Saffire: The Australian Guitar Quartet is an Australian classical music group, consisting of Karin Schaupp

Karin Schaupp

Karin Schaupp is a German-born Australian classical guitarist and actress.She was born in 1972 in Hofheim am Taunus, Germany, to a musical family. Her mother and principal teacher, Isolde Schaupp, was a teacher of guitar at the Conservatorium of Wiesbaden. Her father was an amateur pianist, and her...

, Slava Grigoryan

Slava Grigoryan

Slava Grigoryan is an Australian classical guitarist and recording artist of Armenian heritage.He was born in Kazakhstan to Eduard and Irina Grigoryan, both professional violinists. His family emigrated to Australia in 1981 and he was raised in Melbourne. Grigoryan began to study guitar with his...

, Gareth Koch

Gareth Koch

Gareth Koch is an Australian classical guitarist and recording artist of German/Anglo Irish/Lithuanian heritage.He was born in Milan to Christopher Koch and Irene Vilnonis. Christopher Koch is a renown Australian novelist. Irene was a Conservatorium trained pianist. Gareth was raised in...

, and Leonard Grigoryan (replacing founding member Anthony Field

Anthony Field

Anthony Donald Field AM is an Australian musician and actor. He is best known as a member of the children's group The Wiggles and the 1980s and 90s band The Cockroaches with his brothers, Paul and John and another future Wiggle, Jeff Fatt.Field was the youngest of seven children, and grew up in...

. Its members also appear as solo performers and their first (eponymous) album won the ARIA

ARIA Music Awards

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...

 for Best Classical Album in 2003

ARIA Music Awards of 2003

The 17th Annual Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards were held on 21 October 2003 at the Sydney Superdome.-ARIA Awards:*Album of the Year**Powderfinger – Vulture Street...

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Their second album was "Nostalgica", and included a similarly diverse range of fare. In 2006, Saffire published their third album, Renaissance, the first to feature Leonard Grigoryan (brother of founding member Slava Grigoryan), replacing Anthony Field who retired from the ensemble.