mela guitar quartet
22 march 2024 / 9pm / the jago, london
100% funded (sold out)
Taking their name from the Sanskrit word for ‘festival’, Mela Guitar Quartet perform a kaleidoscope of music for guitar in Dalston
8pm: doors open
9pm: mela guitar quartet set
11pm: live five-piece latin band cuban descarga
1am: italo-ethiopian afro-disco DJ SANOY
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Please note that due to the venue's license, this noisenight is strictly 18+.
the venue:
The Jago is a renowned arts and culture venue in the renovated buildings of the Hackney Gazette printing press.
Their eclectic programme of music, art, workshops and community work relects the diverse cultures of the local Dalston community. It's also a special venue for us, as it's just round the corner from through the noise HQ.
the music:
Mela Guitar Quartet take their name from the Sanskrit word for ‘festival’ - they celebrate the possibilities created by four world-leading classical guitarists in one room. For this performance they'll present their own virtuosic arrangements of music by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, and Rachmaninoff, alongside some original compositions.
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the programme:
Camille Saint-Saëns - Bacchanale
Claude Debussy - 2 Arabesques
Philip Houghton - Opals
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Italian Polka
Gustav Holst - Fugal Overture
Laura Snowden - My Clock is Broken
Mikhail Glinka - Overture from Ruslan and Ludmilla
mela guitar quartet:
Winners of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Ensemble Competition 2023, the Mela Guitar Quartet are known for their imaginative, engaging programming, ingenious arrangements and commissioning celebrated original works.
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Hailed for their “collective technical brilliance and preternatural ensemble making” - Gramophone, the quartet have released three albums, the complete guitar quartets of composer/author Anthony Burgess, the complete guitar chamber works of Stephen Dodgson, both with Naxos, and the self-released album Pluck, Strum, and Hammer!
Notable performances have included the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room, Kings Place Hall One, St. James’ Church Piccadilly, Barbican Centre’s Milton Court, St. George’s Bristol, Westminster Abbey, Soest Germany, and of course Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom. In 2019 the quartet embarked on an 8 concert tour of China, including Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Changsha concert hall and Tianjin Grand Theatre. The quartet will tour America as part of their GFA winners prize in 2025.
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.
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.
Rewards: standing tickets to noisenight92 at 9pm on Friday 22 March 2024 at The Jago, Dalston. First-come, first-served for the best views. Tickets include access to live bands and DJs from 11pm-3.30am.
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