...I couldn’t really hope to hear a more engaging, more deeply touching, and more understanding reading of this incredible music. Very great honour to the Aroha Quartet and to Andrew Joyce for giving us such a memorable experience....
(Peter Mechen - Middle C)
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Elegy & Polka
Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet No 1 in C major Op. 49
Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet No 10 in A flat Op. 118
Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 122
Sibelius, Jean: Andante Festivo
Sibelius, Jean: String Trio in G minor JS210
Szymanowski, Karol: String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56
Tan Dun: Eight Colours for String Quartet 谭盾 八种颜色
: TBA
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Souvenir de Florence
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Next concerts

Saturday, July 18 2020, 5:00pm - 7:15pm, Expressions Whirinaki, 833 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt

Come and hear the chamber groups and string orchestra (conducted by Donald Armstrong) perform works they have prepared during the last three days of the 2020 ASQ International Music Academy. The programme includes the sumptuous 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis' by Vaughan Williams. Entry by koha/donation.
Monday, August 31 2020, 7:30pm - 9:30pm, St Luke's, 2 Tees St, Oamaru

In our Phantasy programme we are joined by Robert Orr, NZSO Principal Oboe, for two British works by for oboe and strings: Britten's Phantasy Quartet Op 2, the first piece that brought him international recognition, and Bliss's gorgeous Oboe Quintet. In that programme we also celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth with his first 'Rasumovsky' quartet, the String Quartet No 7 in F Op 59 No 1. The fourth work in this programme is 'refrain' by award-winning New Zealand composer Alex Taylor. Tickets TBC.