A special double bill featuring guitarist Goran Krivokapic and Baroque lute player Nigel North.

Both Nigel North and Goran Krivokapic are excellent tutors and they will both be giving masterclasses as part of the IGF Guitar Summit Classical Guitar Course. Book tickets here.

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A unique recital entitled Capriccio by the magnificent lutenist Nigel North who has been described as the greatest player in the history of the instrument. He presents his new CD on BGS Records, the fourth in a series of the music of the great baroque composer and lutenist Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750). Both as virtuoso performer and as composer Weiss can be seen as a peer of keyboard players such as J.S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, both of whom he knew well. He left the largest corpus of music for lute of any composer in the history of the instrument and contemporaries said about him that ‘in his art he is equalled only by himself’.

Programme: music by Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Ouverture and Aria in C major, Fantasie
Concerto and Plainte in B flat major
Ouverture, Sonata and Fuga in D minor
Tombeau sur la Mort de Mr Comte de Logy (1721)

Goran Krivokapic has emerged as one of the foremost guitarists on the international scene, setting new standards with his breathtaking virtuosity and intelligent interpretations. He won his first international competition aged 14 and since then has won 18 more, including two of the most prestigious: the Guitar Foundation of America Competition in Montreal and the Dr Lusic Sigall in Viña del Mar, Chile, both in 2004. He tours extensively in Europe, US and the far east and is much in demand as a teacher of masterclasses. As a chamber musician he is one half, with Danijel Cerović, of the Montenegrin Guitar Duo. This concert marks the UK debut of this extraordinary guitarist, an event not to be missed for anyone interested in guitar!

Programme to include: music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Mauro Giuliani and Marco Pereira