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 New Zealand Opera Society’s season of opera films for 2010 screens at the Paramount Cinema.

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

Ondine (Hans Werner Henze) – choreo. Ashton – The Royal Ballet Pet 2 & 5 September; Paua 2 September

Love’s Labours Lost (Shakespeare) – dir. Dominic Dromgoole – Globe Theatre Pet 19 September; Paua 26 September

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)

Rusalka (Dvorák) – 16 August – ENO

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

Macbeth (Verdi) – 18 October – Glyndebourne

The Mikado (Sullivan) – 22 November – Australian Opera

CONCERTS AND RECITALS

NZSM Presents The Red Violin

New Zealand School of Music Orchestra conducted by Hamish McKeich Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde; Tchaikovksy: Francesca da Rimini; Debussy: Nocturnes - II (Fêtes) and III (Sirènes); Corigliano: The Red Violin with Martin Riseley (violin); premiere of Pieta Hextal’s Our Own Demise

Wellington Town Hall

Friday 30 July 7.30pm

Chamber Music Contest 2010 - National Final (New Zealand Community Trust) - formerly Schools’ Chamber Music Contest

Wellington Town Hall

Saturday 31 July, 7pm

ECO and The SMP Ensemble: ‘Echoes - a concert for the environment’

Adam Concert Room, VUW Kelburn Campus, Gate 7, Kelburn Parade

Saturday 31 July, 7pm

Aroha String Quartet (Wellington Chamber Music ) 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

Ludwig Treviranus (piano)

Music by Chopin, Haydn and Ravel

Expressions Arts Centre, Upper Hutt

Sunday 1 August, 4pm

Old Saint Paul’s

NZ School of Music – woodwinds

Tuesday 3 August 12.15pm

Amici Ensemble

Music by Ibert, Francaix, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky’s Three Piece for String Quartet

Expressions Arts Centre, Upper Hutt

Tuesday 3 August, 8pm

St Andrew’s on The Terrace

Martin Jaenecke (violin) and Cheryl Grice-Watterson (guitar)

Music by De Gant, Debussy, Ravel, Piazzola, Chopin, Villa-Lobos and Dyens

Wednesday 4 August, 12.15pm

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

Cantoris conducted by Rachel Hyde

Duruflé: Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens; Fauré: Messe Basse; Pärt: Triodion; Fauré: Requiem

St Andrew’s on The Terrace

Saturday 7 August, 7.30pm

Mulled Wine at Paekakariki: Michael Houstoun

Piano recital: 200th anniversary - Chopin - Sonata in B flat minor, Op 35 and selections from Etudes, Op 25 and Nocturnes, Op 37; and Schumann - Arabesque, Op 18 and Kreisleriana, Op 16

Memorial Hall, The Parade, Paekakariki

Sunday 8 August 2.30pm

Douglas Mews organ recital: ‘Ave Maris Stella’
St Mary of the Angels
Sunday 8 August, 2.30pm

Old Saint Paul’s

Richard Apperley – organ

Tuesday 10 August 12.15pm

Amalia Hall (violin) and John Paul Muir (piano) - Chamber Music Hutt Valley

Mozart: Violin Sonata in E minor, K304; Faure: Violin Sonata in A; Brahms: Violin Sonata No 1, Op 78; Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor

Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

Tuesday 10 August, 8pm

St Andrew’s on The Terrace
NZSM Woodwind Players: nine soloists from the NZSM: flute, clarinet and saxophone, with Emma Sayers (piano)
Music from the classical to the contemporary
Wednesday 11 August, 12.15pm

Stroma Concert 2 — 10th Birthday concert

Xenakis: Thalleïn; premieres of works by Alexandra Hay and Peter Scholes, and the New Zealand premieres of Jeroen Speak’s Silk Dialogues (VI) and Thomas Adès’s Living Toys

Ilott Concert Chamber

Thursday 12 August, 7.30pm

Musica Sacra sing Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers

The 400th anniversary of its publication. Director Robert Oliver

Baroque Voices (director: Pepe Becker) and Academia Sanctae Mariae (directed by Gregory Squire); St Mary of the Angels choir will sing the plainsong antiphons

The ten solo voices of Baroque Voices will sing the psalms and the concertos, accompanied by Academia Sanctae Mariae playing cornets and sackbuts, violins, theorbos, recorders, organs and harpsichord. Guest musicians from Auckland, Christchurch and one from Melbourne.

St Mary of the Angels, Boulcott Street. Tickets at door or website http://www.vespers400.org.nz

Saturday 14 August and Sunday 15 August, 7pm

Festival Singers and Wainuiomata Choir and members of the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

Salieri: Mass in D, Overture - La tempesta di mare, Overture - Armida, Coronation Te Deum

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

Sunday 15 August, 2.30pm

Old Saint Paul’s

Cheryl Hollinger – trumpet

Tuesday 17 August 12.15pm

NZSM Split Orchestra Concert: Strings and Wind, Brass & Percussion conducted by Martin Riseley and Ken Young

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings; Mozart: Divertimento in D major; a new work by student composer Karlo Margetic; First Suite for Band by Alfred Reed; arrangement of ‘My Heart is Filled with Longing’ (Bach)
St. Andrew’s on The Terrace
Tuesday 17 August, 7.30pm

St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Young Musicians’ Programme of the New Zealand School of Music
Wednesday 18 August, 12.15pm

Matthew Marshall (guitar)
Recital for the organ restoration
St Peter’s church, Willis Street
Wednesday 18 August, 7.30pm

New Zealand String Quartet
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 5; Schumann String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3; Shostakovich: String Quartet No 9
Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University
Thursday 19 August, 7.30pm

Fridays at 5 Concert Series
Sonic Arts – Hahn and Bahn, blending Indian classical music, electronics and robotics
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Friday 20 August 5pm

Old Saint Paul’s

Trio Boyarsky (Ben Baker, Konstantin Boyarsky, Amelia Jakobsson-Boyarsky)
Concert includes a selection of the following:
Beethoven: String Trio in G Major, Op.9 No.1; Schubert: String Trio in B‐flat major; Dohnanyi: Serenade, Op.10; K. Boyarsky: Mosaique Musicale; Mozart: Divertimento for String Trio, K.563; Schnittke: String Trio; K. Boyarsky: NZ Tour New Trio-World Première
Friday 20 August, 5.30pm

Sarah Lilli Fund Family Concert

Ben Makisi and Aivale Cole (songs and opera arias), Donald Armstrong from the NZSO with String Quintet (Vivaldi, Dvorak, Gluck Pachelbel, etc), Manurangi Mua from Nga Mokupuna Choir, Gabe Armstrong-Scott, Sitaare Indian Dancers, Circus Acts, PUMP Dance Studio, BonaNZa Trombone Quartet (William Tell Overture and I Got Rhythm), Moana Leota, Kildunne School of Irish Dancing and the Sweet Margaritas Barber Shop Choir

Queen Margaret College Hall, Thorndon,

Saturday 21 August, 4pm

Farewell Concert: Mark Davey – trombone
Before study at North Western University, Illinois
Music by Puccini, Marcello, Bach, Haydn, Bruckner, Brahms, etc, with Rachel Thompson (piano), Douglas Mews (organ) and BonaNZa – the New Zealand Trombone Quartet
St Mary of the Angels
Saturday 21 August, 7.30pm

Cook Strait Trio (Wellington Chamber Music)

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

Orpheus Choir

Bach: Mass in B Minor

Madeleine Pierard (soprano), Lisette Wesseling (soprano), Christopher Warwick (counter tenor), Paul McMahon (tenor), Daniel O’Connor (bass), Vector Wellington Orchestra

Wellington Town Hall

Sunday 22 August, 6.30pm

Wellington Regional Aria Contest
(Hutt Valley Performing Arts Competitions society)
The Finals - Malvina Major Foundation Aria
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Sunday 22 August, 7.30pm

Old Saint Paul’s

NZ School of Music – graduate pianists

Tuesday 24 August 12.15pm

NZSO National Youth Orchestra conducted by Rossen Milanov
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind; Adams: The Chairman Dances; Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Michael Fowler Centre
Thursday 26 August, 7.30pm

Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
Wellington G & S Light Opera. Musical director: Hugh McMillan; stage director: Dr David Skinner
Helen Lear, Derek Miller, Lesley Graham, Chris Berentson (43 singers and 31-piece orchestra)
Southward Theatre, Paraparaumu
Saturday 28 August, 2pm (Rosalinda - Helen Lear), 7.30pm (Rosalinda - Lesley Graham)
Tour continues to Palmerston North (11 September) and Wanganui (18 September)

New Zealand String Quartet
Quartets by Candlelight
Shostakovich: String Quartet No 5; Schumann String Quartet in A, Op 41 No 3; Shostakovich: String Quartet No 9
St Mary of the Angels Church
Saturday 28 August, 6pm

Bach Choir: Two Masses
Requiem Mass in C minor (The 1816 requiem for male and female voices - Cherubini) and Mass for Double Choir (Frank Martin)
St Mark’s Church, Basin Reserve
Sunday 29 August, 2pm

 

Treasure: 400 years of English music: Byrd, Dowland, Purcell, Coleridge-TAylor, German, Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Parry, Britten, Tavener and Treasure by Paul Ayres
Hutt Valley Singers, conducted by Joanne Roberts
Upper Hutt Baptist, Church, 1 Milton Street, Upper Hutt
Sunday 29 August, 2pm

 

Piers Lane - piano, for Waikanae Music Society
Dances by Schubert; Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op 119; Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op 110; a selection of Chopin pieces
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 29 August, 2.30pm

Michael Houstoun (piano) (Wellington Chamber Music)

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

Music Lyrica in concert

St Paul’s Lutheran Church, King Street, Mount Cook

Sunday 29 August, 5pm

Moky Gibson-Lane (cello) - Wellington cellist now playing with the Berlin Staatskapelle, under Barenboim
Music by Bach, Boccherini, Ligeti, Bruch, Popper
Central Baptist Church, Boulcott Street
Sunday 29 August, 7pm - entry by donation

Old Saint Paul’s

Ken Mackenzie – organ

Tuesday 31 August 12.15pm

New Zealand String Quartet
Schumann: String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1; Shostakovich: String Quartet No 13; Shostakovich: String Quartet No 7; Schumann: String Quartet in F, Op 41 No 2
Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University
Tuesday 31 August, 7.30pm

Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
Richard Mapp and Paul Mitchell - piano and cello
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 1 September, 12.15pm

National Organ Month – see entries for each day throughout September, in a large number of venues

Organist Carlo Curley is in the country. Though arrangements have not been possible for him to play in Wellington, here is the national schedule of his concerts. We have not been given times for some concerts:

Friday 3 September: The Cathedral of the Blessed Mary, Hamilton
Saturday 4 September, 7pm: Auckland Town Hall
Sunday 5 September, 2.30pm: Stanmore Bay Presbyterian Church
Monday 6 September, 7.30pm: St James’ Union Church, Thames,
Tuesday 7, 7.30pm: St. John’s Anglican church, Te Awamutu
Wednesday 8, 7.30pm:  Whakatane Little Theatre
Friday 10, 7pm:  St Matthew’s Church, Masterton
Sunday 12, 2.30pm: All Saints Anglican Church, Palmerston North,
Wednesday 15, St Matthew’s Anglican Church, Hasting
Friday 17: The Nelson School of Music
Sunday 19, 7.30pm: Christchurch Town Hall
Wednesday 22, 7.30pm: St Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin

Organ Concert – Thomas Gaynor

Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington

Thursday 2 September, 12.45 pm

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
Emma Goodbehere (cello), Richard Hardie (bass), Douglas Mews (organ), and Donald Nicolson (harpsichord)
St Mary of the Angels
Saturday 4 September 8pm

National Organ Month

Music by J. C. Pepusch

Gudrun Turner – recorder & Mark Whitfield - organ

St Paul’s Lutheran Church, King Street, Mt Cook Wellington

Sunday 5 September, 2pm

National Organ Month

Organ Concert ­- Richard Apperley

St Mary of the Angels, Boulcott Street, Wellington

Monday 6 September, 1pm

Old Saint Paul’s
Amici Duo – guitar and violin
Tuesday 7 September 12.15pm

National Organ Month

Organ Concert – Dianne Halliday

Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Hill Street, Thorndon, Wellington

Tuesday 7 September, 12.45pm

Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
Elios Ensemble: Karen batten (flute), Martin Jaenecke and  Konstanze Artmann (violins), Victoria Jaenecke (Viola), Paul Mitchell (cello)
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 8 September, 12.15pm

National Organ Month
Organ Concert – Paul Rosoman
Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington
Thursday 9 September, 12.45pm

NZSM Concert
Clare Galambos Violin Concert: Jonathan Tanner and Vivian Stevens
Adam Concert Room, Kelburn Campus
Friday 10 September, 12.10pm
 
National Organ Month
Organ Concert – Michael Stewart
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Hill Street
Friday 10 September, 12.45pm

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)
The Year 1910: Barber: Adagio for Strings; Stravinsky: Firebird Suite; Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 61
Masterton Town Hall,
Friday 10 September, 7.30pm
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 11 September 7.30pm
 
Waikanae Music Society
Elios Ensemble: Martin and Victoria Jaenecke (violin and viola), Paul Mitchell (cello), Karen Batten (flute)
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
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 12 September, 2.30pm

National Organ Month
Organ Concert – Douglas Mews
St Paul’s Lutheran Church, King Street, Mt Cook, Wellington
Sunday 12 September, 4pm 

Musica Lyrica & St Paul’s Lutheran Church: Bach Cantata Vespers and Recitals 2010
Bach Cantata Vespers – ‘Komm, du süße Todesstunde’, BWV 161
St Paul’s Lutheran Church, 12 King Street, Mount Cook
Sunday 12 September, 5pm
 
Old Saint Paul’s
Carolyn Mills – harp
Tuesday 14 September 12.15pm
 
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
Tuesday 14 September 8pm
 
Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
Talented piano students of Judith Clark
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 15 September, 12.15pm
 
National Organ Month
Organ Concert
Dianne Halliday
Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington
Thursday 16 September, 12.45pm
 
NZSM Violin Masterclass with Shmuel Ashkenasi
Adam concert Room, Kelburn Campus
Thursday 16 September, 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Fridays at 5 Concert Series
Jazz 502: NZSM Jazz, featuring pieces by Phil Broadhurst and Norman Meehan, played by staff and senior students
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Friday 17 September 5pm
 
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
 
Wellington Community Choir: 5th Birthday Gala Concert directed by Julian Raphael; with Nota Bene vocal ensemble
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 18 September, 7.30pm
 
Wellington Chamber Orchestra conducted by Michael Joel
Haydn: Symphony No. 78 in C minor; Mozart: Piano Concerto in C minor (soloist: Diedre Irons); Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’
St Andrews on the Terrace
Sunday 19 September, 2.30pm

Elios Ensemble (Wellington Chamber Music )
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
 
Old Saint Paul’s
Olya Curtis – violin
Tuesday 21 September 12.15pm
 
Michael Houstoun (piano)
Robert Schumann: Arabesque, Op.18 and Kreisleriana, Op.16; Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Sonata No 2; Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin  
Expressions Arts Centre, Upper Hutt
Tuesday 21 September, 8pm

Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
Viva musicians play violin and piano sonatas - Valerie Rigg (ex-NZSO violinist) & Tessa Olivier (piano)
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 22 September, 12.15pm

Cathedral of St Paul Organ series
Wellington Organ Pupils - a recital given by Wellington based organ students
Friday 24 September, 12.45pm
 
William Green (piano)
Caprice Arts Trust
Music by Bach/Busoni, Frank Hutchens, Barber, William Green, Jenny McLeod, Jack Body, Philip Dadson, Michael Norris, Wagner
St Andrew’s on the Terrace
Friday 24 September 6.30pm
 
Old Saint Paul’s
NZ School of Music – woodwind players
Tuesday 28 September 12.15pm
 
Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
NZSM vocal students of Jenny Wollerman
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 29 September, 12.15pm
 
National Organ Month
Organ Concert – Michael Fulcher
Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington
Thursday 30 September, 12.45pm

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
 
October

BonaNZa Trombone Quartet
From Gabrieli to Dave Dobbin (concert devised for the Adam Chamber Music Festival, Nelson, February 2010)
Classical Expressions 2010, Upper Hutt
Tuesday 5 October, 8pm

Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
Christy Hunter (flute), Nick Hunter (piano)
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 6 October, 12.15pm
 
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
 
Waikanae Music Ssociety
V8 Vocal Ensemble - octet
Waikanae Memorial Hall
Sunday 10 October, 2.30pm
 
Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
Concert led by violinist Slava Fainitski - details tba
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 13 October, 12.15pm
 
Cathedral of St Paul Organ series
Philip Smith, Cathedral Organist, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland
Friday 15 October, 12.45pm
 
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
 
Lunchtime concerts at Lower Hutt
Concert by Olya Curtis (Violin) - details tba
St Mark’s Church, 58 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Wednesday 20 October, 12.15pm
 
Fridays at 5 Concert Series
Masterpieces of the Baroque: Keyboard Concerto in E, ‘Erbarme dich’ and Violin concerto in D (Bach); Guitar Concerto (Vivaldi); Handel arias
Performers: Emma Sayers, Matthew Marshall, Richard Greager, Margaret Medlyn, Martin Riseley and NZSM Chamber Orchestra conducted by Donald Maurice
Ilott Theatre, Town Hall
Friday 22 October 5pm
 
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

Wagner Society of New Zealand – Wellington
Chris Broderick on the audience at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876
St Andrew’s on The Terrace
Sunday 31 October, 4pm
 
Musica Lyrica & St Paul’s Lutheran Church: Bach Cantata Vespers and Recitals 2010
Twice the Music; Half the Time. Paul Rosoman & Mark Whitfield: organ(s)
St Paul’s Lutheran Church, 12 King Street, Mount Cook
Sunday 31 October, 5pm

November
 
Vector Wellington Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Donald Nicholson (harpsichord) and Douglas Mews (organ)
The Year 1710: 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
 
Cathedral of St Paul Organ series
Jennifer Chou, Director of Music, St John’s Camberwell, Melbourne
Friday 19 November, 12.45pm
 
Musica Lyrica & St Pauls Lutheran Church: Bach Cantata Vespers and Recitals 2010
Bach Cantata Vespers – ‘Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende’, BWV 90
St Paul’s Lutheran Church, 12 King Street, Mount Cook
Sunday 21 November, 5pm

December

Orpheus Choir and Vector Wellington Orchestra
Handel: Messiah
Madeleine Pierard (soprano), Helen Medlyn (mezzo), Keith Lewis (tenor), Martin Snell (bass)
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 4 December, 6pm
 
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
 
Cathedral of St Paul Organ series
Richard Apperley, Assistant Organist, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Friday 10 December, 12.45pm

Musica Lyrica & St Paul’s Lutheran Church: Bach Cantata Vespers and Recitals 2010
Musica Lyrica in Concert
St Paul’s Lutheran Church, 12 King Street, Mount Cook
Sunday 12 December, 5pm
 
The Tudor Consort
Bach: Christmas Oratorio. Soloists include soprano Anna Leese.
Wellington Town Hall
Saturday 18 December 7.30pm
 
2011

25th New Zealand Singing School 2011
Artistic director: Judy Bellingham; deputy director: Robert Wiremu
Faculty members include Terence Dennis, David Harper, Irene Bartlett, Karen Grylls, Conal Coad, Flora Edwards, Lesley Graham, Jenny Wollerman and others
Eastern Institute of Technology, Napier
Wednesday 5 – Saturday 15 January 2011
Enrolment deadline 15 August

Adam Chamber Music Festival, 2011. Nelson (and Blenheim and Motueka)
30 concerts and masterclasses
Artists in approximate order of appearance:
New Zealand String Quartet
Hermitage String Trio
James Campbell - clarinet
Hiroshi Ikematsu - double bass
NZSO Soloists
Tasman Brass Ensemble
Zephyr Wind Quintet
Richard Nunns - ngȁ taonga puoro
Justine Cormack - violin
Rebecca Struthers - violin
Victoria Jaenecke - viola
Euan Murdoch - cello
Richard Mapp - piano
Helene Pohl - violin
Keith Lewis - tenor
Douglas Mews - keyboards
Douglas Beilman - violin
Denis Goldfeld - violin
Leonid Gorokhov - cello
Michael Houstoun - piano
Kugeltov Klezmer Band
Rolf Gjelsten - cello
Gillian Ansell - viola
Martin Riseley - violin
Bob Bickerton
Robert Weeks - bassoon
Edward Allen - horn
Highlights: Strauss’s Metamorphosen; Mozart’s Gran Partita (’13 wind instruments’); Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 8; Liszt Bicentenary celebration; Schubert’s Winterreise; Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time; Mozart’s Divertimento for string trio; Paganini Caprices; Schubert’s Octet; Weber’s Clarinet Quintet   
Woollaston Estates Cellar; Nelson Cathedral, Nelson School of Music, St John’s Church; Blenheim and Motueka
Thursday 3 February to Saturday 12 February 2011
 
 
Mulled Wine Concerts 2011
New Zealand Trio
Paekakariki Memorial Hall
Sunday 27 March, 2.30pm 
 
Mulled Wine Concerts 2011
Baroque Trio (harpsichord, oboe, cello)
Paekakariki Memorial Hall
Sunday 22 May, 2.30pm
 
Mulled Wine Concerts 2011
The Hutt City Brass Band
Paekakariki Memorial Hall
Sunday 12 June, 2.30pm
 
Mulled Wine Concerts 2011
Michael Houstoun (piano)
Paekakariki Memorial Hall
Sunday 17 July, 2.30pm
 
Mulled Wine Concerts 2011
To be announced
Paekakariki Memorial Hall
Sunday 7 August, 2.30pm