Aïghetta Guitar Quartet

The Aïghetta Guitar Quartet was founded in Monte Carlo in 1979. Since then, the ensemble has undertaken several successful tours of Europe, performing in concert halls in Venice, Barcelona, Munich, London, Budapest, Stuttgart and elsewhere, and has worked with renowned artists from very different worlds, including the violinist Henryk Szeryng, the pianist György Cziffra, the conductor Riccardo Chailly, the jazz guitarist John McLaughlin (with whom it recorded an album dedicated to jazz legend Bill Evans) and the writer Anthony Burgess, who was also the composer of more than 250 musical works. In recent years, the members of the quartet have been creating their own compositions as a synthesis of new musical trends. For the Ljubljana audience, they will present a varied selection of old and new works. The programme will contain several virtuosic and intimate contemporary pieces by quartet members Olivier Fautrat, Alexandre del Fa and Philippe Loli, as well as the Quartet for Four Guitars by the prolific Italian Romantic composer Ferdinando Carulli, whose music is still widely used to train student guitarists today, and some guitar arrangements of popular pieces from the world of opera and musical theatre, including the prelude to The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini, two movements from the ballet suite El Amor Brujo by the Spanish impressionist Manuel de Falla and “Les tringles des sistres tintaient”, Carmen’s passionate aria from Bizet’s masterpiece of the same name.