Craig Ogden is an Australian classical

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

ist whose albums have topped the UK classical charts. He is Principal Lecturer in Guitar at the

Royal Northern College of Music The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is a conservatoire located in Manchester, England. It is one of four conservatoires associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In addition to being a centre of music education ...

in Manchester, UK. Ogden began playing guitar at the age of seven, and graduated in music from the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

. In 1990 he became UK-based, and has a Professional Performance Diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music, where in 2004 he received a Fellowship from the Royal Northern College of Music, becoming the youngest person to be given the honour. He married the British singer Claire Bradshaw, with whom he often performs; together they founded the Dean & Chadlington Summer Music Festival in 2007. He made his first appearance at the

Royal Albert Hall The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no govern ...

with the

Philharmonia Orchestra The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, W ...

performing Rodrigo's ''

Concierto de Aranjuez The ''Concierto de Aranjuez'' (, "Aranjuez Concerto") is a classical guitar concerto by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. Written in 1939, it is by far Rodrigo's best-known work, and its success established his reputation as one of the mos ...

''.

Albums

*''Tippett: The Blue Guitar'' (1995) *''Guitar Meditations'' (1999) *''English Guitar Concertos'' (2001) *''The Guitarist'' (2010) *''Summertime'' (2011) *''A Quiet Thing: Songs for Voice and Guitar'' (with David Daniels; 2011) *''Christmas Time'' (2013) *''Summer Guitar'' (2014) *''Craig Ogden and Friends'' (2015) *''Love's Philosophy'' (2017)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ogden, Craig Australian classical guitarists Australian male guitarists Academics of the Royal Northern College of Music University of Western Australia alumni Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom Musicians from Manchester Living people Year of birth missing (living people)