Claire Angel Bonner
– 19th century guitar

The Programme

Claire Angel Bonner – 19th century guitar

Grand solo, Op 14

Fantaisie élégiaque, Op 59

Souvenir d’amitie, Op 46

The Artist

Originally from Tasmania, Australia, Claire Angel Bonner is a 19th century guitar specialist currently based in Italy. A truly international artist, she is active as both soloist and chamber musician with regular performances across Europe, the UK and Australia. Her 2026 engagements will take her from Italy to the UK and Australia.

In Australia she has performed for prestigious institutions such as the University of Western Australia, Tasmania’s Mona Museum, and the Sydney Bach Society, while in the UK she has performed for the historic Edinburgh Society of Musicians, and London’s St Bride’s Church.

In France she has held regular tours in Burgundy, and in Italy she has been soloist at the Italian Baroque festival Gli Speziali, as well as appearing at the Festa Farnese in Parma, Piacenza Guitar Festival, I Mandolinisti Bustesi, the prestigious Gallerie d’Italia and State Archives of Milan, Reggia di Caserta, and Castello Sforzesco in Milan. She was also an ensemble prizewinner in the 12th Concorso chitarristico “Città di Voghera”.

‘Pure talent’ – Patrick Dumont, L’Indépendant

‘Her music style is almost too mesmerising to behold’ – Hobart Guitar Society

‘Her playing is so intense – so utterly captivating. Each and every note is carefully crafted and executed in such a way that the music doesn’t so much reach out to the audience as it does draw them in. A rare quality indeed.’ – Duncan Gardiner

‘The duo [Noli-Bonner] fascinated for its exquisite stylistic elegance, the great care given to phrasing and colours and an enviable technical mastery … two performers with great musical talents and deserving of the prolonged applause of the public.’ – Mauro Bardelli, La Libertà

‘Just by the sound of the guitar, they were transfigured from the stage noise proper to opera into the atmosphere of a musical salon, a truly intimate, beautiful and luminous world, by this young but already great musician.’ – Vita Guillot