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St James's Church
197 Piccadilly
Piccadilly
London
W1J 9LL
England
Programme
Camille Saint-Saens – Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale
Claude Debussy – Deux Arabesques, L.66
Philip Houghton – Opals (Black Opal, Water Opal, White Opal)
Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante Defunté
Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila: Overture
~ Interval ~
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro, K.492: Overture
Laura Snowden – My Clock is Broken! (2019)
Darius Milhaud – Scaramouche: Brasiliera
Dave Brubeck – Brubeck Suite (Brubeck/Desmond)
Claude Debussy – Claire de lune (arr. flute and strings)
Georges Bizet – Carmen Fantasy
Spanish Folk Song – Gypsy Song
Performers
Mela Guitar Quartet
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Programme Note
"The Mēla quartet play my work Opals with brilliance and poetry. The music shines and shimmers with sparkling clarity...wonderful music making!" Phillip Houghton, Composer
The Mēla Guitar Quartet takes their name from the Sanskrit word for ‘Festival’. Their concerts celebrate an engaging and imaginatively wide-ranging programme of original pieces for guitar quartet and their own ingenuitive arrangements.
The quartet formed in 2015 as graduates of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music. They quickly 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 quartet's recordings have received critical acclaim, while notable performances have included the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room, Kings Place Hall One, Barbican Centre’s Milton Court, St. George’s Bristol and Westminster Abbey.
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 are enthusiastically adding to the guitar quartet repertoire through their adventurous arrangements of much loved orchestral works and their commissions of new music, including My Clock is Broken! by Laura Snowden, which is being performed this evening.
Tickets are banded according to location in the church. Within each section, individual seats are unallocated so you are advised to arrive early for the best view.
St James’s aspires to be a place where all can belong, and where every person’s gifts and identities are welcome and celebrated.
We are working to improve the experience at St James’s in the church building and the online community.
We have step-free access from the courtyard to the church, a toilet for disabled people and a hearing loop system. The courtyard and Redemption Roasters coffee shop are wheelchair accessible.
If you have special access requirements (e.g. wheelchair users) please contact concerts@sjp.org.uk
