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Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music plays a significant part in the cultural life of Wellington, so we encourage you to get along to Parliament at the end of July to see our students and staff playing at Wellington City Council’s Capital 150 celebrations. As part of our Lilburn 100th birthday celebrations, you will have the opportunity to attend two very different concert experiences showcasing Douglas Lilburn’s work. And as the return to teaching heralds the return of our series of lunchtime concerts, workshops and forums, we’ve begun the countdown to our major double-bill Opera production. Tickets are now on sale, so get in quick! See below for all the details.
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NZSM Double-Bill Opera
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Dido and Aeneas & L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
13 – 16 August, Memorial Theatre at Victoria University
The highly anticipated NZSM Double-Bill Opera is now on sale.
NZSM is doing something a little different this year by presenting two shorter operas side by side: one of England’s best known operas, Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell; and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.
Featuring the finest of New Zealand’s emerging young singers, this will be a brilliant, not-to-be missed night at the opera.
Dido & Aeneas by Purcell
and L’Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel
Directed by Frances Moore, conducted by Donald Maurice & Kenneth Young
Tickets available HERE
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NZSM Open House – Capital 150
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NZSM Open House - Capital 150
Sunday 26 July, The Beehive and Parliament Buildings
NZSM will present a day of performances inside the Beehive on Sunday 26 July as part of Wellington City Council's Capital 150 celebrations. Venues all around the city will be opening their doors to the public with performances, lectures, exhibitions and tours during the weekend’s festivities.
Free public performances - The Beehive and Parliament Buildings
10am Gamelan Padhang Moncar
12pm Aspiring jazz vocalists
2pm Classical voice students
… plus informal performances from NZSM’s Sonic Arts, Composition and Young Musicians programmes throughout the day in the West Foyer.
Public can attend these performances (and get a squiz inside parliament!) by registering via festival@parliament.govt.nz
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Lilburn Piano Concert
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Friday 31 July, 7:30pm, Adam Concert Room (ACR)
A celebration of Lilburn's piano music, featuring Richard Mapp, Emma Sayers, Gillian Bibby, Jian Liu, and NZSM piano students. They will perform a full Lilburn programme, including Chaconne, Nine Short Pieces, Three Sea Changes, Prelude 1951, and Sonata 1949, and two Sonatinas.
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STILL MUSIC: Lilburn’s electroacoustic music and late piano works (1951–1981)
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Thursday 23 July, 8:00pm, Hunter Council Chamber
This concert, curated by Composition lecturers Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon, interweaves the late piano miniatures of Douglas Lilburn with a selection of his electroacoustic works. The acoustic and electroacoustic is juxtaposed in such a way that we can hear how he became fascinated by issues of space, sound and symmetry. This will be a beautiful, meditative concert featuring Doctoral student Xing Wang playing the piano works.
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Farewell concert for Paul Dyne
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Tuesday 14 July, 7pm, Mt Cook Concert Hall
Associate Professor Paul Dyne is retiring after working at the New Zealand School of Music (previously Wellington Polytechnic Conservatorium of Music, and Wellington Conservatorium of Music, Massey University) for close to 30 years. He has been aptly described as the ‘anchorman of the Wellington jazz scene’, and was head of the jazz programme from 1989 to 2002. Come along and hear Paul play a concert with invited friends and guests to mark his retirement. This is a public concert, and anyone who has worked or studied with Paul over the years is especially welcome.
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Miranda Wilson cello masterclass
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Wednesday 15 July, 7:30pm, ACR
Miranda Wilson is Assistant Professor of Cello at the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music, Co-Artistic Director of the Idaho Bach Festival, and Co-Founder and Director of Strings of the LHSOM Preparatory Division. Miranda will work with students from the NZSM in an open masterclass.
Free entry.
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NZSM Free Lunchtime Concerts
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Friday 17 July, 12:10pm, Mt Cook Concert Hall – Jazz Guitars!
Spotlight on NZSM jazz guitar students
Friday 24 July, 12:10pm, ACR – Trout Quintet.
NZSM faculty perform Schubert’s piano quintet, featuring NZSM's very own Academic Manager Paul Altomari on double bass! Rather than the usual piano quintet lineup of piano and string quartet, Schubert's Trout Quintet is written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
Friday 31 July, 12:10pm, Mt Cook Concert Hall – Dave Lisik Quintet
These concerts are open to the public and no booking is required.
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Other events taking place in July...
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Expressions Live!
Tuesday 21 July, 1pm, Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre, Upper Hutt
NZSM string students play a lunchtime concert at Expressions – entry by koha. Further information can be found on the Expressions website here.
St Andrew's Lunchtime Concerts
Wednesday 15 July, 12:15pm – NZSM Classical voice students
Wednesday 22 July, 12:15pm – NZSM Woodwind soloists
Lunchtime concerts at St Andrew's showcasing NZSM’s talented students – free entry. Further information can be found on the St Andrew's website here.
Old St Paul's Lunchtime Concerts
Tuesday 21 July, 12:15pm - Olivia Marshall, NZSM Vocal Ensemble
Tuesday 28 July, 12:15pm - NZSM Woodwind Ensembles
Free lunchtime concerts at Old St Paul's, further info on their website here.
Composer Workshops
Wednesday 15 July, 3:10pm, ACR - Introduction to Composition at NZSM
Wednesday 22 July, 3:10pm, ACR - NZTrio
Wednesday 29 July, 3:10pm, ACR - Keith Kirchoff
Guest presentations by established composers discussing their work and their ideas about composition, and workshop performances of student compositions. Composer workshops are also open to the University community and general public. Admission is free. For further information please visit the composer workshop page on the NZSM website.
Music Forum
Friday 17 July, 3:10pm, ACR
Friday 24 July, 3:10pm, ACR
Friday 31 July, 3:10pm, ACR
A seminar series hosted by the NZSM Music Studies Programme. Staff, graduate students and distinguished visiting speakers present recently completed research, or discuss work in progress. Music Forum is open to all members of the University community and the public. Admission is free. For further information email events@nzsm.ac.nz
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Support the musicians, composers and scholars of the future
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For some of New Zealand's most talented musicians, the only thing that stands in the way of their dreams is the lack of funds to make them real.
By making a lifetime donation or a gift in your will to the New Zealand School of Music, you can help young musicians to fulfil their ambitions.
For further information on how you can provide support for students at the New Zealand School of Music, please contact:
Euan Murdoch
NZSM Director
Ph: 04 463 5860
Email: euan.murdoch@nzsm.ac.nz
or
Rosalene Fogel
Development Manager -- Planned Giving
Victoria University of Wellington Foundation
Ph: 0800 VIC LEGACY (0800 842 534)
Email: rosalene.fogel@vuw.ac.nz
www.victoria.ac.nz/foundation
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