Guitar Society of Toronto | Mēla Guitar Quartet

Winners of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Ensemble Competition 2023, the Mēla Guitar Quartet from the U.K. are known for their imaginative, engaging programming, ingenious arrangements and commissioning celebrated original works.

The quartet have released three albums, the complete guitar quartets of composer/author Anthony Burgess, complete guitar chamber works of Stephen Dodgson, both with Naxos, and the self-released album Pluck, Strum, and Hammer! 2025 will see the quartet release Overtures and Dances with Dutch label Trptk.

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 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. Laura Snowden, My Clock is Broken! (2019), The Emperor’s New Clothes (2023), Michael Finnissy, Albion on the Road to Hell (2019), Stephen Goss, Venezuela (2019) are pieces commissioned and premiered by the quartet.

The quartet are sponsored D’addario artists.

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