Graham Anthony Devine
in concert
7.30pm Monday July 8th 2024
Opening Festival Evening Recital- Tribute to Julian Bream
Graham Anthony Devine will play arrangements by Julian Bream and works written for the great Maestro. The programme will include music by Buxtehude, Fernando Sor, Benjamin Britten, Enrique Granados and Isaac Albeniz.
Our Ladye Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church, Greenwich
68 Crooms Hill, London SE10 8HG
£15.00/£12.00/£5.00(including free glass of wine)
Tickets available from - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/graham-anthony-devine-classical-guitar-recital-tribute-to-julian-bream-tickets-836650633567?aff=oddtdtcreator
or can be purchased at the door on the concert evening. (cards accepted)
Graham Anthony Devine is one of the world’s most outstanding virtuosos of his generation. A winner of major competitions around the globe he has built an international career as recitalist, concerto soloist, and masterclass tutor. He has performed to great critical acclaim at many of the world’s most important recital venues such as Wigmore Hall (London) Purcell Room (London) Palau de la Musica (Valencia) Hakuju Hall (Tokyo) Phoenix Hall (Osaka) etc.
His many CD recordings for NAXOS and other labels of varied repertoire from all epochs have drawn the highest praise worldwide.
Graham is currently Head of Guitar Studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he directs an exciting programme which attracts talented guitarists from the UK and many countries abroad.
Graham is also the Artistic Director of the
Royal Greenwich Guitar Festival.
JOHN MILLS
in concert
with Cobie Smit, guitar and
Andrew Fuller, cello
7.30pm Tuesday 9th July 2024
Peacock Room, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance,
Old Royal Naval College
£15.00 (limited tickets available)
Tickets available from -
or can be purchased at the door on the concert evening
John Mills began learning the instrument at the age of nine. He subsequently studied with John Williams at the Royal College of Music, London, and with Julian Bream and Andrés Segovia, in master-classes in England and Spain respectively. Segovia later commented that Mr Mills playing "had purity of technique and musical sensitivity". In 1970, he was a prize-winner in the Greater London Arts Association search for talented young performers, and he then made his official London debut at the Wigmore Hall the following year.
His international debut came in 1972 with a tour of Eastern Canada, and he has since given hundreds of performances in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, S. E. Asia, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a vast number of recitals on the British circuit. Since the early 1970's, John Mills has performed in many BBC radio broadcasts, many of them in the celebrated Radio 3 series "The Classical Guitar." He was the first guitarist to perform in the then newly-built Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, (subsequently giving two more concerts there) and has appeared many times in recitals and chamber music concerts at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall. Also in demand around the world for master-classes and seminars, his books "Music from the Student Repertoire" and "The John Mills Guitar Tutor" are best-sellers.
In the 1980s John Mills also contributed much to the development of high-quality student and concert guitars, working in combination with the Japanese company Asturias, and giving two series of sell-out recitals in Japan. Between 1985 and 1988, John Mills and his wife, concert guitarist Cobie Smit, resided in New Zealand, based at the Nelson School of Music. In addition to a huge number of concerts and broadcasts, they also played to HM Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at a two-hour special reception in Nelson.
John Mills is the former Head of Guitar at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Cardiff, and was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London for twenty years. He is an Associate of both the R.C.M. and R.A.M. and is a Fellow of the City of Leeds College of Music.
In 2012 he released his first and highly acclaimed DVD Evolucion, exploring the development of technique and repertoire from 1860 onwards.
Sebastian Pompilio in concert
1pm Tuesday 9th July 2024
OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL , GREENWICH
ADMISSION FREE
Sebastian Pompilio is an award-winning guitarist, arranger and teacher with a deep interest in and understanding of Astor Piazzolla's music. We are very happy to welcome back Sebastian following his outstanding recital at RGGF 23.
He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has a degree in classical guitar and a postgraduate degree in contemporary guitar repertoire.
He became interested in Astor Piazzolla's music at a very young age and studied Piazzolla's work with leading tango musicians, including original members of Piazzolla's quintet. In 2006, he arranged Piazzolla's "Four Seasons of Buenos Aires" for guitar duet, starting his career as a music arranger. In addition to working as an arranger, Sebastian is currently dedicated to performing and teaching Piazzolla's music at music festivals around the world.
Sebastian's latest CD "Cite Tango" includes 14 of his new arrangements for solo guitar of music by Astor Piazzolla. It is the result of many years of work and study and represents a major contribution to the contemporary guitar repertoire. Sebastian is also a member of legendary guitar quartet Martinez Zarate and a founder member of Camerata argentina de guitarras.
JAN DEPRETER
in Concert
7.30pm Wednesday July 10th 2024
Peacock Room, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance,
Old Royal Naval College
£15.00(limited tickets available)
Tickets available from -
or can be purchased at the door on the concert evening
Known as “the Sound Painter” of the guitar for producing the most fascinating variety and scope in sound colours on the planet, Jan Depreter is considered among the top 10 of performing classical guitarists in the world today.
A graduate of the Lemmens Institute Leuven and the Royal Conservatories of Antwerp and The Hague, Depreter holds several Master Degrees in Music and is a prize-winner at more than 15 competitions from Tokyo to Paris, including top prizes in Alhambra, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna, as well as the Francisco Tárrega and Andrés Segovia competitions in Spain. After winning the prestigious Printemps de la Guitare international concerto competition he was awarded the gold medal of Queen Fabiola of Belgium.
Having played the stages of the Far and not-so-far East, both Americas, the Russian Federation, Australia and all throughout Europe, the only continent Depreter has not played is Antarctica. But he doubts the penguins would be interested.
Since 2002 Depreter has regularly been invited to teach masterclasses all over the world, including the recent start-up of the first Guitar Mentorship on the popular Tonebase platform, the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA), the Royal Conservatories of Amsterdam, Scotland and Paris, the West Dean Festival in the U.K. and most recently assesing the Master and Bachelor exams and teaching Masterclasses at the Prins Claus Conservatoire, Groningen, The Netherlands.
His popular compositions for solo guitar are played worldwide and published by Ricordi.
Acclaimed CD-productions with Klara, Sony and Brilliant Classics highlight his artistic achievements. His complete recording of Turina (Brilliant Classics, 2015) was named “classical guitar album of the year” by the German Kultur Radio Bayern. About “Dedication – music for Julian Bream” (QBK, 2018) Classical Guitar Magazine wrote “deep and wistful, celebrating Bream’s joy of the guitar, a true “Dedication” to Bream in his 85th year.” Julian Bream himself wrote Depreter a thank-you note, calling the CD “fascinating”. 2019 saw the release of Depreter’s complete works for solo guitar by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. “Belgian guitarist extraordinaire Jan Depreter shines on Villa-Lobos,” Classical Guitar Magazine wrote. In 2020theworld premiere recording of the Klavierbüchlein für Anna-Magdalena Bach (1725) was released, his second CD for the Brilliant Classics label.
Recipient of the Cultuurprijs from the his hometown, Jan Depreter is considered a cultural ambassador of Flanders. His recording of Armand Coeck (Legend, Klara) is the only classical guitar recording selected as one of the 100 most important recordings by Belgian artists in history by EMI.
TUESDAY 9TH JULY - 1pm
Sebastian Pompilio - OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE CHAPEL, Greenwich
TUESDAY 9TH JULY -LUTHIER'S SHOWCASE RECITAL
5.00pm- 6.30pm PEACOCK ROOM
WED 10TH JULY- 1pm Julia Seibert, Luke Tyrell, Nick Tait- Peacock Room, Greenwich
ROYAL GREENWICH GUITAR FESTIVAL 2024 PUBLIC MASTERCLASSES (ADMISSION FREE)
THEATRE STUDIO, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Guitar students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance BMus and postgraduate programmes perform to the following distinguished artists in three afternoon public masterclasses.