Methera

Lucy Elkiss • Emma Reid • Miranda Rutter • Grace Smith

Four musicians stand against a wood building, holding string instruments and looking at each other.

“Sitting close together, as if to share each other’s every breath, Methera produce a joyous cauldron of sound.  The intense engagement between each member produces music to delight and lift the spirit.” 

Alistair Anderson, co-founder of Folkworks 

Methera is a unique ensemble: a string quartet with roots firmly planted in English traditional music. Their national tours, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts and collaborations have helped them establish a reputation as a scintillating live act, blazing a trail through the uncharted territory that lies between folk and chamber music.

With a change in line-up in 2025, Lucy Elkiss (cello), Grace Smith and Emma Reid (fiddles) and Miranda Rutter (viola) combine a deep knowledge of traditional music with a wide range of other influences and expertise and a deep sense of musical interaction. Newly composed pieces sit alongside timeless traditional material; their music is both sophisticated and earthy, groundbreaking and familiar, enchanting and thrilling.