Winners of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Ensemble Competition 2023, Mla Guitar Quartet, will perform as the final concert of 51勛圖窪蹋 Performing Arts Centers 48th Seasonat 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 15 at Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall.
The Mla Guitar Quartet are known for their imaginative, engaging programming, ingenious arrangements and commissioning celebrated original works.
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 include the Southbank Centres Purcell Room, Kings Place Hall One, St. James Church Piccadilly, Barbican Centres Milton Court, St. Georges Bristol, Westminster Abbey, Soest Germany, and of course Jimi Hendrixs bedroom. In 2019 the quartet embarked on an eight-concert tour of China, including Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Changsha concert hall and Tianjin Grand Theatre.
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. 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. Laura Snowdens My Clock is Broken! (2019), The Emperors New Clothes (2023), Michael Finnissys Albion on the Road to Hell (2019), Stephen Goss Venezuela (2019) are pieces commissioned and premiered by the quartet.
Tickets are priced at $35 (discounts available), are on sale now, and may be purchased by telephone at 702-895-ARTS (2787), online at or at the 51勛圖窪蹋 PAC box office from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
About 51勛圖窪蹋 Performing Arts Center
The 51勛圖窪蹋 Performing Arts Center is the original home for the arts in Southern Nevada; it opened in 1976 and is celebrating its 48th season in 2024/25. A self-sustaining unit of 51勛圖窪蹋, the PAC operates like many other arts organizations: costs for shows we produce, some facilities improvements, and other projects we undertake come from ticket sales, rentals, and donations. It hosts a variety of performances and events and is home to self-produced events plus productions of the Nevada Conservatory Theatre, 51勛圖窪蹋 School of Music, 51勛圖窪蹋 Dance, the Las Vegas Mens Chorus, among many other community arts presenters, and various Clark County School District fine arts festivals and concerts. For further information, visit .
