Middle C schedule May/June 2026
Wednesday 6th May
New Zealand String Quartet
STORYTELLERS (including BRITTEN – String Quartet No. 1
and MIKA CORNELIUS – Universal Veil (NZSO Commssion)
6:30 pm Prefab Hall, Lambton Quay, Wellington
Sunday 10th May
Trio Obscura (Bede Hanley, oboe; Robert Ashworth, viola; Sarah Watkins, piano)
AUGUST KLUGHARDT (Schilflieder “Song of the Reeds” – Five Fantasy Pieces)
CHARLES MARTIN LOEFFLER – Two Rhapsodies for oboe trio
JANET JENNINGS – Five Emotional States (new commission)
ALYSSA MORRIS – The Big Questions
3:00pm St.Andrews-on-The-Terrace
Wednesday 13th May
Saxcess
Music by ROSS HARRIS, GARETH FARR, ANTON WUTS, GAO PING and more…
12:15pm St.Andrews-on-The-Terrace
Wednesday 20th May
Piano Extravaganza
Piano students from the NZSM – works for CLASSICAL PIANO
12:15pm St.Andrews-on-The-Terrace
Friday 22nd May
James Ehnes (violin), Gemma New, conductor, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra THOMAS ADNES – The Origin of the Harp (NZ premiere)
KORNGOLD – Violin Concerto
MAHLER – Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
6:30pm, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
Saturday 23rd May
NZ Trio – “Dreamscape” (Amalia Hall, violin): Matthias Balzat, ‘cello: Jian Liu, piano)
ROXANA PANUFNIK – Around Three Corners / SCHUMANN – Piano Trio No. 1
CLAIRE COWAN (NZ) – wood:strings:hammers:flesh / CHARLES IVES – Piano Trio
7:00pm, Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Wellington
Sunday 24th May
Trio Korimako – Helene Pohl, violin: Rolf Gjelsten, ‘cello: Michael Endres, piano)
HAYDN – Piano Trio No.44 in E Major Hob, XV:28
REBECCA CLARKE – Duo for Violin and ‘Cello (Lullaby and Grotesque)
AARON COPLAND – Vitebsk, for Piano Trio
3:00pm St. Andrews-on-The-Terrace
Saturday 30th May
Orchestra Wellington, Tudor Consort, David Fung (piano), Te Koki Big Band
BERNSTEIN – Chichester Psalms / GERSHWIN – Piano Concerto in F
ROLF LIEBERMANN – Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra
DUKE ELLINGTON – Harlem
7:30pm Michael Fowler Centre
Sunday 31st May
Nota Bene Choir, Catherine Norton, Gabriella Glapska pianos
STRAVINSKY – Symphony of Psalms
Music by BRAHMS, PART, MILHAUD, CLAUSEN
3:00pm St.Andrews-on-The-Terrace
Wednesday 3rd June
Dulcis Tibia – New Zaland Recorder Quartet
Music from the Elizabethan to the Modern era for recorder Quartet
Roger Palmer, Rachel Patrick, Tessa Coppard, Katrin Eickhorst (recorders)
12:15pm St Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace
Wednesday 10th June
Duo Zweizemkeit (Sunny Cheng and Otis Prescott-Mason – piano, four-hands)
12:15pm St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace
Sunday 14th June
Piano Works from China and Aotearoa New Zealand
Jian Liu (piano)
Wellington Chamber Music Concert
3:00pm St,Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace
Wednesday 17th June
Barbara Hill (flute), Robert Ibell (‘cello) and Jonathan Berkahn (continuo)
“Father and Son” – Music for flute, ‘cello and continuo By JS BACH and CPE BACH
12:15pm St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace
Wednesday 17th June
MOZART – Le Nozze di Figaro (New Zealand Opera)
Orchestra Wellington / James Judd (conductor)
7:30pm St.James Theatre, Wellington
Thursday 18th June
Jia (Jessie) Ling (guzheng), Pei-Ying Pan (piano)
Traditional and Modern Chinese works for guzheng
12:15pm St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace
Wednesday 24th June
Vivo Flutes!
Barbara Hill and friends
12:15pm St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace
Peter Mechen – petermec@middle-c.net