Guitar Festival Monday Concert – Eden Stell Guitar Duo

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Likened to a ‘miraculous single guitarist blessed with an impossibly wonderful technique and an exceptionally delicate touch’ by The Observer, the Eden Stell Guitar Duo have performed at venues and music festivals around the world, including Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Turkey, USA, Canada, Mexico, South and Central America and Australia, as well as numerous radio and TV appearances on ITV, BBC, and European and North American networks.
Mark Eden and Chris Stell have performed concertos with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, International Philharmonic and Philharmonic Baden-Baden. In 2019 they were invited to give a special performance of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto Madrigal in the Stadttheater Aschaffenburg in the presence of Cecilia Rodrigo. Their international recitals include an appearance at the Guitar Foundation of America Omni Foundation Concert Series in San Francisco and the Alla Grande Festival in Canada. They have also performed at prestigious venues such as the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Stuttgart Liederhalle, The Sage in Gateshead, Uppsala Kongress Hall in Sweden, 92nd Street Y in New York and, in London’s Purcell Rooms, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place.  The duo were the first guitarists since Julian Bream to be Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine with their ‘landmark recording’ of works by Stephen Dodgson and in 2017 the duo released the first complete recording on two guitars of Cançons i Danses by Federico Mompou arranged by Mark Eden.
The duo has always championed new commissions and are dedicatees of new works by internationally acclaimed composers including Adam Gorb, Dusan Bogdanovic, Gary Ryan and Johannes Moller. After a collaboration over many years the English composer Stephen Dodgson dedicated a Concerto for two guitars to the duo who gave its first performance in the Dukes Hall at the Royal Academy of Music in 2013. Mark and Chris are founding members of the VIDA Guitar Quartet who have rapidly become one of the world’s most celebrated classical guitar ensembles with concerts throughout Europe USA and China.
The duo are D’Addario strings endorsed artists.