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The Canadian Guitar Quartet is a Canadian classical guitar ensemble founded in 1999. Its lineup has changed over the years; founding members included Philip Candelaria, Denis Donegani, Patrick Roux and Louis Trépanier, with later configurations including Renaud Côté-Giguère, Bruno Roussel, Julien Bisaillon, Jérôme Ducharme and Steve Cowan among others. The quartet tours across Canada and internationally, performing at venues and festivals including Chamberfest, the Festival of the Sound and Debut Atlantic.
The quartet’s repertoire spans original works for four guitars alongside arrangements of orchestral and chamber repertoire, including transcriptions of works originally written for other instrumental combinations, such as Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos, K. 448.
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