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 Between 2 Continents, on 8 Guitars An exciting international collaboration – the Salzburg Guitar Quartet (SGQ), one of the finest in Europe in concert with the Canadian Guitar Quartet (CGQ), Canada’s top classical guitar ensemble. G8 toured in November, 2006 with great success with concerts in Austria and Germany. Their February 2007 Canada tour received standing ovations at every concert. G8 performed in Quebec city, Gatineau, Little Current, Sudbury, and Kitchener, featuring a concert that was recorded and broadcast nationally on Espace Musique. As a result of these first tour successes, G8 continued with another set of exchange tours. A second European tour was completed in March of 2009 and a return Canadian tour in November of 2009. In Europe, G8 was a headliner at the Neütting Guitar Festival in Germany and was featured on Munich television. The Canadian tour had G8 out in Alberta for the first time and received standing ovations set record attendance levels at all the stops on the tour. The G8 concert in Gatineau was recorded by CBC Radio Canada and was broadcast nationally in Canada on December 17, 2009. G8 now looks forward to future exchange tours and the release of its debut CD, set for later this year. The G8 programs have both traditional and contemporary
music for guitar octet. It features the Canadian music of Patrick Roux
and Louis Trépanier. Hans Brüderl of the SGQ has written
an exciting new piece for the octet called “Octopus” with
some guitar “pop” rhythms intermixed with exotic middle
eastern melodies. The CGQ’s Patrick Roux offers an exciting eight
guitar version of his “En las calles de Buenos Aires”, a
taxi cab ride inspiration full of tango rhythms. Louis Trépanier,
also of the CGQ, has come up with a wonderful composition that features
melodies made popular by the Chilean super group Inti Illimani as well
as his original composition "Mediterranean Moon". Early music
arrangements, some Brazilian music and the famous “Carnaval”
by Roux round out a typical G8 program.
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