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January 01, 2020 12:00 — December 31, 2021 12:00 · various

SOUNZ-NZCF Te Reo Māori Choral Composition Award

Opportunity

This competition, introduced in 2021, is run by the New Zealand Choral Federation in collaboration with SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music and awards a cash prize and taonga, Te Puoho Ki Te Rangi, created by Taonga Puoro specialist Tāmihana Kātene and kindly donated by SOUNZ, for the best choral piece in Te Reo Māori composed by a New Zealand secondary school student (or students).

The 2021 adjudicator is Robert Wiremu.

Entries must be received by 21 May 2021

Click here to download the entry form

This competition, introduced in 2021, is run by the New Zealand Choral Federation in collaboration with SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music and awards a cash prize and taonga, Te Puoho Ki Te Rangi, created by Taonga Puoro specialist Tāmihana Kātene and kindly donated by SOUNZ, for the best choral piece in Te Reo Māori composed by a New Zealand secondary school student (or students).

The 2021 adjudicator is Robert Wiremu.

Entries must be received by 21 May 2021

Click here to download the entry form

This competition, introduced in 2021, is run by the New Zealand Choral Federation in collaboration with SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music and awards a cash prize and taonga, Te Puoho Ki Te Rangi, created by Taonga Puoro specialist Tāmihana Kātene and kindly donated by SOUNZ, for the best choral piece in Te Reo Māori composed by a New Zealand secondary school student (or students).

The 2021 adjudicator is Robert Wiremu.

Entries must be received by 21 May 2021

Click here to download the entry form

March 01, 2021 12:00 — May 21, 2021 17:00

Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music

Opportunity

Applications are now open for the 2021 Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music. The competition is open to all past and present students of the universities of New Zealand and in 2021 is valued at $1500.

Topic: Compose a piece for cello and piano

You may adopt any theme you please with the work
Electronics or prepared piano are not permitted
The work should be between 8-15 minutes in duration
You should include a programme note and any performance notes necessary
Compositions must include a computer-set musical score and should also include a MIDI recording.

Click here to read more, and to access the application form.

Applications are now open for the 2021 Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music. The competition is open to all past and present students of the universities of New Zealand and in 2021 is valued at $1500.

Topic: Compose a piece for cello and piano

You may adopt any theme you please with the work
Electronics or prepared piano are not permitted
The work should be between 8-15 minutes in duration
You should include a programme note and any performance notes necessary
Compositions must include a computer-set musical score and should also include a MIDI recording.

Click here to read more, and to access the application form.

Applications are now open for the 2021 Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music. The competition is open to all past and present students of the universities of New Zealand and in 2021 is valued at $1500.

Topic: Compose a piece for cello and piano

You may adopt any theme you please with the work
Electronics or prepared piano are not permitted
The work should be between 8-15 minutes in duration
You should include a programme note and any performance notes necessary
Compositions must include a computer-set musical score and should also include a MIDI recording.

Click here to read more, and to access the application form.

March 05, 2021 09:00 — July 01, 2021 17:00

NZ Clarinet Composition Contest – University of Auckland Clarinet Weekend

Opportunity

The University of Auckland Clarinet Weekend is holding a composition contest of works for UNACCOMPANIED CLARINET!

The NZ Clarinet Composition Contest is open to all composers of any age and level of experience. Professionals, amateurs, students, and enthusiasts are encouraged to submit works. All finalists who will have their works performed are required to be in attendance at Clarinet Weekend 2021 to introduce their works and be a part of the event.

Composers have until August 16, 2021 to submit their pieces for consideration. A maximum of eight of the top pieces as chosen by the judges will be chosen for performance at Clarinet Weekend, where a panel of judges will choose one prize, and the audience will vote on the other.

Email submissions to Dr. Marie Ross at: marie.ross@auckland.ac.nz.

Click here for more information, including Rules for Submission

The University of Auckland Clarinet Weekend is holding a composition contest of works for UNACCOMPANIED CLARINET!

The NZ Clarinet Composition Contest is open to all composers of any age and level of experience. Professionals, amateurs, students, and enthusiasts are encouraged to submit works. All finalists who will have their works performed are required to be in attendance at Clarinet Weekend 2021 to introduce their works and be a part of the event.

Composers have until August 16, 2021 to submit their pieces for consideration. A maximum of eight of the top pieces as chosen by the judges will be chosen for performance at Clarinet Weekend, where a panel of judges will choose one prize, and the audience will vote on the other.

Email submissions to Dr. Marie Ross at: marie.ross@auckland.ac.nz.

Click here for more information, including Rules for Submission

The University of Auckland Clarinet Weekend is holding a composition contest of works for UNACCOMPANIED CLARINET!

The NZ Clarinet Composition Contest is open to all composers of any age and level of experience. Professionals, amateurs, students, and enthusiasts are encouraged to submit works. All finalists who will have their works performed are required to be in attendance at Clarinet Weekend 2021 to introduce their works and be a part of the event.

Composers have until August 16, 2021 to submit their pieces for consideration. A maximum of eight of the top pieces as chosen by the judges will be chosen for performance at Clarinet Weekend, where a panel of judges will choose one prize, and the audience will vote on the other.

Email submissions to Dr. Marie Ross at: marie.ross@auckland.ac.nz.

Click here for more information, including Rules for Submission

April 06, 2021 09:00 — August 16, 2021 17:00

NZSO Podium Series | Fantastique (Wellington)

Concert

Additional performances:

May 20th (Auckland)
May 21st (Hamilton)
May 28th (Christchurch)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 20th (Auckland)
May 21st (Hamilton)
May 28th (Christchurch)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 20th (Auckland)
May 21st (Hamilton)
May 28th (Christchurch)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

May 14, 2021 18:30 · Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Auckland)

Concert

Additional performances:

May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

May 15, 2021 17:00 · Whittaker’s Musical Museum, Waiheke Island, Auckland

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Warkworth)

Concert

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

May 16, 2021 16:00 · Warkworth Town Hall, Warkworth

REWORKINGS

Concert

REWORKINGS is the starting point for an inventive programme: work that resonates with the physicality of sound, exploration of the rebuilt, and new perspective on familiar. SMP Ensemble presents a concert of expressive sculpted works inspired by the interrelationship of material and development, positioning five works that dismantle, reconstruct, reuse and search for completeness.

Featuring works by Marcus Jackson, Callum Mallett, Ihlara McIndoe, Louisa Nicklin and Elliot Vaughan responding beautifully within the sonic impressiveness of the Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi.

SMP Ensemble comprises Tristan Carter, Jake Church, Simon Eastwood, Salina Fisher, Jack Hobbs, Ken Ichinose, Elliot Vaughan, Luka Venter, Nick Walshe.

REWORKINGS is the starting point for an inventive programme: work that resonates with the physicality of sound, exploration of the rebuilt, and new perspective on familiar. SMP Ensemble presents a concert of expressive sculpted works inspired by the interrelationship of material and development, positioning five works that dismantle, reconstruct, reuse and search for completeness.

Featuring works by Marcus Jackson, Callum Mallett, Ihlara McIndoe, Louisa Nicklin and Elliot Vaughan responding beautifully within the sonic impressiveness of the Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi.

SMP Ensemble comprises Tristan Carter, Jake Church, Simon Eastwood, Salina Fisher, Jack Hobbs, Ken Ichinose, Elliot Vaughan, Luka Venter, Nick Walshe.

REWORKINGS is the starting point for an inventive programme: work that resonates with the physicality of sound, exploration of the rebuilt, and new perspective on familiar. SMP Ensemble presents a concert of expressive sculpted works inspired by the interrelationship of material and development, positioning five works that dismantle, reconstruct, reuse and search for completeness.

Featuring works by Marcus Jackson, Callum Mallett, Ihlara McIndoe, Louisa Nicklin and Elliot Vaughan responding beautifully within the sonic impressiveness of the Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi.

SMP Ensemble comprises Tristan Carter, Jake Church, Simon Eastwood, Salina Fisher, Jack Hobbs, Ken Ichinose, Elliot Vaughan, Luka Venter, Nick Walshe.

May 16, 2021 19:30 — May 16, 2021 20:30 · Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Lower Hutt)

Concert

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

May 20, 2021 19:30 · St Mark’s Church, Lower Hutt

NZSO Podium Series | Fantastique (Auckland)

Concert

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 21st (Hamilton)
May 28th (Christchurch)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 21st (Hamilton)
May 28th (Christchurch)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 21st (Hamilton)
May 28th (Christchurch)

May 20, 2021 19:30 · Town Hall, Auckland

NZSO Podium Series | Fantastique (Hamilton)

Concert

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 20th (Auckland)
May 28th (Christchurch)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 20th (Auckland)
May 28th (Christchurch)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 20th (Auckland)
May 28th (Christchurch)

May 21, 2021 19:30 · Claudelands Arena, Hamilton

NZSO Open Doors: Tūhono – Connecting Melodies

Concert

The NZSO is throwing open the doors and inviting you to join us for a variety of free events for all ages.

Horomona Horo and Jeremy Mayall present a discussion and demonstration on composing for Taonga Pūoro. As long-standing collaborators and sonic explorers, they will share about moving beyond genre, style and cultural boundaries into hybrid sonic forms, and stories about the collaborative process.

Proudly supported by the NZSO Foundation.

The NZSO is throwing open the doors and inviting you to join us for a variety of free events for all ages.

Horomona Horo and Jeremy Mayall present a discussion and demonstration on composing for Taonga Pūoro. As long-standing collaborators and sonic explorers, they will share about moving beyond genre, style and cultural boundaries into hybrid sonic forms, and stories about the collaborative process.

Proudly supported by the NZSO Foundation.

The NZSO is throwing open the doors and inviting you to join us for a variety of free events for all ages.

Horomona Horo and Jeremy Mayall present a discussion and demonstration on composing for Taonga Pūoro. As long-standing collaborators and sonic explorers, they will share about moving beyond genre, style and cultural boundaries into hybrid sonic forms, and stories about the collaborative process.

Proudly supported by the NZSO Foundation.

May 22, 2021 16:30 — May 22, 2021 17:30 · Claudelands Arena, Hamilton

Symphonic Journey

Concert

BEETHOVEN | Coriolan Overture
SMETANA | The Moldau
ERIN FAGAN (NZ) | Alqualondë (world premiere)

WEI CHANGMUWEI | Guest conductor

Musicians from the Manukau Symphony Orchestra and the Howick School of Music come together for an annual weekend workshop, culminating to an informal play-through for friends and whānau that includes the world premiere of Alqualondë by New Zealand composer, Erin Fagan.

BEETHOVEN | Coriolan Overture
SMETANA | The Moldau
ERIN FAGAN (NZ) | Alqualondë (world premiere)

WEI CHANGMUWEI | Guest conductor

Musicians from the Manukau Symphony Orchestra and the Howick School of Music come together for an annual weekend workshop, culminating to an informal play-through for friends and whānau that includes the world premiere of Alqualondë by New Zealand composer, Erin Fagan.

BEETHOVEN | Coriolan Overture
SMETANA | The Moldau
ERIN FAGAN (NZ) | Alqualondë (world premiere)

WEI CHANGMUWEI | Guest conductor

Musicians from the Manukau Symphony Orchestra and the Howick School of Music come together for an annual weekend workshop, culminating to an informal play-through for friends and whānau that includes the world premiere of Alqualondë by New Zealand composer, Erin Fagan.

May 23, 2021 16:00 — May 23, 2021 16:45 · Te Tuhi, Auckland

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Motueka)

Concert

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

May 23, 2021 19:30 · Chanel Arts Centre, Motueka

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Rangiora)

Concert

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

May 25, 2021 19:30 · The Chamber Gallery, Rangiora Library, Rangiora

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Arrowtown)

Concert

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

May 27, 2021 18:00 · Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall, Arrowtown

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Bannockburn)

Concert

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 30th (Kerikeri)
June 1st (Rotorua)

May 28, 2021 19:00 · Coronation Hall, Bannockburn

NZSO Podium Series | Fantastique (Christchurch)

Concert

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 20th (Auckland)
May 21st (Hamilton)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 20th (Auckland)
May 21st (Hamilton)

Holly Mathieson | conductor

Tōru Takemitsu | Dreamtime
Dorothy Ker | The Third Dream
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique

Dunedin-born conductor Holly Mathieson returns to Aotearoa for her debut performance with the NZSO. Mathieson worked as conducting assistant to Christoph von Dohnanyi, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Marin Alsop, before gaining the assistant conductor position of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Most recently she was appointed as Music Director of Symphony Nova Scotia.

Mathieson presents a programme of dreams. Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu frequently drew influences from outside classical music. Dreamtime is inspired by the Australian Aborigine concept of a mythical time before humans when Ancestral Spirits walked the earth. Likewise, NZ composer Dorothy Ker explores primordial dreams in The Third Dream, the work "build[ing] organically from delicate stirrings to a physicality of volcanic intensity."

Hector Berlioz's fertile imagination bursts forth in his epic Symphonie Fantastique. Famously depicting the fevered dreams of an opium eating artist, the work takes you on a hallucinatory journey through passionate fantasies, a wild masked ball, and at last to the artist’s descent into the hell of a witches’ Sabbath.

Additional performances:

May 14th (Wellington)
May 20th (Auckland)
May 21st (Hamilton)

May 28, 2021 19:30 · Town Hall, Christchurch

Chamber Music NZ | Ibell & Thomson (Kerikeri)

Concert

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
June 1st (Rotorua)

Robert Ibell | cello
Rachel Thomson | piano

Programme:

Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole
Salina Fisher | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Clara Schumann | Three Romances, op 22
Dmitri Shostakovich | “Adagio” & “Springtime Waltz” from The Limpid Stream
Nadia Boulanger | Three Pieces for Cello & Piano
Johannes Brahms | Sonata no 2 in F, op 99

Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson offer a delightful programme demonstrating the breadth of expression and depth of emotion found in the cello-piano repertoire.

Since 1993 Robert has been a member of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is an experienced chamber musician, cello teacher, chamber music coach and adjudicator. Formerly the cellist of the Nevine Quartet, Robert has been a member of the Aroha Quartet since 2009. Rachel is a member of various chamber ensembles including the Koru Trio and has worked as an orchestral pianist with the NZSO, Orchestra Wellington, and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The programme, Cello Journey, undertakes a musical OE, travelling around the globe in a programme of music that explores different musical cultures, styles and periods.

Additional performances:

May 9th (Wellington)
May 15th (Waiheke Island)
May 16th (Warkworth)
May 20th (Lower Hutt)
May 23rd (Motueka)
May 25th (Rangiora)
May 27th (Arrowtown)
May 28th (Bannockburn)
June 1st (Rotorua)

May 30, 2021 16:00 · Turner Centre, Kerikeri

Gamelan Aotearoa

Concert

Experience gamelan at the National Library with Wellington's Gamelan Padhang Moncar, introduced by Lilburn Fellow Dr. Anton Killin.

Featuring works by Budi S. Putra, Megan Collins, Judith Exley, David Farquhar, Hazel Barrett, Ross Carey, Emma Carle, Anton Killin, and more.

Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

Gamelan first arrived in New Zealand in the 1970s when Allan Thomas imported a set of instruments from Java to Wellington to support ethnomusicology teaching, with a performing ensemble soon being formed.

There are now ensembles based around the country. Composers who were subsequently inspired to write works for gamelan include David Farquhar, Judith Exley, Megan Collins and Lilburn Fellow Anton Killin, whose works feature in this concert, along with that of Dedek Wayhudi from Indonesia and others.

Join us to hear gamelan being played by Gamelan Padhang Moncar, a group of New Zealand musicians dedicated to the study and performance of Javanese music and based at the New Zealand School of Music (Victoria University of Wellington). They are directed by Budi S. Putra, and managed by Megan Collins. The group performs traditional repertoire from the courts and villages of central Java as well as contemporary works by New Zealand composers.