SUCCESSFUL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO MARTINBOROUGH THIS SPRING
The successful Chamber Music Festival will return to Martinborough for its second year this September featuring a who’s who of the country’s top musicians performing pieces that span three centuries.
The Martinborough Music Festival, to be held from Friday, 28 September to Sunday, 30 September, will see six incredible musicians play four concerts in three days. Bach’s Cello Suite No 3 in C Major, the oldest piece of music composed in the 18th Century, through to Gareth Farr’s String Quarter No 2 Mondo Rondo, the most recently composed piece of music, will be performed.
Wilma Smith, founder of the NZ String Quartet and subsequently the NZSO’s and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster, will lead a string quartet with Amalia Hall (violin) from Orchestra Wellington, Chris Moore (viola) from the Melbourne Symphony and two-time winner of the National Concerto Competition and Mattias Balzat (cello), previously described as a “teenage prodigy”.
Diedre Irons, ONZM, will perform on the beautiful Schimmel grand piano bequeathed to the Martinborough community by the late Cherry van Kranen, while “one of New Zealand’s finest music exports”, clarinettist Mark Walton will be a huge drawcard.
“After making such a successful debut on to the events scene in 2017, we are delighted to stage the Martinborough Music Festival again this spring and are proud to announce such an incredible line up of performers who underpin the quality of this festival,” says festival spokesperson Edward Allen.
“They will perform four concerts in three days including Beethoven, Brahms and Bach but also some Mozart, César Franck, Schumann and Darius Milhaud. This year there will be a very special local connection with Gareth Farr’s String Quartet No 2 ‘Mondo Rondo’ being performed.”
Another highlight leading into the Festival will be when Mark Walton, recognised for his work in music education with an Order of Australia, holds music workshops at Wairarapa College, Kuranui College and Martinborough School. Brendan says Mark’s workshops are always popular and his mission is “to get everyone in the world playing a musical instrument” as Mark believes it makes life so enjoyable.
Early bird tickets for the 2018 Martinborough Music Festival are on sale now, with sale opening up to the public on July 1st. For more information visit www.martinboroughmusicfestival.co.nz.
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Programme: The 2018 Martinborough Music Festival
FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER
7.30PM
Beethoven – Cello Sonata in C Major
Cesar Franck – Violin Sonata in A Major
Brahms – B Major Piano Trio No 1, Op 8
SATURDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER
2.00PM
Beethoven – String Trio in C Minor
Gareth Farr – String Quartet No 2 ‘Mondo Rondo’
Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op 115
SATURDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER
7.30PM
Schubert – Quartettsatz, D 703
Mozart – Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K 581
Schumann – Piano Quintet in Eb Major, Op 44
SUNDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER
2.00PM
Bach – Cello Suite No 3 in C Major
Darius Milhaud – Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Op 157b
Brahms – Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op 60
ENDS
For more information please contact:
Brendan Smyth
Phone: (021) 434 161
Email: jellybrats@gmail.com
Web: www.martinboroughmusicfestival.co.nz