NATIONAL TOUR 2021
August to September 2021
Our 2021 National Tour will take us around Aotearoa in August and September. Immerse yourself in astounding beauty, inspire your senses, and fire your curiosity through four centuries of music.
In Programme 1, the warmth of Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ Quartet is the perfect overture to the tui calls of the Marlborough Sounds that inspired Gareth Farr’s Te Koanga. Ligeti’s stimulating String Quartet No. 1, ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’, brings contrasts of light and dark, before the ever-popular Dvořák’s String Quartet Op. 51. Programme 2 sweeps from the sounds of late Mozart to contemporary NZ composer Louise Webster’s nostalgic this memory of earth. Following Shostakovich’s emotive and impassioned String Quartet No. 11 is Mendelssohn’s 5th String Quartet – an irresistible finale.
PROGRAMMES
PROGRAMME 1
Hamilton, Auckland, Devonport, Blenheim (2pm), Wellington (Public Trust Hall)
HAYDN String Quartet Op. 76, No. 4 ("Sunrise")
GARETH FARR Te Koanga
LIGETI String Quartet No. 1
DVOŘÁK String Quartet, Op. 51
PROGRAMME 2
Martinborough, Tauranga, Auckland (Parnell), Blenheim (7pm), Nelson, Napier, Wellington (St Andrew's)
MOZART String Quartet Op. 575
LOUISE WEBSTER this memory of earth
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 11
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet Op. 44, No. 3
CHRISTOPHER'S CLASSICS
Christchurch (23 September)
PURCELL Three Fanazias
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2
GAO PING Prayer Songs
SMETANA String Quartet No. 2 in D minor
NATIONAL TOUR 2021 DATES
15 AUGUST 2021
2:30pm | Martinborough Town Hall
19 AUGUST 2021
7:30pm | Baycourt X Space, Tauranga
20 AUGUST 2021
7:30pm | Gallagher Centre for Performing Arts, Hamilton
21 AUGUST 2020
4pm | Nelson Centre of Musical Arts
28 AUGUST 2021
7:30pm | Devonport Holy Trinity, Auckland
29 AUGUST 2021
2:30pm | Jubilee Hall Parnell Community Centre, Auckland
4 SEPTEMBER 2021
2:30pm | Mountain View Villa, Blenheim
4 SEPTEMBER 2021
7:30pm | Mountain View Villa, Blenheim
9 SEPTEMBER 2021
7:30pm | Public Trust Building, Wellington
11 SEPTEMBER 2021
7:30pm | Church Road Winery, Napier
23 SEPTEMBER 2021
7:30pm | The Piano, Christchurch
25 SEPTEMBER 2021
2:30pm | St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington