Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson; the second installment, of Monday and Tuesday reviews
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Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson: the first days
By Lindis Taylor, 03/02/2019
This was the first festival for five years that has been able to move back to the now magnificently enhanced Nelson School of Music (now called the Nelson Centre of Musical Arts). That, as well as the line-up of many top international musicians, saw the early sell-out of all but one of the nine superb evening concerts. That’s attributable also to the festival’s international reputation, attracting many people from... read more
Nelson Chamber Music festival again New Zealand’s biennial musical highlight
By Lindis Taylor, 10/02/2017
My visit this year to the Nelson Chamber Music Festival was shorter than in previous years, arriving late afternoon on the Tuesday and departing midday Saturday.
The highlights from abroad were the presence of Hungarian pianist Dénes Varjon, the Australian tenor, Andrew Goodwin (singing Schumann’s Dichterliebe), the Goldner Quartet and cellist Matthew Barley.
The essence of the festival rests with the New Zealand String Quartet, which founded and sustained the festival... read more
Last three days of the triumphant 2015 Chamber Music Festival in Nelson
By Lindis Taylor, 08/02/2015
Thursday 5 February
For the first time, at this festival, two trips out of Nelson were organised, primarily as part of the full festival pass package; on Tuesday it was St Arnaud on Lake Rotoiti; today, to Upper Moutere to visit Höglund’s glass studio, the Neudorf Winery and a concert by The Song Company in a beautiful country church.
I decided to remain in Nelson in spite of that meaning foregoing... read more
Nelson chamber music festival: the second three days, with a trip to St Arnaud
By Lindis Taylor, 05/02/2015
Monday 2 February
PianoFest I: Dance Sunday’s rain which had been threatened to continue today, disappeared and there was sun first thing, but clouds soon returned and umbrellas reappeared as we set off for the 10.30 PianoFest I: Dance. It featured four prominent New Zealand pianists: David Guerin, Jian Liu, Stephen de Pledge and Sarah Watkins. ‘Dance’ was a rather approximate term as the first piece, Ravel’s Mother Goose, in the... read moreThirteenth Nelson chamber music festival better than ever: the first three days
By Lindis Taylor, 02/02/2015
Introduction
Coverage of this year’s Adam Chamber Music Festival (the 13th) will be divided into three parts. This first part covers the concerts, ignoring the Gala Dinner on Thursday the 29th at which an ad hoc variety of music was played, from Friday 30 January to Sunday 1 February. Parts 2 and 3 will follow.
Readers who have been drawn to the website of Chamber Music New Zealand will recognize among the... read more
The twelfth Nelson Chamber Music Festival breaks records – again
By Lindis Taylor, 09/02/2013
Introduction
The Nelson International Chamber Music Festival has become by far the largest classical music festival in the country, increasing the trend well established in Europe and North America, to build music festivals into summer holiday plans.
While the festival’s duration has been reduced from the previously normal length of some 17 days to ten, with more concerts each day, in all other respects it is bigger.
It was an enlargement in... read more
Climactic finale to a splendid festival
By Lindis Taylor, 12/02/2011
The last concert in this compressed festival brought most of the players in the two string ensembles together plus other prominent soloists. It was an odd-looking programme, but anything goes at a farewell party, and this certainly did that.
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Last day at Nelson. Bickerton with kids and Riseley with Paganini
By Lindis Taylor, 12/02/2011
Bob Bickerton is a multi-talented musician, a composer as well as a versatile, gifted performer on many instruments, he has been heavily involved in bringing music to children and young people over the past couple of decades. I went along to see him in action on... read more
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