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CONCERTS 2023

Would you like to have your concert at St Matthew's?

Please fill out the Booking Form and we will be in touch advising on the availability of the date and the cost.

SATURDAY

3

JUNE

7.30pm

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.

  • George Frederic Handel | "Zadok the Priest" from Coronation Anthems

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Coronation Mass K.317

  • Benjamin Britten | Gloriana Dances

  • Orlando Gibbons | Hosanna to the Son of David

  • Hubert Parry | I was Glad

TUESDAY

6

JUNE

12.10pm

ENTRY BY KOHA

First Tuesday Concert Series

Francis-Lee Duo

Charlotte Francis, violin

Gemma Lee, piano

SUNDAY

11

JUNE

3.30pm

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!

SUNDAY

18

JUNE

2.30pm

St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra (SMCO)

Mendelssohn F - Overture in C

Schubert - Symphony No 4 D417 in C minor ‘Tragic’

Brahms - Piano Concerto No 1 Op 15 in D minor

Conductor - Michael Joel

Soloist - Sylvia Jiang, piano

SUNDAY

22

JUNE

7.30pm

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

ENTRY BY KOHA

First Tuesday Concert Series

Yid-Ee Go, violin and Lisa Chou, piano

TUESDAY

22

JULY

7.30pm

TICKET INFO TBC

Auckland Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover (Germany)

Auckland Youth Choir & Junges Vokalensemble, Hannover (Germany)

TUESDAY

1

AUGUST

12.10pm

ENTRY BY KOHA

First Tuesday Concert Series

Dilworth College choirs

SATURDAY

19

AUGUST

7.30pm

TICKET INFO TBC

Auckland Youth Choir

Winter Concert

SUNDAY

20

AUGUST

2.30pm

St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra (SMCO)

Mozart - Symphony No 29 K201 in A

Webster - Commissioned work for Oboe and Orchestra

Mendelssohn - Symphony No 4 Op 90 in A ‘Italian’

Conductor - Michael Joel

Soloist - Thomas Hutchinson, oboe

TUESDAY

5

SEPTEMBER

12.10pm

ENTRY BY KOHA

First Tuesday Concert Series

St Matthew's Voices

SUNDAY

17

SEPTEMBER

2.30pm

St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra (SMCO)

Faure - Masques et Bergamasques Op 112

Lalo - Cello Concerto in D minor

Ken Young - Douce Tristesse

Schumann - Symphony No 3 Op 97 in E flat ‘Rhenish’

Conductor - Michael Joel

Soloist - Ashley Brown, cello

TUESDAY

3

OCTOBER

12.10pm

ENTRY BY KOHA

First Tuesday Concert Series

First Tuesday Concert

SUNDAY

15

OCTOBER

2.30pm

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

ENTRY BY KOHA

First Tuesday Concert Series

Nicholas Forbes, organ

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