...The five played with enormous energy, consummate delicacy, with an intuitive collaboration and infectious passion that captured both the quintet’s fire and its tragic beauty. It brought a tear to the eye....
(Louis Pierard, The Hook review website)
Full steam ahead for 2020 ASQ Academy
Monday, June 29, 2020 - 9:31pm

29 June 2020 - Despite (or maybe because of!) the restrictions imposed under the recent Covid-19 lockdown, 34 keen musicians from all around New Zealand will assemble at Chilton St James School in Lower Hutt next month for the sixth ASQ International Music Academy. Ranging in age from 8 to 80 and hailing from Invercargill to Auckland, the participants will prepare chamber and string orchestra works over six days from Monday 13 July, coached by the members of the ASQ along with guest tutors Donald Armstrong (NZSO Associate Concertmaster), David Chickering (NZSO Cello Section Principal Emeritus) and Tom McGrath (Teaching Fellow in Piano Accompaniment at the University of Otago).

The 2020 Academy will culminate in a free public Gala Concert in Expressions Whirinaki, Upper Hutt at 5 pm on Saturday 18 July.
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Next concerts

Wednesday, May 15 2024, 7:30pm - 9:30pm, St Andrew's in the City, Palmerston North

Our programme begins with the elegant Classicism of Boccherini. In the next work, ‘The Bullet’ by French composer George Onslow, the composer dramatically depicts a hunting accident in which he was almost killed and his subsequent recovery. In the second half, the atmospheric ‘Swim the Sliding Continents’ by Auckland composer Louise Webster and the heartfelt ‘Postlude’ by Ukranian composer Valentyn Silvestrov are followed by Dvorak’s richly Romantic String Quintet No 2 in G. Tickets ($30 General Admission, $25 Concessions, $10 Under 18s, $60 Families - 2 Adults + 2 Under 18s) available from Eventfinda (service fees apply) or at the door from 7 pm.