Craig Ogden

The annual Dean & Chadlington Summer Music Festival is coming up at the end of June. My wife Claire Bradshaw (mezzo-soprano) and our colleague Richard Coxon (tenor) have been running the festival for five years now along with a growing body of wonderful helpers. We try to make our concerts slightly different when possible and this year we are having a triple concert (three half-hour performances in venues near each other so the audience rotates in blocks between each concert). We have an 8am coffee and croissant concert which this year is being given by the brilliant pianist Mark Bebbington and a stunning candlelit twilight concert in a privately owned chapel in Sarsden. To see the full range of concerts check out the festival website.
http://www.chadlingtonfestival.org.uk/

All best

Craig

My new Classic FM album Summertime came out a week ago and I understand that it has a good first week so it will be very interesting to see how it goes in next Saturday’s Classic FM Chart which is presented by Mark Forrest. It was great fun recording again for Classic FM – there are a few shots taken in the studio on my facebook page. I think it’s a really nice mix of material. Some of it has a light string accompaniment provided by the fantastic Tippett Quartet while some other tracks are multi-tracked (ie. I record one part then another over the top). Of course, a number of the pieces are classic self-contained solo guitar pieces. Of these, I loved having the chance to record Granada by Albeniz in an arrangement by my teacher/mentor and now colleague at the Royal Northern College of Music, Gordon Crosskey. Another top favourite of mine is the amazing Roland Dyens arrangement of Over the Rainbow which owes more to the Eva Cassidy version than to the classic song from the Wizard of Oz sung by Judy Garland.

If you’ve enjoyed the disc and would like to spread the word I would be very grateful if you would take the time to post a review on Amazon and/or to request a track on Jamie Crick’s request programme on Classic FM.

Many thanks

Craig

You can see what’s here for starters but my full discography is coming, along with plenty of information about the colleagues I work with regularly, gallery, press pack and anything else I can think of. If you have any suggestions of things you’d like to see here please don’t hesitate to drop me a line at mail@craigogden.com. I’d like to have a Q&A page where I could answer guitar-related questions – nails, strings, practice technique etc etc so if you’d like to see this feature do let me know.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy what’s here and do keep checking back as there’s more to come.

Thanks for taking a look.

Craig