The Tom McDonald Barrel Room is an ideal venue of just the right size for chamber music performances and is a favourite of the NZSQ. The programme is totally romantic music. While a programme of this type may not be to every audience member’s liking, there was sufficient contrast in the three works played to [...]
Archive for June, 2003
Quartet turns on a class performance
New Zealand String Quartet and Diedre Irons (piano)
The Great Romantics: second concert. String Quartet Op 44 No 2 (Mendelssohn); String Quartet Op 41 No 2 (Schumann)
Piano Quartet Op 25 (Brahms)
Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University
The New Zealand String Quartet is party way through a two-concert series in Auckland, Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. Though the other [...]
An international reputation to be proud of
The New Zealand String Quartet has been attached to Victoria University since 1991. Helene Pohl violin, Douglas Beilman violin, Gillian Ansell viola and Rolf Gjelsten cello are all fine musicians and teachers, their quartet gaining an international reputation to be proud of.
Throughout their recital attention to detail, tonal quality and unity of attack was impeccable, [...]
