Meraki Duo

Meera Maharaj and James Girling both studied at the RNCM, where they quickly connected through a shared passion for chamber music, jazz, Latin American music traditions, and contemporary works. They bring all these influences together in the award-winning Meraki Duo, ‘proving that flute and guitar is a marriage made in sonic heaven’ (Georgia Mann, BBC Radio 3). Meera Maharaj Flute James Girling Guitar Grant Still arr Girling Three Songs Messiaen arr Girling Selections from 5 Leçons de solfège Le Gendre arr Girling Songs and Dances of the Islands Tadić Four Macedonian Pieces for alto flute and guitar Today’s programme journeys across the diverse repertoire from the duo’s debut album, Notes from the Living Room, highlighting a number of Girling’s premiere arrangements on the album: of Trinidadian composer Dominique Le Gendre’s Songs and Dances of the Islands, William Grant Still’s exquisitely lyrical Three Songs, and a young Messiaen’s enchanting 5 Leçons de solfège, as well as a Balkan-imbued masterpiece for the alto flute and guitar by Bosnian guitarist Miroslav Tadić, Four Macedonian Pieces.