Category — recordings
WYGF09 overview
WYGF 2009 has just finished! The CD recording of Corinium Players and Gitarenstadt is in-the-can and the school feels ghostly quiet after four days of hearing the sound of over 200 participants! We now have a chance to get back to reporting on the festival, so we thought we’d kick-off with a bit of an overview and then get round to the specifics later on once we’ve looked through all the photos, comments, and video footage which has been accumulated during WYGF. [Read more →]
August 20, 2009 7 Comments
Festive Fizz – WYGF’s first recording
WYGF’s first recording
Before WYGF’s conception, Artistic Directors Mark Eden and Christopher Stell, Eden Stell Guitar Duo, had recently returned from performing in Australia where they met John Casey, Musical Director of the extraordinary youth guitar ensemble from Perth, Guitarstrophe! The ensemble had made quite an impression on the duo previously, winning the Calderdale Guitar Ensemble Competition which the duo had adjudicated. [Read more →]
October 31, 2008 No Comments
National Youth Guitar Ensemble at WYGF09
Here at WYGF headquarters we are thrilled to see so many of our 2007 groups returning for WYGF09 … I just hope that we’ll have enough room for all the new guitarists too! We are already taking bookings so please do let us know if you are planning to come, either as part of a group, or as an individual.
One of the ensembles coming back for more are the rather wonderful National Youth Guitar Ensemble. Led by artistic director, Gerald Garcia they joined forces with the Australian super-ensemble Guitarstrophe! to record a CD directly after the main festival last year. The CD Festive Fizz was launched earlier this year at the Winchester Guitar Festival (WGF) and we shall be featuring the CD on this site soon.
Playing in NYGE is a fabulous experience for young guitarists and their new coordinator, Liz Larner, recently got in touch to tell us more about the group.
October 24, 2008 4 Comments
