Guildford International Music Festival 2007
Events for Sunday 18 March 2007
Croissant Concerts
at Debenhams Café
11.15 am
Free
These relaxed and informal Sunday morning concerts are a hot Festival favourite. Featuring talented young groups from the University of Surrey's Department of Music and Sound Recording, the 
concerts are a mixture of popular classical works, songs from shows and a lighter repertoire. Get there in time to grab a seat!
Retiring collection in aid of 
Guitar Day
Event numbers: 38-40
£18 day ticket
Eclectic Guitar Orchestra
In aid of Leukaemia Research, Cancer Backup and Anthony 
Nolan Trust
Event number: 38
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 12noon
£10, £18 day ticket
Eight world-class jazz and classical guitarists come together for this special Festival event to play a repertoire of guitar music arrangements from all disciplines (classical, jazz, Beatles, flamenco, folk music). The EGO have given very few of these one-off fund-raising events, and each has been an astonishingly virtuosic and enjoyable. The final line-up depends upon who is free, but last time they played John Williams joined in the fun, so watch this space…
Proceeds from this concert and a retiring collection will go to Leukaemia Research, Cancer Backup and the Anthony Nolan Trust.
Jason Vieaux, guitar - UK début
Event number: 39
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 2.30pm
£7.50, £18 day ticket
Vieaux opened ears with his rhythmic clarity and remarkable left-hand facility....He made the single guitar seem like a body of instruments at work in music full of the emotion of loss. The Philadelphia Inquirer
It would be hard to describe the beauty with which he played...It was no surprise to see the rapt audience clamouring for an encore with thunderous applause... The Sunday Dispatch, Nepal
American, Jason Vieaux, is expanding the definition of ‘Classical Guitarist', changing the face of guitar programming, building a solid audience and an international fan base along the way. Jason makes his UK début playing works by Albéniz, Manuel Ponce, José Luis Merlin and his own arrangements of works by American Jazz guitarist/composer Pat Metheny, who praised Jason's ‘personal, beautiful and true renditions of these pieces'. Don't miss this first UK performance.
Pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School
Chamber Music for Guitar and Strings
Event number: 40
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 5pm
£5, £18 day ticket
Molino Grand Trio Concertant, Op.30
Bartók (arr Székely ) Romanian Folk Dances
Stravinsky (arr Wright ) Eight Easy Pieces
Stephen Goss Frozen Music
A concert of 19th -, 20th - and 21st -Century chamber music for guitar and strings, featuring Molino's recently discovered Grand Trio Concertant for violin, viola and guitar (composed c1823) and Frozen Music for guitar and string trio by Stephen Goss, commissioned by the Yehudi Menuhin School and first performed at the Menuhin Hall in April 2006. Frozen Music is an extended hymn to architecture: each of its seven movements evokes a particular building. Arrangements of folk- and popular-music-inspired works by Bartók and Stravinsky complete the programme.
Festival Evensong
Event number: 41
Holy Trinity Church, 6.30pm
Music to include Palestrina Missa Aeterna Christ munera,
Lotti Crucifixus and Byrd Miserere Mei, Deus
June Tabor with Andy Cutting and Mark Emerson
Event number: 42
The Electric Theatre, 8pm
£16 in advance, £18.00 on the day
This will be an extremely rare opportunity to hear June Tabor in performance with brilliant box player Andy Cutting. It has long been June's ambition to put Andy in an accompanying role and, with Mark Emerson providing the perfect balance on piano and viola, the result is... simply gorgeous. Much of the material is traditional, augmented with songs from writers such as Les Barker, Robert Burns and Geoffrey Chaucer.... and of course sublime tunes like Andy's History Man and those haunting melodies from John Playford's The Compleat Dancing Master.
Promoted by Electric Voices
