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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Guest Artists – The Griffin-Turner Duo (11/17)
Thursday 9 November 2017 Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square What a great evening. First we had the pleasure of Amanda Johnson’s short talk on the Spanish pianist-composer Enrique Granados, to whom the classical guitar repertoire is so grateful for his Spanish Dances and Goyescas, and who was to meet a tragic end in the English Channel.…
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Guest Artist – Evangelos Nikolaidis (04/19)
Visiting Artists series Thursday 11 April 2019 Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square We were delighted to welcome back to the Society Evangelos Nikolaidis, graduate of the RWCMD and a performer and teacher with a busy national and international concert schedule, as well as being a leader of the South Wales Guitar Society. Evangelos presented an attractive…
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Guest Speaker – Brian Whitehouse (05/19)
Visiting Artists series Thursday 9 May 2019 Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square Brian Whitehouse is leading light of the UK guitar scene. Former Head of Guitar at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, examiner, publisher and currently Patron of the Consortium for Guitar Research at the University of Cambridge, he is the Director of the Classical Guitar Centre…
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Guest Artist – Harris Becker (06/19)
Visiting Artist series: Harris Becker recital & masterclass Thursday 6 June 2019 Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square Thanks to some skilful juggling of schedules on both sides, we were delighted to be able to welcome back to the Classical Guitar Society US teacher, festival director and concert artist Harris Becker after more than 10 years, to…
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Guest Artist- Luke Bartlett (10/19)
Thursday 10th October 2019 Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square Luke did two great things for us tonight. Firstly, he made himself available to perform for the Society at short notice, and secondly, and more importantly, he presented a wonderful programme of music in advance of his auditions for music college over the coming period. The programme…
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2019 Winter Concert
Thursday 12th December Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square The BCGS was as always delighted to welcome a large audience of friends and family for our annual winter concert, to demonstrate our progress over the year, and to put ourselves to the test on the concert stage. As an Ensemble we need not worry of course, having…
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Copenhagen Guitar Duo 2019
Concert Series Red Maids’ Performing Arts Centre Saturday 23rd November 2019 It pays to get out and about. BCGS members Barry Corbett and Vince Smith saw the Copenhagen Guitar Duo play at the Dillington Guitar Festival last year, and agreed that they duo had to be invited to the Classical Guitar Society’s Concert Series. Martin…
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Duo Cannella-Dubès
Concert Series Red Maids’ Performing Arts Centre Saturday 27 April 2019 The Duo Cannella-Dubès specialise in creating a fresh historical insight into the guitar. They play 19th century Panormo instruments strung with synthetic gut, but embrace music not only of that period, but also genres as diverse as American folk song, 20th century atonality and…
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2018 Winter Concert
Thursday 13th December 2018 Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square The BCGS was delighted this evening to welcome an appreciative and good-sized audience of friends and family and to treat them to our annual winter concert, showcasing the work throughout the year of the Ensemble and smaller playing groups and individual members; regaling them with music that…
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The Albach Duo
Concert Series Red Maids’ Performing Arts Centre Saturday 11 November 2017 Rebecca Baulch is known to us not only as founder member, with Amanda Cook and Hayley Savage, of the celebrated Appassionata Trio, but in her role as tutor at West Dean guitar summer school and recently for the fascinating talk she gave us this…