Mela Guitar Quartet — Full Concert | Live from St. Mark's - Omni Foundation

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The Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts proudly presents the Mela Guitar Quartet's debut San Francisco performance as part of Omni's Live from St. Mark's Series.

Mela Guitar Quartet:
(from left to right)
Matthew Robinson
George Tarlton
Michael Butten
Zahrah Hutton

Full Concert Program:

Camille Saint-Saëns
0:54 - Bacchanale (from Samson and Delilah)

Claude Debussy
Deux Arabesques
9:14 - No. 2
12:58 - No. 1

Gustav Holst
19:12 - A Fugal Overture

Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose Suite
25:23 - III. Impératrice des pagodes
28:50 - V. Le Jardin Féerique

Mikhail Glinka
33:42 - Overture from Ruslan and Lyudmila

Englebert Humperdinck
39:40 - Hansel and Gretel Overture

Laura Snowden
49:06 - My Clock is Broken!

Phillip Houghton
Opals
58:40 - Black Opal
1:00:04 - Water Opal
1:04:51 - White Opal

Sergei Rachmaninoff
1:09:07 - Polka Italienne

Joe Hisaishi
1:14:52 - My Neighbor Totoro Suite

Encore:

Frank Bridge
1:22:00 - Moto Perpetuo

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About the quartet:
Winners of the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America International Ensemble Competition, the Mela Guitar Quartet are celebrated for their imaginative programming, inventive arrangements, and commissioning of acclaimed original works. Praised by Gramophone for their “collective technical brilliance and preternatural ensemble making,” they have released three albums, including the complete guitar quartets of Anthony Burgess and the chamber works of Stephen Dodgson on Naxos, and their own Pluck, Strum, and Hammer!. Notable performances include London’s Southbank Centre, Barbican Centre, Westminster Abbey, and even Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom, as well as tours of China and an upcoming U.S. tour in 2025. Formed in 2015 by graduates of the Guildhall School and Royal Academy of Music, the group has earned recognition as International Guitar Festival Young Artists and Park Lane Group Young Artists, and continues to expand the guitar quartet repertoire through innovative arrangements and premieres by composers such as Laura Snowden, Michael Finnissy, and Stephen Goss.

https://www.melagq.com/

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Recording:
Richard Patterson

Video Production:
Matthew Washburn

Audio Mastering:
Sienna Digital, Half Moon Bay, CA

Filmed live at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA on March 8, 2025

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