CMNZ is delighted to confirm a new date for Tami Neilson - Kingmaker, 7.30pm Saturday 19 November 2022. Tickets for the 17 August show are valid for this new date without the need for exchange.

Hailed by Rolling Stone Magazine as a “Fire Breathing R&B Belter on her own terms”, award-winning country artist Tami Neilson brings to the stage both her incredible voice and a keen understanding of the history of the genre.

Premiering brand new songs written especially for New Zealand audiences, with stunning string arrangements by Victoria Kelly, Kingmaker is a high octane mix of Tami’s own original songs and tributes to iconic women in country music.

This night promises to be a driving, toe tapping musical tour de force.

Join us for an evening of exceptional chamber music featuring the prizewinning Ferio Saxophone Quartet. These exciting young musicians are emerging as one of the leading British saxophone quartets among the new generation and have been enthusiastically received by audiences and critics alike. Thanks to generous local sponsors and volunteers all proceeds from this concert will go to support the work of Save the Children.

Ferio Saxophone Quartet: Huw Wiggins/Soprano, Ellie McMurray/Alto, Jose Banuls/Tenor, Shevaughan Beere/Baritone

Programme:
J.S. Bach - Italian Concerto BWV 971
Jean Françaix - Petit Quatuor
Gaetano Donizetti - Una Furtiva Lagrima
Hugo Reinhart - Quartet in F Minor for Saxophone Quartet
INTERVAL
J.S Bach (arr. Ferio) - Prelude and Fugue in G Minor BWV 535
Eugène Bozza - Andante et Scherzo
Guillermo Lago - Ciudades: Montevideo, Sarajevo and Addis Ababa
Will Gregory - Hoe Down

Join the New Zealand String Quartet on their 30th anniversary tour for a concert filled with passion, yearning, joy and heartache. Their Dangerous Liaisons programme explores themes of love and desire and will take you on an emotional journey through some of the great works of the repertoire.

Mendelsohn's first love and Janacek's obsession with a woman half his age were both doomed to failure yet inspired some of their most beautiful works. Jack Body's Saetas takes its inspiration from the fire and passion of flamenco songs and reveals Rolf Gjelsten's secret talent as an accomplished accordionist.

Music and art harmonise in this concert at the Suter Gallery. A word of warning: it'll be an intimate affair and the music may steal your heart!

Programme
Janacek: String Quartet no 2, Intimate Letters
Jack Body: Saetas
Mendelssohn: String Quartet no 2 in A minor, op 13

"There's a big, vivacious, steel-belt of a sound Imani gets when playing at the top of its lungs that is most appealing" - Peter Dobrin, The Philadelphia Inquirer

The season concludes with fun, fire and flair thanks to the Imani Winds. Their mission is to use collaboration, outreach, and new commissions to bridge diverse musical tradition, including America, Latin American, and Africa.

Celebrated for the 'sultry sophistication' of their performances, Imani Winds are truly an ensemble for our time: they are young, outstandingly talented musicians whose reputation for musical innovation is growing all over the world.

Their unique programme reflects their commitment to the traditional and the new: Rimsky-Korsakov, Piazzolla and Ravel are surrounded by the flamboyant, genre-disrupting and entertaining music by less well-known Latin composers. And they'll be presenting a new work by our very own Natalie Hunt.

Beethoven's ten Sonatas for Violin and Piano form a transcendent, transformative monument of the duo sonata repertoire: they present a formidable, unique challenge to violinists and pianists.

Bella Hristova is known for the power and lyrical beauty of her sound, a violinist perfectly suited to the huge technical and emotional demands of Beethoven's Sonatas. Michael Houstoun's recent performances of Beethoven's complete Piano Sonatas met with huge acclaim for fluency and appreciation of Beethoven's wit, as well as the moments of profound desolation.

Hristova and Houstoun's collaboration in our Beethoven Mini-Festivals will be a landmark musical event of 2017.

Programme:
Sonata No. 3 in E-flat Major, op 12, no. 3
Sonata No. 8 in G Major, op 30, no. 3
Sonata No. 2 in A Major, op. 12, no. 2
Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, op 30, no. 2

"You could see the joy in the performers' faces and movements as much as you could hear it in the playing." - The New York Times

Juilliard415 represent the best-of-the-best early-music ensemble from the Julliard School, with a reputation for combining youthful energy with poise, precision, and a luminous sound. For this New Zealand tour, J415 join forces with maestro Masaaki Suzuki, hugely esteemed for his performances and recordings of Bach.

The programme concentrates on Bach and Handel, the giants of the baroque era. It will give audiences a tantalising taste of Bach's work, and guarantees an evening of luminous, vital performances.

There will be a prelude event before the concert. Check http://www.chambermusic.co.nz for more updates.

Renowned for her interpretations of French piano repertoire - full of ‘evanescent colours and shimmering, elusive light’ - British pianist Kathryn Stott will perform recitals in New Plymouth and Napier, before joining the New Zealand String Quartet for solo and chamber music.

Debussy’s L'Isle joyeuse - inspired by Watteau’s enigmatic painting L’Embarquement pour Cythère - is at the centre of Kathryn’s recitals, alongside Dutilleux’s Piano Sonata: this is a rare opportunity to hear these ravishing works programmed together.

A Member of NZSQ will lead a discussion with Kathryn Stott at 4:15pm
- free entry -

Join the Royal Over-Seas League and Save the Children for an evening of exceptional chamber music featuring the international Dolmen Ensemble*. These exciting young musicians, all prize winners of the Royal Over-Seas League music competitions, will perform some of the world's finest chamber works. Thanks to generous local sponsors and volunteers all proceeds from this concert will go to support the work of Save the Children.

Programme:
Johannes Brahms - Clarinet trio Op.14
Lewis Coenen-Rowe - More or Less from Clarinet Trio
Max Bruch - Movements 2 and 7 from Eight Pieces Op.83
Vincent D'Indy - Clarinet Trio in Bflat Op.29

* Dolmen Ensemble: Carson Becke, piano (Canada), Som Howie, clarinet (Australia), Edward King, cello (New Zealand).

Argentinian Golijov’s poignant marimba/cello duo, written as a requiem for a friend, and young American composer Andy Akiho's thrilling LigNEous surround Brahms' masterful clarinet quintet, which James Campbell has played with illustrious groups such as the Guaneri, Vermeer, Allegri and Amadeus Quartets. And what better way to celebrate the end of the 2017 festival than with our 3 string quartets taking the stage together for Dvorak's cheerful, melody-filled Serenade for Strings.

Goldner Quartet, New Zealand String Quartet, the Troubadours, Ian Rosenbaum (marimba), James Campbell (clarinet), Matthew Barley (cello), Joan Perarnau Garriga (double Bass)

Akiho - LigNEous
Brahms - Clarinet quintet
Golijov - Duo for marimba and cello
Dvorak - Serenade in E for Strings op. 22

An exciting programme featuring a brand new marimba quintet (marimba and string quartet - not 5 marimbas!) by New York-based NZ composer, Ed Ware, along with Beethoven's "Eyeglass" Duo, performed by the same musicians (Gillian Ansell and James Tennant) who played it in the first Festival in 1992. And don't miss the final Beethoven cello sonata played by the brilliant musicians Andrew Joyce, NZSO principal cellist, and Denes Varjon.

New Zealand String Quartet, Ian Rosenbaum (marimba), James Tennant (cello), Andrew Joyce (cello), Dénes Varjon (piano)

Beethoven - Duo for Viola and Cello with Eyeglasses Obbligato
Edward Ware - Cavernous Ruins (World Premiere)
Beethoven - Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major op. 102/2

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