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2026 · 16

30 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Nature and art, architecture and philosophy – Orchestra Wellington’s epic 2026 “Revelations”

21 Sept · Old St Paul’s · Peter Mechen

NZ Trio with sonorous help from friends, continues to enchant

17 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington’s “Colossal” triumphantly ticks all the descriptive and presentation boxes

10 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

The Dolfin-Lin Duo – positively tingling with spontaneous re-discovery!

15 Aug · Peter Mechen

New Zealand String Quartet bring to us music with “the beauty of loneliness, pain, strength and freedom”

12 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Classics and commemoratives from the splendid Aroha Quartet

8 Jul · Futuna Chapel · Peter Mechen

Music that unfurls the Colours of Karori’s splendid Futuna Chapel

26 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

A world-encircling winter solstice concert compendium – from the Wellington City Orchestra

16 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Aotearoa and China – a musical dialogue presented by Jian Liu

26 May · Peter Mechen

NZTrio’s sensational Dreamscape Concert sweet relief for Wellington

14 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Trio Obscura – singular tones and timbres bringing to life old and new music with verve and sensitivity

10 May · Peter Mechen

Tales of the New Zealand String Quartet 2026

27 Apr · Futuna Chapel · Peter Mechen

Gary Wilby – To those who dwell in realms of day…….

1 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Music from the memory, in the air and on the wing – all from Wellington City Orchestra’s opening 2026 concert!

25 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Still more musical miracles reported and evidenced in Wellington, this time at Roseneath’s The Long Hall!

3 Mar · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Peter Mechen

Sonic Architecture and Musical Splendour at Wellington Cathedral of St.Paul

2025 · 14

12 Dec · Peter Mechen

Melencolia – ANTHONY RITCHIE – Three String Quartets, from the Jade String Quartet

9 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS – Wellington City Orchestra’s congress of assorted realities

25 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Music from Home and Abroad – for its time and for all time

22 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO’s Symphonic Dances concert explores Nature, Life and Love

24 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

ENEMY OF THE STATE – a multivaried concert experience with Psathas, Glazunov and Shostakovich

3 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

NZTrio – “fantastique” here in Wellington in every way

31 Aug · Public Trust Hall · Peter Mechen

STROMA – a quarter-century of recreated effervescence in heaven and earth!

13 Jul · Peter Mechen

A double bill from Wellington Opera which pulled no punches – Dame Gillian Whitehead’s Mate Ururoa, with Ross Harris’s Notes From the Front

25 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington City Orchestra – a Matariki celebration of nature, legend and art

5 Jun · Dan Poynton

The First Smile – 50 years of Gamelan in Aotearoa New Zealand – a celebration!

30 May · Peter Mechen

John Psathas’s “Leviathan” – genre-defying and irresistible

17 May · Peter Mechen

Home for the Winter with Hannah Darroch and Liam Wooding

4 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne French

A Trio of International Consequence

2 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

A tantalizing 2025 season’s beginning – from Wellington Chamber Music

2024 · 12

1 Jan · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington City Orchestra – heartily home-grown with Lilburn and Anthony Ritchie and gloriously global with Inbal Megiddo in Shostakovich

9 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington – heroically fulfilling the need for music

16 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Jack Body’s 80th birthday concert – music and creativity of enduring worth

27 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

The Ghost Trio completes a great 2024 for Wellington Chamber Music Concert Series

15 Aug · Peter Mechen

Where Fairburn Walked – worlds of home-grown sounds

15 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Aroha Quartet goes even one better with Oleksandr Gunchenko’s double-bass

30 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington City Orchestra sounds a classy farewell to conductor Rachel Hyde

24 May · Public Trust Hall · Anne French

Mostly youthful music presented with aplomb by the NZ Trio

20 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Conductor Han-Na-Chang’s NZSO debut in music by Leonie Holmes, Richard Strauss and Pyotr Tchaikovsky

12 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

An exuberant ‘Cello-and-Piano concert from Robert Ibell and Rachel Thomson

7 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Maya Field

Sighs, spontaneities and serenade snatches from the NZSM String Ensemble at St. Andrew’s

23 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Roger Wilson’s and Guy Donaldson’s “Son vecchio ma robusto” tribute to age and experience at St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace, Wellington

2023 · 13

28 Nov · Peter Mechen

“A sense of belonging somewhere” – The New Zealand String Quartet’s “Notes from a Journey” on Atoll Records

29 Oct · St Mary of the Angels · Peter Mechen

Robert Wiremu’s REIMAGINING MOZART – a mind-enlarging expression of human tragedy in music

10 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Anton Webern steals the show! – Orchestra Wellington and Marc Taddei with “Pharaoh”

5 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington’s “Prophecy” – promise and fulfilment by young composers

27 Jul · St James Theatre · Peter Mechen

Celebrating 70 Years – Royal New Zealand Ballet’s “Lightscapes”

30 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Bravo NYO!

18 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Mark Menzies and Michael Endres – linking worlds with violin and piano

4 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Sounds of Home from man and guitar transcend wet and gloom

3 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Myth and Ritual in everyday life – from Orchestra Wellington

11 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Tribute to Souvenirs, Sovereigns and Soulmates from the NZSO

7 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne French

Les Voisins – delicious distortions, with swing

31 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Mirror of the World – Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony in Wellington

26 Feb · Steven Sedley

TAIORO

2022 · 13

30 Oct · Steven Sedley

NZ Chamber Soloists add lustre to final 2022 Waikanae Concert

15 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

The River of Youth – Arohanui Strings and Orchestra Wellington

2 Oct · Peter Mechen

DUO ENHARMONICS Piano Duo – a Blockbuster of a Concert!

1 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

A concert of “music from then and now” with the NZSO

20 Sept · Opera House · Steven Sedley

Music to celebrate an anniversary of international friendship

17 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Towards a new Romantic language

6 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

NZSO under New management

4 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

The band is back – NZSO with Hilary Hahn and Gemma New

31 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Plaudits for the Wellington Youth Orchestra with Donald Maurice

19 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne French

The long way to Bohemia

28 May · Rebecca Stanton

“Packed (and) buzzing” audience acclaim Wellington Chamber Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Concert

20 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Music of our time – Duo Enharmonics and Ensemble Gȏ, at St.Andrew’s

16 Feb · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Taioro – words and music of Aotearoa New Zealand at St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace, Wellington

2021 · 13

3 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Resounding Huia calls and Tui songs from pre-1950 New Zealand composers

15 Nov · Anne French

What I would take through death’s dark door

12 Nov · Public Trust Hall · Rebecca Stanton

From the Bush to the Ballroom: the NZSQ Plays Music from Aotearoa and Central Europe

29 Oct · Peter Mechen

SILVER STONE WOOD BONE a miracle of evocation from Rattle Records

13 Oct · Peter Mechen

Wellington’s Ghost Trio’s flair and brilliance concludes an eventful 2021 for Chamber Music Hutt Valley

27 Jul · Peter Mechen

Liam Wooding – Reflections and Connections at Woburn’s St.Mark’s Church, Lower Hutt

25 Jul · Peter Mechen

Monstrous and idiosynchrophiliac goings-on with Stroma at Wellington’s Bats Theatre

18 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne French

Jade Quartet presents a somewhat “patchworked” concert at St.Andrew’s

11 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

A girdle about the earth from Antarctica to Leningrad – the NZSO National Youth Orchestra concert

4 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne French

Spacious, enraptured, beautiful – Wellington Chamber Orchestra with Baroque Voices and Nota Bene

14 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Holly Mathieson’s “Dream” debut concert with the NZSO….

8 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Music of magical flight – Palmer, Mozart and Stravinsky from the NZSO

16 Feb · Old St Paul’s · Peter Mechen

Vibrant Concerti Grossi old and new light up a refurbished Old St.Paul’s in Thorndon

2020 · 18

22 Dec · Peter Mechen

Now on CD! – Claire Cowan’s incandescent score for the RNZB’s recent “Hansel and Gretel”, played by the NZSO with Hamish McKeich

18 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

At last! – the 2020 NZSO National Youth Orchestra gets to show what it can do

5 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Orchestra Wellington: huge percussion resources exploited in Psathas masterpiece from Olympus complemented by huge Rachmaninov symphony

3 Dec · Circa Theatre · Peter Mechen

“The Older the Better” – a triumph of age and experience at Circa Theatre

2 Dec · Peter Mechen

Gareth Farr’s “Chemin des Dames” Concerto and Elgar’s ‘Cello Concerto together a powerful “concerted” statement on disc

20 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO with three widely varied works: two masterpieces and a charming, approachable New Zealand concerto

27 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO’s “Eroica” programme title lives up to its name at Wellington’s MFC

26 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington delivers spectacular concert of two great classics and a major New Zealand work

26 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

NZSM Orchestra with conductor Hamish McKeich showcases achievements by 2020 award-winning composer and instrumentalist at St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace, Wellington

19 Sept · Peter Mechen

Voices of Women – A New Zealand sufferage celebration by Janet Jennings

11 Sept · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

Four-handed piano delights from Sunny Cheng and Kris Zuelicke at the NZSM’s Adam Concert Room in Wellington

8 Sept · Peter Mechen

Intensity, conflict, and resolve from the Aroha Quartet and oboist Robert Orr at Lower Hutt

16 Aug · Peter Mechen

Baroque Voices’ “Bingen to Becker” a harmonious celebration

17 Jul · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

Ghost Trio haunts sensibilities long after final notes in concert sounded

26 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

First in the world with a normal public concert : NZSO’s record, celebrating the emergence from Covid 19 lock-down

10 Mar · Calvin Scott

Musical voyages to distant places – Jenny Wollerman with the New Zealand String Quartet

8 Mar · Peter Mechen

Wanganui Music Society 75th Jubilee Concert includes Wellington guest musicians

22 Feb · Peter Mechen

Jonathan Lemalu and Virtuoso Strings blaze forth in Porirua’s Te Ata Festival

2019 · 20

1 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Haydn, Brahms and Brigid Bisley in superb recital from Diedre Irons and the Aroha Quartet

30 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Enthusiastic reception by big audience for Orchestra Wellington’s final 2019 concert of remarkable but unfamiliar music

24 Nov · Peter Mechen

“Cello for Africa” at Porirua City a spectacular and moving multi-cultural collaborative event

17 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Extraordinary SMP Ensemble Commemorative Concert missing a part but nevertheless packing a punch

10 Nov · Peter Mechen

“Kristallnacht” at the Wellington Jewish Community Centre – brilliant and deeply-felt performances of significant music

24 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Admirable NZSO concert touching several rewarding themes: all German apart from Ken Young’s new piece

20 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Delightful, delicious, and declamatory – a “no-holds-barred” night with Marc Taddei and Orchestra Wellington

19 Sept · Peter Mechen

Stroma breathes life into its collection of “Sonic Portraits”

8 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Jennifer Stumm and Te Koki Trio share honours at Wellington’s MFC

2 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Innovative, adventurous, AND intensely musical!! – “Pictures” with Orchestra Wellington and Marc Taddei

1 Aug · Peter Mechen

Voices of the World – Stroma’s ambient “girdle round about the earth”

27 Jul · Peter Mechen

Warming our hearts in mid-winter – Cantoris directed by Thomas Nikora

17 Jul · Peter Mechen

Extraordinary music-making from the 2019 Adam Troubadours

13 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Splendid, richly satisfying NZSO concert of four strongly contrasted works played with mastery and conviction

10 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Medlyn and Greager give rewarding and intelligent recital of early 20th century songs, plus four by Vincent O’Sullivan/Ross Harris

7 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Wellington Chamber Music’s fine, imaginative violin and piano recital from Beer and Watkins

20 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

NZSO marks Blake’s retirement with his haunting ‘Angel at Ahipara’, plus splendid Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky

30 May · Hannah Playhouse · Steven Sedley

Stroma enhances Wellington with music inspired by where sea meets sky

21 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

NZSM Orchestra speaks its concert presentation’s name with skill and conviction at St.Andrew’s

13 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wilma and Friends win all hearts at Wellington Chamber Music’s first 2019 concert

2018 · 28

1 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Creative, thrilling and heart-warming conclusion to Orchestra Wellington’s 2018 season

29 Nov · Peter Mechen

Beautiful, visceral, hypnotic, disconcerting – Stroma’s “essential experimental” at Wellington’s Pyramid Club

13 Oct · Circa Theatre · Peter Mechen

Circa Theatre’s “Under Milk Wood” a vital and rumbustious celebration of “LLareggub”

2 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

300 years of riches from the NZSM Orchestra – What is it about Bartok’s Second Violin Concerto this year?

26 Sept · Peter Mechen

Too important to let go – Ashley Brown with a “new” NZTrio for Braid, a Suffrage Year concert

19 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

125th Women’s Suffrage Anniversary Concert with Cantoris in Wellington

15 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Some great hits from NZSO’s popular classics concert; a win by a big margin

2 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Richard Mapp at St.Andrew’s in Wellington – piano-playing with a quality of connection

29 Aug · Peter Mechen

Stroma – Iconic Sonics at the City Gallery, Wellington…..revisiting the new, along with the new

25 Aug · Lindis Taylor

Musically satisfying concert of three disparate works, from New Zealand String Quartet

19 Aug · Peter Mechen

East and West mingle at Wellington Youth Orchestra Concert

29 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Swedish-New Zealand ensemble beguiles Waikanae with varied pieces: brand new, interesting, much loved

26 Jul · Peter Mechen

Klara Kollektiv musicians vary the musical fare to resounding effect

27 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

The Heath Quartet – from church and the chamber to the open air

23 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO in splendid form under Harth-Bedoya with Brahms and Tchaikovsky

8 Jun · Peter Mechen

Faith and Commitment: Tony Vercoe and the Kiwi-Pacific Records Story

26 May · Lindis Taylor

Liturgical music, dramatic and meditative in splendid Orpheus Choir concert

20 May · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Lindis Taylor

Unusual but timely concert by Supertonic, dynamic mixture of the musical, the political, the sexual

1 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Pianist Tony Chen Lin’s debut CD for Rattle a must-hear….

22 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Behn String Quartet opens Wellington Chamber Music’s 2018 season – brilliantly

21 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Sasha Cooke’s entrancing Berlioz songs, a bewitching premiere and masterpieces of Debussy and Ravel: thanks to De Waart and the NZSO

17 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

NZSM Orchestra’s “Triple” celebration with the Te Kōkī Trio

26 Mar · Peter Mechen

Brilliance and feeling from the Mazzoli Trio at Lower Hutt

20 Mar · Circa Theatre · Peter Mechen

Switzerland – Circa Theatre’s absorbing “life and art” thriller

6 Mar · St Mary of the Angels · Rosemary Collier

Remarkable integration of musical cultures in spite of documentation and presentation shortcomings

28 Feb · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Berkahn shows how you can have fun with Bach

23 Feb · Peter Mechen

Two resounding recordings from Rattle – classics and a feisty newcomer

19 Feb · Rosemary Collier

Atoll Records releases CD conspectus of Ken Wilson: Music For Winds

2017 · 27

20 Dec · St Mary of the Angels · Peter Mechen

Gaudete at St Mary of the Angels with Baroque Voices and Palliser Viols

10 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Admirable Sibelius as well as Lilburn and a rare trombone concerto from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

16 Nov · Alan Wells

Stroma’s “Spectral Electric” concert at City Art Gallery

4 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington out-performs the fireworks with a stunning “Petrouchka”

19 Oct · Alan Wells

Maximum Minimalism – simple, state-of-the-art complexities from Stroma

15 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Wilma Smith and Friends play fine programme for Wellington Chamber Music

1 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

China/New Zealand Ode to the Moon concert with a radiant Aroha Quartet

26 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Breaths of fresh air – the Imani Winds hit Wellington

10 Sept · Peter Mechen

Playing with fire – music that sears and burns, from the New Zealand String Quartet

6 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Madrigals-a-go! defined, declared and delivered by Cantoris with director Thomas Nikora

22 Aug · Alan Wells

“New Look” NZ Trio performs old and new at Wellington City Gallery

11 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Mahler, Berg – and Salina Fisher, from the NZSO – music of innocence and experience

4 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Enthusiastic reception of nicely varied programme from Takács Quartet

1 Aug · Peter Mechen

Beauty, poignancy, energy, focus – Kenneth Young’s CD “Shadows and Light”

30 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Xenia Pestova – an interpreter for all ages, at St.Andrew’s, Wellington

29 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Splendid Bartók; evocative New Zealand piece; guitarist substitution perhaps not a misfortune

24 Jul · Lindis Taylor

Adventurous, revelatory concert by Troubadour String Quartet in Lower Hutt

14 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Adventurous, quirky, energetic – a musical-life experience for the 2017 NZSONYO

9 Jul · Circa Theatre · Peter Mechen

Destination Beehive 2017 at Circa Theatre – too serious to be taken seriously

28 May · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

Baroque Voices pay rich homage to NZ “Masters”

20 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Splendid NZSO concert with a greatly gifted cellist and young conductor prodigy

13 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

“Firebird” from Orchestra Wellington an incendiary experience

8 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Piano and string quartet in unexpectedly contrasting scene

5 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Aotearoa Plus from the NZSO set alight by Gareth Farr premiere

30 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

NZTrio at St.Andrew’s in Wellington – and homage to Justine Cormack

28 Apr · Peter Mechen

Bach père et fils, and antipodean Baroque resoundings, from Ensemble Paladino

14 Apr · Lindis Taylor

Marking Holy Week through Biblical Lamentations and music inspired by 20th century atrocities

2016 · 17

26 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Galvanic lunch hour with the Rangapu Duo at St.Andrew’s

2 Oct · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Peter Mechen

Passage of the Soul – commemorative and reflective beauty at Wellington Cathedral

17 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Quintessence on show via youth and experience at Michael Fowler Centre

16 Sept · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

NZ Trio with Xia Jing – violin, ‘cello, piano and guzheng

11 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Tony Chen Lin – piano evocations, visions and premonitions at St.Andrew’s

26 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Temples on the heights and simple dwellings – Ludwig Treviranus at St.Andrew’s

22 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Emma Sayers – piano recital of connections, dedications and premieres

16 Jun · Alan Wells

Feast of music, art and ambiences – NZTrio’s “Zoom” at Wellington’s City Gallery

20 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Enso String Quartet highly impressive in all eras particularly 20th century France

6 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO ‘wastes its sweetness upon the desert air’ with some splendid, approachable, 21st century music

21 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO and Madeleine Pierard with Ross Harris’s anguished Second Symphony to mark ANZAC Day

14 Apr · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

After fifty-seven years of public neglect – Farquhar’s First Symphony from the NZSM and Ken Young

10 Apr · Rosemary Collier

Aroha Quartet revisits Waikanae Music Society with polished, well-balanced programme

17 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Enterprising concert of New Zealand music at St Andrew’s lunchtime

15 Mar · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Peter Mechen

Gareth Farr’s Relict Furies – resonant and moving at Wellington Cathedral

3 Mar · Peter Mechen

Brass Poppies – ordinary people at war

28 Feb · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Worlds brought more closely together – the Miyata-Yoshimura-Suzuki Trio

2015 · 20

28 Nov · Peter Mechen

Bach Choir hits the Christmas Spot

14 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Trombone meets harp – the intractable made enjoyable!

26 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Aroha Quartet , with SOUNZ and RNZ Concert, does local composers proud

19 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Hamish McKeich’s final WYO concert a knockout

6 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

NZSM Voice-Students at St Andrew’s

1 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Worlds of Music – Lilburn, Vaughan Williams and Mozart from the NZSM Orchestra

23 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

JS BACH since the time of Bach – Michael Houstoun

20 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Welllington Chamber Orchestra – significant, important, moving……

30 Aug · Peter Mechen

Aural (and visual) feast from Stroma at the Wellington City Gallery

22 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Clik the ensemble – you’ll be glad you did….

31 Jul · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

HOME-GROWN SOUNDS OF CHARACTER

22 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Mellifluous reeds hold sway at St.Andrew’s

2 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

The Apprentice, La Mer, Ibert’s flute concerto and an enchanting francophone premiere from National Youth Orchestra

21 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Unmissable violin sonata programme from APO’s Canadian concertmaster and Sarah Watkins

10 Jun · Peter Mechen

Jack Body – lightning leaping from the pages

9 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZTrio’s fascinating collaboration with three young composers in a range of their and other contemporary works

1 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO with Lilburn’s Symphony No 2, his successor’s impressive piece plus striking Swedish composer and trombonist

27 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO and Sydney Symphony Orchestra in moving shared ANZAC concert of new works by composers of both countries

9 Feb · Lindis Taylor

Last three days of the triumphant 2015 Chamber Music Festival in Nelson

5 Feb · Lindis Taylor

Nelson chamber music festival: the second three days, with a trip to St Arnaud

2014 · 30

15 Nov · Lindis Taylor

Diverting and wide-ranging concert from the SMP Ensemble

5 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · admin

Carnival for Guy Fawkes’ Day – the music of Alfred Hill

2 Nov · Futuna Chapel · Peter Mechen

Ballades, Songs and Snatches – singer and piper at Futuna Chapel

29 Oct · Peter Mechen

“Nature, Life and Love” for our time, from the NZTrio

26 Oct · Futuna Chapel · Rosemary Collier

Two Harps create magic at Futuna Chapel

19 Oct · Peter Mechen

Yvette Audain and friends “in the groove” – a new CD

28 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Tests of character – Wellington Chamber Music recital from Ludwig Treviranus

26 Sept · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

SMP Ensemble – Sound Barrel a “lucky dip” for this listener!

14 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Nota Bene splendidly celebrates its 10th Anniversary

14 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

Eggner Trio and Amihai Grosz win all hearts

2 Sept · Peter Mechen

Passion and circumspection from the wonderful Faust Quartet

18 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO National Youth Orchestra 2014 tackles showpieces with a will

13 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Dalecarlia Quintet in a third and different programme in Greater Wellington

6 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – nostalgia, high spirits and adventure

3 Jul · Peter Mechen

Dalecarlia Clarinet Quintet – getting the music through….

28 Jun · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Baroque Voices – resplendent 20th birthday offerings

26 Jun · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Stroma’s third “Mirror of Time” – thoroughly engaging fun

4 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Aspects of nature, life and love, from the NZSM Orchestra

18 May · Rosemary Collier

Innovative and balanced programme from Aroha Quartet at Waikanae

14 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · admin

Diverting woodwinds a delight from first to last at St Andrew’s

10 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

The Orpheus Choir – music of here, and now……

9 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

James MacMillan conducts NZSO in his own and Cresswell’s music of the past twenty years

8 May · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

Remembering David – a Farquhar tribute from the NZSM

3 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO scores a success in recent music delving some of the world’s tragedies

27 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Piano trios in sparkling performances by Waikato-based ensemble

23 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Robbie Ellis – laughter, delight and provocation for lunch…..

14 Apr · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

“Body Beautiful” excites, awe-inspires, and charms as a life’s occupation is celebrated.

28 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

NZSO with Farr’s first piano concerto plus Respighi celebrating Rome

26 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Aspects of conflict in Brio’s “Peace and War” at St.Andrew’s

10 Mar · St James Theatre · admin

Distinguish Strike and Psathas from the hoi poloi of noise makers of the gig world

2013 · 21

12 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

NZSO’s “Tall Tales and Tangos” musically resplendent but dramatically inert

11 Oct · Peter Mechen

Remembering Katherine Mansfield 125 years on

5 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Courageous Wellington Youth Orchestra tackles enterprising programme amid space difficulties

30 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

Goldner Quartet and Piers Lane shine and glow…

21 Sept · Peter Mechen

China meets New Zealand in music – the NZ Trio

13 Sept · Adam Concert Room · Rosemary Collier

Gorgeous concert of New Zealand commissions for voice and harp

8 Sept · Opera House · Peter Mechen

Fancies and realities from Orchestra Wellington

1 Sept · Peter Mechen

Stroma – the Elemental and the Fabulous

30 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

2013 National Youth Orchestra shines and glows

27 Aug · Lindis Taylor

NZ Trio at the City Art Gallery with the typically multifaceted programme

23 Aug · Adam Concert Room · Alan Wells

NZSM tutors as composers and performers

21 Aug · Adam Concert Room · Alan Wells

Electric music and music-theatre – Nicholas Isherwood

1 Aug · Alan Wells

Stroma, with percussionist Claire Edwardes

7 Jul · Rosemary Collier

Beauty and truth from Amici at Waikanae

23 Jun · Rosemary Collier

Old and new, far and near, from the New Zealand String Quartet

14 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Antipodean stargazing and planetwatching from the NZSO

26 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Orchestra of Swing, courtesy of “The Duke”

11 May · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

Wellington Youth Orchestra trumps with Shostakovich

10 May · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

NZSO performs Hear and Far, but all contemporary, to warm reception

13 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO’s “Home is where the Heart is….”

8 Feb · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Youthful brilliance from the NZSO National Youth Orchestra

2012 · 13

9 Dec · Peter Mechen

Turning over a Blue Leaf – Adam Page and Stroma

2 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Worlds Old and New, from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

28 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Bryant-Greene and Atkins give enjoyable recital of New Zealand piano music

13 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Nicola Benedetti and the NZSO show their class

1 Sept · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Gendall’s Triple Concerto perplexing highlight of Wellington Orchestra concert

1 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Triple the pleasure and more at St.Andrew’s

25 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Wonderland in name and deed – Made In New Zealand

18 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Pianist Nicola Melville returns to give memorable recital at St Andrew’s

14 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Triumphant NZSO concert by Inkinen in Mahler, Stravinsky and Lilburn

15 Mar · Opera House · Peter Mechen

Great enthusiasm at Jenny McLeod’s “Hōhepa” premiere

10 Mar · Peter Mechen

Jenny McLeod’s “Peter Pan” music on Naxos

9 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Words, music – and film : Jenny McLeod and Serge Prokofiev

12 Feb · Peter Mechen

Michael Houstoun’s musical journeyings at Waikanae

2011 · 9

2 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Douglas Lilburn’s “Winterreise” twice-told by Roger Wilson and Bruce Greenfield

9 Oct · St Mary of the Angels · Rosemary Collier

Imaginative New Zealand choral music from innovative Tudor Consort

30 Sept · St Mary of the Angels · Lindis Taylor

Seven Strings by Candlelight: New Zealand String Quartet plus 3 at St Mary of the Angels

14 Sept · Peter Mechen

A new generation’s Lilburn, from Atoll Records

11 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Gao Ping’s winning presentation of Debussy, New Zealand and east Asian piano music

18 Aug · Rosemary Collier

The Plight of the Dischords, aka, New Zealand Clarinet Quartet

10 Jun · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

NZSM string players mark 10th anniversary of Lilburn’s death: ambient problems

13 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Made in New Zealand – Enchanted Islands

9 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Colours rich and strange, from the SMP Ensemble

2010 · 10

19 Oct · Lindis Taylor

NEWS: Broadcasting New Zealand music from Radio NZ’s archive

16 Oct · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Sweet Dreams from The Song Company

24 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

William Green (piano) on The Enchanted Island

30 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

SOUNZtender – NZ Music going for a song…..

9 May · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Songs My Mother Taught Me – Mother’s Day Music from Nota Bene

7 May · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

NZSO demonstrates a century of New Zealand music

28 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Towards a musical cross-fertilisation at St Andrew’s

25 Apr · Peter Mechen

HellHereNow – Anzacs at Gallipoli, Pataka Museum, Porirua

16 Apr · Rosemary Collier

New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir astonish in competition sampler

17 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

St Andrew’s: a Tuesday of New Zealand music

2009 · 2

18 Apr · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

PULSE – Vector Wellington Orchestra’s first 2009 subscription concert

24 Jan · Lindis Taylor