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Presented by music centeral:making music in Huntly at Stewart’s Hall, Huntly

Award winning classical guitar virtuoso Simon Thacker presents an exceptional new programme that explores every facet of this most intimate and poetic of instruments, featuring the beautiful Spanish romanticism popularised by the great Maestro Andrés Segovia, Benjamin Britten’s seminal masterwork Nocturnal after John Dowland, commissioned by Julian Bream and still considered the greatest piece ever written for guitar, and a pulsating new work for digital delay and guitar that expands the limits of the classical guitar. Renowned as a visionary musician acclaimed for not only his solo and chamber music performances but also as a leader of innovative and groundbreaking intercultural ensembles, Simon has performed in the USA, Spain, France, Malta, Cuba and Belgium and recently released a CD of outstanding new guitar concerti.

Federico Moreno Torroba  - Allegretto from Sonatina in A
Catalan folksong arr. Miguel Llobet  - El testament d’Amèlia
Francisco Tárrega  - Maria
Agustín Barrios Mangoré  - La Catedral
Leo Brouwer  - Variations sur un thème de Django Reinhardt
Simon Thacker  - New work for guitar and digital delay
Manuel María Ponce  - Sonatina Meridional
Minoru Miki arr. Leo Brouwer  - Ballade for Koto No.2: Nuori verso / A Young Sprout
Benjamin Britten  - Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op.70