This concert will be at First United Church, Waterloo. 

$30/$20 at TBA!

Program: INFINITE WAVE

contemporary guitar music evoking nature

Clive Carroll (b. 1975) - The Lost City of Dunwich

Bryan Johanson (b.1951) - Black is The Color

Haralabos Stafylakis (b. 1982) - Waves Obsidian

Laura Snowden (b. 1988)

My Clock is Broken!

Leo Brouwer (b. 1939)

Cuban Landscape with Rain

– INTERMISSION –

Hope Lee (b. 1953)

Imaginary Garden III: dancing cosmos in autumn wind

Marco Galvani (b.1994)

Infinite Wave*

Philip Houghton (1954-2017)

Opals

I.Black Opal

II.Water Opal

III.White Opal

Tim Beattie(Canada),

Finlay Hay(Scotland),

Ross Morris(England),and

Lenny Ranallo(UnitedStates)

This short blurb from them helps a lot:

Quartet Malamatina is the guitar quartet for the 21st century. First converging around LeoBrouwer's Cuban Landscape with Rain for a performance wit hfilmatthe 2021 UN Climate Conference,Quartet Malamatina is comprised of members Tim Beattie (Canada), Finlay  Hay (Scotland),Ross Morris (England), and Lenny Ranallo (UnitedStates).Equallycomfortable on the concert stageas in the local community centre, Quartet Malamatina takes a socially-conscious approach to programming and presentation, sharing the expressive potential of concert music and forging new audiences in the process. Quartet Malamatina is building upon thec ulturally diverse and longstanding traditions of music for guitar ensemble through awide range of commissioning, arranging, multidisciplinary collaboration, education, and community engagement activities. Laudedf ortheir “immensely colourful,

lyrical and expressive playing” (Laura Snowden), Quartet Malamatina have worked withsome of the most exciting

young film makers andcomposers in the UK, developing programmes that challenge conventions of genre classification and presentation. 

the Beacon Arts Centre (Greenock), Billiard Room Sessions (Govan), Carlisle Cathedral (Carlisle), Gatehouse Music Society (Dumfries), Festival Drayton Centre (Market Drayton), and Stevenson Hall (Glasgow). Amidst these performances, Malamatina gave world-premiere performances of newly commissioned works by Marco Galvani and Erin  Thomson, thanks to generous support from Creative Scotland and the PRS Foundation. The Quartet also worked with conductor-composer MartynBrabbins in a performance of hisp iece, Sometimes You Can Hear the Birds Sing –the work’s first outing since 1984. The Quartet’s upcoming season highlights include res denciesatYellowBarn(VT),theBanffCentreforArtsandCreativity, and concerts throughout Canada and the U K.

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MALAMATINAABOUT THE QUARTET:

Lauded for their “immensely colourful, lyrical and expressive playing” (Laura Snowden), Quartet Malamatina is an international guitar quartet comprised of Tim Beattie (Canada), Finlay Hay (Scotland),Ross Morris (England), and Lenny Ranallo (USA).

Formed while studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland,Quartet Malamatina have recently performed at the 2021 UN ClimateConference, St Giles’ Cathedral, Big Guitar Weekend Festival inGlasgow, and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Fridays at Oneconcert series.These projects have led them to work with some of the most exciting young filmmakers and composers in the UK, developing programmes that challenge conventions of genre classification and presentation.Members of the quartet have performed at the Queen's Hall, BrusselsInternational Guitar Festival, Scottish National Gallery, Muziekgebouw(Amsterdam), Scotland House, Iglesia de San Martin (Spain),FirstOntario Concert Hall (Canada), Blair Castle, Drumlanrig Castle,Perth Concert Hall, Glyndebourne Opera, Princess Alexandra Hall(ROSL),and Bilkent Konser Salonu (Ankara