5:35—6:30 Concert – Owen Carty Performer, arranger, composer, and guitar tutor Owen Carty is pleased to perform for the first time at the Wellington Classical Guitar Society.  Owen has been performing a range of styles as a soloist for several years including classical, country, blues, jazz, and exotic, and has appeared in Wellington performing Arabian, Caribbean, Love/Romance, Christmas, Southern U.S., and Folk music, often arranging this music for solo guitar. Owen’s performance will feature a couple of these new arrangements for you, along with favourites from his classical repertoire. Recordings by Carty of his special guitar arrangements and classical works
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4:15—5:10 Concert   The Combined Guitar Ensemble of St Patrick’s and Tawa College directed by Clyde Clemett   From Guitawa (Tawa College Guitar Ensemble) Noah Walker, Harper Brown   From St Patrick’s College Jigs Ibarra, Sam Glynan, Sean Dimen, Adrian Villavicencio, Thomas Gee   The college guitar ensembles perform regularly at school, public events and concerts. All students are enrolled in their school’s music performance programme, several also study composition. Both colleges have a reputation for delivering a very high standard of music education. Almost all members perform competently on at least one other instrument and several of the boys
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Ensemble 4:15 We will play the following pieces from the new 2022 booklet (selection from Three Little Birds, Albatross, Pavane, and Sailing) and some Easy Ensemble Music (get the sheet music from the links below): Tanguillo (3 parts) Danny Boy Concert – Julie Bevan 5:30 Music from Brazil and Aotearoa: Apelo by Baden Powell (1937 – 2000) Waltz of the Owls by Julie Bevan Ponto de Areia by Milton Nacimento (*1942) Piwakawaka by Julie Bevan Berimbau / Consolacao by Baden Powell (1937 – 2000) Ruru by Julie Bevan Guitarist/composer Julie Bevan brings a unique blend of original and classic Bossa
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Sunday, August 7, 2022 – Performance at 5:30 PM Thistle Hall, Cuba Street Duo Michael Stoop and Nick Price (You are welcome to invite other family members, friends, and colleagues to the concert) Evening Dance by Andrew York (b. 1958) Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918), arr. Nick Price & Michael Stoop Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009), arr. Michael Stoop (b. 1987) Peace of War by Michael Stoop (b. 1987)
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June 5, 2022 meeting will take place at the usual time (4:15 to 6:30pm) at Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba St. This months performance will feature guitar quartet and duo music by classical guitar students from The New Zealand School of Music – Victoria University: Guitar Quartet Lotus Eaters – Andrew York Toccata – Leo Brouwer Guitar duo La Vida Breve – Manuel De Falla Guitar Quartet Changing the Guard – Nikita Koshkin  Introduction and Fandango – Luigi Boccherini
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Our next meeting is Sunday, 3 April 2022, 4.15 pm to 6.30 pm (the normal time) at Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba St. 4:15 Ensemble We will use the 2021 ensemble booklet until a new booklet for 2022 has been prepared (now underway). We will look at several pieces that weren’t covered in 2021 including: Ainsty Suite; The Lass of Glenshee; and The River Flows in You. 5:00 Solo/Small Ensemble Playing A chance to perform / try out new pieces or revise/perfect your current playlist.  All are welcome to join in. 5:40 “In C” by Terry Riley We were unable to
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Wellington Classical Guitar Society Inc.     Our next meeting and AGM is Sunday, 6 March 2022 4.15 pm to 6.30 pm (the normal time) Thistle Hall, 293 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington Access is through the side door on Arthur Street. The pointy shoes require us to check vaccine passports – sorry about that.Subject to the above, there is no limit on the number of people that may attend a Society meeting, other than the normal limit of 100 people at Thistle Hall for structural and fire safety reasons. The QR code must still be scanned. Face masks are
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