NATIONAL TOUR 2021

November 2021 - New Dates Announced!

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We're thrilled to announce new dates for our National Tour 2021. We are still in the process of finding new dates for some of our postponed concerts - so check back here and our What's On page for regular updates, or subscribe to our Q-notes mailing list for the very latest.

In November, we perform across Aotearoa for our 2021 National Tour featuring two impactful programmes of string quartet music by NZ composers Louise Webster and Gareth Farr and Haydn, Ligeti, Dvorak, Mozart, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn. Immerse yourself in astounding beauty, inspire your senses, and fire your curiosity through four centuries of music…

In Programme 1, the warmth of Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ Quartet is the perfect overture to the tui calls of the Marlborough Sounds that inspired Gareth Farr’s Te Koanga. Ligeti’s stimulating String Quartet No. 1, ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’, brings contrasts of light and dark, before Dvořák’s ever-popular String Quartet Op. 51. Programme 2 sweeps from the sounds of late Mozart to contemporary NZ composer Louise Webster’s nostalgic this memory of earth. Following Shostakovich’s emotive and impassioned String Quartet No. 11 is Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 13, No. 2 – an irresistible finale.

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Dates & Venues

“…superbly responsive, technically sharp, performances…a full, satisfying, musical meal…”

John Button, The Dominion Post (Wellington)

NATIONAL TOUR 2021 PROGRAMMES

Concert Programme Download

PROGRAMME 1

Hamilton, Auckland (Devonport), Dunedin, Blenheim, Wellington (Public Trust Hall)

HAYDN String Quartet Op. 76, No. 4 ("Sunrise")

GARETH FARR Te Koanga

LIGETI String Quartet No. 1

DVOŘÁK String Quartet, Op. 51

Programme Notes

PROGRAMME 2

Martinborough, Tauranga, Auckland (Parnell), Nelson, Napier, Wellington (St Peter's on Willis)

MOZART String Quartet K. 575
LOUISE WEBSTER this memory of earth
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 11
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet Op. 13, No. 2

Programme Notes

*The Christchurch concert is part of the Christopher’s Classics Series. The programme will be Purcell, Three Fantazias; Britten, String Quartet No. 2, Gao Ping, Prayer Songs (Christchurch Premiere), Smetana, String Quartet No. 2 in D minor. For tickets and bookings visit this link.