Aside from the regular weekly workshops, concerts and forums, and performances from the major NZSM ensembles listed at left, NZSM hosts many other 'one-off' events.
Friday 9 December, 2011
7:30pm,
Hunter Council Chamber,
Victoria University of Wellington,
Kelburn campus
Admission free, all welcome
Te Koki, the New Zealand School of Music is hosting an intensive Chamber Music Course through November. As well as expert NZSM faculty the course features guest tutors from Australia and the USA and our own professional performers.
One of the special guest tutors will be violinist Sarita Kwok from Yale University, USA. In this concert she will be joined by NZSM Piano Lecturer Jian Liu in a concert including works by Beethoven, Bresnick, and Messiaen.
Australian violinist Sarita Kwok has been featured on stages in Australia, New Zealand, England, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, Japan and the United States and has performed as a soloist with the major symphony orchestras in her home country. After being named the James Fairfax Sydney Symphony Orchestra Young Artist she made her debut with the Sydney Symphony at fifteen and went on to win Australia's most prestigious musical award: 'The Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year (Strings)' shortly after.
Ms. Kwok received both the Doctoral and Masters of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of Music as a student of Prof. Syoko Aki and the Tokyo String Quartet. She currently serves on the faculty of the Yale Department of Music, is the Director of the Undergraduate Lessons Program at the Yale School of Music and also serves as adjunct violin faculty at Amherst College.
This event will be held in the Hunter Council Chamber, Hunter Building, Victoria University of Wellington. Parking can usually be found on Kelburn Parade, or behind the Hunter Building by entering Gate 1. The concert is free and all are welcome although seating will be limited.
Tuesday 15 March, 2011
9:00-10:30am,
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn campus
Admission free, all welcome
In many ways, Rajendra Prasanna is an emblem of his country's classical tradition. As with so many Indian musicians, he grew up in the gurukal system where he was one of a long lineage who had been taught by their musician father who would pass on the knowledge acquired from the previous generation.
The illustrious Prasanna dynasty of Varanasi musicians have been custodians of the shehnai, an evocative oboe-like ceremonial instrument, for five generations. Rajendra Prasanna is the only Indian musician who excels in playing both the flute (bansuri) and the shehnai. He is joined by son Rishab on the flute, Vikas Babu on the shehnai, and Shub Maharaj on the tabla, all highly accomplished performers.
The players are on their way to performances at the Auckland Festival and WOMAD in Taranaki, but have made time to provide a workshop at NZSM demonstrating the timbres and techniques of this ancient art.
Chinese Aura: The New Purple Forbidden City Orchestra
Wednesday 23 March, 2011
6:00pm,
Hunter Council Chamber
Victoria University Wellington
Admission free, but koha encouraged
Prepare to hear the exotic and evocative sounds of traditional Chinese instruments playing recently composed works including an arrangement of prof. Jack Body's 'Five Lullabies'.
The New Purple Forbidden City Orchestra is an 11-member orchestra based at the China Conservatory of Music (Beijing) which specialises in performing contemporary music on traditional Chinese instruments.
Admission is free, but a koha to support the group's travel and accommodation costs would be appreciated. More information is available here.
Erin Helyard - fortepiano and harpsichord
May 13, 2011: 6:00-7:00pm
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn campus
A special recital from visiting eighteenth century music specialist Erin Helyard.
Erin graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with first-class honours and the University Medal and was additionally awarded the inaugural Lenore Buckle Scholarship for Music. He studied harpsichord with Paul Dyer, Ray Harvey and Stephanie McCallum and for his postgraduate studies in Canada he has been awarded five fellowships and scholarships. Erin completed his Masters in fortepiano performance with Tom Beghin at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montréal in 2005. Pursuing a passion for the music and culture of the eighteenth century and the ideals of the Enlightenment, he is currently completing a PhD in musicology at the same institution.
The programme in this brief recital includes:
Handel: Chaconne in G (HWV 435);
C. P. E. Bach: Sonata in C major;
Joseph Haydn: Sonata in C major;
Muzio Clementi: Capriccio, Op. 34 No. 1
The Bowed Piano Ensemble, founded by Stephen Scott at Colorado College in 1977, has evolved into a small orchestra whose ten players conjure, from one open grand piano, long, singing lines, sustained drones, chugging accordion-like figures, crisp staccato tones reminiscent of clarinets, deep drum tones and more, often simultaneously, to create a rich, contrapuntal new-chamber-music tapestry.
In this concert for NZSM the Bowed Piano Ensemble will perform:
New York Drones (2006): dedicated to the great American composer Steve Reich in honor of his seventieth birthday
Azul (Blue) from Paisajes Audibles/Sounding Landscapes (2002)
Barcarola from The Deep Spaces (2004-05) (poetry by William Wordsworth)
Vikings of the Sunrise Part One (1995): a fantasy on themes of navigation, exploration and discovery in the Pacific from ancient times until the present era.
The Bowed Piano Ensemble has made eight European tours and two to Australia. They have performed at world-renowned venues like the Sydney Opera House, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the medieval Town Hall in Tallinn, Estonia and Jameos del Agua, a volcanic lava-tube-become-concert-hall in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Their five recordings (two with soprano Victoria Hansen) are on the New Albion and Albany labels.
“Few composers achieve true originality in their palette. Occasionally a composer comes along who finds his territory and explores every nook and cranny within it, luxuriating in its richness. Stephen Scott's brilliant forays into the interior of the piano must be included with the prepared piano work of John Cage (and) the player piano machinations of Conlon Nancarrow as examples of startlingly unique artistic vision. The instrument speaks in a new but strangely familiar voice, as harps, mandolins and orchestral strings seem to emerge. Scott has found his own orchestra in there.”
Ingram Marshall
Thursday 19 May, 2011
7:30pm,
NZSM Concert Hall, Mt Cook campus
Free Admission (but koha encouraged to cover costs)
The Worldwide Guitar Connections project, with the support of the Embassy of Brazil, and the New Zealand School of Music invites you to the Wellington concert of guitarist Fabricio Mattos.
In the context of The Worldwide Guitar Connections, classical guitarist Fabricio Mattos, from Curitiba, Brazil, will travel the world performing works exclusively written for him by five composers, as follows:
Harry Crowl – 3 Curitiba Preludes
Mario Ferraro – Tortous Poem
Luiz Cláudio Ribas Ferreira – Choro das Araucarias
Paul Hart – All thus stand light
Salomao Habib – Amazon Suite
The concert is free, but a koha to help cover costs is encouraged. As space is limited, please reserve your seat by emailing the names of the attendees to cultural@brazil.org.nz, stating 'Wellington' as the city where you wish to this concert.
Fabricio is also performing in Auckland and Dunedin.
Wednesday 25 May, 2011
7:30pm,
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn campus
Free Admission
The NZSM Concerto Competition is an annual event in which our top students compete to perform a concerto of their choice with the NZSM Orchestra. This year the adjudicator will be Vyvyan Yendoll who was the Section Principal of the viola section for the NZSO for many years and was awarded an ONZM for his services to music.
Friday 27 May, 2011
6:30pm,
Hunter Council Chamber,
Victoria University Wellington, Kelburn Campus
Free Admission
This concert will feature original compositions for brass ensemble. Repertoire will include Brombones by Howard Buss, Brass Symphony by Jan Koetsier and Three More Cats by Chris Hazel.
This is their 'prequel' concert before the brass programme undertakes an inter-varsity programme exchange and visits Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, the following week.
Duo Saxe, a Norwegian flute and guitar duo, have been described as a vibrant and exciting ensemble, bringing life and emotion to their music, and achieving a relaxed rapport with their audience.
Duo Saxe was established in 2001. Flautist Charlotte Udø Kjeldsberg and guitarist Runar Kjeldsberg have since performed in Norway, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Montenegro. In April 2011 Duo Saxe will release the CD Duetto Concertante of Italian music from the 19th century.
Guitarist extraordinaire Runar Kjeldsberg aims to share his warm and energetic personality through his music. He holds a Master of music and he studied with guitar maestros Carlo Marchione, Alexis Muzurakis, Gerard Abiton and Jan Erik Pettersen.
Flutist Charlotte Udø Kjeldsberg is an outgoing and intuitive musician that enjoys playing with the music and sharing her expressive personality through the timbre of her flute. Charlotte holds a Master of music and studied with Marc Grauwels, Mario Caroli and Jørn Schau. Charlotte is a reknowned chamber musican who also works with the flute quartet '4 tempi' based in Brussels and 'The Norwegian flute ensemble'. With this latter group Charlotte has released the CD Music of the Baroque.
In this concert hosted by NZSM the duo will perform:
Duetto Concertante - Ferdinando Carulli Towards the sea - Toru Takemitsu E flat major sonata - Johan Sebastian Bach
--------- L'Aube Enchantée - Ravi Shankar Divertimento no 2 - Francois De Fossa Duetto Concertante - Mauro Giuliani
Voila! Say the Violas: A Purple Toned Concert on June 7
The NZSM Viola Ensemble, also known as Viola Viva: The Next Generation, host their first public concert.
Titled 'Violaissimo! (e poco clarinetto)', it will feature arrangements of classical works including that of Corelli, Elgar, and Telemann, as well as popular selections like Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze and Carlos Gardel's Por Una Cabeza tango.
The NZSM Clarinet Quartet will join in as guest artists.
Viola Viva: The Next Generation is a unique student-run, staff-supported viola ensemble project at the New Zealand School of Music. Though only months old, the ensemble’s activities have gained an unreal momentum, including presentations to thousands at the recent VUW graduation ceremonies at the Michael Fowler Centre, and will be featured at the start of the upcoming Three-Minute Thesis Competition at the Hunter Council Chamber. Members range from first-year undergraduates to doctoral candidates, and violinists having the viola as a second instrument, and includes collaboration with graduate students in composition.
There is something special about the 'purple-toned' musical instrument that lends itself particularly effectively to ensemble playing, not to mention a certain social bond that exists between players of an instrument that is considered an ‘endangered species’. And on the evening of June 7th, they will share this with you
A concert of Javanese music featuring the NZSM students of PERF250 (Javanese Gamelan class) and Gamelan Padhang Moncar.
The concert is organized and directed by Budi Putra. The public are welcome, and encouraged, to come along and share in this exciting presentation of Indonesian performing arts at NZSM.
Tuesday 28 June, 2011
6:15pm,
Massey University Theatrette, Wellington Campus
A pupil of María Luisa Anido, her international performance career began after winning the 2nd Prize at the Concours International de Guitarre de Paris in 1974.
María Isabel Siewers has performed all over the world: in Wigmore Hall (London), the Vienna Konzerthaus, Martinu Hall (Prague), Carnegie Hall (New York), the Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris). She has appeared as soloist with, amongst others, the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Virtuosi, the Radio/TV Orchestra of Zagreb, the Bohemian Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, the Kraków Philharmonic, and the Chamber Orchestras of Mayo and Morón (Argentina).
She has regularly toured, taught, and served in juries for international competitions throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Isabel has occupied several teaching posts in Argentina and, since 1989, she has been head of a guitar department in the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Austria. In seeking to expand the repertory of the guitar she has commissioned new works and has premiered numerous solo and chamber works and concertos.
"Maria Isabel Siewers is a total player, incredibly flexible but with disciplined perimeters, highly sensitive, a master of tone color, with style and pacing that drip atmosphere...." (French Gilbert, American Record Guide)
Wednesday 6 July, 2011
7:00pm,
NZSM Concert Hall, Mt Cook Campus
Admission free, but Koha encouraged
Dr. Guilherme Vincens is a full-time professor of guitar and coordinator of the superior degree in music at the Federal University of São João Del Rei (UFSJ), in Minas Gerais, Brazil and is frequently invited to perform, teach, research and lecture in music festivals, universities and concert series in his country and abroad. He has received awards in national and international competitions, including the 1st Prize in the XI Portland International Guitar Competition. Guilherme studied at the University of Arizona with Prof. Thomas Patterson and guest-artist David Russell, under a CAPES/Fulbright scholarship. An expert in popular and classical music alike, he has recorded with many groups and performs regularly as a soloist and with the flute & guitar Duo Tramanduá.
Guilherme Vincens is being supported in his New Zealand tour by the Embassy of Brazil.
Seating is limited: please email cultural@brazil.org.nz to ensure a place.
NB: Guilherme is also presenting a Masterclass for NZSM students at 11am, Thursday 7 July, in the same venue:
observers are welcome.
He will also give a lecture: 'The Modernization of Brazilian Popular Music: Garoto, Guinga and the Bossa Nova' at 6pm, Thursday 7 July, at the Embassy of Brazil: RSVP cultural@brazil.org.nz if you wish to attend this.
Keyboard Inspirations: 3 Pianists From 3 Countries
Sunday 7 August, 2011
2:30pm,
Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington
Tickets: Online with Eventfinder: Adults $30, Students/Seniors $15
Tickets at the door: Adults $35, Students/Seniors $20
Dr Jack Richards and Te Koki, the New Zealand School of Music present a triple-feature piano recital: three outstanding pianists from three countries. The concert is also a fundraiser for the J. C. Richards Music Scholarship for Overseas Postgraduate Study. A reception will follow the concert.
Jian Liu (China), Buz Bryant-Greene (New Zealand) and Tony Lee (Australia) will play an eclectic programme ranging across the history of piano repertoire: music by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Haydn, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Scriabin, Ibert, Wang.
The international flavour of the event is also highly appropriate: proceeds from the concert will be added to the J. C. Richards Music Scholarship for Overseas Postgraduate Study, an annually awarded scholarship of $12,000 to support postgraduate music students wishing to undertake further study in music overseas. The scholarship is administered through the Victoria University Foundation.
The Programme:
Bach: fantasy in a-minor (Buz)
Rachmaninov: 2 Preludes op. 32 no. 12/13 (Tony)
Debussy: Image Book I, "Reflets dans l'eau" (Jian)
Haydn: B minor sonata Hob.XVI:32 2nd/3rd mvmt (Buz)
Scriabin: 2 poemes op 32 (Tony)
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz no.1 (Jian) Interval
Haydn: C major sonata, Hob. XVI:50, first movement (Jian)
Rachmaninov: Preludes op. 32 no. 10 (Buz)
Scriabin Sonata no. 4 op. 30 (Tony)
Wang: Liu Yang River (Jian)
Liszt: 2nd Ballade (Buz)
Rachmaninov: Polka de V.R. (Tony)
This event will take place in the Hunter Council Chamber, Hunter Building, Victoria University of Wellington. Parking can usually be found on Kelburn Parade, or behind the Hunter Building by entering Gate 1. Seating is limited to 150, so to be sure of a seat, we encourage you to pre-purchase tickets online. Remaining seats will be available for door sale.
Tickets can be pre-purchased online through Eventfinder:
Adults $30, Students/Seniors $15.
Ticket prices at the door are: Adult $35, Student, Senior $20
Donations to the J. C. Richards Music Scholarship for Overseas Postgraduate Study will also be accepted at the door or by mail. Receipts for donations can be issued on request for tax purposes.
Annually, chamber music ensembles from throughout New Zealand are invited to compete for the Pettman/ROSL Arts Chamber Music Scholarship. Winners gain a scholarship that allows them to spend a month in London, not only performing but also having the opportunity to attend master classes and meet some top ensemble performers in Britain.
Through this evening's competition, an NZSM ensemble will be chosen to represent the School in the national competition. The event is free and the public are welcome.
Founded in 1910 to encourage international friendship and understanding, the Royal Over-Seas League is a non-governmental organisation based in the UK with an international membership of more than 21,000. ROSL ARTS is the arts division of the Royal Over-Seas League, and for over 50 years has developed a diverse portfolio of arts activities in music, visual arts and literature, devoted to the career development of talented young professional artists and musicians from the UK and the Commonwealth, and also presents readings and literary events at its central London headquarters.
Tuesday 16 August, 2011
7:00pm,
Massey University Theatrette,
Old Museum Building, Entrance D, Buckle Street, Wellington
Adults $15; Student 'Rush' $5
The Embassy of Spain in New Zealand and the New Zealand School of Music are delighted to present a concert given by Ricardo Gallén, one of Spain’s most outstanding guitarists and Australian early music specialist John Griffiths.
The programme ranges across music from the sixteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including works by Luis Milán, Francesco Spinacino, Luis de Narváez, J.S. Bach, Mauro Giuliani, and Luigi Legnani.
Gallén and Griffiths will perform on period instruments.
Riccardo Gallén started playing classical guitar at the age of four, performing in public just a year later. At the age of ten he entered the Conservatory of Music in Cordoba, receiving his first formal music education from the Conservatory's director and founder Tomás Villajos Soler. He continued his studies at the Conservatories of Jaén, Cordoba, Madrid and Granada, and studied guitar and ancient music at the University of Salzburg (Mozarteum) and Munich. He was, until 2009, an Assistant Professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, under the direction of Eliot Fisk and is currently a Professor of Guitar at the Hochschule für Musik 'Franz Liszt' in Weimar, Germany and a Professor at the University of Extremadura in Spain.
John Griffiths specialises in early music of Spain and music for early plucked instruments — lute, vihuela and early guitars. He has performed widely in Australia, Europe, the USA and South America, both as a soloist and ensemble player. From 1980 until 2011 he worked in the Conservatorium at the University of Melbourne where he was Professor of Music, the founder and director of the Early Music Studio at the University of Melbourne and director of the Melbourne Spring Early Music Festival as well as founder and General Editor of the Lyrebird Press.
Adults: $15, Student 'Rush' $5
Tickets are available online from Eventfinder: seating is limited to 200.
Dr Martin Riseley (violin and Head of Strings at NZSM) ; Inbal Megiddo (Lecturer in Cello) and Jian Liu (Head of Piano Studies) are undertaking a tour to Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin in which they will present masterclasses and recitals.
Their itinerary has them:
in Auckland on:
Monday 29 August (Northshore, based at Westlake Girls High School),
Tuesday 30 August (morning: Howick at Macleans College; afternoon at Epsom Girls Gramma)
in Christchurch on the afternoon of Wednesday 31 August and morning of Thursday 1 September with a programme of masterclasses at Rangi Ruru and Christs College, and a concert recital on Wednesday evening at Rangi Ruru Hall..
in Dunedin on the afternoon of Thursday 1 September with a concert in Dunedin's St. Paul's Cathedral that evening, and masterclasses at Columba College on the morning of Friday 2 September.
The aim of this tour is to introduce this trio of superb performers and teachers to the wider New Zealand music education community: Inbal and Jian in particular have joined NZSM staff just this year. We would like music teachers and students, especially string and piano students, to be aware of the excellent teaching staff and opportunities that NZSM can offer for further musical study.
New Zealand String Quartet and Peter Nagy: Hungarian Rhapsodies
Sunday 4 September, 3:00pm: Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University
Monday 5 September, 7:30pm: Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University
The New Zealand String Quartet are Artists in Residence at the New Zealand School of Music.
To mark the Liszt bi-centenary this year, the New Zealand String Quartet is bringing Hungarian piano virtuoso Péter Nagy to New Zealand for a national tour of Hungarian-inspired chamber music, concluding with two concerts in the Hunter Council Chamber at Victoria University, Wellington.
The first concert, at 3pm on Sunday 4 September, will feature:
Bartok – String Quartet No 2
Ligeti – String Quartet No. 1 (‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’)
Liszt – Fourth Mephisto Waltz/Bagatelle sans tonalité
Liszt – Csárdás in F-sharp minor and Csárdás obstinée
Dohnanyi – Piano Quintet No. 2 in E? minor, Op. 26
The second concert, at 7:30pm on Monday 5 September, will feature:
Beethoven – Rondo alla ingharese quasi un capriccio in G major Op. 129 “Rage over a lost penny”
Bartok – String Quartet No 4
Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 for piano
Brahms – Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op. 25 (1861)
There is a special ticket price available (bookings through Ticketek) for those who wish to attend both concerts.
Peter Nagy, a graduate of the famous Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and winner of the prestigious Liszt Award in 2001, has a remarkable international career as soloist and chamber music and is also active as a teacher, holding positions as Head of the Piano Department at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart. He last toured with the New Zealand String Quartet in 2006 in the Magical Mozart Tour, when he was based at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.
Saturday 10 September, 7:00pm: Adam Concert Room, Kelburn Campus
The New Zealand School of Music hosts their annual Composer's Competition.
A selection panel has chosen 10 works from those submitted to be performed in this concert. The student composers need to be currently enrolled at NZSM and the works must have been composed in the last 12 months.
The 2011 finalist composers are: Tristan Carter, Justin Firefly Clarke, Salina Fisher, Sam Logan, Jo Lonsdale, Tyrone Mackintosh, Chris Nimmo, Jason Post, Briar Prastiti and Tabea Squire.
All 10 works will be performed in this concert – the performers are a mixture of current undergraduate, and postgraduate students, alumni and local musicians. The adjudication panel this year will be NZSM staff Jian Liu, Florian Hollerweger and Composer in Residence Juliet Palmer.
The winner of the competition receives a substantial cash prize made available through the Lilburn Trust. The concert is open to the public – free admission.
Dieter Flury (flute) and Maria Prinz (piano)
Monday 26 September 7:30pm: Adam Concert Room, Kelburn Campus
Dieter Flury is principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The Vienna Phil are touring Australia towards the end of September and Dieter, together with his chamber music partner Maria Prinz (piano) will 'cross the ditch' to present this concert and a masterclass at the New Zealand School of Music.
The concert programme is likely to be:
J.S.Bach – Sonata for flute and piano b-minor BVW 1030
Schulhoff – Sonata
Debussy – L'après midi d'un faune
Prokofiev – Sonata op.94
Praised by the press for his “soft, sensitive sound, perfect technique and his musical intelligence”, flutist Dieter Flury has been called a “flute Paganini” thanks to his “phenomenal finger and breath-technique”. Solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic since 1981, and the orchestra’s general manager since 2005, he enjoys a multi-faceted career as a leading soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, teacher, and orchestral leader.
Mr. Flury is a Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. He previously served on the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy and the Vienna Conservatory, and leads master classes around the world. For more information, visit www.flury.at
Hailed as “brilliant” and “deeply sensitive” by Das Orchester Magazine, pianist Maria Prinz is widely in demand as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Ms. Prinz has performed with leading orchestras throughout Europe, including the Vienna Philharmonic, collaborating with renowned conductors Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival and Seiji Ozawa in Vienna, in Sofia and at the “March Music Days” Festival in Russe, Bulgaria under Sir Neville Marriner and in the “Musikverein” Hall in Vienna. She performed the Bulgarian première of "Oiseaux Exotiques" by Olivier Messiaen. Maria Prinz has made recordings of the Haydn and Mozart piano concertos with the Sofia Symphony Orchestra, and chamber music recordings with clarinetists, Alfred Prinz and Petko Radev, and soprano Krassimira Stoyanova. Ms. Prinz teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. For more information, visit www.mariaprinz.com
Tuesday 27 September 12:15pm: Old St Pauls, 34 Mulgrave Street, Wellington
This concert features an intriguing array of music for classical saxophone ensembles and also the classical sax in chamber music. Composers range from Bach to contemporary cutting edge. The NZSM Sax 4tet will play a work entitled 'P' by Australian composer Barry Cockroft, a chamber trio will perform a dazzling work by Russell Peck, and Arielle Couraud will be featured soloist in a concerto by Cimarosa, accompanied by the NZSM Saxophone Orchestra. Previous concerts by these ensembles have been extremely well received.
The concert is given as part of the 2011 Old St Paul's lunchtime concert series.
Sunday 9 October, 2011
Interactive Installations: 6:30–8:30pm
Concert 7:00pm
:00pm,
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn campus
Admission free, all welcome
The NZSM Sonic Arts department presents an Exhibition and Concert, directed by Ajay Kapur, Jim Murphy and Jordan Hochenbaum. The exhibition of interactive installations will be open from 6:30–8:30pm with a concert starting at 7pm.
Interactive installations are from: Timothy Barraclough, Samuel Bennett, Marcelo Hudson, Henry Johnston, Douglas Kelly, Paul Mathews, Joseph Milsom and Florence Wilson.
Performances are from Amy Barnett, Shi Chen, Troy Cooper, Jeremy Coubrough, George Duncan, Flinn Gendall, Jack Hooker, Blake Johnston, Brooke Mitchell, Emi Pogoni, Micah Sargisson, Rupert Snook, Jason Erskine, Jim Murphy and Jordan Hochenbaum.
Sonic Arts at the New Zealand School of Music involves the creation of music through the medium of music technology. It may be pre-composed (fixed media sonic arts) or performed live through loudspeakers or other means of amplification (live electronics). Training includes papers in music technology, engineering, theory, musicianship, electronic music history, criticism, aesthetics and performance.
NZSM has long been a leader in the fields of Electronic and Electroacoustic music and Sonic Arts and the Lilburn Electroacoustic Music Studios, established by the venerable composer more than 40 years ago in the Kelburn Campus, is still working at the cutting edge of this artistic field.
Monday 10 October, 2011
5:00pm,
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn campus
Admission free, all welcome
Finalists in the 2011 NZSM Brass Player of the Year Competition are: Tim Walsh (trombone), Alex Morton (French horn), Julian Kirgan (trombone), and Joe Thomas (trombone). The annual competition is a showcase of the finest talent at NZSM and the prize is sponsored by Music Services Ltd of Wellington.
Tuesday 11 October, 2011
7:00pm,
St Andrew's on The Terrace
Admission by koha, all welcome
This Woodwind Showcase Concert from NZSM features the best of 2011 from students at all levels. The programme features an intriguing array of music for flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone and bassoon and includes both solo and chamber works for wind.
Wednesday 19 October, 2011
7:30pm,
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn campus
Admission free, all welcome
Helene Pohl is first violinist with the New Zealand String Quartet, Artists in Residence at NZSM. In the this concert, current and former students of Helene present a recital featuring works by Bach, Chausson, Lalo, Prokofiev and others. The concert features Vanessa Leighs, one of Helene's first New Zealand students (1994-8), who has recently returned to New Zealand after more than a decade studying and working in Germany.
Eleven + One: Childhood Memories – a concert of Chinese piano music
Friday 28 October, 2011
6:00pm,
Hunter Council Chamber,
Victoria University of Wellington,
Kelburn campus
Admission free, all welcome
Presented by the Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington
in association with New Zealand School of Music, 'Eleven + One: Childhood Memories' is a concert of Chinese piano pieces from NZSM Head of Piano Studies Jian Liu and twelve of his students.
The pieces presented in this concert include traditional Chinese music, folksong and children’s songs rescored for piano, as well as original piano works. These are from by acclaimed Chinese composer Tan Dun, and Chinese/NZ composers Gao Ping and Shen Nalin – the latter an alumnus of NZSM. The melodies are evocative of childhood and home, some distant, some close, but always vividly remembered.
As well as Jian Liu himself, the performers will include NZSM under and postgraduate students Andrew Atkins, Benjamin Booker, Buz Bryant-Greene, Sunny Cheng, Emily Deans, Lucy Gijsbers, Lena Hesselgrave and Amy Lewis.
StarJam is an award winning super-charity which provides outstanding performance opportunities for young people with disabilities, who, in turn, provide inspiration and motivation to their audiences.
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In this performance, a cast of 70 'Jammers' from Wellington will be singing, dancing and playing alongside iconic celebrities including Ray Woolf in an eclectic programme of entertaining music.
One part of the evening will feature the Vector Wellington Orchestra performing two works by NZSM Senior Lecturer Stephan Prock (Open Waters and The New Dam Busters March) with support from the 'Jammers'. NZSM Lecturer in Music Therapy Dr Daphne Rickson has also been involved in the rehearsal process as part of her continuing research. The musicians will discuss the process and results of the StarJam project in a scheduled session as part of the NZSM Music Therapy Conference which runs over the next two days at the Mt Cook Campus.
Tuesday 22 November, 2011
7:30pm,
Adam Concert Room
NZSM
Kelburn Campus
Admission free, all welcome
Te Koki, the New Zealand School of Music is hosting an intensive Chamber Music Course through November. As well as expert NZSM faculty the course features guest tutors from Australia and the USA and our own professional performers.
Paul Rickard-Ford and Natalia Sheludiakova are guest piano tutors from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In this concert they will present a concert of music for two pianos. The programme includes:
Shostakovich: Concertino in a minor Op 94 for two pianos
Scriabin: Fantasy in a minor Op posthumous for two pianos
Schnittke: The Revisionist's Tale (Transcription for two pianos of the Gogol Suite)
Natalia originally studied in Moscow and was a member of the faculty at the Gnessin Institute from 1983 and Moscow Conservatorium from 1989. Since emigrating to Australia in 1992 she has given numerous masterclasses throughout Australia and overseas for Conservatoria in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Wollongong, Paris, Hong Kong & Copenhagen. In 2008 she was appointed full time Lecturer in Piano at the Sydney Conservatorium.
After completing his BMus at the Melbourne Conservatorium, Paul Rickard-Ford was awarded the Clarke Scholarship to undertake postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, London where he gained the ARCM and the Dannreuther Prize for the most outstanding concerto performance. In 2008 he was appointed as a Federal Examiner for the AMEB and has recently toured Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong giving masterclasses for the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Paul Rickard-Ford presently serves as Chair of the Piano Unit.
The concert was recorded in the Hunter Council Chamber on Thursday 14 April 2011 during the first of this year's Hunter Series Concerts. The concert featured Norman Meehan's song settings of poems by Bill Manhire, some written especially for Hannah Griffin to sing and is a follow-up album to the superb Buddhist Rain CD, released in 2010. If you feel any affinity for the music of Joni Mitchell or Randy Newman (to name a couple of people who have been at least in part an inspiration for this music) then you should enjoy this one. Other musicians featured on the recording include NZSM Head of Jazz Nick Tipping, Wade Reeve, NZSM Wind Lecturer Colin Hemmingsen and Ruth Armishaw - a wonderful band and lovely music.
Thursday 24 November, 2011
7:30pm,
Hunter Council Chamber,
Victoria University of Wellington,
Kelburn campus
Adults $15, Couples $20, Seniors/Students $10, NZSM Staff and Studnets $5
Online bookings available through Eventfinder
This event will take place during the NZSM Chamber Music Festival but is also the final concert in the 2011 Hunter Series.
The NZSM Trio consists of: Martin Riseley, Head of Strings, Inbal Megiddo, Lecturer in Cello and Jian Liu, Lecturer in Piano. The trio performed in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin earlier this year but this will be their first official public concert in Wellington.
The programme includes three favourites of the chamber music repertoire:
Beethoven – Piano Trio No 5 in D Op 70/1
Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49
Dvorak Piano Trio No. 3 in f minor Op 65
The concert will be held in the Hunter Council Chamber, Hunter Building, Victoria University of Wellington. Parking can usually be found on Kelburn Parade, or behind the Hunter Building by entering Gate 1. Seating is limited to 150, so to be sure of a ticket, we encourage you to pre-purchase online. Remaining seats will be available for door sale.
Pohiri and Lunchtime Concerts at the NZMS/NZSM Conference
The New Zealand Musicological Society Conference: Performance, Creativity, Collaboration, is being hosted in association with NZSM at the NZSM Kelburn Campus from Saturday 26–Monday 28 November 2011. Details of the conference including the full programme schedule have been published here. Registration for the full conference, for individual days or for individual sessions on any day are open now.
In addition there are three events that the general public are welcome to attend free of charge.
Saturday 26 November
10:30am Pohiri (Formal Opening Ceremony): Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn Campus
Beginning with a
karanga the pohiri will include haka pohiri (Ngai Tauira Kapa Haka), mihi whakatau (Formal Speeches) and waiata followed by the visitor response and waiata.
The ceremony will continue with the presentation and blessing of the new NZSM taonga puoro, made by Tamihana Katene. Tamihana Katene is a craftsman and taonga puoro player of Ngati Toa and Nga Whatua descent. A welcome to the New Zealand School of Music from Director Elizabeth Hudson and an explanation of the NZMS conferece programme from NZMS President (and NZSM Associate Director) Inge van Rij will follow.
Visitors and tangata whenua are welcome to attend and participate.
The New Zealand Musicological Conference will get underway from 11:30am
Saturday 26 November
1:45pm–2:30pm Baroque Concert
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn Campus This lunchtime concert of Baroque music is being held as part of the New Zealand Musicological Conference: Performance, Creativity, Collaboration. Rowena Simpson (soprano), Polly Sussex (baroque cello), and Rosalind Halton (harpsichord) will perform newly-edited cantatas by the cellist-composers Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier and Quirino Colombani, and airs spirituels by the French songwriter Jean-Baptiste de Bousset.
There is no admission charge and general audience memebrs are welcome.
Sunday 27 November
12:30pm–1:15pm Taonga Puoru and Bass
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn Campus
In this lunchtime concert, part of the New Zealand Musicological Conference: Performance, Creativity, Collaboration, the performers include Jazz legend Paul Dyne (bass) and taonga purou legend Richard Nunns with guests.
There is no admission charge and general audience memebrs are welcome.
Sunday 27 November, 2011
7:30pm,
Hunter Council Chamber,
Victoria University of Wellington,
Kelburn campus
Admission free, all welcome
Te Koki, the New Zealand School of Music is hosting an intensive five-week Chamber Music Course starting in mid-November. As well as expert NZSM faculty the course features guest tutors from Australia and the USA and our own professional performers.
A special feature of the NZSM Summer Chamber Music Course will be the formation of a cello ensemble. It will include NZSM Cello Lecturer Inbal Megiddo, NZSQ cellist Rolf Gjelsten, NZTrio cellist Ashley Brown, NZSO Principal Andrew Joyce, APO Principal Eliah Sakakushev, and other members of the NZSO and Vector Wellington Orchestra along with students participating in the course and NZSM Young Musician Programme students.
[Local cellists also have the opportunity to participate in part of the programme: if you are interested in being involved contact Inbal Megiddo at inbal.megiddo@nzsm.ac.nz or call NZSM reception 04 463 5369 for more information.]
Renowned for its sonorous and richly mellow sound, this is a wonderful opportunity to hear a rare combination of up to 20 cellos playing together in the special ambience of the Hunter Council Chamber at Victoria University, Wellington. The concert is free and all are welcome although seating will be limited.
