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

 

The metropolitan Opera 2011/12 Season, Live in High Definition kn cinemas 

Faust (Gounod)
Penthouse, Wellington
11, 12, 13, 15, 16 February
Lighthouse, Petone
9, 12, 13, 16 February
Downtown Cinemas, Paraparaumu
12, 15, 19 February
Shoreline Cinemas, Waikanae
12, 13, 15 February
Focal Point, Levin
13, 14 February
Circus Cinemas, Martinborough
12, 16 February

The Enchanted Island (Handel/Vivaldi/Rameau/etc)
Penthouse, Wellington
25, 26, 17, 29 February, 1 March
Lighthouse, Petone
23, 26, 27 February, 1 March
Downtown Cinemas, Paraparaumu
26, 29 February, 1 March
Shoreline Cinemas, Waikanae
26, 27, 29 February
Focal Point, Levin
27, 28 February
Circus Cinemas, Martinborough
26 February, 1 March

Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
Penthouse, Wellington
1, 11, 14 March
Lighthouse, Petone
8, 11, 12, 15 March
Downtown Cinemas, Paraparaumu
11, 14, 18 March
Shoreline Cinemas, Waikanae
11, 12, 14 March
Focal Point, Levin
12, 13 March
Circus Cinemas, Martinborough
11 March

Ernani (Verdi)
Penthouse, Wellington
31 March, 1, 2 4, 5 April
Lighthouse, Petone
29 March, 1, 2, 5 April
Downtown Cinemas, Paraparaumu
1, 4, 8 April
Shoreline Cinemas, Waikanae
1, 2, 4 April
Focal Point, Levin
2, 3 April
Circus Cinemas, Martinborough
1, 5 April

Manon (Massenet)
Penthouse, Wellington
28, 29 30 April, 2, 3 May
Lighthouse, Petone
26. 29 30 April, 3 May
Downtown Cinemas, Paraparaumu
29 April, 2, 6 May
Shoreline Cinemas, Waikanae
29, 30 April, 2 May
Focal Point, Levin
30 April, 1 May
Circus Cinemas, Martinborough
29 April, 3 May

La Traviata (Verdi)
Penthouse, Wellington
19, 20, 21, 23, 24 May
Lighthouse, Petone
17, 20, 21, 24 May
Downtown Cinemas, Paraparaumu
20, 23, 27 May
Shoreline Cinemas, Waikanae
20, 21, 23 May
Focal Point, Levin
21, 22 May
Circus Cinemas, Martinborough
20, 24 May

 

Concerts, recitals and live opera performances
2012

January

New Zealand Opera School at Whanganui
Public performances
Lunchtime concert
Performers:- The 2011/2012 Emerging Artists from New Zealand Opera
Sarjeant Gallery
Thursday 5 January, 12 noon

Ist Public Master class with Professor Paul Farrington
Wanganui Collegiate School – Prince Edward Auditorium
Friday 6 January, 7.30pm

In Praise of Music
Chapel Service at Wanganui Collegiate School Chapel
Sunday 8 January, 11.30am

2nd Public Master class with Professor Paul Farrington
Wanganui Collegiate School – Prince Edward Auditorium
Monday 9 January, 7.30pm

Evening Café performances
Various Venues in the Central City – book with and pay the restaurant
Wednesday 11 January, from 7pm

Final Concert performance: the Gala Evening
Royal Wanganui Opera House
Friday 13 January, 7.30pm

The Mulled Wine Concerts Fundraiser
Features Dutch jazz-blues pianist Robert Scharrenborg and country music star Roger Tibbs with his band
Paekakariki Memorial Hall, The Parade
Saturday 28 January, 7pm (Cash bar open 6.45pm)

February

NZSO – Chinese New Year  
Ross Harris: The Floating Bride (with Jenny Wollerman – soprano); Xian Xinghai The Yellow River Piano Concerto (John Chen – piano); Beethoven: Symphony No 6 ‘Pastoral’
NZSO conducted by Perry So
Michael Fowler Centre
Wednesday 1 February, 7.30pm 

Organ recitals at Cathedral of St Paul
Tim Noon (Director of Music at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland)
Cathedral of St Paul, Wellington
Friday 3 February, 12.45pm

Christchurch Earthquake Relief Tour 2012
Léonie Adams (cello) and Michael Higgins (piano)
(Supported by the British Council)
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 5 No 2; Bloch: ‘From Jewish Life’; Franck: Sonata in A minor; Oliva: Pavan
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Tuesday 7 February 7.30pm

Vector Wellington Orchestra; Summer Concert at Government House
A composers’ portrait of Europe
Marc Taddei – Conductor
Ian Fraser – Host, Julia Booth – Soprano, Helen Medlyn – Mezzo Soprano, Ben Makisi – Tenor, Footnote Dance
Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, Bizet’s L’Arlesienne, Chabrier’s Espagna, a Brahms Hungarian Dance and a Strauss Polka and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with cannons
Government House Grounds
Saturday 11 February (Rain day Sunday 12 February), 2.00pm (Gates open at midday)

Alcina by Handel
Opera in a Days Bay Garden
Producer: Rhona Fraser
Musical director: Michael Vinten
Director: Sara Brodie
(Sung in English, translation by Amanda Holden)
Cast:
Alcina – Bryony Williams (soprano)
Ruggiero – Stephen Diaz (counter tenor)
Bradamante – Bianca Andrew (mezzo soprano)
Morgana – Rhona Fraser (soprano)
Oberto – Olga Gryniewicz (soprano)
Oronte – Tom Atkins (tenor)
Melisso – Kieran Rayner (bass)
Accompanied by 14-piece Alcina Chamber orchestra
Canna House, Moana Road, Days Bay
Saturday 11, Sunday 12, Thursday 16 and Friday 17 February, starting with supper picnic at 5.30pm (bookme.daysbayopera.org.nz)

Michael Houstoun – piano
Waikanae Music Society
Jenny McLeod: Six Tone Clock pieces;  Bach: Goldberg Variations
Memorial Hall, Waikanae
Sunday 12 February, 2.30pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime concerts
Paul Rosoman – on both the baroque and pipe organs
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 15 February, 12.15pm

Chinese mezzo-soprano counter-tenor Xiao Ma with instrumental ensemble led by Gregory Squire (hear on www.smoa.org.nz)
Music by Vivaldi and Handel
St Mary of the Angels (support from Victoria University and the Confucius Institute)
Wednesday 15 February, 7:30pm  

NZSO National Youth Orchestra  
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture; Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1′ Gluck: Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide (Wagner’s arangement); Stravinsky’s suite from the ballet Pulcinella
Conductor – Tecwyn Evans with cellist Santiago Canon Valencia
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 17 February, 6.30pm

Orpheus Choir of Wellington
‘Orpheus Sings Mike Nock – an anthem for The Land of the Long White Cloud’
Fringe Festival event
Te Papa Marae
Saturday 18 February 1pm

Fauré’s Requiem
Cantoris Choir directed by Richard Apperley; Paul Rosoman – organ
(part of the commemoration of the Christchurch earthquake of Febrauary earthquake)
Museum of Wellington City and Sea, Jervois Quay
Sunday 19 February, 2pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Cantate – Wellington East Girls’ College Choir in music they will perform in Vienna later this year. Generous donations will help them travel
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 22 February 12/15pm

New Zealand International Arts Festival

Stravinsky – Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus, conducted by Joana Carneiro
Soloists: Stuart Skelton, Margaret Medlyn, Martin Snell, Daniel Sumegi
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 24 February, 8pm

Beethoven from the New Zealand String quartet
String Quartets Op 18, Nos 3, 2, 1
New Zealand International Arts Festival
St Mary of the Angels
Saturday 25 February, 6pm
String Quartets Op 18, Nos 4, 5, 6
St Mary of the Angels
Sunday 26 February, 7.30pm

I Musici – Serenate Italiana
Music by Rossini, Donizetti, Paganini, Bossi, Respighi, Rota, Bacalov
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Michael Fowler Centre
Tuesday 28 February, 7.30pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime concerts
New Zealand Youth Choir – Wellington region members
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 29 February, 12.15pm

March

The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers
With orchestra
Handel: ‘Let thy hand by strengthened’ (Coronation Anthem)
‘Silete venti’
‘Nisi Dominus’
‘Dixit Dominus’
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Wellington Town Hall
Thursday 1 March, 7.30pm

The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers
The Immortal Legacy
Music by Tallis, Gibbons, James MacMillan, Tippett, Morley, Byrd and Britten
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 3 March, 7.30pm

Jonathan Lemalu (baritone) and the New Zealand String Quartet
Ross Harris: Variation 25 for string quartet
Barber: String Quartet in B minor, Op 11
Gao Ping: Three Poems by Mu Xin
Barber: Dover Beach, Op 3
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 9, OP 117
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 4 March 6pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime concerts
Owen Moriarty (guitar) and Rupa Maitra (violin)
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 7 March, 12.15pm

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Organist Martin Setchell
Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 9 March, 12.45pm

Peter and the Wolf – Suzie Templeton’s short film accompanied live by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Plus Jenny McLeod’s The Emperor and the Nightingale
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 9 March, 6pm

Puertas Quartet: Tom Norris (violin), Ellie Fagg (violin), Julia Joyce (viola), Andrew Joyce (cello) – Waikanae Music Society
Haydn: String Quartet in C, Opus 20 No 2; Ravel: String Quartet in F; Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 11 March, 2.30pm

Hohepa by Jenny McLeod
Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei; director: Sara Brodie
Soloists: Phillip Rhodes, Jonathan Lemalu, Martin Snell, Jenny Wollerman, Nicky Spence, Deborah Wai Kapohe, Rawiri Paratene, Eddie Muliaumaseali’i
NBR New Zealand Opera
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Opera House
Thursday 15, Saturday 17 March, 7.30pm; Sunday 18 March, 5pm

The Galileo Project: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Canada)
Music by Handel, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Monteverdi, Merula
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Wellington Town Hall
Friday 16 March, 8pm

NZTrio (Justine Cormack – violin, Ashley Brown – cello, Sarah Watkins – piano) with Lenny Sakofsky and Jeremy Fitzsimons (percussion)
Music by Kenji Bunch, Jack Body, Morton Feldman, Psathas, Crumb, Victoria Kelly
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Ilott theatre, Town Hall
Saturday 17 March, 4pm

Mulled Wine Concerts
First concert by pianist Michael Endres (Head of piano studies at Canterbury University)
Mendelssohn, Schumann (Carnaval, etc.)
Memorial Hall, The Parade, Paekakariki
Sunday 18 March, 2.30pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Rhona Fraser (soprano), Hayden Sinclair (clarinet)  and Richard Mapp (piano)
Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 21 March 12.15pm

NZSO Soloists directed by Vesa-Matti Leppänen
Kenneth Young – new commission; Pärt: Fratres; Bizet (arr. Shchedrin): Carmen Suite
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 24 March, 8pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Woodwind Ensemble led by Ben Hoadley
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 28 March 12.15pm

The Tudor Consort – director: Michael Stewart
Schütz: St Matthew Passion
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Saturday 31 March, 7.30 pm

April

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Rupa Maitra (violin) and Kris Zuelcke (piano)
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Tuesday 3 April 12.15pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Classical voice students from the New Zealand School of Music
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 4 April 12.15pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Alison Holden – vocal recital
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 11 April 12.15pm

NZSO – L’Oiseau de feu (Firebird)
Lilburn: Symphony No 3; Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer; Stravinsky: The Firebird
NZSO – Pietari Inkinen (conductor) and Measha Brueggergosman (soprano)
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 14 April, 8pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Piano recital – Nicola Melville Assistnat Professor of Music at Carlton University, Minnesota
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 18 April 12.15pm

Akoka Quartet (Wellington Chamber Music )
Milhaud: Suite for violin, clarinet and piano, Op 157b; Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op 120; Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 22 April, 3pm

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Organist Andrew Cantrill (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Croydon Minster; formerly Director of Music at St Paul’s)
Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 20 April, 12.45pm

NZSO – L’Oiseau de feu (Firebird)
Britten: Peter Grimes – Four Sea Pictures; Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer; Sibelius: The Oceanides; Debussy: La mer
NZSO – Pietari Inkinen (conductor) and Measha Brueggergosman (soprano)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 20 April, 6.30pm

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis; Psathas’s Luminous
Vector Wellington Orchestra – conductor: Marc Taddei
Soloists: Emma Fraser – soprano, Bianca Andrew – mezzo soprano, Cameron Barclay – tenor, Kieran Rayner – baritone, The Orpheus Choir
Wellington Town Hall,
Sunday 29 April, 4pm

May

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Woodwind Trio: ‘Wild Reeds’
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 2 May 12.15pm

New Zealand String Quartet (Chamber Music New Zealand)
Beethoven: String Quartets Op 59 No 1 and 2
Wellington Town Hall
Thursday 3 May, 7.30pm

NZSO – “The Fallen’
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture; Elgar: Cello Concerto; Schumann: Symphony No 4  NZSO – Andrew Grams (conductor) and Lynn Harrell (cello)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 4 May, 6.30pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Viola Viva - programme details t.b.a.
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 9 May 12.15pm

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Organist Michael Fletcher – Director of Music, Cathedral of the Sacred heart, Wellington)
Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 11 May, 12.45pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Viola Mania: Donald Maurice and Charlotte Bigelow
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 16 May 12.15pm

NZSO conducted by David Zinman
Mozart: Symphony No 38 ‘Prague’; Strauss: Alpine Symphony
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 18 May, 6.30pm

The Tudor Consort – director: Michael Stewart
The ‘Earthquake’ Mass – Brumel: ‘Missa Et ecce terrae motus’
Wellington Cathedral of Saint Paul
Saturday 19 May, 7.30 pm

New Zealand Opera
Rigoletto by Verdi
Conductor – Wyn Davies; Lindy Hume – director
Cast: Warwick Fyfe, Emma Pearson, Rafael Rojas, Ashraf Sewilam, Rodney Macann, Kristen Darragh, James Clayton, Derek Hill, Matthew Landreth, Emma Fraser, Wendy Doyle, Moses MacKay
St James Theatre
Saturday 19 May, Thursday 24 and Saturday 16 May, 7.30pm ; Tuesday 22 May, 6pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Viola Mania: Donald Maurice and Charlotte Bigelow
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 16 May 12.15pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Woodwind students from the New Zealand School of Music
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 23 May 12.15pm

NZSO – Made in New Zealand
Chris Cree Brown: Celestial Bodies: Lyell Cresswell: Concerto for String Quartet; Gillian Whitehead: Alice
Hamish McKeich (conductor), New Zealand String Quartet, Helen Medlyn (mezzo soprano)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 25 May, 6.30pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Guitar students from the New Zealand School of Music
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 30 May 12.15pm

June

NZSO conducted by Rossen Milanov
In association with the 2012 Organ Congress Wellington, of which it is the opening event
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Poulenc: Organ Concerto (Olivier Latry – organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris); Rimsky-Korsakov: Shéhérazade
Wellington Town Hall
Friday 1 June, 6.30pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Nikau Trio - Karen Batten (flute), Madeline Sakofsky (oboe), Jane Young (cello)
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 6 June 12.15pm

Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir and the Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Karen Grylls
Mozart’s Requiem by candlelight
St Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington
Wednesday 6 June, 7.30pm

Stephen de Pledge (piano) , Martin Rummell (cello)
(Wellington Chamber Music )
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C major, Op 102 No 1; Schnittke: Cello Sonata No 1; Stravinsky: Suite italienne; Shostakovich, Op 40
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 10 June, 3pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Vocal Quartet – Lesley Graham, Linden Loader, Richard Greager and Roger Wilson accompanied by Mark Dorrell
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 13 June 12.15pm

Sergey Malov & Michael Houstoun (Chamber Music New Zealand)
John Psathas: Gyftiko; Beethoven: Piano Trio No 5 in D, Opus 70 No 1 ‘Ghost’; Ysaÿe: Sonata No 4 for Solo Violin; Franck: Violin Sonata in A
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Wednesday 13 June, 7.30pm

‘Baby Pops’
Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Kevin Keys – presenter
For listeners aged 2 – 6
Michael Fowler Centre
Sunday 17 June, 3pm  (Masterton at Wairarapa College, Thursday 14 June, 10.15am and Palmerston North at Regent on Broadway,
Friday 15 June at 10.15am)

The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – Benjamin Britten
Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Kevin Keys – presenter
Together with music by Gabrieli, Dvořák and Mozart ,
Michael Fowler Centre
Monday 18 June, 10.30am and 1pm  
(Masterton at Wairarapa College, Thursday 14 June, 1.15pm and Palmerston North at Regent on Broadway, Friday 15 June at 1.15pm)

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
String students from the New Zealand School of Music
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 20 June 12.15pm

Sergey Malov (violin), Michael Houstoun (piano)
(Chamber Music Hutt Valley)
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in D minor, D 821 (arranged for viola and piano); Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin; Schumann: Sonata No 1 in A minor, Opus 105; Paganini: La Campanella
Little Theatre,     Lower Hutt
Friday 22 June, 7.30pm  

Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Claire Edwards – percussion
Debussy: Marche ecossaise sur un thème populaire; MacMillan: ‘Veni, veni, Emmanuel’; Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, ‘Scottish’
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 23 June, 7.30pm   

Kugeltiv Klezmer quartet and Philip Green (clarinet) (Wellington Chamber Music)
Programme of traditional klezmer music with original pieces by composer/accordionist Ross Harris
(Wellington Chamber Music)
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 24 June, 3pm

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Brio – vocal quartet: Janey MacKenzie (soprano), Jody Orgias (mezzo), John Beaglehole (tenor), Justin Pearce (baritone)
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 27 June 12.15pm

July

Wellington Chamber Orchestra: Peter van Drimmelin – conductor
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Dierdre Irons, Vesa-Matti Leppänen and Andrew Joyce; premiere of newly commissioned piece by Kenneth Young; Hindermith’s Trauermusik (viola – Julia Joyce.
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Sunday 1 July, 2.30pm

Sergey Malov (violin), Michael Houstoun (piano)
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in D minor, D 821 (arranged for viola and piano); Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin; Schumann: Sonata No 1 in A minor, Opus 105; Paganini: La Campanella
(Waikanae Music Society)
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 1 July, 2.30pm  

St Andrew’s Lunchtime Concerts
Donald Maurice (viola) and Richard Mapp (piano)
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Wednesday 4 July 12.15pm

Takacs Quartet – Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Geraldine Walther (viola), András Fejér (cello)
(Chamber music New Zealand)
Bartók: String Quartet No 3; Janáček: String Quartet No 2 ‘Intimate Letters’; Ravel: String Quartet in F
Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 7 July, 7.30pm

Saxcess – Debbie Rawson (soprano sax), Reuben Chin (alto sax), Hayden Sinclair (tenor sax), Graham Hanify (baritone sax)
Expressions, Genesis Energy Theatre, Upper Hutt
Monday 16 July, 8pm

NZSO –  Die Walküre (Wagner)
Conductor: Pietari Inkinen
Soloists: Simopn O’Neill, Edith Haller, Christine Goerke, John Wegner, Jonathan Lemalu, Margaret Medlyn
Amanda Atlas, Anna Pierard, Satah Castle, Kate Spence, Kristen Darragh, Lisa Harper-Brown, Marag Atchison, Wendy Doyle
Michael Fowler Centre
Sunday 22 July, 3pm

Xiang Zou and Jian Liu (pianos)
Ligeti: complete Études; Debussy: complete Études
(Wellington Chamber Music)
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 29 July, 3pm

August

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Organist Richard Apperley, Assistant Director of Music, Cathedral of St Paul
Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 9 March, 12.45pm

Amici Ensemble with Diedre Irons (piano)
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G minor K 478; Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit; Brahms: Quintet for piano and strings in F minor, Op 34
(Wellington Chamber Music)
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Sunday 12 August, 3pm

NZSO – ‘Cathedral of Sound’  
Mozart: Symphony No 36 ‘Linz’; Bruckner: Symphony No 5
NZSO – Simone Young (conductor)
Michael Fowler Centre
Friday 17 August, 6.30pm

Madeleine Pierard (soprano), Terence Dennis (piano), Anna Pierard (mezzo soprano)
Canteloube: Selections from Les Chants d’Auvergne (Songs from the Auvergne); Messiaen: Trois mélodies; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder; Mozart: ‘Non mi dir’ from Don Giovanni; Bellini: Tre Ariette; Rossini: La regata veneziana
Wellington Town Hall
Monday 20 August, 7.30pm

Leonari Trio – Hilary Hayes (violin), Edward King (cello), Maria Mo (piano)
‘Elegies from Russia’: Beethoven: Piano Trio No 5 in D, Opus 70 No 1 ‘Ghost’; Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No 1 in G minor; Arensky: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Opus 32 ‘Elegy’
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt
Tuesday 28 August, 7.30pm  

September

The Toy Box: Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with the NZ Trio and Jackie Clarke – actor
Haydn: Symphony No 60, ‘Il distratto’; Chris Gendall: Triple Concerto (premiere); Debussy: The Toy Box (le boîte à joujoux)
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 1 September, 7.30pm (Masterton Town Hall on Friday 31 August, 7.30pm)    

Pepe Becker (soprano) & Helen Webby (harp)
Love’s Nature:  Songs by Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut, Purcell, Handel (‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ from Rinaldo), Spohr, Schumann, Ravel,
Fauré, Philip Cannon, Gareth Farr, Helen Bowater, Irish folk songs
St Mark’s Church, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 5 September, 7.30pm  

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Wellington-based organ pupils
Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 7 September, 12.45pm

The Tudor Consort – director: Michael Stewart
‘Missa Mexicana’
Padilla: Missa Ego flos campi
Church of St Mary of the Angels
Saturday 15 September, 7.30 pm

NZSO conducted by Andrew Litton
Anthony Ritchie:P Diary of a Madman: Dedication to Shostakovich; Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No 5 ‘Egyptian’; Shostakovich: Symphony No 5
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 22 September, 8pm

Zephry Wind Quintet  
Bridget Douglas (flute), Ed Allen (horn), Robert Weeks (bassoon),
Robert Orr (oboe), Philip Green (clarinet)
Elliott Carter: Woodwind Quintet
; Gareth Farr: CMNZ commission; Nielsen: Quintet; Milhaud: La Cheminée du roi René (King René’s Fireplace); Ross Edwards: Three Incantations for Wind Quintet; Ligeti: Six Bagatelles
Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 23 September, 5pm  

Poneke Trio – Richard Mapp (piano), Paul Mitchell (cello), Anna van der Zee (violin)
Dvořák: Piano Trio in E minor ‘Dumky’; Kodály: Duo for violin and cello, Op 7; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 67
(Wellington Chamber Music)
Ilott Theatre, Wellington Town Hall
Sunday 30 September, 3pm

October

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Organist George Chittenden, Director of Music, St Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin
Cathedral of St Paul, Wellington 
Friday 9 October, 12.45pm

Poneke Trio – Richard Mapp (piano), Paul Mitchell (cello), Anna van der Zee (violin)
Dvořák: Trio No 4 in E minor ‘Dumky’; Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Opus 7; Brahms: Piano Trio No 2 in C, Opus 87
Expressions, Genesis Energy Theatre, Upper Hutt
Monday 8 October, 8pm

NZSO conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Kenneth Young: Dance; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Bernstein: West soide Story – Symphonic Dances; Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
NZSO with Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 13 October, 8pm

New Zealand Opera
The Bartered Bride by Smetana
Oliver von Dohnányi – conductor; Daniel Slater – director; Tim Claydon – associate director and choreographer
Cast: Anna Leese, Peter Wedd, Conal Coad, Andrew Glover, Taryn Fiebig, Richard Alexander, Patricia Wright, Richard Green, Helen Medlyn
St James Theatre
Saturday 13 October, Thursday 18 and Saturday 20 October, 7.30pm; Tuesday 16 October, 6pm    

Enso String Quartet with Michael Endres
Maureen Nelson (violin), John Marcus (violin), Melissa Reardon (viola), Richard Belcher (cello), Michael Endres (piano)
Ginastera: String Quartet No 2, Opus 26; Boccherini: String Quartet in G minor, Opus 32 No 5; Gillian Whitehead: CMNZ Commission for Enso; Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A, Opus 81
Wellington Town Hall
Thursday 25 October, 7.30pm

November

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Gedymin Grubba, Polish organist
Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 9 March, 12.45pm

NZSO conducted by Pietari Inkinen  
Bach: Concerto for two violins in D minor; Mahler Symphony No 7
Michael Fowler Centre
Saturday 10 November, 8pm

Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Michael Houstoun
Haydn: Symphony No 44, ‘Trauer’; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18; Schmidt: Symphony No 4
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 17 November, 7.30pm

The Tudor Consort – director: Michael Stewart
Renaissance Influences V: Springtime
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Saturday 24 November, 7.30 pm

December

St Paul’s lunchtime organ recital
Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur
Organist Michael Stewart, Organist and Director of Music, Cathedral of St Paul
Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 9 March, 12.45pm

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