Zephyr Wind Quintet

• When: Tue 18 Sep, 8:00pm–10:00pm
• Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, 119 Tennyson St, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information:Adult A Res: $50.00
  Adult B Res: $45.00
  Adult C Res: $30.00
  Child: $10.00
  Student rush (on the day only): $15.00
  
• Website: www.chambermusic.co.nz

New Zealand’s finest woodwind players combine to form the creamy and colourful sounds of Zephyr.

Comprising principal players in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Zephyr has been described as rivalling world-famous chamber ensembles. The members are all experienced chamber musicians and perform with groups including Flight and contemporary ensemble Stroma.

The programme is filled with humour, melancholy, energy, melody and beautiful lyricism.

The Napier concert features Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles, a work he described as Bartók, with a little Stravinsky. A new CMNZ commission from Gareth Farr also features.

• Bridget Douglas – flute
• Ed Allen – horn
• Robert Weekes – bassoon
• Robert Orr – oboe
• Philip Green – clarinet

“From the light-hearted to the serious, the programme showcases the wind quintet from every perspective, and demonstrates the lyricism and athletic strengths of this versatile ensemble.” – Bridget Douglas, Zephyr

“The players immediately showed that wonderful ability to create a beautifully blended sound when needed, but also a distinctive timbre …” –The Tribune

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

Sergey Malov and Michael Houstoun

• When: Fri 8 Jun, 8:00pm–10:00pm
• Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, 119 Tennyson St, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information:Adult - A Reserve: $50.00
  Adult - B Reserve: $45.00
  Adult - C Reserve: $30.00
  Child: $10.00
  Student rush (on the day only): $15.00
  Call us on – 0800 842 538
  Booking fees may apply
  
• Website: www.chambermusic.co.nz

Winner of the 2011 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, Russian-born Sergey Malov teams up with pianist Michael Houstoun for a spellbinding programme of virtuosic repertoire.In 2011, Sergey won the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, before scoring a hat-trick at the 2011 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, scooping the top prize along with the inaugural Julian Paul Anderson Award for Best Chamber Music Player and the Audience Prize.

Revered pianist Michael Houstoun will perform with Sergey on the tour.

The Nelson programme features John Psathas’ Gyftiko and the restrained passion of Brahms’ first violin sonata.

Programme:
John Psathas - Gyftiko;
Brahms - Violin Sonata No 1 in G Opus 78;
Ysaÿe - Sonata No 4 for Solo Violin;
Franck - Violin Sonata in A.

Sarah Brown and The Great Heart Robbery

• When: Sat 16 Jun, 7:30pm–9:30pm
• Where: The Cabana, 11 Shakespeare Rd, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information:General admission: $20.00
  Door Sales Only
  
  
• Website: View Website

New Zealand songstress Sarah Brown is preparing to celebrate New Zealand Music Month in true style by releasing and touring her latest offering The Great Heart Robbery.The Marlborough-born blonde bombshell will release her sophomore album through her own label Boomusic, with funding from NZ On Air, followed by a tour around New Zealand.

At 28, Brown is no stranger to the New Zealand music scene – her eclectic style of blues mixed with gypsy Americana has seen her win a multitude of awards and tour with famed Kiwi musicians such as Greg Johnson, Tim Finn and Jamie Cullum.

Sarah Brown and The Great Heart Robbery tour will be visiting Auckland, Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport and Ashburton with more locations to be announced soon.

The TelstraClear Season of Giselle: Royal New Zealand Ballet

• When: Sat 8 Dec ’12, 7:30pm
  Sun 9 Dec ’12, 1:30pm
  Sun 9 Dec ’12, 6:30pm
  
• Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, 119 Tennyson St, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information:Adult - B Reserve: $45.00
  Adult - Premium: $80.00
  Adult - A Reserve: $60.00
  Buy Tickets – 0800 TICKETEK
  Booking fees may apply
  
  
• Website: View Website

Tickets go on sale 24 October 2011.A new staging of this quintessential ballet is co-produced by Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg, internationally acclaimed principal dancer of the Royal Ballet. Gillian Murphy, RNZB Principal Guest Artist and star of American Ballet Theatre, dances Giselle, one of the most dramatic roles in the classical ballet repertoire.

Disguise and revelation, love and jealousy combine in this tragic tale. A love story unfolds against the ghostly backdrop of a Rhineland forest haunted by the fearful presence of the “Wilis” – vengeful spirits of abandoned brides. The beautiful peasant girl, Giselle, falls for Albrecht who conceals his identity to win her. The discovery of her lover’s deception shatters Giselle’s innocence and causes her to die of a broken heart. Albrecht is thrown into the hands of the merciless Wilis, but Giselle cannot bear to watch him die and returns as a ghost to save him.

Giselle is the most dramatic and beautiful of ballets and RNZB’s brand new production is a must-see in 2012.

Producers/choreographers – Johan Kobborg and Ethan Stiefel
Set design – Howard Jones
Costume design – Natasha Stewart
Lighting design – Kendall Smith
Conductor – Michael Lloyd

Enso String Quartet with Michael Endres

• When: Wed 31 Oct, 8:00pm–10:00pm
  
• Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, 119 Tennyson St, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information:Adult A Res: $50.00
  Adult B Res: $45.00
  Adult C Res: $30.00
  Child: $10.00
  Student rush (on the day only): $15.00
  Buy Tickets – 0800 842 538
  Booking fees may apply
  
  
• Website: View Website

One of the United States’ most accomplished and exciting young ensembles joins outstanding German pianist Michael Endres for the final Chamber Music New Zealand concert of the 2012 season.

With a 2010 Grammy nomination for “Best Chamber Music Performance” for their recording of Ginastera Quartets, the Enso String Quartet has quickly made their mark on the international chamber music scene. Their cellist is Christchurch-born Richard Belcher.

Michael Endres joins the ensemble for Shostakovich and Dvorak Quintets. Recently appointed Head of Piano Studies at the University of Canterbury, Michael is a pianist of international standing with an extensive and prizewinning discography.

In Napier, Argentinian composer Ginastera’s Second String Quartet, which is paired with Boccherini’s delicate Quartet in G minor, followed by Dvorák’s Piano Quintet, infused with warmth, lyricism, and the flavours of Eastern Europe. The concert will also feature a new CMNZ Commission for Enso String Quartet.

“Playing of jaw-dropping prowess revealing masterpieces of the 20th century quartet literature … seek out this group – they are clearly bound for greatness.” – MusicWeb International

Maureen Nelson – violin
John Marcus – violin
Melissa Reardon – viola
Richard Belcher – cello
Michael Endres – piano

Programme:
Ginastera | String Quartet No 2 Opus 26
Boccherini | String Quartet in G minor Opus 32 No 5
CMNZ Commission for Enso
Dvorák | Piano Quintet in A Opus 81

Hot Red Hawke's Bay Wine Expo

• When: Fri 1 Jun, 6:00pm–9:00pm
• Where: Church Road Winery, 150 Church Rd, Taradale, Napier
• Restrictions: r18
• Ticket Information: General Admission: $35.00
  
• Website: Buy Tickets

This is our annual Hot Red Hawke’s Bay event and it is as strong as ever. Welcome back to so many familiar faces that have made this event one of their annual “must see” events.Every year we bring over 20 of our wineries and showcase a minimum of 100 wines to wine and hospitality trade and media and the general public. It would be impossible to see this many Hawke’s Bay wines and talk to this many Hawke’s Bay winemakers in one day anywhere else.

We are now NZ’s biggest regional wine expo showing both red and white wines.

Hot Red Hawke’s Bay was established in 2004 to showcase the premium red wines from the region and to cement Hawke’s Bay’s reputation as the NZ ultra-premium red wine capital. Nine years on Hawke’s Bay has more than proven we own that title and felt the time had come to add the equally popular white wines to the mix.

Many of our wineries here today have been part of the event since its inception as Hot Red Hawke’s Bay is thoroughly enjoyed by the winemakers, wine trade and media and public alike. On-going awards and accolades for Hawke’s Bay red wines continue to flow for all varieties, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Hawke’s Bay blends and of course, Syrah. Hawke’s Bay still is the largest producer for all these varieties in the country.

Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay continues to grow and excel in showcasing winemakers styles across the region. Often underestimated but never disappointing we share over 20 from different producer today. Pinot Gris, Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, Viognier and a couple of surprises are also represented for 2012.

Take the time and the opportunity to talk with our winery representatives and winemakers and discover more about what makes Hawke’s Bay wines so special.

Around the World in 80 Minutes

• When: Tue 25 Sep, 7:30pm
• Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, 119 Tennyson St, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information: Buy Tickets – 0800 842 538
  
  
• Website: www.nzso.co.nz/

The Solid Energy Tour
Ritchie - Diary of a Madman: Dedication to Shostakovich
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No.5 Egyptian
Shostakovich - Symphony No.5

Andrew Litton - conductor
Stephen Hough - piano

Journey around the world with the NZSO.

Setting forth with a work from Christchurch composer Anthony Ritchie, his Diary of a Madman: Dedication to Shostakovich draws on the Russian composer’s youthful works.

Camille Saints-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5 Egyptian is filled with allusions to rocking boats, croaking frogs and Nubian love songs. With filigree figures pouring forth from the soloist, Saints-Saëns’s music could be in no finer hands than those of pianist Stephen Hough. Stephen’s talents have been described as the ‘most perfect piano playing conceivable.’

Shostakovich’s epic Fifth Symphony, ‘A Soviet Artist's Practical, Creative Response to Just Criticism’, juxtaposes the naïve and the sardonic, triumph and despair, barbarism and elegiac beauty. His music declares an apparent patriotism while revealing sinister undercurrents.

Individual tickets on sale 13 January 2012. NZSO Season Tickets available now. To find out about the benefits of becoming a Season Ticket Holder please visit www.nzso.co.nz or contact NZSO Client Services - 0800 479 674.

Beethoven 7

• When: Wed 14 Nov ’12, 7:30pm
• Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, 119 Tennyson St, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information: Buy Tickets – 0800 842 538
  
  

The Radio Network Tour
Mozart - Symphony No. 29
Bach - Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7

Pietari Inkinen - conductor and violin
Vesa-Matti Leppänen - violin

Rediscover the magnificence of music in a concert that showcases some of the most beloved works in the repertoire.

Beethoven’s glorious Seventh Symphony is filled with dancing rhythms and a driving, forward momentum that will sweep you up in the fervour of wild festivities.

Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 is another landmark composition. Bathed in sunny tonalities, this youthful masterpiece captures the delight, elegance and operatic drama that make Mozart’s music so inviting.

J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins provides a rare opportunity to experience the breadth of excellence of NZSO Music Director Pietari Inkinen as he takes on the role of violin soloist, playing alongside talented NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppanen.

National Tour Partner The Radio Network

Individual tickets on sale 13 January 2012. Season Tickets available now. To find out about the benefits of becoming a Season Ticket Holder please see our website or contact NZSO Client Services 0800 479 674.

For the Fallen

• When: Wed 9 May, 7:30pm
• Where: Napier Municipal Theatre, 119 Tennyson St, Napier
• Restrictions: All Ages
• Ticket Information: Buy Tickets – 0800 842 538
  
  

Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Schumann - Symphony No. 4

Andrew Grams - conductor
Lynn Harrell - cello

Revel in the astonishing talent of cello superstar Lynn Harrell as he returns to perform one of the cello’s most beloved works – Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.

You can hear the great crashing of waves against desolate rocks and almost feel a salty sea breeze rush past as you are swept away by the soaring melodies in Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.

Schumann’s Fourth Symphony is equally dramatic. Dark and brooding yet filled with moments of triumphant defiance and exquisite beauty, Schumann’s music is transporting, bringing to a close a concert that will uplift and inspire you and leave you wanting more.

‘Harrell’s playing was bold, imaginative, and surpassingly sensitive… fully human and rich in detail’ - Boston Globe

Individual tickets on sale 13 January 2012. NZSO Season Tickets available now. To find out about the benefits of becoming a Season Ticket Holder please visit www.nzso.co.nz or contact NZSO Client Services - 0800 479 674.