Ticket holders to The Big Night of the Guitar featuring Cristina Galietto, Aniello Desiderio and G Plus Ensemble can go to this concert for free, but a ticket is still required. Simply add tickets for both events to your basket and the first event with Christina Galietto will be discounted as complimentary.

6.00pm – 6.45pm Cristina Galietto 

Cristina Galietto is a 20-year-old multiple prize-winning guitarist from Naples, most recently winning premier international competitions in Stuttgart, Uppsala, and the ‘Andres Segovia’ Monheim-am-Rhein in Germany. Last August she won First Prize in one of the most prestigious guitar competitions in the world: the EuroStrings Guitar Competition held in Petrer, Spain. This ‘super’ competition is exclusively contested by the winners of the international competitions of the 20 participating EuroStrings Festivals. She is the first female winner of this Prize which will catapult her into a major international career with tours in Europe, China and the Americas planned for 2022.

Programme:

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
Grand Sonata
I. Allegro risoluto
II. Romance – Più tosto Largo, Amorosamente
III. Andantino variator

Scherzando Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)
Variaciones sobre el Carnaval de Venecia de Paganini

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Danza del Molinero
From “El Sombrero de tres Picos”

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Capriccio Diabolico (Omaggio a Paganini) op. 85