B. Cataluyud Robert Gough The Frog Galliard – John Dowland WAGO Hiking Boot Blues – Ivan Andrews Francisco Correa Pasillo Uno – Daniel Saboya Tony Lewis and Tim Rigley Après Un Reve – G.…
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Laura Snowden (11/22)
Among the sizeable crowd that filed into the Redmaids’ Performing Arts Centre on a recent November evening, one would imagine that there was no shortage of knowledge and experience of the classical guitar. However, it’s unlikely that any had seen anything quite like the performance to which Laura Snowden treated us.