Malcolm MacFarlane Ged Brockie Nigel Clark Kevin MacKenzie

Incredible guitar harmonies and interweaving melodies . Their unique sound and high energy playing covers everything from pop to classical music through jazz, Latin, traditional and world styles.

The Scottish Guitar Quartet are a contemporary music group, comprising four of Scotland's leading acoustic guitarist-composers. They draw on celtic, modern, classical and jazz genres, with strong influences from world music, and blend these disparate styles with the textures and timbres of four acoustic guitars to produce an eclectic sound that is both unique and powerful.

The musicians

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Malcolm MacFarlane is a prize winning graduate of Leeds College of Music and has also studied with Barney Kessel, Howard Roberts and Tal Farlow. He was a member of Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia for many years where he contributed on many tours and albums as a featured soloist and composer. As well as playing with pop groups such as Shatatak and Matt Bianco, he now co-leads the jazz-fusion band, the Mulford - MacFarlane Group. Malcolm also plays with The Watercolours. Other recent projects include working with the Royal Opera and Ballet, and commissions for the Scottish Arts Council and Wirral International Guitar Festival

Ged Brockie is an award winning graduate from Leeds College of Music. He performs and composes regularly not only for the Scottish Guitar Quartet but several other groups. He has one solo and two band albums to his name. Now, one of Scotland's busiest professional guitarists and educators, Ged is involved in an active career both playing and teaching. He has worked in many diverse musical situations including West End shows on tour; Scottish National Opera; Scottish National Orchestra; jingle work for TV and radio; recording of albums; recording for other artists; recording of educational material; television broadcasts; Jazz festivals; cover bands; touring; as well as regular organising and playing for corporate businesses. Ged is an extremely fine composer and has just recorded his debut CD featuring his own compositions, played by a group of musicians from Scotland, the USA and Brazil, called 'Last View From Mary's Place'. Recently Ged has been commissioned to provide original music for an Edinburgh Festival Production.

Nigel Clark from Glasgow, has contributed his talents to a wide range of artists and idioms, from the Django Rheinhardt influenced Hot Club, through Carol Kidd and Hue and Cry, to his own quintet who produced the 'Worldwide Sound' CD that reached the Top Ten in the major UK Jazz Charts.

Kevin MacKenzie is a graduate of the Guildhall School of music and since that time has led many different groups, including a very successful quartet with saxophonist Julian Arguelles. Kevin's current projects include the trio ABB with their CD 'Cold Fusion' which was Jazz on Three's CD of the Year 1999. He is also playing with his fusion group 'Swirler' with an eponymous CD on Caber Records, as well as tours and recordings with folk musician, Simon Thoumire.