Strings and Ancient Sounds of New Zealand (Canberra City News)
This article was originally published by Canberra City News on 2 May 2022. Click here to view the original article. Tony Magee, Canberra...
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- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
Five Lines: Subtlety and Flair (Wellington)
Dodging around pandemic disruptions, the New Zealand String Quartet is on the road with two well-crafted programmes for their National Tour.
- Mar 20, 2021
- 5 min
Theatre Review: Transfigured Night - This, one hopes, is just the beginning (Christchurch)
From the moment that dancer Laura Saxon Jones stepped onto the stage to quizzically inspect the music stands already positioned...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
Dominion Post: Artistic passion touches hearts of appreciative audience (Wellington)
This was the inaugural performance of BalletCollective Aotearoa in Wellington. They join forces with Chamber Music New Zealand to bring...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 4 min
Five Lines: Transfigured Night - from saucy games to passionate desire (Wellington)
The stage in Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre is set with music stands and a large white sail-like backdrop painted in multi-coloured...
- Mar 15, 2021
- 2 min
Theatre Review: Unique piece of theatre and a privilege to see (Wellington)
For all of my life when attending orchestral performances, I have wished that music could be visually amplified with movement...
- Mar 15, 2021
- 4 min
Jennifer Shennan: Transfigured Night. Ballet Collective Aotearoa & Chamber Music New Zealand (Wgtn)
This was an evening of triumph on several levels. Transfigured Night is the first of six concerts in Chamber Music NZ's nationally...
- Mar 15, 2021
- 3 min
Dance Aotearoa NZ: Transfigured Night (Wellington)
Chamber Music New Zealand has boldly incorporated a theatre element into their national tour, Transfigured Night, by commissioning...
- Mar 13, 2021
- 3 min
Theatre Review: Transfigured Night - beautiful, intimate, uplifting (Palmerston North)
When an audience leaves with smiles on their faces and chattering about the performance then you know it’s a hit...
- Mar 3, 2021
- 4 min
Five Lines: Celebrating chamber music in Nelson
Curated by artistic directors Helene Pohl and Gillian Ansell of the New Zealand String Quartet, the rich programme offered fourteen events.
- Sep 30, 2020
- 5 min
A deep dive into Beethoven’s String Quartets
As musicians the world over planned celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the New Zealand String Quartet decided to embark on...
- Sep 19, 2020
- 7 min
Beethoven’s creative “quartet-journey” superbly delineated by the NZSQ at St.John’s in the City
Continuing its “tour” of Wellington venues by way of bringing to us all of Beethoven’s String Quartets during his 250th anniversary year...
- Sep 13, 2020
- 8 min
New Zealand String Quartet’s second Beethoven 250th Anniversary concert
These works are, of course, iconic representations of a whole genre of music, and as such well-known to audiences everywhere – but as with..
- Sep 11, 2020
- 5 min
Beethoven 250th anniversary: first concert from New Zealand String Quartet
This was the first of six concerts this month of all 17 of Beethoven’s string quartets (17 includes the Grosse Fuge...
- Mar 10, 2020
- 5 min
Review: Musical voyages to distant places – Jenny Wollerman with the New Zealand String Quartet
".......great energy, strength, and concentration...striking originality and expressiveness."
- Mar 10, 2020
- 1 min
Review: New Zealand string quartet a 'singular event'
"...superbly responsive, technically sharp, performances...a full, satisfying, musical meal..."
- Jul 18, 2019
- 2 min
Review: Spellbinding performance by quartet
"A large audience was kept spellbound and in awe by the extraordinary skill and adaptability of leading touring chamber ensemble..."
- May 5, 2019
- 3 min
New Zealand String Quartet produce joyousness and profundity for Wellington Chamber Music
The quartet’s many years of playing together was reflected in their seamless, smooth playing. May they keep this up for many more years...
- Apr 15, 2019
- 2 min
Gig Review: Rodger Fox Presents… “Charlie Parker with Strings” featuring Dick Oatts
"The show is deserving of an audience and praise – it really was a gorgeous tribute to some wonderful tunes."
- Mar 29, 2019
- 6 min
Review: Youthful and visionary Schubert from Helene Pohl and Jian Liu
"...the music on this occasion was made to punch well above its normal weight, for our excitement and satisfaction."
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