Mēla Guitar Quartet

"Skill, virtuosity, style, a tonne on panache" 🕺🪩 Tickets for our concert at St Giles Cripplegate on 9th July are available now 🎟 Check out the link in our bio or go to /concerts London we can't wait to see you!!

It's been one year since the release of our album Overtures & Dances 💿 Thank you to everyone who has listened in the past year! @trptk_official • • • #classicalguitar #classical #classicalmusic #guitar #classical

✨️OUT NOW✨️ Overtures & Dances matured as a concept through years of touring and performing. Naturally, as we explored repertoire, we found pieces that resonated with audiences and had a special affinity with the quartet. These pieces tended to be ones that had a theatrical element in opera, ballet, or dance. The possibilities of arrangement enabled by guitar quartet add another dimension, either using the spectrum of timbral colours of the guitar like “an orchestra in miniature” (as the great Andrés Segovia used to say), or to expand the music of one piano between four guitarists to make a rich, sustaining sonority, unobtainable with fewer guitars. We believe this collection of pieces pushes the boundaries of how guitar quartet can be used, but always in a way that best serves the storytelling, lyrical beauty, and often childlike wonder of these works. Available for digital download including High-res and Spatial Audio here: /shop/cds-sacds/overtures-dances-cd/ CDs available here: / 🎶: Matthew Robinson, George Tarlton, Michael Butten, Zahrah Hutton Recording & mastering engineer: Brendon Heinst @adagioconmoto @trptk_official Editor: Hans Erblich @hanserblich Assistant mastering engineer: Tycho Verhagen @televcat Recorded at d’Rentmeester, Valthermond @d_rentmeester Artwork: Zahrah Hutton, Alexander Kaniewski @mrkaniewski

LONDON! Our next concert will be in the beautiful St Giles' Church on Thursday 9th July, and we would love to see your faces there! This will be our first gig back in central London since the launch of our album over one year ago, and will feature some new additions to the programme plus perhaps even a special guest?? 🎟 Tickets available through the linktree in our bio, the QR code, or at /concerts

GLINKA: Ruslan and Lyudmila ARRANGEMENT AVAILABLE NOW! 🔥 You can find it and other scores available on our website melagq.com/shop , link in our linktree 🔗

Some photos from our concert last week, performing new works for guitar quartet by @rbccomposition students 📸✨️ by @jaayyms

looks like I am doing one voiceover a year and this year it is to share a little behind the scenes of our time working with composers from @rbccomposition to premiere seven new works for guitar quartet On Thursday we played pieces by Tom Culling, Kat Hunt, Anqi Qu, Emma Pascoe, Michael John Haden, Mason Sui-wai Ma, and Kathal Farn, and they all smashed it ! we had a lovely time :)

Birmingham oh Birmingham !! Looking forward to returning to @royalbirmcons this Thursday to premiere SEVEN new pieces for guitar quartet written by @rbccomposition students Feeling as excited about it as George after seeing this rainbow in rehearsal ✨️ Come along to the Lab at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 7:30pm this Thursday, 19th March

Sam Cave @new.music.plucker delivered an incredible, beautifully curated programme at the Wigmore Hall yesterday to celebrate Michael Finnissy's 80th birthday, and launch the release of his recording project 'Finnissy and the Guitar' 💿 The album is now available to stream or to purchase as a CD (slide 2!) Track 4, 'Albion on the Road to Hell', was written for us in 2019, and Track 7, 'Normal Deviates', was written in 2017 for the Vickers Bovey Duo - both tracks featuring founding Mela member Dan!! Such a pleasure to be a part of this project, thank you to Sam and to Michael !

One year ago today we gave the US premiere of Burgess' Concerto Grosso for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra! We are so grateful for the opportunity to programme such a rarely performed, unique work, and to share the stage with the brilliant Stanford Philharmonia @stanfordorchestras , conducted by @paulsphillips The complete concerto is available below, on the Stanford Orchestras youtube channel 🔗 https://youtu.be/b-Bu9bKQQlg?si=f5HA_QcrvuavoLnd 🕰️🍊

Seguimos anunciando actividades para la 29 edición del @josetomas_guitarfestival Además del concierto de @melaquartet Sus componentes, @matthewrobinson85 @george.tarlton.guitars @zahrah.hutton & @michaelbutten , nos ofrecerán master class y un taller sobre su novedoso estilo de arreglos para cuarteto de guitarras de grandes obras clásicas. Disfruta de una edición especial en homenaje a José Tomás por el 25 aniversario de su fallecimiento. Muy pronto toda la información e inscripciones en Puedes escribirnos a [email protected] y te incluiremos en una lista de preinscripciones para acceder con prioridad una vez abierta la matricula. En julio..., ¡la guitarra en Petrer!. Que no te lo cuenten, vívelo. @ajuntamentpetrer @oscaixapetrer #guitarquartet #guitarfestival #josetomasguitarfestival #guitarrapetrer #petrerguitarfestival

Three weeks until our first gig of 2026, at @keeleuniversity @artskeele ! 🗓 Wednesday 25th February, 7:30pm 🎟 tickets available through or at the link below: /about/events/2026/february/melaguitarquartet/mela-guitar-quartet.php