CONCERTS 2023
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Auckland Chamber Choir
presents GLORIANA
A concert of choral music, either written for or closely associated with European coronations.
Join the Auckland Chamber Choir as we present Mozart's Coronation Mass and Britten's Gloriana Dances. The choir will also be joined by Choralation from Westlake Girls & Boys Schools, and other singers and instrumentalists from the University of Auckland's School of Music.
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George Frederic Handel | "Zadok the Priest" from Coronation Anthems
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Coronation Mass K.317
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Benjamin Britten | Gloriana Dances
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Orlando Gibbons | Hosanna to the Son of David
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Hubert Parry | I was Glad
TUESDAY
6
JUNE
12.10pm
First Tuesday Concert Series
Francis-Lee Duo
Charlotte Francis, violin
Gemma Lee, piano
All Together Now
The massed choirs of All Together Now present:
Midwinter Christmas
A fundraiser for the Auckland City Mission
All Together Now is a group of 6 all-comers’ choirs from Auckland, Taupō and Tauranga. Our mission is to create welcoming communities where people can enjoy singing together and develop their musical and singing skills.
All Together Now has a long-standing connection with Auckland City Mission and regularly holds fundraising concerts, as well as Christmas busking every year in a number of Auckland shopping malls, with profits going to the Mission.
Come along and enjoy a fun and varied performance by our choirs and support Auckland City Mission! Who knows, you might even be inspired to join us!
Baroque Innovations (NZSO)
Biber - Harmonia Artificiosa
Vesa-Matti Leppänen Director/Violin
Vesa-Matti Leppänen and musicians from the NZSO string section present a scintillating Baroque rarity: Heinrich Ignaz Biber’s Harmonia artificiosa.
The 17th-century composer Biber was also a violinist, and a darn good one. With lefthand and bowing techniques that far outstripped that of his Italian contemporaries, his works for strings reflected his virtuosic violin playing. Nowadays Biber is most often associated with scordatura – that is, tuning an instrument’s strings to notes other than the norm. His Harmonia artificiosa (1696) consists of seven partitas, six of which require unusual tunings and consequently lead to extraordinarily complex harmonies and polyphonic effects. Grab your chance to hear this monumental work by a seventeenth-century maverick.
TUESDAY
4
JULY
12.10pm
First Tuesday Concert Series
Yid-Ee Go, violin and Lisa Chou, piano
TUESDAY
22
JULY
7.30pm
Auckland Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover (Germany)
Auckland Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover (Germany)
TUESDAY
1
AUGUST
12.10pm
First Tuesday Concert Series
Dilworth College choirs
SATURDAY
19
AUGUST
7.30pm
Auckland Youth Choir
Winter Concert
TUESDAY
5
SEPTEMBER
12.10pm
First Tuesday Concert Series
St Matthew's Voices
TUESDAY
3
OCTOBER
12.10pm
First Tuesday Concert Series
First Tuesday Concert
St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra (SMCO)
Elgar - Introduction & Allegro Op 47
Bizet - Symphony No 1 in C
Taylor - Silk / Gravel
Beethoven - Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano Op 56 in C
Conductor - Michael Joel
Soloists - Monique Lapins, violin,
Ken Ichinose, cello,
Gabriela Glapska, piano
TUESDAY
7
NOVEMBER
12.10pm
First Tuesday Concert Series
Nicholas Forbes, organ