Coming Events

Opera (and ballet) in the cinema and live recitals and concerts

Opera films

Following the initiative of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, several European houses have started broadcasting live some of their current productions; Covent Garden and La Scala among them.

The Lighthouse Cinemas, in Petone and Pauatahanui, are screening a series of opera and ballet performances.

The Metropolitan Opera 209/10 season at the Penthouse is in progress.

Thirdly, the New Zealand Opera Society’s season of opera films for 2010 begins at the Paramount Cinema in March.

We depend on information supplied by cinemas and those hiring cinemas, concert and recital promoters and performers themselves.

Please contact us to tell us of errors and omissions, and let us have new listings.

The Lighthouse Cinema 2010 season of opera, ballet and theatre films at Petone and Pauatahanui.

The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) – choreo. Peter Wright – The Royal Ballet

As You Like It (Shakespeare) – dir. Thea Sharrock – The Globe Theatre

La Traviata (Verdi) – dir. Richard Eyre – The Royal Opera

Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) – choreo. Petipa/Ivanov – The Royal Ballet

Falstaff (Verdi) – dir. Richard Jones – Glyndebourne Opera Festival

L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti) – dir. Annabel Arden – Glyndebourne Opera Festival

La Bohème (Puccini) – dir. John Copley – The Royal Opera

Cherevichki (Tchaikovsky) – dir. Francesca Zambella/choreo. Alastair Marriott – The Royal Opera and Royal Ballet (The Tchaikovsky opera originally called Vakula the Smith, which he revised as The Tsarina’s Slippers)

Don Carlo (Verdi) – dir. Nicholas Hytner – The Royal Opera

Mayerling (Liszt, arr. Lanchbery) – choreo. Macmillan – The Royal Ballet

Ondine (Hans Werner Henze) – choreo. Ashton – The Royal Ballet

Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare) – dir. Dominic Dromgoole – Globe Theatre

The following operas from the remaining part of the 2009/10 season of the Metropolitan Opera in New York will be transmitted at the Penthouse cinema in Brooklyn.

Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) 6 – 10 February

Carmen (Bizet) 6 – 10 March

Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) 27 – 31 March

Hamlet (Thomas) 24 – 28 April

Armida (Rossini) 29 April – 2 May

New Zealand Opera Society (Wellington Branch) will host screenings of opera films in the Bergman Theatre of the Paramount Cinema.

All start at 7pm on Mondays except in July (as shown)

La fanciulla del West (Puccini) – 29 March – Met. Opera

Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) – 19 April – Glyndebourne

Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc) – 17 May – Australian Opera

I Puritani (Bellini) – 21 June – Barcelona

Tannhäuser (Wagner) – 1 July (Sunday) – Bayreuth (in association with Wagner Society)

Rusalka (Dvořák) – 16 August – ENO

The death of Klinghoffer (Adams) – 29 September – film

Macbeth (Verdi) – 18 October – Glyndebourne

The Mikado (Sullivan) – 22 November – Australian Opera

Concert and Recitals

The Tudor Consort
Gradualia – a selection of Byrd’s Motets
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Saturday 13 February 8pm *

Mahler’s Symphony No 8
(New Zealand International Arts Festival)
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Youth Choir, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Christchurch City Choir, Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Choristers of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul (augmented); Annalena Persson, Marina Shaguch, Sara Macliver (sopranos), Dagmar Peckova, Bernadette Cullen (mezzos), Simon O’Neill (tenor), Markus Eiche (baritone), Martin Snell (bass)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 26 February 2010

New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Waikanae Music Society)
Piano trios by Schumann, Rachmaninov and Babadjanian
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 28 February 2.30pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Simon O’Neill (tenor), conducted by Anthony Legge (NZIFA)
Wagner: Lohengrin: Introduction to Act III, ‘In fernem Land’; Siegfried: ‘Selige Öde auf wonniger Höh!’; Die Walküre: ‘Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater’, ‘Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond’, Ride of the Valkyries; Parsifal: ‘Amfortas! Die Wunde!’, Good Friday Spell, ‘Nur eine Waffe taugt’; Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, ‘Brünnhilde! Heilige Braut!’, Trauermusik
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 5 March 8pm

Organ recital (NZIFA)
John Wells
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 6 March noon

Film: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helicopter String Quartet. Composed for the Arditti Quartet (NZIFA)
Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town Hall.
Saturday 6 March 2pm

New Zealand Trio (NZIFA)
Excerpts from: Beethoven: Piano Trio in D Major, Opus 70 No.1 (‘The Ghost’), Ross Edwards: Piano Trio, Dvořák: Piano Trio in F minor Opus 65, Chen Yi: Tibetan Tunes, Dui Xie, Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor, Phil Dadson: Firestarters, David Downes: Kingdom (world premiere)
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 6 March 4pm

Borodin Quartet (Chamber Music New Zealand and New Zealand International Arts Festival)
String Quartets by Borodin (No 2 in D), Shostakovich (No 8, Op 110), Tchaikovsky (No 1 in D)
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 6 March 7.30pm

Organ recital (NZIFA)
Douglas Mews
Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 7 March noon

Dirty Beasts and other stories (NZIFA)
Zephyr Wind Quintet, pianist Diedre Irons and other instrumentalists
Oliver Hancock: Three Tolkien Miniatures, Paul Patterson: Rebecca (who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably), Martin Butler: Dirty Beasts, Paul Patterson: Little Red Riding Hood
Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 7 March 2pm

New Zealand String Quartet and Jenny Wollerman (soprano) (NZIFA)
Schubert: Quartet in G Minor/B flat major, D 18; Alban Berg: String Quartet, Op 3; Ross Harris: The Abiding Tides (world premiere); Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95
Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 7 March 4pm

Keith Lewis (tenor) and Michael Houstoun (piano) (NZIFA)
Purcell: ‘So when the glittering Queen of Night’, ‘Not all my torments’, ‘What power art thou’. ‘Evening Hymn’ Jenny McLeod: ‘Peaks of Cloud’ (song cycle for tenor and piano, poems by Janet Frame), Britten: ‘On This Island’, Opus 11 (song cycle words by W. H. Auden) Barber: Three songs from ‘Ten Early Songs’ (1994); three songs from ‘Collected Songs’, two songs from the ‘Hermit Songs’
Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 7 March 7.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
A season of 20 concerts has been organised to take place in St Andrew’s on the Terrace starting on 8 March and running till 19 March.
The full programme has now been released and brochures can be found at the usual places throughout Wellington. Note that these concerts are NOT, like the regular Lunchtime concerts, FREE.

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
New and old Klezmer music including premiere of a new work by Ross Harris, Klezmorphology
Kugeltov: Tui Clark (clarinet), Robin Perks (violin), Ross Harris
(accordion), Malcolm Struthers (bass)
Monday 8 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Tessa Quayle - Jazz Trio
Well-known vocal jazz standards, and jazz tunes of the bop era. Tessa Quayle with pianist Ben Wilcock and bassist Alastair Isdale,
Tuesday 9 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Festiva Piano Quartet
Cornerstones of the Piano Quartet repertoire.
Mozart: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, K478
Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor
Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60
Catherine McKay, piano; Cristina Vaszilcsin, violin; Peter Garrity, viola; Robert Ibell, cello
Tuesday 9 March 6.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Recital: Buz Bryant-Greene, piano
Haydn: Sonata in B minor, HobXVI:32
Chopin: Sonata in Bb minor, Op 35
Liszt: Ballade No 2 in B minor
Wednesday 10 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Nexus / Poles Apart: The SMP Ensemble
Jack Body: Turtle Time (narrator, piano, harp, organ, harpsichord)
Anton Killin: A Priori (electroacoustíc)
Gorecki: Piano Sonata
Lera Auerbach: Cetera Desunt - String Quartet No 4
John Adams: John Philip Sousa - for ensemble
plus works by Richard Robertshawe, Andrzej Nowicki, Simon
Eastwood, Karlo Margetic, Charles Ives and Carol Shortis
Directed by Andrzej Nowicki, the SMP Ensemble began in 2008 as a forum for Wellington-based composers and performers, many studying at the New Zealand School of Music.
Wednesday 10 March 6.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Claude Bolling’s Concerto for Classical Guitar (1975 work by the legendary French jazz pianist and band leader); and Jazz Piano Trio
Matthew Marshall (classical guitar), Paul Dyne (bass), Anita van Dijk (piano), Roger Sellers (drums)
Thursday 11 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Amici Ensemble 2010
Jean Françaix: Octet “A Huit” (1972)
Anthony Ritchie: ‘Octopus’ Octet, Op 129
Franz Schubert: Octet in F Major, Op 166 D803
Led by Associate Concertmaster Donald Armstrong, the Amici Ensemble comprises mostly NZSO principals
Thursday 11 March 6.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
The Nikau Trio
J J Quantz: Trio Sonata in C minor
Edwin Carr: Petit Concert
Hector Villa-Lobos: Assobio A Jato (The Jet Whistle)
Joseph Haydn: Trio No 1 in C major
G Powning: Trio
Karen Batten (fute), Madelaine Sakofsky (oboe), Margaret Guldborg (cello)
Friday 12 March 12.15pm

The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Days Bay Opera
Director: Sara Brodie; Musical Director: Michael Vinten; Producer: Rhona Fraser
Matt Landreth, Rhona Fraser, Barbara Graham, Daniel O’Connor, Bianca Andrew, Annabelle Cheetham, John Beaglehole, Roger Wilson, Sophie Mackie and Olivia Bascand & Olivia Martin
Canna House, 24 Moana Road, Days Bay
Friday 12, Saturday 13, Sunday 14 March; 5pm, dinner interval 6.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Forza d’Amore (The Power of Love)
Music of love and passion from the golden age of the Italian Renaissance and early Baroque: from lute songs and lute duets of the 15th century court of Mantua, to the Monteverdi’s 17th-century Venice.
The Chanterelle Early Music Ensemble: Pepe Becker (soprano),
Don King (Renaissance lute), Stephen Pickett (Renaissance lute,
Baroque theorbo), Robert Oliver (Baroque bass viol)
Friday 12 March 6.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Aroha String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in F, Op 77 No 2
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 7 in F# minor, Op 108
Gillian Whitehead: Moon,Tides and Shoreline
Szymanowski: String Quartet No 2, Op 56
Haihong Liu (violin), Beiyi Xu (violin), Zhongxian Jin (viola),
Robert Ibell (cello)
Saturday 13 March 6.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Paganini: 24 Caprices for solo violin
Dr Martin Riseley (violin) New Zealander Dr Martin Riseley is Head of Strings at the New Zealand School of Music.
Sunday 14 March 3.00pm

Benefit Concert: James Rodgers (tenor) with Jillian Zack (piano)
Britten: Winter Words, Tosti: A selection of songs, Rachmaninov: Songs from Op. 26, Duparc: Selections, Lilburn: Sings Harry, with other works t.b.a.
(www.nzsm.ac.nz)
Adam Concert Room, New Zealand School of Music, Gate 7
Sunday 14 March 7pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Cornucopia
Beethoven: Sextet, Op 81b
Louis Spohr: Octet, Op 32
Franz Schubert: Quartetsatz, D 703
Ed Allen, Heather Thompson (horns); Rachel Vernon (clarinet); Lyndon Taylor, Ursula Evans (violins); Brian Shillito, Belinda Prentice (violas); Sally Pollard(cello); Vicky Jones (double-bass)
Monday 15 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
New Zealand Music for Woodwinds: New chamber works by New Zealand composers Alexandra Hay, Pieta Hextall, Dylan Lardelli and Ben Hoadley, and the world premier of David Farquhar’s Serenade for Woodwind Quartet (1950).
Ben Hoadley (bassoon); Luca Manghi (fute); Tui Clark, Anna McGregor (clarinet)
Tuesday 16 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
The Alfred Hill String Quartets Nos 8, 10 and 11
Dominion String Quartet: Yury Gezentsvey (violin), Rosemary Harris
(violin), Donald Maurice (viola), David Chickering (cello)
Professor Maurice will give a short talk on Alfred Hill before the performance (The Dominion String Quartet are recording all Hill’s string quartets in a best-selling series of CDs for Naxos).
Tuesday 16 March 6.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
South American Tangos: 3 2 Tango: Catherine McKay (piano), Slava Fainitski (violin), Brenton Vietch (cello)
Astor Piazzolla and South American flavours of the tango
Wednesday 17 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
The Leprechaun Ensemble
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major K581
Prokofev: Overture on Hebrew Themes Op 34
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34
Anne Loeser, Cristina Vaszilcsin (violin), Peter Garrity (viola), Rowan
Prior (cello), Philip Green (clarinet), Tom McGrath (piano)
Wednesday 17 March 6.30pm

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (NZIFA)
Conductor: René Jacobs; concertmaster; Gottfried von der Goltz (and violin soloist)
Concert 1
Haydn: Symphony No 91 in E flat major, Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat, K 495 (Teunis van der Zwart - horn), Symphony No. 38 in D major K 504 ‘Prague’
Wellington Town Hall
Wednesday 17 March 7.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Works for Cello and Piano
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke
Ernst Bloch: From Jewish Life
Samuel Barber: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Paul Mitchell (cello), Richard Mapp (piano)
Thursday 18 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Scaramuccia
Directed by Gregory Squire
Serious and light hearted music – from Scottish Pibrochs and the bawdy rounds of Purcell to the beauty of Corelli and Vivaldi
Thursday 18 March 6.30pm

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (NZIFA)
Conductor: René Jacobs; concertmaster; Gottfried von der Goltz (and violin soloist)
Concert 2:
Haydn: Symphony No 92 in G ‘Oxford’, Mozart: Violin Concerto in D major K 218, Symphony No. 41 in C, K 551 ‘Jupiter’
Wellington Town Hall
Thursday 18 March 7.30pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Gustav Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Linden Loader (mezzo soprano), Roger Wilson (baritone),
Terence Dennis (pian-)
Friday 19 March 12.15pm

St Andrew’s on the Terrace: Season of Concerts March 2010
Recital: Tenor Michael Gray with Bruce Greenfield (piano)
Antonio Vivaldi: Four arias
Benjamin Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Paolo Tosti: Four songs
Friday 19 March 6.30pm

Wellington Chamber Orchestra conducted  by Rachel Hyde
Walton: Prelude and Fugue: Spitfire: Elgar: Serenade for String Orchestra; Walton: Suite – Henry V; Elgar: Enigma Variations
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Sunday 28 March 2010 2.30pm

The Tudor Consort
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae – Music for Holy Week
Settings of The Lamentations of Jeremiah, by Tallis, and Ernst Krenek (1941).
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Good Friday 2 April 8pm

Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Pedro Carneiro (percussion)
Stravinsky: Danses concertantes; Psathas: Djinn (premiere); Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat ‘Eroica’
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 7 April 7.30pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen
Strauss: Metamorphosen, Bruckner: Symphony No 7
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 10 April 8pm

New Zealand String Quartet and Diedre Irons (Waikanae Music Society)
Elgar’s Piano Quintet; Haydn: String Quartet Opus 74, No 3 (‘The Rider’); Zhau Long: Song of the Ch’in
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 11 April 2.30pm

New Zealand String Quartet (Chamber Music Hutt Valley)
Schubert: Quartet in G minor/B flat major, D18; Tan Dun: Eight Colours; Helen Fisher: String Quartet in Memory of May Manoy (commissioned by Chamber Music Hutt Valley in 1994); Beethoven: Duet With Two Obbligato Eyeglasses for viola and cello, WoO 32; Haydn: Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3 ‘The Rider’
St. James Church, Lower Hutt
Wednedsday 14 April 8pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen, Hilary Hahn (violin)
Smetana: Ma Vlast and Sárka; Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 23 April 6.30pm

New Zealand Trio (CMNZ)
Piano Trio, K 502 (Mozart), Commissions from Judy Bailey and Stuart Greenbaum, Mozart-Adagio (Pärt), Piano Trio No 1, Op 63 (Schumann)
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 24 April 7.30pm

Amici Ensemble and Flight (Waikanae Music Society)
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; Jean Françaix: Clarinet Quintet; Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, harp, flute and clarinet
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 25 April 2.30pm

Zephyr Wind Quintet and Deidre Irons (piano) (Chamber Music Hutt Valley)
Mozart: Quintet for piano and winds in E flat, K.452; Ken Wilson: Woodwind Quintet; Poulenc: Sextet; William Southgate: Quintet for Wind ‘Erewhon’ (commissioned by Chamber Music New Zealand in 1990)
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt
Thursday 13 May 8pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tecwyn Evans with Dame Malvina Major (soprano)
Ritchie: French Overture, Gounod: Faust – ‘Ah! Je ris de me voir’, Bellini: Norma- ‘Casta Diva’, Puccini: Madama Butterfly – ‘Un bel di vedremo’, Tosca – ‘Vissi d’arte’, Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro’, Elgar: Symphony No 1
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 14 May 6.30pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tecwyn Evans with Dame Malvina Major (soprano)
Mozart: Symphony No 41 ‘Jupiter’; Strauss: Die Fledermaus Overture; Lehar: Guiditta ‘Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss’, Paganini ‘Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden’, The Merry Widow – ‘Vilja’; Dvořák: - Czech Suite – Finale, Rusalka – Song to the Moon; Strauss: Thunder and Lightening Polka
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 15 May 3pm

The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) NBR New Zealand Opera
Conductor: Lionel Friend; director: Aiden Lang.
Wade Kernot, Riccardo Novaro, Nuccia Focile, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Helen Medlyn, Richard Greager, Richard Green, Alexandra Ioan, Derek Hill and others t.b.a..
Wellington Orchestra, Opera Chorus
St James Theatre
Saturday 15, 20, 22 May 7.30pm; Tuesday 18 May 6pm

Poinsett Piano Trio (Wellington Chamber Music Society)
Rachmaninov: Piano Trio in G minor, Elégiaque, Op. Post.; Shostakovich: Piano Trio in E minor, Op.67; Brahms: Piano Trio in C, Op.87
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 16 May 3pm

The Wallfisch Band (CMNZ)
Concertos by Locatelli and Vivaldi
Wellington Town Hall
Thursday 20 May 7.30pm

Poinsett Piano Trio (Waikanae Music Society)
Deirdre Hutton (violin), Christopher Hutton (cello), David Gross (piano)
Beethoven: Piano Trio No 1; Handel/Halvorsen: Passacaglia for string duo; Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op 61; Brahms: Piano Trio No 2, Op 87
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 30 May 2.30pm

Amici Ensemble and Flight (WCMS)
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; Françaix: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings; Ross Harris: New work for solo clarinet, commissioned by WCMS for the SOUNZ Tender Project, 2009; Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet; Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, harp, flute and clarinet
Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 30 May 3pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev with Freddy Kempf (piano)
Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila Overture, Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3, Glazunov: The Seasons
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 12 June 8pm

The Tudor Consort
Franco-Flemish music from the sixteenth century: Nicolas Gombert and Jean
Mouton. Including Mouton’s motet Nesciens mater and Gombert’s motet on the death of Josquin, Musae Iovis.
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Saturday 12 June 3pm

New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Chamber Music Hutt Valley)
Rachmaninov: Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G minor, Opus posth.; Shostakovich: Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op 67; Jonathan Crehan: Trio Fantasia for piano, violin and cello
Schumann - Trio No. 1 in D minor, Opus 63
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt
Thursday 17 June 8pm

Josef Špaček (winner of the 2009 Michael Hill International Violin Competition) and Michael Houstoun (piano) (Waikanae Music Society)
Bach’s Chaconne; Mozart: Violin Sonata (K305), Prokofiev: First Violin Sonata; Smetana’s From My Homeland
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 20 June 2.30pm

New Zealand String Quartet (WCMS)
Mozart: String Quartet in D, K575; Chinary Ung: Spiral III for String Quartet; Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44
Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 20 June 3pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev with Freddy Kempf (piano)
Dvořák: The Noon Witch; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1; Prokofiev: Symphony No 7
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 25 June 6.30pm

Martin Riseley (violin) and Diedre Irons (piano) (WCMS)
Schubert: Rondo in B; Stravinsky: Divertimento; John Corigliano: Sonata; Kreisler: Pieces
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 4 July 3pm

Josef Špaček (winner of the 2009 Michael Hill Violin Competition) and Michael Houstoun (CMNZ)
Sonata No 1 (Martinů), Violin Sonata (Janáček), Sonata for solo violin, Op 27 No 6 (Isaÿe), Sonata in C minor, Op 30 No 2 (Beethoven)
Wellington Town Hall
Monday 5 July 7.30pm
Waikanae Music Society: Recital by the winner of the 2010 Kerikeri National Piano Competition, held a week before this concert
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 11 July 2.30pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen with Li-Wei (cello)
Schoenberg: Transfigured Night; Schumann: Cello Concerto; Brahms: Piano Quartet (orch. Schoenberg)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 16 July 6.30pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pietari Inkinen with Li-Wei (cello)
Ross Harris: Three Pieces for Orchestra – Vienna (Mahler); Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1; Mahler: Symphony No 5
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 17 July 8pm

Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Michael Houstoun (piano)
Beethoven: Egmont Overture; Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54; Rossini: Overture – The Barber of Seville; Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 24 July 7.30pm

Aroha String Quartet (WCMS)
Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1: Schnittke: String Quartet No 1; Britten: String Quartet, Op 94 No 3
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 1 August 3pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates
Rodgers and Hammerstein songs with Simon Bowman and Jacqui Scott (“two West End soloists”)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 6 August 8pm

Amalia Hall (violin) and John Paul Muir (piano) (Chamber Music Hutt Valley)
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in D, Op 12 No 1; Ravel: Tzigane - rhapsodie de concert; Gershwin: Three preludes (arr. Heifetz); Fauré: Sonata for piano and violin in A, Op 13; Schubert: Duo Sonata in A major, D 574
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt 8pm
Tuesday 10 Aug 8pm

Cook Strait Trio (WCMS)
Turina: Piano Trio No 2; Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trio; Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 22 August 3pm

Michael Houstoun (piano)
Robert Schumann: Arabesque, Op.18 and Kreisleriana, Op.16; Frederic Chopin: Sonata in B flat minor (‘Funeral March’), Op.35, Two Nocturnes, Op.37, Four Etudes from Op.25 (Nos.1, 7, 5 and 12)
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 29 August 3pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley with Colin Currie (percussion)
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite; Higdon: Percussion Concerto; Cresswell: Landscapes of the Soul; Beethoven: Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 3 September 6.30pm

The Tudor Consort: guest conductor Matthew Leese
Heinrich Schütz: Musikalisches Exequien (1635); Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
St Mary of the Angels
Saturday 4 September 8pm

Piers Lane and the Doric String Quartet (CMNZ)
Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 ‘Lark’ (Haydn), Quartet No 2 (Bartok), Chopin: Nocturne in E flat, Op 55 No 2 and Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 (Brahms)
Wellington Town Hall
Friday 10 September 7.30pm

Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Feng Ning (violin)
Barber: Adagio for Strings; Stravinsky: Firebird Suite; Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 61
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 11 September 7.30pm

Hot Young Strings directed by Donald Armstrong (Chamber Music Hutt Valley)
Lyell Creswell: Pumpkin Massacre; William Walton: Two Pieces from film score Henry V; Richard Rodney Bennett: Reflections on a theme of William Walton; Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op 20; Bach: Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt
Thursday 14 September 8pm

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley with Colin Currie (percussion)
Britten: Peter Grimes – Four Sea Interludes; Macmillan: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel; Ravel: Pavane for a dead princess; Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 18 September 3pm

Elios Ensemble (WCMS)
Boccherini: Quintet in C for flute and strings; Max Reger: Serenade for flute, violin and viola in G, Op.141a; Turina: The Bullfighter’s Prayer; Mozart: Quartet for flute and strings in D, K 285; Copland: Two Threnodies; Ginastera: Impressiones de la Puna for flute and string quartet
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 19 September 3pm

NZSO Soloists: Vesa-Matti Leppänen (director)
Telemann: Burlesque de Don Quixotte; Sallinen: Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March (arr. for string orchestra); Grieg: Two Norwegian Melodies; Foote: A Night Piece; Sibelius: Impromptu; Mendelssohn: String Symphony No.10
Michael Fowler Centre
Thursday 30 September 7.30pm

Macbeth (Verdi) NBR New Zealand Opera.
Conductor: Guido Ajmone-Marsan; director Tim Albery with associate director Maxine Braham.
Jason Howard, Antonia Cifrone, Jud Arthur, Roman Shulackoff, Derek Hill, Morag Atchison, Matthew Landreth
Wellington Orchestra, Opera Chorus
St James Theatre
Saturday 9, 14, 16 October 7.30pm; Tuesday 12 October 6pm

The Song Company dir. Roland Peelman (CMNZ)
Music by Wilbye, Weelkes, Gesualdo and Monetverdi; Peter Warlock, Peter Sculthorpe and Jack Body
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 16 October 7.30pm

Schubertiade – New Zealand String Quartet and Michael Houstoun (piano) (CMNZ)
Schubert: Notturno in E flat, D 897, Quartet No 16 in G, D 887, Piano Quintet in A, D 667 (‘Trout’)
Wellington Town Hall
Thursday 28 October 7.30pm

Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Donald Nicholson (harpsichord) and Douglas Mews (organ)
Rameau: Overture from Le temple de la gloire; Wilhelm Friedmann Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D, F 41; Poulenc: Harpsichord Concerto – Concert champêtre; Saint-Saëns: Symphony No 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 13 November 7.30pm

Christmas Concert: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paul Goodwin with Aivale Cole (soprano)
Choirs and Choristers of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, The Choir of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand Youth Choir – Alumni Choir
Michael Fowler Centre
Thursday 9 December 7.30pm

The Tudor Consort
Bach: Christmas Oratorio. Soloists include soprano Anna Leese.
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 18 December 7.30pm