Classical Guitarist for Weddings & Events in Denver
Craig Winston is your best choice for wedding musicians and guitarists in Denver. Make your wedding or special event unique with classical guitar music performed by a master musician. Craig performs a wide variety of music, from vibrant Latin American Classical and rhythmic Brazillian Jazz; virtuosic Baroque to emotive modern art music. He has performed solo classical guitar for weddings, corporate functions, recital concerts, and lesson workshops.
Craig has worked with many esteemed clients including the Biennial of the Americas, University of Denver, ULI Colorado, Neimann Marcus, and the New Mexico Highlands University Alumni Foundation. He has performed at a variety of venues throughout Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas including the Seawell Ballroom, Denver Botanic Gardens, New Mexico Governor's Mansion, and the United World College of the American West.
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Repertoire & Custom Music
Your event needs to be memorable and unique to you, that's why Craig Winston works directly with clients to provide music that suits their tastes. Whether you have a special classical guitar piece in mind or would like an arrangement of your favorite pop music, Craig is a highly experienced guitarist able to perform the music you have in mind. Some of his favorite requests have been classical gems like Canon in D and “Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring," to arranging unique popular music like “La Vie en Rose,” “Just like Heaven” by the Cure, “Beautiful” by Snoop Dogg, and even “Frog's Theme” from the classic 8-bit video game Chronotrigger.
"REGISTRO" BY ANOTNIO LAURO
Antonio Lauro is a Venezuelan composer, active during the 20th century. “Registro” is the prelude movement from his Suite Venezolana, one of his masterpieces for classical guitar. Lauro was inspired by the guitar virtuosos that would haunt the guitar shops of Venezuela, picking up every instrument, improvising, seeming to test every note of the guitar. “Registro” is to test out an instrument, and this piece takes on that spirit of a classical guitarist improvising across the range of a beautiful new guitar.
VENEZUELAN WALTZ NO. 2 “ANDREINA” BY ANTONIO LAURO
Antonio Lauro is famous for his Venezuelan Waltzes. The most performed of those are the trio “Tatiana,” “Andreina,” and “Natalia,” originally published as “Tres Valses Venezolanos” for classical guitar. In these pieces you can hear the influence of his experience with popular music and his love of ballroom orchestras. “Andreina” combines influences of European classical traditions with Latin American ballroom, and a hemiola rhythm that hearkens back to Spanish influences.
PRELUDE FROM BWV 1009 BY J.S. BACH (ARR. R WRIGHT)
The third of Bach's cello suites is one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music. This prelude is improvisatory in nature, with its iconic opening descending scale to define the key. Bach's endless imagination takes that idea and transforms it through every array of harmony, with variations across scales, imitations, arpeggios, counterpoint and finally back to reprise the opening. This arrangement for classical guitar provides the possibility of polyphony beyond the capabilities of the original cello version.