Helen Pohl, violin
Douglas Beilman, violin
Gillian Ansell, viola
Rolf Gjelsten, cello |
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New Zealand
String Quartet
October 29, 2007 |
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Program
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
String Quartet Opus 44 No. 1 in D Major
Molto Allegro vivace
Menuetto: Un poco Allegretto
Andante espressivo ma con moto
Presto con brio
Tan Dun (b.1957)
Eight Colors
Peking Opera
Shadows
Pink Actress
Black Dance
Zen
Drum and Gong
Cloudiness
Red Sona
Intermission
Gao Ping (b.1970)
Bright Light and Cloud Shadows
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet in F Major Opus 41 No. 2
Allegro Vivace
Andante, quasi variazioni
Scherzo : Presto
Allegro molto vivace
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About the New Zealand String
Quartet
The New Zealand String Quartet has distinguished itself
internationally for its imaginative and unique programming,
including cycles of composers' music from Mozart to Berg, and
the championing of works from New Zealand and the Pacific Rim.
They have won praise for their versatility in performing with
jazz artists and indigenous musicians as well as for their fresh
approach to the great classics of the quartet repertoire.
In their busy recent seasons the group has made acclaimed
debuts in London at Wigmore Hall and in New York at the
prestigious Frick Collection. They have recently given an
extensive tour of Korea, two North American tours, a first tour
of Mexico including two concerts at the Cervantino International
Festival and some forty concerts in New Zealand alone.
The New Zealand String Quartet has been featured on North
America's popular public radio programme "St Paul Sunday",
and has recorded for Deutsche Welle, CBC in Canada, and
Australia's ABC, as well as regularly appearing on Radio New
Zealand's fine music network Concert FM. Their extensive
discography includes works from the standard quartet repertoire
by composers such as Bartók, Ravel, Debussy, Beethoven,
Dvorák, Berg and Wolf, as well as the premiere recording
of the remarkable Zoltan Székely quartet, and numerous
works by acclaimed New Zealand composers. They recently began a
3-year project for the Naxos label, which will release their
complete Mendelssohn quartets.
The ensemble's innovative collaborations have included
performances of concertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony, the
Auckland Chamber Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony. They
have performed with internationally renowned artists such as
Colin Carr, Anton Kuerti, Frans Helmerson, James Campbell,
Alexander Lonquich, Piers Lane, Nobuko Imai, Hariolf Schlichtig,
Christoph Richter, Atar Arad, and Peter Nágy; the
Lafayette, Lindsay and Goldner quartets, as well as jazz greats
Mike Nock, Jim Hall and Wayne Marshall.
The New Zealand String Quartet participates regularly in a
number of international chamber music festivals, including
recent appearances at the Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound,
Ontario, Music Mountain in Lakeville, Connnecticut and the
Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Queensland.
Quartet members play a central role in the biennial Adam Chamber
Music Festival in Nelson, New Zealand; two members of the
Quartet are Artistic Directors of this Festival and the ensemble
plays in many of the concerts of the two week event, working
with international guest artists. In 2007 these included the
Michelangelo Quartet and James Campbell, clarinet.
Dedicated teachers as well as performers, the group has
been Quartet-in-Residence at Victoria University of Wellington,
now the New Zealand School of Music, since 1991. In North
America they have been artist/teachers-in-residence at the Banff
Center, Quartet Fest West, and the Quartet Programme at Bucknell
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The New Zealand String Quartet is represented by
Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd., NY.
www.jwentworth.com
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