Past Events
Friday October 4, 7:30pm
NZSM Orchestra Concert
St Andrews on the Terrace
Saturday 5 October 2019
Private event
Sunday 22 September
Reflections
7:00pm - 8:15pm
St Peters on Willis
Tuesday September 24
Private event
Thursday 19 September, 7:30pm
Stroma
Sonic Portraits
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery
An evening of intimate chamber music, with five exciting composers from NZ and overseas, in the beautiful surroundings of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. With guest soloists French cello virtuoso Séverine Ballon and Wellington-based taonga puoro legend Alistair Fraser, this concert also features the evocative masterwork Rain Coming by legendary Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu.
FEATURING
Séverine Ballon (cello)
Alistair Fraser (taonga puoro)
Hamish McKeich (conductor)
PROGRAMME
Salina Fisher • Kingfisher (NZ premiere)
Rebecca Saunders • Ire (NZ premiere)
Liza Lim • An Ocean Beyond Earth (NZ premiere)
Ashley Fure • Soma (NZ premiere)
Alistair Fraser & Simon Eastwood • New Work (world premiere)
Toru Takemitsu • Water Ways
NZSO Transfiguration
September 6-14
Saturday 17th August
Duo Eolienne
@
Southern Cross Garden Bar and Restaurant
The Arvo Show
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Join us for our weekend unwind!
Saturday 24 August, 2:00pm
Bach Choir of Wellington
American Portraits
Friday 9 August
Private event
Thursday 1st August 2019
STROMA
Voices of the World
Pictures at an Exhibition
Orchestra Wellington
Friday 2 August
Programme:
Debussy L’Isle joyeuse
Barber Cello Concerto
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
19th - 21st July 2019
NZSM Opera Season
Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi
Sunday 30 June - 2:30pm
Wellington Chamber Orchestra
St Andrews on the Terrace, Wgtn.
NZSO National Youth Orchestra
Wellington Friday July 5th
Auckland Saturday July 6th
James Judd, Conductor
New Zealand Youth Choir - David Squire, Music Director
Catherine Carby, Mezzo-soprano
Glen Downie, 2019 NYO Composer-in-Residence Work (World premiere)
Tuirina Wehi arr. Robert Wiremu, Waerenga-a-Hika
Sibelius, The Oceanides, Op. 73
Elgar, The Music Makers, Op. 69
Friday 14 June
Private Event
Jupiter
Orchestra Wellington
Saturday 25 May
Programme:
Mozart Symphony No. 41 K.551, C major Jupiter
Bruckner Symphony No 8 (1890)
Tuesday 21 May
NZSM Orchestra concert
Tuesday 14 May
Private event
Friday 17 May
Private event
Saturday 18 May, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Duo Eolienne
@
Southern Cross
Genevieve Davidson (saxophone) and Michelle Velvin (harp)
Saturday 18 May
Years Gone By
Venue: Meow, Wellington
Wednesday 1 May
Private event
Monday 6 May
LIVE at the Museum (Auckland)
feat. Mara TK and Hollie Smith
Harp to Harp -
A Baby Harp Salon
St Barnabas Church, Roseneath
8 May session - inquire for details
Sunday 28 April, 2:00pm
Futuna Chapel
Colours of Futuna concert
Michelle Velvin & Antonia Barnett-Mcintosh
Symphonie Fantastique
Orchestra Wellington
Friday 12 April
Programme: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz Lelio
16 April
Duo Eolienne
Private event
Wednesday 20 March
Harp to Harp -
A Baby Harp Salon
Lucid Dreambike event
21-23 March
Details TBC
23 March
Private event
Saturday 16 March,
4:00pm
RIPPLES of SOUND
Island Bay Presbyterian Church, 88 the Parade
A concert full of dynamic and contrasting music for flute, saxophone and harp! Join us as we explore rippling textures and sonic landscapes.
Thursday 7 March
Private event
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Thursday 14 February, 8:00pm
Auckland Town Hall
Wagner Die Meistersinger: Overture
Thomas Adès Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Saturday 23 February 2019
Private Event
NZSO Shed Series - Rebirth
TSB Auditorium (Shed 6), Queens Wharf, Wellington
Friday 8 February
7:30pm
Programme: Body Fanfare for Bert
Milhaud La Création du Monde
JS Bach Cello Suite No.5 in C minor, BWV 1011, I. Prelude
Arvo Pärt Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte ...
(If Bach had been a Beekeeper)
JS Bach Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004,
III. Sarabande, IV. Gigue
Ellington/Peress Black, Brown and Beige Suite
Sunday 27 January 2019
Private event
Saturday 2 February 2019
Private event
2018
Sunday 9 December
Wellington Chamber Orchestra
2:30pm St. Andrews on The Terrace
Finzi – Fall of the Leaf
Arutiunian – Trumpet Concerto
Stanford – Symphony No.3 in F minor “The Irish”
Saturday 15 December
Noël - Sounds of Christmas
Orchestra & Choir Christmas Concert
7:00pm, 15 December
St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington
Come along for an evening of contemporary and traditional carols hosted by the Metropolitan Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra.Get your seasonal jingle on with a feast of well known carols and some new contemporary settings hosted by the Metropolitan Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra. This year's concert also includes a new commission by Wellington composer Luka Venter.
Monday 26 November
Private event
Wednesday 5 December, 10:30am - 11:30am
Harp to Harp - A Baby Harp Salon
(Enquire for details - limited space)
9-10 November
NZSO
Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor
Wednesday 17 October
NZSO Concert for Kids
10.30am–12.45pm, Te Marae, Level 4, Te Papa
Jump up and down, listen to musical stories,and get up close with the instruments of the orchestra.
Bring your little ones for a thrilling NZSO orchestral experience. With excerpts from the William Tell Overture, the famous can-can, and much more there’s something to bring out the child in us all.
Recommended for ages 2–6.
Friday 19 October
Private event
STROMA VOX FEM
Thursday 25 OCTOBER 2018, 7:30PM - 9:00PM,
HANNAH PLAYHOUSE, WELLINGTON
Join us to celebrate 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, in this concert of dynamic and diverse new works by women composers from New Zealand and Australia.
Stroma will perform the music of Jasmine Lovell-Smith, Sarah Ballard, Alison Isadora, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Eve de Castro-Robinson and Lisa Illeanin a high-octane cross-genre and cross-cultural collaboration with leading jazz octet The Jac, soprano Barbara Paterson, and a quartet of players of traditional Indian instruments.
Saturday 27 October
Orchestra Wellington
The River
The Moldau, BEDŘICH SMETANA
Piano Concerto no.1, BÉLA BARTÓK
Symphony No. 8, ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Tuesday 2 October
NZSM Orchestra: Three Centuries
7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
St Andrews on the Terrace
Programme:
Bartok Violin Concerto #2
Michael Norris Claro
Bruckner Finale (4th movement) from Symphony #8
Sunday 7 October
Private event
Sunday 14 October
Suffrage Songs Recomposed
7.30 pm - 9.00 pm
Hannah Playhouse
Celebrating women in music in Aotearoa, this concert sees nine female composers and songwriters take suffrage songs from the 1890s and haul them into the modern day. Various singers will be joined by instrumental, electronic and taonga puoro musicians to perform re-imaginings of these politically trailblazing texts.
NZSO
Classical hits
6 SEP 2018 - 22 SEP 2018
CANCELLED: Sunday 2 September, 2:30pm
NZ HARP DUO
Kapiti Playhouse
Wednesday 29 August
Stroma
Iconic Sonics
WED 29 AUGUST 2018, 7:30PM - 9:00PM, CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON, WELLINGTON
PROGRAMME
György Ligeti • Ramifications
Kaija Saariaho • New Gates
Iannis Xenakis • Aroura
Reuben Jelleyman • Designs
Witold Lutoslawski • Chain I
CANCELLED: Sunday 26 August, 4:00pm
NZ HARP DUO
Moon Bar, Newtown
Saturday 18 August
Hutt Winter Festival
Dowse Square, Laings Road, Lower Hutt, Wellington Region
Thursday 9 August
NZSM + Big Band
An American in Wellington
9 August 2018 from 7.30 pm - 9.15 pmMichael Fowler Centre
Saturday 4 August, 7:30pm
Hawke's Bay Orchestra
WINTER CONCERT WEEKEND AT NAPIER CATHEDRAL
Mahler Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
(soprano soloist: Lisa Harper-Brown)
Saturday 14 July
Songs of Moana
Orchestra Wellington
Sunday 8 July
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra
Songs of Moana
23 - 30 June
NZ Opera, The Elixir of Love
Tickets here
Saturday & Sunday 9 & 10 June
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra
Guitar Extravaganza
Saturday 26 May
NZSM Orchestra Concert
Duruflé Requiem
26 May 2018 from 7.30 pm - 9.30pm
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
$15/$30 from Ticketek
Friday 20 April
Private solo harp concert
Tuesday 17 April
NZSM Orchestra Concert
17 April 2018 from 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm St Andrews on the Terrace
Beethoven Triple Concerto
Brahms Tragic Overture
Lilburn Suite for Orchestra
Debussy Nocturnes 1&2
Wednesday 11 April 2018, 12:15pm - 1:00pm
Duo Eolienne
(Saxophone and Harp)
St. Andrews on the Terrace lunchtime concert
A lunchtime concert to introduce the sonorous and meditative sound world of music for Harp and Saxophone, including music by William Alwyn, Yusef A. Lateef, Erik Satie and Claude Debussy.
Programme:
Beau Soir, Claude Debussy, arr. for saxophone and harp by Duo Eolienne
Romance for saxophone and harp, Yusef Lateef
Gnossienne 1-3, Erik Satie
Tuesday 10 April
WHO Concert
(Private venue)
Saturday 31 March
Wedding
Wednesday 28 May
NZSO An Animated Orchestra
Saturday 24 March, 7:00pm
Adam Concert Room, NZ School of Music
SMP Ensemble Mosaic
SMP Ensemble's first concert for 2018. Featuring work by students and graduates of the New Zealand School of Music Te Kōkī. Including scores and improvisations for large ensemble, electroacoustic, and installation and more-
Koha on the door
Thursday 15 March
NZ Festival
Anne Sofie von Otter
Franz Schubert
Overture to Rosamunde
Rosamunde: “Der Vollmond Strahlt”
“Die Forelle” (orch. Britten)
“Gretchen am Spinnrade” (orch. Reger)
“Im Abendrot” (orch. Reger)
“An Silvia” (orch. Anon)
“Erlkönig” (orch. Reger)
Alexander Zemlinsky
Die Seejungfrau (Fantasie für Orchester)
Sunday 21 January 2018
Theosophical Society Convention
2017
Tuesday December 12
Wellington Harp Orchestra Concert
Thursday December 14
Sol3 Mio - Christmas On The Harbour
Sunday 10 December, 2:30pm
Wellington Chamber Orchestra
St Andrew's on The Terrace
Wednesday 6 December, 2017
Noël - A Celebration of Christmas
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hill St Wellington
Saturday 2 December, 2:00pm
Tawa Orchestra Concert
The Best Of Broadway
Tawa College Hall,
38 Duncan St, Tawa
Programme:
The Gypsy Baron Overture
Johann Strauss II
Symphony No. 1 in C Major Beethoven
Die Fledermaus Overture –
Johann Strauss II
Orchestral arrangements by Thomas Nikora
Saturday 25 November
NZSO @ Te Papa
Saturday, 25 November @ 11:00am
Symphonic Boogi
Saturday, 25 November @ 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Pop-up Carol Choir Workshop
Saturday, 25 November @ 3:00pm
Christmas Carols with the NZSO and the Pop-up Carol Choir
Saturday 18 November 4:00pm
Kapati Concert Orchestra Concert
St Pauls Church, Kapiti Road, Paraparaumu
Conductor: Ken Young
Programme:
Suppé: Poet and Peasant Overture
Debussy: Rhapsodies for Alto Sax and Orchestra with Reuben Chin
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite 1 Op 46
Interval
Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Milhaud: Scaramouche with Reuben Chin
Sibelius: Finlandia
Thursday 16 November
Stroma - Spectral Electric
7:30 - 9:00pm City Gallery, Wellington
PROGRAMME:
Kaija Saariaho Cendres for alto flute, cello and piano
Salvatore Sciarrino Fauno che fischia a un Merlo for flute and harp
Annea Lockwood Immersion for 3 percussion
Luigi Ceccarelli Respiri for prepared horn and electronics
Kaija Saariaho Ciel Étoilé for double bass and percussion
Michael Norris Sygyt for ensemble, throat-singer, and electronics
Saturday 28 October
Private function
Thursday 12 October
Duo Eolienne at Ceramicus 2017 - Opening Night
Wednesday 11 October
Solo harp performance
(Private venue)
NZSM Orchestra: Pictures
Sacred Heart Cathedral, 24 Hill St, Thorndon, Wellington
Tuesday 3 October 2017 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Tuesday 26 September
Wellington Harp Orchestra performance
(Private venue)
Duo Eolienne (recording)
September 24 (Meanwhile Gallery) and September 27 (Adam Art Gallery)
INVITATION TO THE DANCE
ORCHESTRA WELLINGTON
SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM
MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE, WELLINGTON
MIDNIGHT Friday 1 September
NZ Harp Duo COMPOSITION COMPETITION entries DUE
Saturday 19 August, 7pm
Adventure & Fantasy
NZ Harp Duo at St Peters, Willis Street, Wellington
Prepare to experience a unique mix of sounds as we perform contemporary and classical harp music.This concert series presents a programme of music inspired by the theme "Adventure and Fantasy".
Our programme includes music by Georges Bizet, Bernard Andres, Caroline Charriere, Gabriel Fauré and Andy Akiho.
Tickets from Eventfinder
General Admission: $25.00
Senior Admission: $20.00
Student Admission: $15.00
Child Admission: $5.00
Sunday 20 August, 2:30pm
Adventure & Fantasy
NZ Harp Duo at Paekakariki Memorial Hall
Prepare to experience a unique mix of sounds as we perform contemporary and classical harp music.This concert series presents a programme of music inspired by the theme "Adventure and Fantasy".
Our programme includes music by Georges Bizet, Bernard Andres, Caroline Charriere, Gabriel Fauré and Andy Akiho.
Tickets from Eventfinder
General Admission: $25.00
Senior Admission: $20.00
Student Admission: $15.00
Child Admission: $5.00
Sunday August 13, 2:30pm
Adventure & Fantasy
NZ Harp Duo at St James, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Prepare to experience a unique mix of sounds as we perform contemporary and classical harp music.This concert series presents a programme of music inspired by the theme "Adventure and Fantasy".
Our programme includes music by Georges Bizet, Bernard Andres, Caroline Charriere, Gabriel Fauré and Andy Akiho.
Tickets from Eventfinder
General Admission: $25.00
Senior Admission: $20.00
Student Admission: $15.00
Child Admission: $5.00
Wednesday August 2, 6pm - 7pm approx.
NZ Harp Duo at The Third Eye
On the first Wednesday of every month, The Third Eye and Chamber Music New Zealand present Classical Sessions, featuring some of NZ’s finest and funnest classical musicians getting together over a pint or two and making music.
For koha entry, you can pop down after work, grab a beer, chat to friends, and enjoy classical music in a chilled out, 'lax setting.
The NZ Harp Duo will be performing Le Jardin des Paons by Bernard Andres and Two Bridges by Andy Akiho
Friday June 2, 12:45pm - 1:15pm, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Duo Eolienne (saxophone and harp)
Genevieve Davidson and Michelle Velvin
Thank God it's Friday! Celebrate the end of the working week with music in the beautiful Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. Recitals commence at 12.45pm and last no longer than 30 minutes. Entry is by a suggested donation of $10.
Programme:
Cafe 1930, Astor Piazzolla
Gnossiennes, Erik Satie
Swing No. 1, Jacques Bondon
Sunday 30 April, 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo at St James, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
This concert series has an "Around the World" theme with many different colours and flavours.
Our programme includes two amazing New Zealand compositions by young NZ composers, Adam Bow and Rakuto Kurano, who were the winners of the 2016 NZ Harp Duo Composition Competition.
Our programme:
Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky (excerpts)
Fast Dances, Nico Muhly (excerpts)
Las Tres Damas, arr. by Alyssa Reit
Song in the Night, Carlos Salzedo
Adam Bow, Anri's Lullaby
Rakuto Kurano, Angelic Glow
Souvenir du Nord, John Thomas
Six Épigraphes antiques: No. 1. Pour invoquer Pan, Claude Debussy
Saturday 22 April, 7pm
NZ Harp Duo at St Peters, Willis Street, Wellington
This concert series has an "Around the World" theme with many different colours and flavours.
Our programme includes two amazing New Zealand compositions by young NZ composers, Adam Bow and Rakuto Kurano, who were the winners of the 2016 NZ Harp Duo Composition Competition.
Our programme:
Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky (excerpts)
Fast Dances, Nico Muhly (excerpts)
Las Tres Damas, arr. by Alyssa Reit
Song in the Night, Carlos Salzedo
Adam Bow, Anri's Lullaby
Rakuto Kurano, Angelic Glow
Souvenir du Nord, John Thomas
Six Épigraphes antiques: No. 1. Pour invoquer Pan, Claude Debussy
Wednesday April 12, 12:15-1pm
NZ Harp Duo lunchtime concert at St Andrews on the Terrace
Programme includes:
Chanson dans la nuit Song in the Night, Carlos Salzedo
Souvenir du Nord, John Thomas
Traditional Manx Music, arr. Charles Guard
Fast Dances, Nico Muhly (excerpts)
Las Tres Damas, Venezuelan Folktune
Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky (excerpts)
Sunday April 9, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo at Futuna Chapel Open Day
As part of the Futuna Chapel open day the NZ Harp Duo will be performing an exciting programme!
11.30am -12.00pm Guided tour of the Chapel
12.00pm - 1.30pm Lunch and Public Access
1.30pm - 2.30pm Concert: The NZ Harp Duo
3.00pm - 4.00pm Public Talk: 'Extreme Conservation" - 20 years of conservation work in the Ross Sea area of Antarctica
Entry by Koha
Eugene Onegin
2017 SUMMER SEASON OF OPERA IN A DAYS BAY GARDEN
February 15th, 17th & 19th at 7.15pm
Book here
Christmas On the Harbour With Sol3 Mio and Guests!
Waitangi Park, 107 Cable St, Wellington
Thursday 15 December 2016 7:00pm
Counsel In Concert - A Celebration of Shakespeare In Music
St Andrews on the Terrace
Tuesday 13 December 2016 12:15pm and 5:30pm
Duo VAARP
Laura Barton (Violin) and Michelle Velvin
2016 Pettman ROSL Arts Chamber Music Scholarship
DAY OF AUDITIONS
Friday 25 November 10am – noon, 2pm – 4pm
Philip Carter Family Concert Hall
The Piano, Centre for Music and the Arts, Christchurch
Admission: gold coin for “The Piano”
Friday October 28, 12:45pm-1:15pm
St. Pauls Cathedral Lunchtime Concert- Saxophone and Harp
DUO EOLIENNE: Genevieve Davidson and Michelle Velvin
This is a friday lunchtime concert at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul as part of their concert series. Please come along and hear modern works transcribed for saxophone and harp. Recitals commence at 12.45pm and last no longer than 30 minutes. Entry is by a suggested donation of $10.
Little Suite for Oboe and Harp by William Alwyn
Danse Lente by Joseph Jongen
Rumanische Volkstanze by Bela Bartok
Entracte by Jacques Ibert
Les Berceaux by Gabriel Faure
Sunday 16 October 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo in Concert
St. James Church, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
The programme includes:
Preludes 3 & 4 for deux harps, Marcel Tournier
Scorpion Tales for two harps, Robert Paterson
La Ragazza, Bernard Andres
Le Jardin, Bernard Andres
Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy trans. Carlos Salzedo
Sunday 9 October 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo in Concert
Paekakariki Memorial Hall
The programme includes:
Preludes 3 & 4 for deux harps, Marcel Tournier
Scorpion Tales for two harps, Robert Paterson
La Ragazza, Bernard Andres
Le Jardin, Bernard Andres
Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy trans. Carlos Salzedo
Saturday 8 October 7pm
NZ Harp Duo in Concert
St. Peters on Willis, Willis Street Wellington
The programme includes:
Preludes 3 & 4 for deux harps, Marcel Tournier
Scorpion Tales for two harps, Robert Paterson
La Ragazza, Bernard Andres
Le Jardin, Bernard Andres
Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy trans. Carlos Salzedo
Sunday 11 September 2016
'Music of The Low Countries'
St Teresa's Church, 301 Karori Rd, Karori, Wellington
2:00pm – 4:00pm
MIDNIGHT August 19
NZ Harp Duo COMPOSITION COMPETITION entries DUE
August-September
G & S Light Opera, The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar
http://www.gns.org.nz/
Southward Theatre, Kapiti,
Sat. 27 August, 4:00pm; Sun. 28 August, 2:00pm
Wellington Opera House, Fri. 2, Sat. 3 September, 7:30pm
Napier Municipal Theatre, Sat. 17 September, 4:00pm
Regent, Palmerston North, Sat. 24 September, 4:00pm
July 13-18
Attending Catrin Finch Harp Academy
Cardiff, Wales
Tuesday 28 June
Duo Eolienne
Old St. Pauls Lunchtime Concert- Saxophone and Harp
Genevieve Davidson and Michelle Velvin
Sunday 12 June, 2.30pm
NZ Harp Duo
St James Church, Lower Hutt
http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/venue/the-anglican-parish-of-lower-hutt-st-james
Thursday 2 June
NZ Harp Duo
Pataka Matariki Celebration at Pataka, 17 Parumoana St, Porirua
Wednesday 1 June
NZ Harp Duo
Classical Music Session at the Third Eye, 30 Arthur St, Wellington
Saturday 28 May, 7.00pm
NZ Harp Duo
St Peters on Willis, Willis St, Wellington
http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/venue/st-peters-church-wellington
Sunday 22 May, 2.30pm
NZ Harp Duo
Southwards Car Museum Auditorium, Paraparaumu
http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/nz-harp-duo/paraparaumu
Friday October 4, 7:30pm
NZSM Orchestra Concert
St Andrews on the Terrace
Saturday 5 October 2019
Private event
Sunday 22 September
Reflections
7:00pm - 8:15pm
St Peters on Willis
Tuesday September 24
Private event
Thursday 19 September, 7:30pm
Stroma
Sonic Portraits
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery
An evening of intimate chamber music, with five exciting composers from NZ and overseas, in the beautiful surroundings of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. With guest soloists French cello virtuoso Séverine Ballon and Wellington-based taonga puoro legend Alistair Fraser, this concert also features the evocative masterwork Rain Coming by legendary Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu.
FEATURING
Séverine Ballon (cello)
Alistair Fraser (taonga puoro)
Hamish McKeich (conductor)
PROGRAMME
Salina Fisher • Kingfisher (NZ premiere)
Rebecca Saunders • Ire (NZ premiere)
Liza Lim • An Ocean Beyond Earth (NZ premiere)
Ashley Fure • Soma (NZ premiere)
Alistair Fraser & Simon Eastwood • New Work (world premiere)
Toru Takemitsu • Water Ways
NZSO Transfiguration
September 6-14
Saturday 17th August
Duo Eolienne
@
Southern Cross Garden Bar and Restaurant
The Arvo Show
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Join us for our weekend unwind!
Saturday 24 August, 2:00pm
Bach Choir of Wellington
American Portraits
Friday 9 August
Private event
Thursday 1st August 2019
STROMA
Voices of the World
Pictures at an Exhibition
Orchestra Wellington
Friday 2 August
Programme:
Debussy L’Isle joyeuse
Barber Cello Concerto
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
19th - 21st July 2019
NZSM Opera Season
Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi
Sunday 30 June - 2:30pm
Wellington Chamber Orchestra
St Andrews on the Terrace, Wgtn.
NZSO National Youth Orchestra
Wellington Friday July 5th
Auckland Saturday July 6th
James Judd, Conductor
New Zealand Youth Choir - David Squire, Music Director
Catherine Carby, Mezzo-soprano
Glen Downie, 2019 NYO Composer-in-Residence Work (World premiere)
Tuirina Wehi arr. Robert Wiremu, Waerenga-a-Hika
Sibelius, The Oceanides, Op. 73
Elgar, The Music Makers, Op. 69
Friday 14 June
Private Event
Jupiter
Orchestra Wellington
Saturday 25 May
Programme:
Mozart Symphony No. 41 K.551, C major Jupiter
Bruckner Symphony No 8 (1890)
Tuesday 21 May
NZSM Orchestra concert
Tuesday 14 May
Private event
Friday 17 May
Private event
Saturday 18 May, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Duo Eolienne
@
Southern Cross
Genevieve Davidson (saxophone) and Michelle Velvin (harp)
Saturday 18 May
Years Gone By
Venue: Meow, Wellington
Wednesday 1 May
Private event
Monday 6 May
LIVE at the Museum (Auckland)
feat. Mara TK and Hollie Smith
Harp to Harp -
A Baby Harp Salon
St Barnabas Church, Roseneath
8 May session - inquire for details
Sunday 28 April, 2:00pm
Futuna Chapel
Colours of Futuna concert
Michelle Velvin & Antonia Barnett-Mcintosh
Symphonie Fantastique
Orchestra Wellington
Friday 12 April
Programme: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz Lelio
16 April
Duo Eolienne
Private event
Wednesday 20 March
Harp to Harp -
A Baby Harp Salon
Lucid Dreambike event
21-23 March
Details TBC
23 March
Private event
Saturday 16 March,
4:00pm
RIPPLES of SOUND
Island Bay Presbyterian Church, 88 the Parade
A concert full of dynamic and contrasting music for flute, saxophone and harp! Join us as we explore rippling textures and sonic landscapes.
Thursday 7 March
Private event
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Thursday 14 February, 8:00pm
Auckland Town Hall
Wagner Die Meistersinger: Overture
Thomas Adès Violin Concerto ‘Concentric Paths’
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Saturday 23 February 2019
Private Event
NZSO Shed Series - Rebirth
TSB Auditorium (Shed 6), Queens Wharf, Wellington
Friday 8 February
7:30pm
Programme: Body Fanfare for Bert
Milhaud La Création du Monde
JS Bach Cello Suite No.5 in C minor, BWV 1011, I. Prelude
Arvo Pärt Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte ...
(If Bach had been a Beekeeper)
JS Bach Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004,
III. Sarabande, IV. Gigue
Ellington/Peress Black, Brown and Beige Suite
Sunday 27 January 2019
Private event
Saturday 2 February 2019
Private event
2018
Sunday 9 December
Wellington Chamber Orchestra
2:30pm St. Andrews on The Terrace
Finzi – Fall of the Leaf
Arutiunian – Trumpet Concerto
Stanford – Symphony No.3 in F minor “The Irish”
Saturday 15 December
Noël - Sounds of Christmas
Orchestra & Choir Christmas Concert
7:00pm, 15 December
St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington
Come along for an evening of contemporary and traditional carols hosted by the Metropolitan Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra.Get your seasonal jingle on with a feast of well known carols and some new contemporary settings hosted by the Metropolitan Cathedral Choirs and Orchestra. This year's concert also includes a new commission by Wellington composer Luka Venter.
Monday 26 November
Private event
Wednesday 5 December, 10:30am - 11:30am
Harp to Harp - A Baby Harp Salon
(Enquire for details - limited space)
9-10 November
NZSO
Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor
Wednesday 17 October
NZSO Concert for Kids
10.30am–12.45pm, Te Marae, Level 4, Te Papa
Jump up and down, listen to musical stories,and get up close with the instruments of the orchestra.
Bring your little ones for a thrilling NZSO orchestral experience. With excerpts from the William Tell Overture, the famous can-can, and much more there’s something to bring out the child in us all.
Recommended for ages 2–6.
Friday 19 October
Private event
STROMA VOX FEM
Thursday 25 OCTOBER 2018, 7:30PM - 9:00PM,
HANNAH PLAYHOUSE, WELLINGTON
Join us to celebrate 125 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand, in this concert of dynamic and diverse new works by women composers from New Zealand and Australia.
Stroma will perform the music of Jasmine Lovell-Smith, Sarah Ballard, Alison Isadora, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Eve de Castro-Robinson and Lisa Illeanin a high-octane cross-genre and cross-cultural collaboration with leading jazz octet The Jac, soprano Barbara Paterson, and a quartet of players of traditional Indian instruments.
Saturday 27 October
Orchestra Wellington
The River
The Moldau, BEDŘICH SMETANA
Piano Concerto no.1, BÉLA BARTÓK
Symphony No. 8, ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Tuesday 2 October
NZSM Orchestra: Three Centuries
7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
St Andrews on the Terrace
Programme:
Bartok Violin Concerto #2
Michael Norris Claro
Bruckner Finale (4th movement) from Symphony #8
Sunday 7 October
Private event
Sunday 14 October
Suffrage Songs Recomposed
7.30 pm - 9.00 pm
Hannah Playhouse
Celebrating women in music in Aotearoa, this concert sees nine female composers and songwriters take suffrage songs from the 1890s and haul them into the modern day. Various singers will be joined by instrumental, electronic and taonga puoro musicians to perform re-imaginings of these politically trailblazing texts.
NZSO
Classical hits
6 SEP 2018 - 22 SEP 2018
CANCELLED: Sunday 2 September, 2:30pm
NZ HARP DUO
Kapiti Playhouse
Wednesday 29 August
Stroma
Iconic Sonics
WED 29 AUGUST 2018, 7:30PM - 9:00PM, CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON, WELLINGTON
PROGRAMME
György Ligeti • Ramifications
Kaija Saariaho • New Gates
Iannis Xenakis • Aroura
Reuben Jelleyman • Designs
Witold Lutoslawski • Chain I
CANCELLED: Sunday 26 August, 4:00pm
NZ HARP DUO
Moon Bar, Newtown
Saturday 18 August
Hutt Winter Festival
Dowse Square, Laings Road, Lower Hutt, Wellington Region
Thursday 9 August
NZSM + Big Band
An American in Wellington
9 August 2018 from 7.30 pm - 9.15 pmMichael Fowler Centre
Saturday 4 August, 7:30pm
Hawke's Bay Orchestra
WINTER CONCERT WEEKEND AT NAPIER CATHEDRAL
Mahler Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
(soprano soloist: Lisa Harper-Brown)
Saturday 14 July
Songs of Moana
Orchestra Wellington
Sunday 8 July
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra
Songs of Moana
23 - 30 June
NZ Opera, The Elixir of Love
Tickets here
Saturday & Sunday 9 & 10 June
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra
Guitar Extravaganza
Saturday 26 May
NZSM Orchestra Concert
Duruflé Requiem
26 May 2018 from 7.30 pm - 9.30pm
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
$15/$30 from Ticketek
Friday 20 April
Private solo harp concert
Tuesday 17 April
NZSM Orchestra Concert
17 April 2018 from 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm St Andrews on the Terrace
Beethoven Triple Concerto
Brahms Tragic Overture
Lilburn Suite for Orchestra
Debussy Nocturnes 1&2
Wednesday 11 April 2018, 12:15pm - 1:00pm
Duo Eolienne
(Saxophone and Harp)
St. Andrews on the Terrace lunchtime concert
A lunchtime concert to introduce the sonorous and meditative sound world of music for Harp and Saxophone, including music by William Alwyn, Yusef A. Lateef, Erik Satie and Claude Debussy.
Programme:
Beau Soir, Claude Debussy, arr. for saxophone and harp by Duo Eolienne
Romance for saxophone and harp, Yusef Lateef
Gnossienne 1-3, Erik Satie
Tuesday 10 April
WHO Concert
(Private venue)
Saturday 31 March
Wedding
Wednesday 28 May
NZSO An Animated Orchestra
Saturday 24 March, 7:00pm
Adam Concert Room, NZ School of Music
SMP Ensemble Mosaic
SMP Ensemble's first concert for 2018. Featuring work by students and graduates of the New Zealand School of Music Te Kōkī. Including scores and improvisations for large ensemble, electroacoustic, and installation and more-
Koha on the door
Thursday 15 March
NZ Festival
Anne Sofie von Otter
Franz Schubert
Overture to Rosamunde
Rosamunde: “Der Vollmond Strahlt”
“Die Forelle” (orch. Britten)
“Gretchen am Spinnrade” (orch. Reger)
“Im Abendrot” (orch. Reger)
“An Silvia” (orch. Anon)
“Erlkönig” (orch. Reger)
Alexander Zemlinsky
Die Seejungfrau (Fantasie für Orchester)
Sunday 21 January 2018
Theosophical Society Convention
2017
Tuesday December 12
Wellington Harp Orchestra Concert
Thursday December 14
Sol3 Mio - Christmas On The Harbour
Sunday 10 December, 2:30pm
Wellington Chamber Orchestra
St Andrew's on The Terrace
Wednesday 6 December, 2017
Noël - A Celebration of Christmas
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hill St Wellington
Saturday 2 December, 2:00pm
Tawa Orchestra Concert
The Best Of Broadway
Tawa College Hall,
38 Duncan St, Tawa
Programme:
The Gypsy Baron Overture
Johann Strauss II
Symphony No. 1 in C Major Beethoven
Die Fledermaus Overture –
Johann Strauss II
Orchestral arrangements by Thomas Nikora
Saturday 25 November
NZSO @ Te Papa
Saturday, 25 November @ 11:00am
Symphonic Boogi
Saturday, 25 November @ 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Pop-up Carol Choir Workshop
Saturday, 25 November @ 3:00pm
Christmas Carols with the NZSO and the Pop-up Carol Choir
Saturday 18 November 4:00pm
Kapati Concert Orchestra Concert
St Pauls Church, Kapiti Road, Paraparaumu
Conductor: Ken Young
Programme:
Suppé: Poet and Peasant Overture
Debussy: Rhapsodies for Alto Sax and Orchestra with Reuben Chin
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite 1 Op 46
Interval
Nicolai: Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Milhaud: Scaramouche with Reuben Chin
Sibelius: Finlandia
Thursday 16 November
Stroma - Spectral Electric
7:30 - 9:00pm City Gallery, Wellington
PROGRAMME:
Kaija Saariaho Cendres for alto flute, cello and piano
Salvatore Sciarrino Fauno che fischia a un Merlo for flute and harp
Annea Lockwood Immersion for 3 percussion
Luigi Ceccarelli Respiri for prepared horn and electronics
Kaija Saariaho Ciel Étoilé for double bass and percussion
Michael Norris Sygyt for ensemble, throat-singer, and electronics
Saturday 28 October
Private function
Thursday 12 October
Duo Eolienne at Ceramicus 2017 - Opening Night
Wednesday 11 October
Solo harp performance
(Private venue)
NZSM Orchestra: Pictures
Sacred Heart Cathedral, 24 Hill St, Thorndon, Wellington
Tuesday 3 October 2017 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Tuesday 26 September
Wellington Harp Orchestra performance
(Private venue)
Duo Eolienne (recording)
September 24 (Meanwhile Gallery) and September 27 (Adam Art Gallery)
INVITATION TO THE DANCE
ORCHESTRA WELLINGTON
SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM
MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE, WELLINGTON
MIDNIGHT Friday 1 September
NZ Harp Duo COMPOSITION COMPETITION entries DUE
Saturday 19 August, 7pm
Adventure & Fantasy
NZ Harp Duo at St Peters, Willis Street, Wellington
Prepare to experience a unique mix of sounds as we perform contemporary and classical harp music.This concert series presents a programme of music inspired by the theme "Adventure and Fantasy".
Our programme includes music by Georges Bizet, Bernard Andres, Caroline Charriere, Gabriel Fauré and Andy Akiho.
Tickets from Eventfinder
General Admission: $25.00
Senior Admission: $20.00
Student Admission: $15.00
Child Admission: $5.00
Sunday 20 August, 2:30pm
Adventure & Fantasy
NZ Harp Duo at Paekakariki Memorial Hall
Prepare to experience a unique mix of sounds as we perform contemporary and classical harp music.This concert series presents a programme of music inspired by the theme "Adventure and Fantasy".
Our programme includes music by Georges Bizet, Bernard Andres, Caroline Charriere, Gabriel Fauré and Andy Akiho.
Tickets from Eventfinder
General Admission: $25.00
Senior Admission: $20.00
Student Admission: $15.00
Child Admission: $5.00
Sunday August 13, 2:30pm
Adventure & Fantasy
NZ Harp Duo at St James, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
Prepare to experience a unique mix of sounds as we perform contemporary and classical harp music.This concert series presents a programme of music inspired by the theme "Adventure and Fantasy".
Our programme includes music by Georges Bizet, Bernard Andres, Caroline Charriere, Gabriel Fauré and Andy Akiho.
Tickets from Eventfinder
General Admission: $25.00
Senior Admission: $20.00
Student Admission: $15.00
Child Admission: $5.00
Wednesday August 2, 6pm - 7pm approx.
NZ Harp Duo at The Third Eye
On the first Wednesday of every month, The Third Eye and Chamber Music New Zealand present Classical Sessions, featuring some of NZ’s finest and funnest classical musicians getting together over a pint or two and making music.
For koha entry, you can pop down after work, grab a beer, chat to friends, and enjoy classical music in a chilled out, 'lax setting.
The NZ Harp Duo will be performing Le Jardin des Paons by Bernard Andres and Two Bridges by Andy Akiho
Friday June 2, 12:45pm - 1:15pm, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Duo Eolienne (saxophone and harp)
Genevieve Davidson and Michelle Velvin
Thank God it's Friday! Celebrate the end of the working week with music in the beautiful Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. Recitals commence at 12.45pm and last no longer than 30 minutes. Entry is by a suggested donation of $10.
Programme:
Cafe 1930, Astor Piazzolla
Gnossiennes, Erik Satie
Swing No. 1, Jacques Bondon
Sunday 30 April, 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo at St James, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
This concert series has an "Around the World" theme with many different colours and flavours.
Our programme includes two amazing New Zealand compositions by young NZ composers, Adam Bow and Rakuto Kurano, who were the winners of the 2016 NZ Harp Duo Composition Competition.
Our programme:
Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky (excerpts)
Fast Dances, Nico Muhly (excerpts)
Las Tres Damas, arr. by Alyssa Reit
Song in the Night, Carlos Salzedo
Adam Bow, Anri's Lullaby
Rakuto Kurano, Angelic Glow
Souvenir du Nord, John Thomas
Six Épigraphes antiques: No. 1. Pour invoquer Pan, Claude Debussy
Saturday 22 April, 7pm
NZ Harp Duo at St Peters, Willis Street, Wellington
This concert series has an "Around the World" theme with many different colours and flavours.
Our programme includes two amazing New Zealand compositions by young NZ composers, Adam Bow and Rakuto Kurano, who were the winners of the 2016 NZ Harp Duo Composition Competition.
Our programme:
Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky (excerpts)
Fast Dances, Nico Muhly (excerpts)
Las Tres Damas, arr. by Alyssa Reit
Song in the Night, Carlos Salzedo
Adam Bow, Anri's Lullaby
Rakuto Kurano, Angelic Glow
Souvenir du Nord, John Thomas
Six Épigraphes antiques: No. 1. Pour invoquer Pan, Claude Debussy
Wednesday April 12, 12:15-1pm
NZ Harp Duo lunchtime concert at St Andrews on the Terrace
Programme includes:
Chanson dans la nuit Song in the Night, Carlos Salzedo
Souvenir du Nord, John Thomas
Traditional Manx Music, arr. Charles Guard
Fast Dances, Nico Muhly (excerpts)
Las Tres Damas, Venezuelan Folktune
Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky (excerpts)
Sunday April 9, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo at Futuna Chapel Open Day
As part of the Futuna Chapel open day the NZ Harp Duo will be performing an exciting programme!
11.30am -12.00pm Guided tour of the Chapel
12.00pm - 1.30pm Lunch and Public Access
1.30pm - 2.30pm Concert: The NZ Harp Duo
3.00pm - 4.00pm Public Talk: 'Extreme Conservation" - 20 years of conservation work in the Ross Sea area of Antarctica
Entry by Koha
Eugene Onegin
2017 SUMMER SEASON OF OPERA IN A DAYS BAY GARDEN
February 15th, 17th & 19th at 7.15pm
Book here
Christmas On the Harbour With Sol3 Mio and Guests!
Waitangi Park, 107 Cable St, Wellington
Thursday 15 December 2016 7:00pm
Counsel In Concert - A Celebration of Shakespeare In Music
St Andrews on the Terrace
Tuesday 13 December 2016 12:15pm and 5:30pm
Duo VAARP
Laura Barton (Violin) and Michelle Velvin
2016 Pettman ROSL Arts Chamber Music Scholarship
DAY OF AUDITIONS
Friday 25 November 10am – noon, 2pm – 4pm
Philip Carter Family Concert Hall
The Piano, Centre for Music and the Arts, Christchurch
Admission: gold coin for “The Piano”
Friday October 28, 12:45pm-1:15pm
St. Pauls Cathedral Lunchtime Concert- Saxophone and Harp
DUO EOLIENNE: Genevieve Davidson and Michelle Velvin
This is a friday lunchtime concert at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul as part of their concert series. Please come along and hear modern works transcribed for saxophone and harp. Recitals commence at 12.45pm and last no longer than 30 minutes. Entry is by a suggested donation of $10.
Little Suite for Oboe and Harp by William Alwyn
Danse Lente by Joseph Jongen
Rumanische Volkstanze by Bela Bartok
Entracte by Jacques Ibert
Les Berceaux by Gabriel Faure
Sunday 16 October 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo in Concert
St. James Church, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt
The programme includes:
Preludes 3 & 4 for deux harps, Marcel Tournier
Scorpion Tales for two harps, Robert Paterson
La Ragazza, Bernard Andres
Le Jardin, Bernard Andres
Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy trans. Carlos Salzedo
Sunday 9 October 2:30pm
NZ Harp Duo in Concert
Paekakariki Memorial Hall
The programme includes:
Preludes 3 & 4 for deux harps, Marcel Tournier
Scorpion Tales for two harps, Robert Paterson
La Ragazza, Bernard Andres
Le Jardin, Bernard Andres
Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy trans. Carlos Salzedo
Saturday 8 October 7pm
NZ Harp Duo in Concert
St. Peters on Willis, Willis Street Wellington
The programme includes:
Preludes 3 & 4 for deux harps, Marcel Tournier
Scorpion Tales for two harps, Robert Paterson
La Ragazza, Bernard Andres
Le Jardin, Bernard Andres
Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy trans. Carlos Salzedo
Sunday 11 September 2016
'Music of The Low Countries'
St Teresa's Church, 301 Karori Rd, Karori, Wellington
2:00pm – 4:00pm
MIDNIGHT August 19
NZ Harp Duo COMPOSITION COMPETITION entries DUE
August-September
G & S Light Opera, The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar
http://www.gns.org.nz/
Southward Theatre, Kapiti,
Sat. 27 August, 4:00pm; Sun. 28 August, 2:00pm
Wellington Opera House, Fri. 2, Sat. 3 September, 7:30pm
Napier Municipal Theatre, Sat. 17 September, 4:00pm
Regent, Palmerston North, Sat. 24 September, 4:00pm
July 13-18
Attending Catrin Finch Harp Academy
Cardiff, Wales
Tuesday 28 June
Duo Eolienne
Old St. Pauls Lunchtime Concert- Saxophone and Harp
Genevieve Davidson and Michelle Velvin
Sunday 12 June, 2.30pm
NZ Harp Duo
St James Church, Lower Hutt
http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/venue/the-anglican-parish-of-lower-hutt-st-james
Thursday 2 June
NZ Harp Duo
Pataka Matariki Celebration at Pataka, 17 Parumoana St, Porirua
Wednesday 1 June
NZ Harp Duo
Classical Music Session at the Third Eye, 30 Arthur St, Wellington
Saturday 28 May, 7.00pm
NZ Harp Duo
St Peters on Willis, Willis St, Wellington
http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/venue/st-peters-church-wellington
Sunday 22 May, 2.30pm
NZ Harp Duo
Southwards Car Museum Auditorium, Paraparaumu
http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2016/nz-harp-duo/paraparaumu
