Mela Guitar Quartet
Matthew Button
Zahrah Hutton
Matthew Robinson
George Tarlton
Programme
Saint-Saëns Bacchanale
Debussy Deux Arabesques
Houghton Opals
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmilla Overture
Holst Fugal Overture
Snowden My Clock is Broken!
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Gismonti Agua Y Vinho
Snowden The Emperor’s New Clothes
We are delighted to welcome back the Mēla guitar quartet with a ‘festival’ of music.
Winners of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Ensemble Competition 2023, the Mēla guitar quartet are known for imaginative, engaging programmes of their ingenious arrangements and celebrated original works. The quartet are enthusiastically adding to the guitar quartet repertoire through their adventurous arrangements of much loved orchestral works and their commissions of new music.
The quartet formed in 2015 as graduates of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. They became International Guitar Festival Young Artists 2015/16, then Park Lane Group young artists 2018/19 and Royal Over-Seas League chamber music finalists 2019. The members Michael Butten and Zahrah Hutton joined founding members Matthew Robinson and George Tarlton in 2023.
“An exalted level of perfection” – Naxos.com
“A Stunning Display of Virtuosity.” “Wizardry”. “Revelatory music making” – Soundboard 2023
Starts @ 7.30pm with doors open from 6.30pm, bar available.
Tickets: £18 - free to children of 12 and under, accompanied by a paying adult, and students £5
Promoted by Concerts in the West.