Paeroa | North Island Tour Leg One
Sat, 13 Sept
|The Refinery
Bay of Plenty, Coromandel and Auckland - There'll be something for everyone on this tour, with experiences spanning all four series in our 2025 Season programme.
Time & Location
13 Sept 2025, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The Refinery, 5 Willoughby Street, Paeroa 3600, New Zealand
About the event
TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY 12 JULY
Join the New Zealand String Quartet for an evening of awe-inspiring, boundary-pushing chamber music. For their return to Paeroa after sold out concerts for the past two years, they’ll perform at Hauraki House with a colourful programme of powerful music for string quartet.
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64 No. 5 “The Lark”
Mika Cornelius Universal Veil (new composition)
Alexander Borodin String Quartet No. 2
Audiences can expect a concert that soars across centuries of musical inspiration. Haydn’s much-loved “Lark” Quartet opens the programme with its elegant, bird-like melodies. It’s followed by a world premiere: emerging New Zealand composer, Mika Cornelius’s Universal Veil draws inspiration from the hidden, interconnected world of fungi, tracing its strange and wondrous lifecycle. Borodin’s lush and heartfelt Second Quartet rounds out the programme; written as a gift to his wife on their 20th wedding anniversary, its romanticism the perfect finale.
Mika Cornelius is the recipient of the 2024/25 NZSQ | SOUNZ Tarling Trust Commission, an award for an early-career New Zealand composer to create a new piece of music for string quartet. The Quartet is thrilled to have had the chance to work with this talented young composer on their piece, Universal Veil, and to be premiering and performing this exciting new work.
Across their 2025 Season, the NZSQ wants to help you discover the joy of chamber music. Whether you're a life-long classical music fan, or simply looking for a memorable night out, this concert is not to be missed.
No Need to be an Expert
The concert programme, crafted in the NZSQ’s signature style, aims to engage audiences of all levels of familiarity with chamber music. Each piece of music is preceded by a lively and informative introduction delivered by the Quartet members themselves. These introductions seek to shed light on the stories behind the music, making it an enriching experience suitable for all audiences.