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	<title>New Zealand String Quartet</title>
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	<description>Acclaimed for its powerful communication, dramatic energy, and beauty of sound</description>
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		<title>Adam Summer School opens a special year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Adam Summer School is an annual event held at the Nelson School of Music each February, with generous support from Denis and Verna Adam of the Adam Foundation. 
The tutors are the members of the internationally acclaimed New Zealand String Quartet, all of whom are dedicated teachers as well as performers. They are delighted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/news/adam-summer-school-opens-a-special-year/</link>
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		<title>Read our latest newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our quarterly newsletter Q-notes can be viewed online, and is also available as an e-newsletter sent directly to your inbox.
Read the December 2011 issue of Q-notes online
Subscribe to Q-notes as an e-newsletter
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		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/news/read-our-latest-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>Latest CD wins Best Classical Album at NZ Music Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest CD release from the New Zealand String Quartet, Notes from a journey, last night won the Award for Best Classical Album at the annual Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. Released by Atoll Records in January this year, the CD, which takes its name form a poem by Sam Hunt, showcases string quartets by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/news/latest-cd-wins-best-classical-album-at-nz-music-awards/</link>
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		<title>New Zealand String Quartet celebrates 25th anniversary with Beethoven cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great musical party is planned for 2012 &#8211; the New Zealand String Quartet&#8217;s 25th anniversary celebration &#8211; BEETHOVEN! The Complete String Quartets. 
New Zealand&#8217;s favourite chamber musicians will be sharing Beethoven&#8217;s complete set of String Quartets in six wonderful programmes around thirteen centres in twenty-seven concerts.
Festivities begin with two concerts in the New Zealand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/news/25th-anniversary-beethoven-cycle/</link>
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		<title>New Quartet Manager excited by possibilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rose Campbell, the New Zealand String Quartet&#8217;s new Manager, took up the reins this week. Rose comes to the position from a senior management role at Creative New Zealand where she has worked for the past nine years. &#8220;I&#8217;m very excited about the possibilities that this unique opportunity provides to be working in the arts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/news/new-quartet-manager-excited-by-possibilities/</link>
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		<title>New Zealand at Kings Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand String Quartet will be joined by other leading New Zealand musicians, and some of our best composers and writers at London&#8217;s hottest new venue, Kings Place, in March next year for a week-long festival of New Zealand music, poetry and ideas.
Two top New Zealand singers based in London, Jonathan Lemalu and Madeleine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/news/new-zealand-at-kings-place/</link>
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		<title>Exotically flavoured delights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Critic Peter Mechen suggests that &#8220;what the group was doing, of course, was realizing some of the most interesting and absorbing chamber-music sounds ever to have been written, and bringing us as listeners into the world of those sounds.&#8221; He was writing about the Hungarian Rhapsodies programme and music by Bartok and Ligeti. Read more&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/reviews/exotically-flavoured-delights/</link>
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		<title>A virtuosic performance par excellence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Bouman praised the Quartet&#8217;s performance of music by Dohnanyi, Ligeti and Brahms with pianist Peter Nagy. She found the &#8220;energy, colourful interpretation and string unity absolutely outstanding.&#8221; Read more&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/uncategorized/a-virtuosic-performance-par-excellence/</link>
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		<title>Impressive gestures drawn from Bartok</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Critic William Dart referred to &#8220;lavish artistry&#8221; when praising the performance by the Quartet and pianist Peter Nagy of Dohnanyi&#8217;s Second Piano Quintet during the Hungarian Rhapsodies tour. Read more&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/uncategorized/impressive-gestures-drawn-from-bartok/</link>
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		<title>New Zealand String Quartet and New Zealand composers excite UK audiences and presenters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand String Quartet has just completed a highly successful concert tour of summer music festivals in the United Kingdom, where it has been greeted by large audiences and enthusiastic ovations. The tour began in London with two programmes at the City of London Festival, which this year focussed on music and musicians from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nzsq.co.nz/news/new-zealand-string-quartet-and-new-zealand-composers-well-received-in-the-uk/</link>
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