Photograph by Kim Hardy

Arrangements of works by well-known composers and original compositions written for the guitar quartet.

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.

Next season’s agreed concert dates are: 2025: 14-Oct, 4-Nov, 2-Dec, 2026: 10-Feb, 17-Mar, 14-Apr, 19-May, 30-Jun.