Nau mai haere mai and welcome!
ON TOUR JULY/AUGUST/SEPTEMBER
“Once again, NZTrio’s latest concert more than lived up to its title, Fantastique, offering a first-class world tour from Europe and Russia, through Tibet, to Aotearoa New Zealand.”
– William Dart, NZ Herald
THE PROGRAMME
Joaquín Turina | Circulo
Shostakovich | Piano Trio No.1 in C minor
Chen Yi | Tibetan Tunes
John Psathas (NZ) | Angelus
César Franck | Piano Trio No.1 in F sharp minor
This programme will be performed with guest cellist Callum Hall
A lavish tapestry of styles and emotions is explored in Fantastique, a programme of contrasts. Turina’s Circulo depicts a single day through dawn, midday and dusk, while brooding disquiet meets stark intensity in Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.1 in C minor. Chen Yi’s Tibetan Tunes creates a fusion of traditional Tibetan melodies referencing Buddhist god Du Mu, before the premiere of Angelus, a new commission by one of Aotearoa’s most acclaimed composers, John Psathas. Finally, Franck’s youthful Piano Trio No. 1 in F sharp minor is as charming and intimate as it is powerful and explosive.
DATES AND VENUES
26 July – Motueka
27 July – Nelson
1 August – Gisborne
2 August – Napier
3 August – Auckland
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NZTRIO X MANUKAU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NZTrio He Taonga Wairere will be joining the Manuakau Symphony Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in the upcoming MSO concert – Pastorale. This programme will be performed with guest cellist Callum Hall.
5pm Sunday 24 August
Due Drop Events Centre
Manukau
ON TOUR OCTOBER
THE PROGRAMME
Elena Kats-Chernin | The Spirit and the Maiden
Salina Fisher | Kintsugi
Amy Beach | 2 Songs Op. 100 A Mirage and Stella Viatoris
Sergei Rachmaninoff | Vocalise
Richard Strauss (arr. Salina Fisher) | Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) TrV 296
Composed in the year before his passing, the Four Last Songs are held by many to be Richard Strauss’ most beautiful, sensuous, and moving composition.
DATES AND VENUES
ANNOUNCING OUR NEW CELLIST
NZTrio He Taonga Wairere are thrilled to announce the appointment of new permanent cellist, Matthias Balzat.
Matthias, an award-winning performer, brings a wealth of local and international performing experience to the trio’s next chapter.
Hypnotique presents a diverse array of works that challenges expectations of traditional chamber music. A whirlwind of motion typifies NZ composer Lyell Cresswell’s virtuosic Moto Perpetuo, ahead of the percussive and electronic influences in Le Boeuf’s jazz-adjacent Obliquely Wrecked. Fauré’s Piano Trio in D minor exhibits lyrical elegance, with transportative, lush harmonic textures, and Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin pays homage to Haydn, blending classical and contemporary styles in Calliope Dreaming. Then finally, the full Romantic immersion of Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht is structured around the five stanzas of a poem; deeply transcendent and utterly beautiful.
THE PROGRAMME
Lyell Cresswell (NZ) | Moto perpetuo
Pascal Le Boeuf | Obliquely Wrecked
Gabriel Fauré | Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Elena Kats-Chernin | Calliope Dreaming
Arnold Schönberg | Verklärte Nacht arr. for piano trio
DATES AND VENUES
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NZTrio is recognised as a ‘national treasure’ and ‘New Zealand’s most indispensable ensemble’ (NZ Herald).
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MERGE
Featuring superb compositions by Christos Hatzis, Salina Fisher, Josef Suk and Erich Korngold, Merge is an amalgamation of NZTrio’s individual musical personalities both on and off the stage, expressed through our shared love of chamber music. “We feel very lucky to be sharing our joyful, creative and collaborative experience of recording this album with you during this particularly bewildering time. As we all navigate this ever-changing world, constantly looking to the future and the past, we hope this music gives you a chance to appreciate some beauty in the present moment.”
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