Lunch time concerts

Join us for our weekly lunchtime concert series and feel free to bring a bag lunch. This week, we take a trip through the Flute Family from the cheeky, bright piccolo, through the sonorous C flute to the rich, deep alto flute. Music from North and South America: Gary Schocker and Astor Piazzolla, and England: […]

Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in Eb Major, Op. 74 “Harp” Webern’s Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) Join us for the weekly lunchtime concert series at St Andrew's on The Terrace. This week, we present a string quartet of NZSO musicians: Christine Wang, Julia Broom, Alex McFarlane and Ken Ichinose. Christine Wang – Violin Prior to […]

Programme Ravel - Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit: Bizet - Jeux d'enfants, Op. 22 No. 1 - L'escarpolette – reverie (The Swing) No. 3 - La poupée – berceuse (The Doll) No. 4 - Les chevaux de bois – scherzo (The Merry-go-round) No. 6 - Trompette et tambour – marche (Trumpet and Drum) No. […]

Join us for a fantastic concert in our regular weekly lunchtime series at St Andrew's on The Terrace. This week, we feature a Flute and Guitar Duo, with Elsa Shih and Sirisan Sobhanasiri. Elsa Shih graduated from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK) with a MMus degree. She studied with Marie-Christine Zupancic at Birmingham Conservatoire. She was […]

Stringendo was formed in 2015 by Donald Maurice and Rupa Maitra. Donald and Rupa saw that there was an opportunity to provide younger string players with an opportunity to play together as an orchestra. Alex Vaatstra has been directing the orchestra since the start of 2022. The focus of Stringendo is to develop younger string players with […]

Moira Hurst, Calvin Scott, Oscar Laven, Mark Cookson, David Codd, Rebecca Steel perform Janacek’s Mladi and Francaix's Sextet.