New Zealand String Quartet

Glowing reviews, enthusiastic audiences and invitations to return have greeted the New Zealand String Quartet’s thirteen concert international tour which finishes in Curacao this week. New Zealand’s most travelled classical ensemble set out for Europe a month ago and have been overwhelmed with praise for their playing and for the music by New Zealand composers [...]

Star rating: ****
It’s a long way to come, but the New Zealand Quartet has been here before. Wednesday’s concert, under the auspices of the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust, was a fascinating international mix, incorporating music from New Zealand; some lightning sketches by the Chinese Tan Dun, at one time the BBC SSO’s visiting composer-conductor; Shostakovich’s [...]

Monday’s concert by the New Zealand String Quartet was a joint enterprise bringing together the promotional muscle of three separate bodies: Aberdeen University Music, s-o-u-n-d and ecat, the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust. The special remit of the last two is to promote the performance of new music by living composers. This concert certainly did that [...]

No coughing, no clearing of throats to relax or show boredom, but anxious waiting for what was to follow. This was typical of the extent to which the NZSQ fascinated the Deventer audience, which is only natural when music is made so intensely and passionately. It did ask for an encore: the (Quartet’s?) own subtle [...]

From the remote isles of New Zealand to humble Hueckelhoven, the New Zealand String Quartet made a guest appearance in the Hueckelhoven Hall, offering in-depth insights into new and old music.
With music, it is as with all the arts. Sometimes it is like a book with seven seals – with access seemingly barred to mere [...]

The New Zealand String Quartet captivates the audience in an extraordinary way.
Hueckelhoven.   A unique and wonderful concert by the New Zealand String Quartet was organised by the Heinsberg District Anton-Heinen-Volkshochschule (Adult Education Centre), in association with the Hueckelhoven Friends of Chamber Music “con brio”.
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The huge crowd in the Hueckelhoven Great Hall was captivated [...]