The Croatian guitarist Ana Vidović gives a solo recital in Zug, Switzerland, on Saturday, 14 November 2026. The concert starts at 8 pm in the Burgbachsaal and is presented by the Förderverein Gitarre Zug, an association that brings guitar concerts to the canton of Zug. Tickets are on sale now through Eventfrog.
Ana Vidović has been our guest at Siccas Guitars many times, and a large part of the programme she brings to Zug can be heard on our channel. If you live in Switzerland or southern Germany, this is your chance to hear her live. More about her life and career in our artist profile of Ana Vidović.
Concert Details
- Saturday, 14 November 2026, 8 pm, doors open at 7.30 pm
- Burgbachsaal, Dorfstrasse 12, 6300 Zug, Switzerland
- The evening opens with a short pre-concert by the Suzuki Guitar Kids of the Musikschule Zug
- Organised by the Förderverein Gitarre Zug
- Advance tickets on Eventfrog
The Programme
Two works by Bach for solo violin frame the first half, and the evening ends with La Catedral by Agustín Barrios.
First half
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004, arranged by Andrés Segovia
- Niccolò Paganini, Grande Sonata in A major (Allegro risoluto, Romanze, Andantino variato)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Grave and Allegro from the Sonata No. 2 in A minor for solo violin, BWV 1003, arranged by V. Dešpalj
Second half
- Franz Schubert, Ständchen, Ave Maria and Erlkönig
- Domenico Scarlatti, Sonatas in D minor K. 213 and K. 1, in B minor K. 27 and in F minor K. 239
- Agustín Barrios Mangoré, La Catedral (Preludio Saudade, Andante religioso, Allegro solemne)
Bach, Paganini and Bach Again
The concert opens with the Chaconne in D minor, the closing movement of Bach's second partita for solo violin. Segovia's arrangement made it a cornerstone of the guitar repertoire.
Niccolò Paganini was a guitarist as well as the most famous violinist of his age. His Grande Sonata in A major, MS 3, was written for guitar with violin accompaniment, with the leading part given to the guitar. In Zug you hear it on guitar alone. The first half closes with two movements from Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003, a slow Grave and a lively Allegro.
Schubert, Scarlatti and Barrios
After the interval Vidović turns to three songs by Franz Schubert. She recorded Ständchen for our channel on a Jim Redgate guitar; you can also read about Schubert's Ave Maria on the guitar. Erlkönig, Schubert's setting of Goethe's ballad, closes the group.
Then come four keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. Two of them she has played for us: her recording of the Sonata in D minor, K. 1 has its own article, and the Sonata in D minor, K. 213 is on our YouTube channel.
The evening ends with La Catedral by Agustín Barrios. Barrios wrote the Andante religioso and Allegro solemne in Montevideo in 1921 and added the Preludio Saudade in 1938. Our article on the piece includes Vidović's own recording.
Listen Before the Concert
Ana Vidović recorded the Chaconne that opens her programme for our channel on a Jim Redgate doubletop. She plays guitars by the Australian luthier Jim Redgate.
About Ana Vidović
Ana Vidović was born in 1980 in Karlovac, Croatia. She started playing the guitar at five, gave her first public performance at seven and played abroad for the first time at eleven. At thirteen she became the youngest student at the National Music Academy in Zagreb, where she studied with István Römer, and she later studied with Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. By the age of eighteen she had won more than twenty international competitions, among them the Albert Augustine competition in Bath, the Fernando Sor competition in Rome and the Francisco Tárrega competition in Benicàssim. She lives in the United States and performs around the world.
If you cannot make it to Zug, you can watch her full concert in Aachen on our site.
About the Förderverein Gitarre Zug
The Förderverein Gitarre Zug wants the guitar to be heard more widely in the canton of Zug. It organises concerts and events that show the variety of guitar music, and it is supported by its members. Its next concerts bring the duo of Aniello Desiderio and Zoran Dukić on 21 March 2027 and Amrit Beran on 6 June 2027, both at 5 pm in the Kirche St. Johannes in Zug.
Tickets for Ana Vidović on 14 November are available through Eventfrog. Discover more guitarists in our overview of great classical guitarists.
