Australian-born Craig Ogden is one of the world’s finest classical guitarists. His latest release is ‘Craig Ogden In Concert’, a collection of his personal favourite recital tracks.
Ogden studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen.
In 2004, he became the youngest instrumentalist to receive a Fellowship Award from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He has performed concertos with many of the world’s leading orchestras and numerous composers have written works specially for him.
In 2017, he gave the world première of Andy Scott’s Guitar Concerto with the Northern Chamber Orchestra, followed by the Australian première in Perth. In the summer of 2019, he gave the world première of ‘Il Filo’ a double concerto for guitar and accordion by David Gordon, with accordionist Miloš Milivojević.
Craig Ogden regularly appears as soloist and chamber musician at major venues, collaborating with top UK artists such as the Nash Ensemble, Carducci String Quartet, and London Tango Quintet, of which he is a regular member. He performed in the concert series devoted to Sir Michael Tippett at the Wigmore Hall and has given several concerts at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.
One of the UK’s most recorded guitarists, he has accumulated an acclaimed discography for Chandos, Virgin/EMI, Nimbus, Hyperion, Sony and six chart-topping albums for Classic FM. His most recent recordings are a solo recital disc for Chandos, ‘Craig Ogden in Concert’ and a new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by Bach with violinist David Juritz and cellist Tim Hugh, for Nimbus Records. He frequently records for film and has presented radio programmes in the UK and in Australia.
He is Director of Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music, Adjunct Fellow of the University of Western Australia, Curator of Craig Ogden’s Guitar Weekend at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and Visiting Musician at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Craig Ogden plays a 2011 Greg Smallman guitar and strings made by D’Addario.
Did you know?
In 2004 Craig was honoured by the Royal Northern College of Music with a Fellowship in recognition of his achievements. He is the youngest instrumentalist to have received this award from the RNCM.
