We are pleased to announce the Chamber Music Hutt Valley 2017 concert series.    

Amici Ensemble
Tuesday 14th March – 7:30pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

Amici Ensemble  was formed by Donald Armstrong, the Associate Concertmaster of the NZ Symphony Orchestra, in 1988 to perform works for many differing combinations of instruments.  He draws together musicians, mostly principal players with the NZSO and/or teachers with Te Kōkī, the New Zealand School of Music.  The Ensemble is noted for its musicality and special ability to relate to audiences.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

Ensemble Paladino
Friday 28th April – 7:30pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

Ensemble Paladino  is a mixed group of string, wind and keyboard players that also grew from a desire to present diverse chamber music fearlessly and on the highest level.  Three core members are based in Auckland.  They are joined regularly by guest musicians from around the world.  The Ensemble draws upon the rich experiences of all the players, giving it a democratic and lively structure.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

Presented in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.

 

 

The Jac
Wednesday 17th May – 7:30pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

The Jac  is a jazz ensemble featuring some of NZ’s finest musical talent, including members of The Troubles, the Rodger Fox Big Band and the N Z Symphony Orchestra.  Playing original repertoire with broad crossover appeal, the Jac explores a full range of textures, dynamics and instrumentations, combining the controlled power of a big band with the intimacy of a small chamber jazz group.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

Presented in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.

The Troubadour String Quartet
Monday 24th July – 7:30pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

The Troubadour String Quartet  is a vibrant young string quartet that formed in 2016 for the Adam Chamber Music Summer School.  The group has been invited back to perform as featured artists in the 2017 Adam Chamber Music Festival.  Following this they will tour New Zealand on an Internship Programme of concerts for CMNZ that will showcase their passion for chamber music.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

Presented in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.

 

Ludwig Treviranus 
Sunday 3rd September – 3.30 pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

Ludwig Treviranus  hailed “… a major pianistic talent here in Wellington ”, Ludwig has a passion to communicate his music to audiences.  The programme for this, his final concert as Artist-in-Residence  with CMHV, is especially chosen  to appeal to all those young at heart.  Alongside Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite no.1, Ludwig performs Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with narrator Charles Wilson.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

We are pleased to announce the Chamber Music Hutt Valley 2016 concert series. Purchase your season membership and/or flexi-tickets here.  Tickets to individual concerts will be available from Eventfinder as below.  

Miyata – Yoshimura – Suzuki Trio
Monday 29th February – 7:30pm
St Mark’s Church, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt

Mayumi Miyata (shō), Nanae Yoshimura (koto) and Tosiya Suzuki (recorder)  present traditional and modern Japanese repertoire alongside new compositions by three of New Zealand’s most explorative composers – Samuel Holloway, Dylan Lardelli and Chris Gendall.

David Guerin plays Goldberg
Sunday 17th April – 3:30pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

In a special extra concert this year which will be free to full subscribers, David Guerin performs the J S Bach Goldberg Variations. 
The Goldberg Variations is one of the greatest monuments of keyboard literature. It is music which observes neither end nor beginning, music with neither real climax nor real resolution, music which “rests lightly on the wings of the unchecked wind” (Glenn Gould). David Guerin trained with Judith Clark and Janetta McStay in New Zealand before study at the Musikhochschüle Cologne, focusing on contemporary music and also lieder accompaniment and chamber music. A major collaboration in 1991 with choreographer Michael Parmenter included performances of Goldberg Variations – establishing David’s long, acclaimed, association with this music.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder. 

 

Robert Ibell (cello) + Douglas Mews (fortepiano)
Wednesday 13th July – 7:30pm
St Mark’s Church, Woburn Road, Lower Hutt

Hammers and Horsehair – Robert Ibell and Douglas Mews perform virtuosic works from the classical and early romantic periods – by candlelight on authentic instruments. Robert has been a member of the NZSO since 1993; Douglas teaches at the NZ School of Music and is Director of Music at St Teresa’s Church.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

Villani Piano Quartet
Monday 12th September – 7:30pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

Villani Piano Quartet – a new ensemble grown from a passion to perform piano quartets. Flavio Villani studied with Matteo Napoli in Italy and Stephen de Pledge. In 2015 he played Rachmaninov’s Concerto nr 2 with Orchestras Filarmonica of Calabria and CalArts. The string musicians are all principals of Wairua Sinfonietta, an Auckland group that believes music performance helps develop community.

Presented in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

Treviranus – Fa’i-Hulton – Amosa 
Monday 26th September – 7.30 pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

Ludwig Treviranus – “… a major pianistic talent here in Wellington ”.  As Artist-in-Residence with CMHV, Ludwig will share his platform with Elisha Fa’i-Hulton (mezzo-soprano), Music Director at Waiariki Academy, and with Joel Amosa, a young bass-baritone with a rich, powerful and dramatic voice. Each is New Zealand-born of proud Samoan heritage – and will introduce a Pasifika flavour.

Tickets and programme details available from Eventfinder.

New Zealand Guitar Quartet 
Thursday 1st December – 7.30 pm
Little Theatre, Lower Hutt

New Zealand Guitar Quartet formed in 2010. Owen Moriarty and Christopher Hill graduated from Schools of Music in Wellington before furthering guitar performance in California and Spain (respectively); Jane Curry studied and performed in USA and now teaches at the NZ School of Music; John Couch is studying in Canberra. The group presents material in preparation for making a recording.