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Auckland
Philharmonia
Orchestra
2015 Season
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For our 2015 Season Brochure, we invited New Zealand artists to offer artworks based on their interpretation of the experience of hearing
an APO performance. We have thoroughly enjoyed working with the artists and would like to thank all those involved in the creation of the
brochure. We hope you enjoy reading the brochure, and the impact of “live” art alongside our outline of the live music to come in 2015.
Gavin Hurley
Conductors
Pamela Wolfe
Receptor
Paper collage (2014)
420mm x 295mm
Oil on canvas
1400mm x 1450mm
(with support from Artis Gallery)
Yukari Kaihori
We all dream about the
catcher in the light
Tiffany Singh
The Bloom of Time
Oil and acrylics on primed paper
705mm x 905mm (framed size)
Krystie Wade
Depth Sounded from Above
Acrylic on board (2014)
295mm x 200mm
Gouache on paper
420mm x 295mm
Lindy Fisher
The Princess Mary Tin (from the book A
Present from the Past, by Jennifer Beck)
Various papers, fabrics and acrylic modelling mortar,
watercolour paints and metallic inks
460mm x 250mm
Michael Smither
The Harmonic Chart
Matt Palmer
Neighbourhood – the edge of the town
Acrylic on paper (1984)
Oil on board (2014)
615mm x 1240mm
Virginia Leonard
Lure
Reuben Paterson
GPS
Mixed media using acrylic, oil, varnish, pigment and
resin on canvas
1370 x 1100mm
Screenprint and glitter on Fabriano Artistico, 420 gsm.
Specially created for APO as part of edition of 50
(2014)
Paper size: 760 x 560mm, Image size: 430 x 430mm
The APO thanks Trish Gribben, Melanie Roger Gallery, Whitespace Gallery, Artis Gallery, Gow Langsford Gallery and Ron Sang
Publications for their assistance.
Please note: Works are not presented to scale in this brochure.
Illustrations for our concerts Blues to Bebop, Divas, The Last Night of the Proms and Settling the Score by Lisa Nicole Moes.
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Contents
2Welcome
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
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2015 Artists
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What’s exciting
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The New Zealand Herald Premier Series
PO Box 56024
Dominion Road
Auckland 1446
14 Bayleys Great Classics
16 Newstalk ZB Sources of Inspiration
20 The Trusts Community Foundation Opera In Concert: Turandot
22 Water and Light
23 A Child of Our Time
24 Letters in Wartime
Phone (09) 638 6266
Fax (09) 623 5629
Ticket Office (09) 623 1052
Email [email protected]
Website apo.co.nz
Facebook facebook.com/aporchestra
Twitter @aporchestra
25 Michael Hill International Violin Competition
26 Unwrap the Music
Design
27 The Full Works
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In Your Neighbourhood
30 Fiesta Latina (Outdoor Summer Concert)
31 Celebrate Christmas
33 Blues to Bebop – James Morrison
Photography
Adrian Malloch
Layout & print management
34 Divas
35 The Last Night of the Proms
36 Settling the Score Live
37 Deloitte Summer Concert – La Dolce Vita
38 Meet the orchestra
Paper sponsor
Brochure printed on
Tauro Offset 100gsm;
cover 300gsm
42 APO Connecting
46 How you can help your orchestra
Official broadcaster of the APO
48 Subscribe and enjoy
54 2015 Composers
55 2015 Artists
56 Concert calendar
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Welcome
Shostakovich was one of the composers
with whom I felt spiritually most aligned,
and he’s still very important to me. His
Symphony No.5 is a piece where he
particularly shows his ability to combine
joy and tragedy. The Alpine Symphony is
my choice for my last concert as Music
Director. This beautiful description of a
big walk could also be (and even better!)
inspired by a walk through our beautiful
Kiwi nature!
Eckehard Stier
Music Director
Dear friends,
In my seventh and final year as Music
Director of the APO, I am pleased
and proud to bring you a wonderful
season that showcases the rich variety
of orchestral music. From enormous
works such as Mahler’s Symphony No.1
and Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony,
to the friendly intimacy of the In Your
Neighbourhood series, to exciting new
works by New Zealand composers – we
have designed our season to be allembracing.
Everyone will have their highlights, but
Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 is a
piece very close to my heart. When I was
growing up in the former East Germany,
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I’m delighted that we are welcoming some
really exceptional artists during the year.
Conductors of the standing of Lionel
Bringuier and Giordano Bellincampi – and
soloists such as Sarah Chang, Viviane
Hagner, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Efflam
Bavouzet, Kirill Gerstein, and Kathryn Stott.
I’m honoured to have spent this time
with you in Auckland. I have met so many
inspiring people from New Zealand and
truly feel I have become an Aucklander in
my heart. A very special thanks to all the
people who love the APO, care for the
musicians and support the organization.
Without you all, the APO would not be
what it is: a vibrant orchestra with a
brilliant future. And I know I’ll be back, and
I’m looking forward to visiting in the future.
Geraint A. Martin
Chairman
As New Zealand’s metropolitan orchestra,
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is
committed to presenting programmes
and activities that reflect this role, and
that are accessible to everyone who
wishes to engage with the power and
beauty of orchestral music. For the
Board, management and musicians of
the orchestra, this also means attaining
the highest artistic standards, delivering
programmes and events that captivate and
move audiences, and taking a leadership
role in outreach and education activities.
The Board continues to work to ensure the
musicians and staff can fulfill the vision we
have collectively developed: the orchestra
sitting at the heart of the Auckland arts
scene and delivering international-class
Arts Festival, we present In Paradisum,
a major new work by Kenneth Young,
in collaboration with multimedia artist
Tim Gruchy. This will be an exciting and
powerful combination of talent, with Tim
directing the multimedia elements live
from centre stage.
Barbara Glaser
Chief Executive
concerts, week after week, in the superb
acoustics of Auckland Town Hall, as our
musical “home”. Alongside this, it is equally
important that our APO Connecting
programme, that reaches out to schools,
tertiary institutions, communities and
individuals across the region, continues
to flourish. Our musicians are the richer
for it, and their input and involvement
makes the people they reach through
these programmes richer in their musical
understanding and appreciation.
We could not deliver the APO Connecting
events and activities without a similarly
excellent programme of orchestral
concerts such the one delivered to us
in 2015. Our 2015 season brochure
demonstrates just what a massive
commitment staff and players take on
in delivering to our Metropolitan remit.
Maestro Stier and his team are offering
us a programme of extraordinary variety.
I encourage you to support them by
attending concerts of your favourite music,
as well as concerts that offer music that
you may not have heard before. I am sure
that, like me, you will be surprised and
delighted, and that some of this “new”
music will quickly be added to your list of
orchestral favourites.
I warmly invite you to join us.
Welcome to our 2015 concert season.
It’s a milestone season for the APO, as
this year is the last for Eckehard Stier
as our Music Director. I know everybody
associated with the APO – audiences,
musicians, sponsors, donors, funders – will
want to join me in thanking Eckehard for
the outstanding contribution he has made
to the artistic growth and development
of the APO. We’re a very different and
much improved organisation from when he
joined us in 2009. In particular, some of
the musical highlights of the last few years
would have been unimaginable all those
years ago. He truly leaves us in better
shape than he found us.
I do hope you enjoy perusing this
brochure. In addition to the musical
riches, I hope you appreciate the
remarkable artwork. We invited some
superb visual artists to create artworks
based on their experience of hearing the
APO. I’d like to thank all of them for their
work and for responding so imaginatively
to this musical stimulus. The arts do
not operate in a vacuum, and this is
particularly true of the APO. We’re very
proud of our collaborative work with other
organisations and artists, in Auckland
and indeed across New Zealand. Our
partners encompass a wide variety: from
our 60 Partnership schools to major
arts organisations such as New Zealand
Opera, the Royal New Zealand Ballet,
Auckland Arts Festival and the Michael
Hill International Violin Competition.
In a season with so much wonderful
music, choosing my personal highlights
is a challenge. I never tire of hearing the
cornerstones of the orchestral repertoire,
and we’ve carefully chosen conductors
who will have something very special to
say about the symphonies of Beethoven,
Brahms and Mahler. Eckehard will
conduct a rare performance of Michael
Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, which
promises to be a highlight of the Auckland
Arts Festival. And I try not to let my
Australian background show through too
often, but I have to mention two Aussies
– William Barton and James Morrison.
I know you’ll be blown away by their
amazing artistry. William’s concert may
also be the only time you get to experience
a didgeridoo with full orchestra on the
Auckland Town Hall stage.
Everything we do on the main stage is
complemented by our extensive APO
Connecting program of education,
community and outreach activities.
When we say the arts do not operate
in a vacuum, we are also thinking of the
contribution we are proud to make to the
multicultural, inclusive vibrancy of this city.
None of this would be possible without
our government partners, Auckland
Council (through the Auckland Regional
Amenities Funding Act) and Creative New
Zealand, as well as many other sponsors
and funders – both organisations and
individuals – who support our work and
with whom we enjoy building positive and
lasting relationships.
My best wishes for a wonderful year
of music in 2015. I’m so proud of our
wonderful musicians and excited to be
presenting this marvellous season. I look
forward to seeing you at our concerts.
New Zealand is well represented in this
year’s repertoire, including two new works
by our Composer-in-Residence Kenneth
Young, and music by Ross Harris, Jack
Body and Douglas Lilburn. For Auckland
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Image: Cliff Watts
Image: Felix Broede
2015 Artists
Sarah Chang (violin)
Isabelle Faust (violin)
“Ms. Chang was a wonder. Her full, beautiful tone, unimpeachable
intonation and restrained sincerity worked perfectly against the
music around her. One heard everything, and everything was worth
hearing.” — The New York Times (See p14.)
“The programme’s outstanding performance came with
Isabelle Faust’s intense reading of [the work]… in which the
soloist’s complete technical command was offset by passionate
engagement conveyed through rich and endlessly varied tone.”
Image: Julia Wesely
Image: Brendan Read
— The Guardian (See p11.)
Richard Gill (conductor/presenter)
Rúni Brattaberg (bass)
Benjamin Schmid (violin)
“This performance, conducted and ‘narrated’ by Richard Gill, was a
true ear-opener. Richard and the orchestra… walked the audience
through it bit by bit, describing and playing all the components. Each
layer was peeled back then re-constructed in its entirety. It was then
that we truly heard the music – it was revelatory.” — Audience member
“Rúni Brattaberg, as King Marke,
combined sympathy and
authority, gloriously voiced, in his
second act monologue.”
“Benjamin Schmid is a
wonderfully eloquent advocate
for the Concerto, evoking the
intense, romantic aura of the
initial bond between composer
and violinist.” — Gramophone
from Richard Gill’s Ears Wide Open performances with Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra (See p26.)
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— The New Zealand Herald
(See p20.)
(See p10.)
Image: Andreas Kohring
Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)
Image: Douglas Kirkland
Image: Charlotte Boulton
“Bellincampi, working without a baton, conducted with notable grace and a
sense of musical ease that marked every note and shaped each phrase with
sensual touch.” — The Toronto Star (See p11,13.)
William Barton (didgeridoo)
Ilyich Rivas (conductor)
“When William Barton plays the didgeridoo, producing a low
moaning note that is unearthly and ethereal, you can practically see
the long vibrations leave the end of his lacquered, wooden tube and
slide their way across the floor.” — Washington Post (See p19.)
“We now have the phenomenon of Ilyich Rivas, 19 this year [2012]
and already making a name for himself… On the strength of
his Royal Liverpool Philharmonic debut, he is strikingly, almost
disconcertingly good… we need to keep our eyes on him.”
Image: Koelln
Image: Ban Wright
Image: Jonathan Wilkinson
— The Guardian (See p16.)
Julian Bliss (clarinet)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Viviane Hagner (violin)
“It isn’t just his technique,
though that is astonishing
enough. It’s the wit, poise and
vivacity in his playing. In short, it
is the pure intuition leading him
straight to the heart of what he
plays.” — The Times (See p19.)
“Stott ruled over the music
with precision and refinement
and with the power of
a hurricane in the last
movement, accompanied by
the orchestra in a solid and at
the same time flamboyant way.”
“Viviane Hagner has a resourceful technique, and her tone is
special: vibrant but slightly dark in color, almost plaintive. The color
of her sound lends a poignancy to her playing, even in passages
where the music is cheerful.”
— New York Times (See p13.)
— Rotterdams Dagblad (See p8.)
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What’s exciting for 2015
APO musicians pick their highlights
“I’m very excited to be playing works by György Ligeti, John
Adams, To-ru Takemitsu and Henri Dutilleux. These are musical
titans of the latter half of the 20th century, having written exquisite
music in styles completely their own – it’s great to see the APO
featuring these works as part of our main-stage repertoire. It’s
also good to see the works of many contemporary New Zealand
composers featured – including Ross Harris, Ken Young and Jack
Body. And of course, we’ll be helping to shape a new generation
of New Zealand creative talent with our composers’ workshops
throughout the year.” — Andrew Beer, Concertmaster
“I’m excited about Ilya Gringolts’ return to play a concerto by one
of New Zealand’s pre-eminent composers, Ross Harris. I am
proud of the long association the APO has had with Ross and
after hearing his recent, sublimely beautiful, ‘Aria’ for viola I’m
pleased Aucklanders will now have an opportunity to hear this
violin concerto live.” — Tim Sutton, Principal Bass Trombone (See p8.)
“In the Copland Clarinet Concerto, the slow opening is really
something. The clarinet floats poignantly over strings and harp and
time appears to stand still. I’ve never played Bernstein’s Prelude,
Fugue and Riffs but I know it from recordings and it’s a great, high
energy piece.” — Bridget Miles, Associate Principal Clarinet (See p19.)
“I always look forward to playing the Carmen Suites. It amazes me
that Bizet was able to pack that many hit tunes into a single opera.
They’re full of vitality and passion, and loads of fun to play.”
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— Rachel Moody, Second Violin (See p14.)
“Of all the compositions of Richard Strauss, An Alpine Symphony is my
favourite, but I’ve never performed it before. This will finally change at The New
Zealand Herald Premier Series 12 concert, on November 19th. It will also be a
bittersweet event, as this will mark the final concert of Maestro Eckehard Stier
as APO’s music director. He will certainly be missed.” — Andrew Beer, Concertmaster (See p13.)
“The New Zealand Herald Premier Series Concert 6 is one of my
favourite programmes for 2015, on two levels. Firstly, it is fabulous
music, some of my favourite composers and pieces. This programme
is stylistically very interesting, ranging from the lightness and simplicity
of the Stravinsky to the intensity and lush sounds of Brahms. Secondly,
as an oboist, there are some wonderful solo passages to look forward
to, particularly in the Stravinsky, that demonstrate the full range of
the instrument and allow the player an opportunity to explore a great
variety of different characters, colours and moods within those solo
passages.” — Martin Lee, Principal Cor Anglais (See p10.)
“I am looking forward to playing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto
No.2. He is one of my favourite 20 th century composers. This
work is different from his other compositions as it was composed
specially for his son’s 19 th birthday – it is youthful, cheerful and
light hearted, perhaps reflecting his son’s personality.”
“I’m looking forward to being led by the inspiring Lionel Bringuier
in Bruckner’s monumental Seventh Symphony – it is music that
elevates musicians and audience alike.”
“Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is a
20th century classic; the evocative range of colours and textures he
used to depict the different scenes are magical.”
— Bede Hanley, Principal Oboe (See p11.)
— Jenny Raven, Sub-principal Percussion (See p14.)
— Evgueny Lanchtchikov, Double Bass (See p8.)
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THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD
Premier
Series
“[Ross Harris’s Violin
Concerto] is a work
that captures perfectly
the essence of our
time – it is also a work
of extraordinary and
haunting beauty”
— Rod Biss, NZ Listener
THE PLANETS
8pm, Thursday 19 February
Auckland Town Hall
CLOCKS AND CLOUDS
8pm, Thursday 26 February
Auckland Town Hall
OUT OF THIS WORLD
8pm, Thursday 16 April
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Garry Walker
Violin Ilya Gringolts
Choir Viva Voce
Director John Rosser
Conductor Gergely Madaras
Pianist Kathryn Stott
Conductor Eckehard Stier
Cello Nicolas Altstaedt
Ligeti Melodien
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2
Sibelius Symphony No.1
J.S. Bach Overture from D Major Suite,
BWV 1068
Dutilleux Tout un monde lointain (Concerto
for Cello and Orchestra)
Shostakovich Symphony No.5
John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Ross Harris Violin Concerto
Holst The Planets
Start the season with a bang. This gala
concert blasts off with John Adams’s
breathtaking fanfare for orchestra, Short
Ride in a Fast Machine.
Ilya Gringolts makes a welcome return to
star in the powerful, lyrical Violin Concerto
by former APO composer-in-residence
Ross Harris.
Gustav Holst was fascinated with
astrology, and each movement of his suite
The Planets depicts a heavenly influence
on humanity, such as the harsh military
rhythms of ‘Mars, the Bringer of War’,
the exuberance of ‘Jupiter, the Bringer
of Jollity’, and the unearthly fade-out of
‘Neptune, The Mystic’.
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György Ligeti believed music to be a
combination of the mathematical and the
mystical, or, in his words, “clocks” and
“clouds” – and his glistening, ethereal
Melodien is perfect “cloud” music.
Perhaps closer to the “clock” end of
the spectrum is Dmitri Shostakovich’s
witty Piano Concerto No.2, with which
celebrated British pianist Kathryn Stott
makes her APO debut. Shostakovich
composed this playful divertissement for
his son Maxim, and wrote pianists’ warmup exercises into the last movement.
Jean Sibelius’s passionate Symphony
No.1 covers a huge emotional landscape,
beginning in the loneliness of the vast
Finnish forests and finishing in a blaze of
triumph.
Bach’s majestic overture begins this
concert with a dazzle of trumpets and
drums. Returning to the APO, cellist
Nicolas Altstaedt performs Henri
Dutilleux’s luminous concerto. Its title
(“A whole distant world”) is a quotation
from Charles Baudelaire, whose
poetry inspired the concerto; Dutilleux
inscribed each movement with a line from
Baudelaire. But it’s also an apt description
of this dreamy, otherworldly music.
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 is
a tremendous orchestral showpiece – on
the surface. Written at the height of the
Stalinist Terror, this deeply ambiguous
piece masks profound tragedy with
blazing musical fireworks.
Gavin Hurley
“Conductors”
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THE TRUMPET SHALL
SOUND
8pm, Wednesday 6 May
Auckland Town Hall
ENIGMA VARIATIONS
8pm, Thursday 18 June
Auckland Town Hall
THE SPLENDOUR OF
ORGAN
8pm, Thursday 9 July
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Trumpet Tine Thing Helseth
Conductor Rumon Gamba
Violin Benjamin Schmid
Conductor Eckehard Stier
Organ David Briggs
Haydn Symphony No.34
Bent Sørensen Trumpet Concerto
Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.7
Lilburn Aotearoa Overture
Bartók Violin Concerto No.2
Elgar Enigma Variations
Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
PoulencOrgan Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.1
Marking the centenary of Douglas Lilburn,
founding father of New Zealand music, we
open with his enduring Aotearoa Overture.
Composed when Lilburn was studying
in London, Aotearoa is an evocation of
longing for his homeland. Béla Bartók
was a composer whose homeland was
ever-present; his vigorous Violin Concerto
No.2 is steeped in Hungarian folk music.
Let the power of the Auckland Town Hall
organ blow you away. David Briggs, a
former Organ Scholar at King’s College,
Cambridge, plays Francis Poulenc’s darkly
Gothic – but very French – concerto for
the King of Instruments.
Muscular and lithe, Beethoven’s Symphony
No.7 is a creature of irresistible rhythmic
drive. Yet when it was premiered in 1813,
the audience demanded an immediate
repeat of the solemn, deeply moving
second movement.
Stunning Norwegian trumpet phenomenon
Tine Thing Helseth joins forces with her
compatriot Eivind Gullberg Jensen to play
the very first great trumpet concerto –
Haydn’s evergreen favourite – and the very
latest, a sparkling display piece written in
2013 by Danish composer Bent Sørensen.
Haydn’s music begins the concert, with his
light and airy Symphony No.34.
Please note: Wednesday performance for
this concert.
Post-concert: Join Tine Thing Helseth
at the front of the Town Hall Stalls
immediately after the concert for an
informal Q&A.
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In his breakthrough masterwork, the
Enigma Variations, Edward Elgar
depicted his ‘friends pictured within’ –
his wife, his publisher, even his friend’s
dog – but never revealed the ‘enigma’.
Encompassing the profundity of ‘Nimrod’
and Elgar’s ebullient self-portrait, this is an
extraordinary orchestral tour de force.
Igor Stravinsky’s reworking of 18th century
music is as clear as a diamond. Written for
the Ballets Russes, this is old music given
a brilliant new twist.
It took Johannes Brahms 20 years
before he was satisfied with his mighty
First Symphony. It was worth the wait.
Beginning in the soul’s torment, the
symphony finishes in exultant glory.
Image: Andreas Kohring
Image: Detlev Schneider
FROM LEIPZIG
8pm, Thursday 23 July
Auckland Town Hall
FRENCH TWIST
8pm, Thursday 20 August
Auckland Town Hall
MUSICAL TREASURES
8pm, Thursday 1 October
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Lionel Bringuier
Violin Isabelle Faust
Conductor Andrew Gourlay
Piano Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Cello Eliah Sakakushev-von Bismarck
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Bruckner Symphony No.7
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Prokofiev Symphony No.6
Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919)
Strauss Romance
Respighi Adagio with Variations
Beethoven Symphony No.4
Two celebrated musicians join the APO for
two pieces which were first performed by
the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Felix
Mendelssohn’s immortal Violin Concerto,
played tonight by the great Isabelle Faust,
was first performed in the original 1845
Leipzig Gewandhaus. (As an aside: the
Auckland Town Hall was modelled on the
second, 1885, Leipzig Gewandhaus which
was destroyed in World War II.)
The prodigiously talented Lionel Bringuier,
who was Assistant Conductor of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic at 19, leads the APO
through Anton Bruckner’s titanic, spacious
Symphony No.7. Dedicated to the memory
of Bruckner’s idol, Wagner, the symphony
features the mournful, faintly otherworldly
sound of a quartet of Wagner tubas.
Post-concert: Join Lionel Bringuier at the
front of the Town Hall Stalls immediately
after the concert, for an informal Q&A.
Languid, sensual, ecstatic, Claude
Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un
faune is the beginning of modern music.
And when the Ballets Russes gave it
languid, sensual, ecstatic (and scandalous)
choreography, the piece became the
beginning of modern dance.
Superb French pianist Jean-Efflam
Bavouzet plays Maurice Ravel’s delicious
Piano Concerto in G: two jazzy,
featherweight outer movements framing
a deeply felt Adagio. Sergei Prokofiev’s
Symphony No.6 was written in the
aftermath of World War II. Although
inevitably a sad testimony to human
anguish, it’s stark, spiky and intensely
dramatic.
Making his highly anticipated return to
the APO, Italian-born Danish conductor
Giordano Bellincampi conducts a
programme of delights. Igor Stravinsky’s
enchanting ballet The Firebird is one of
the many musical treasures which Sergei
Diaghilev commissioned for his company,
the Ballets Russes. Dazzling like the
magical bird itself, Stravinsky’s music
gives us a treat for the ears. APO Principal
Cellist Eliah Sakakushev-von Bismarck
plays two utterly delectable miniatures by
Richard Strauss and Ottorino Respighi.
Dynamic and graceful, Beethoven’s
cheerful Symphony No.4 is a product of
its composer’s sunny side. This is music
full of humour, vigour and the joy of life.
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Image: Kaupo Kikkas
Image: Koelln
VIRTUOSO VIOLIN
8pm, Thursday 8 October
Auckland Town Hall
FAIRYTALES
8pm, Thursday 5 November
Auckland Town Hall
ALPINE ADVENTURE
8pm, Thursday 19 November
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Violin Viviane Hagner
Conductor Eckehard Stier
Flute Adam Walker
Conductor Eckehard Stier
Piano Claire-Marie Le Guay
Schoenberg Accompaniment to a
cinematographic scene
Bruch Violin Concerto No.1
Mahler Symphony No.1 ‘Titan’
Corigliano Pied Piper Fantasy (Concerto
for Flute and Orchestra)
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.2
Strauss An Alpine Symphony, Op.64
Bruch wrote several more violin concertos
but his first has always been his bestknown and most beloved. And deservedly
so – it’s a captivating blend of romance and
Gypsy vivacity. Played by international star
Viviane Hagner, this will be a performance
to remember.
Gustav Mahler’s astonishing First
Symphony is the music of a young man first
discovering his musical universe. It begins
with the primaeval sound of the forest, and
the world awakening: it tells stories of love,
death, nature; it ends with the sheer elation
of being alive. Stupendous, overpowering,
exhilarating, it will sweep you away.
Eckehard Stier conducts an evening
of fairytales retold in music. John
Corigliano’s extraordinary flute concerto,
written for James Galway, tells the sinister
legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. After
his victory in the graphically depicted
Battle with the Rats, the Piper leads away
the children of Hamelin – and the way
Corigliano reimagines this is nothing short
of chilling.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s much-loved
symphonic fantasy is based on the Tales
of 1001 Nights. With Scheherazade
herself represented by some glorious
violin solos, these exotic stories are
recounted in fabulously glittering music.
Eckehard Stier’s final performance as
Music Director starts with Beethoven’s
brilliant concerto, with its witty finale.
Then Richard Strauss, that great painter
in music, tackles his mightiest canvas in
An Alpine Symphony. The immense bulk
of the mountain looms out of the mists
at dawn; the climbers walk through the
forests on the slopes; they reach the
summit, and look at the world below;
they’re caught in a ferocious storm on
the way down; the mountain recedes into
dusk and darkness. Strauss shows it all in
photographic detail. Played by a massive
orchestra, you won’t want to miss this
monumental concert.
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Please note the earlier start time for
these concerts. Free organ recitals start
at 6pm; pre-concert talks at 6.45pm.
FREE ORGAN RECITAL
BAYLEYS
Great Classics
The Auckland Town Hall Organ Trust, in
association with the APO, presents a
30-minute recital at 6pm prior to each
Bayleys Great Classics concert. Each
recital features a different organist, and
recital repertoire reflects the theme of each
concert, with relevant organ classics.
CHANG AND BOLÉRO
7.30pm, Thursday 30 April
Auckland Town Hall
RUSSIAN PICTURES
7.30pm, Thursday 6 August
Auckland Town Hall
FILM CLASSICS
7.30pm, Thursday 22 October
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Michał Dworzyn´ski
Violin Sarah Chang
Conductor Fabien Gabel
Piano Kirill Gerstein
Conductor Alejo Pérez
Piano Michael Houstoun
Smetana Overture to The Bartered Bride
Dvorˇ ák Violin Concerto
Bizet Carmen Suites
Ravel Boléro
Borodin Overture to Prince Igor
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3
Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Barber Adagio for Strings
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25, K.503,
C Major
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite (Excerpts)
Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
International superstar Sarah Chang
makes her APO debut with a piece she’s
brought to new prominence, Antonín
Dvorˇák’s lively and poetic Violin Concerto.
It’s one of two Bohemian works on the
programme, which starts with Bedrˇ ich
Smetana’s cheerfully rustic homage to
village life.
A native of Paris, Georges Bizet never set
foot in Spain, and yet the Spanish sun is in
every bar of his marvellous opera Carmen.
Spanish passion, sultry and dangerous,
is likewise in every bar of Maurice Ravel’s
hypnotic Boléro – one long, unstoppable
crescendo to a smashing climax.
Post-concert: Join Sarah Chang at the
front of the Town Hall Stalls immediately
after the concert, for an informal Q&A.
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‘Ah, the Rach 3!’ says Sir John Gielgud,
awe in his voice, in the movie Shine
– adding to the legend of this most
famously difficult concerto. And yet
underneath the formidable virtuosity,
there’s real poetry in the piece. It takes
a great pianist to bring it out, at once
bravura and lyrically expressive, and Kirill
Gerstein is such a player.
Modest Mussorgsky’s tribute to an artist
friend was originally written for piano,
but was orchestrated unforgettably by
Maurice Ravel, giving Mussorgsky’s more
rough-hewn original a sophisticated,
glamorous panache.
The silver screen has brought new fame
to the works in this programme. Samuel
Barber’s tragic Adagio gained new layers
of meaning in Platoon. Mozart’s Piano
Concerto No.25 – played tonight by New
Zealand piano legend Michael Houstoun
– is just one of several piano concerti by
Mozart that have enhanced movies; in
this case the 1987 Barfly (and, perhaps
somewhat less illustriously, The Associate).
Walt Disney faithfully followed Paul Dukas’
music in Fantasia, although Dukas probably
wasn’t thinking of Mickey Mouse when he
composed his lively scherzo The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice. And Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet
Swan Lake was given a chilling new twist in
Black Swan.
Pamela Wolfe
“Receptor”
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NEWSTALK ZB
Image: Charlotte Boulton
Sources of
Inspiration
The imagination of many great
orchestral composers has
been fired by other genres of
music, and this is celebrated
in this year’s Newstalk ZB
series. Folk music has inspired
composers for as long as
music has been written down.
Jazz, of course, grew from
American folk music, and
countless composers have
been drawn to its free-spirited
excitement, as well as the
more melancholy mood of the
blues. In the third concert, we
celebrate the kaleidoscope of
the exotic – music exotic both
for its composers (such as a
Dane writing about Arabia),
and for us.
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INSPIRED BY FOLKSONG
8pm, Thursday 14 May
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Ilyich Rivas
Mezzo Fiona Campbell
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Berio Folksongs
Bartók Dance Suite
Falla The Three Cornered Hat Suites 1 & 2
Luciano Berio is one in a long line of
composers fascinated with folk music.
His charming Folksongs are a fresh take
on some very familiar tunes. George
Enescu based his much-loved Romanian
Rhapsody No.1 on the folk music he
grew up with, and Béla Bartók recorded
enormous amounts of Hungarian peasant
music with a phonograph; some of this
music he transformed into the Dance
Suite. Manuel de Falla’s ballet The ThreeCornered Hat deals with Andalusian
village life – and when the castanets let
rip, far-off Spain pervades the Auckland
Town Hall.
Yukari Kaihori
“We all dream about the catcher in the light”
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POST-CONCERT ENTERTAINMENT
INSPIRED BY JAZZ
8pm, Thursday 16 July
Auckland Town Hall
INSPIRED BY EXOTICA
8pm, Thursday 27 August
Auckland Town Hall
After each of these concerts, please
join us in the Supper Room for a
short performance of music related to
the concert theme:
Inspired by Folksong: Young singers
perform a selection of folk songs.
Conductor Eckehard Stier
Clarinet Julian Bliss
Harmonica Corky Siegel
Gershwin Girl Crazy
Copland Clarinet Concerto
Bernstein/Foss Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Russo Street Music
Lively, raucous, untamed: jazz is the
musical soul of America, and it inspired
many great American composers – or,
more accurately, they gleefully stole
inspiration from it. George Gershwin
wrote innumerable jazz standards,
introducing ‘I Got Rhythm’ and
‘Embraceable You’ in his musical Girl
Crazy. Brilliant British clarinettist Julian
Bliss joins the APO for two pieces. The
soulfulness of the blues is infused into
Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto,
written for the legendary swing player
Benny Goodman – who also gave the
premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s energetic
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs. And one of
the rarer orchestral soloists appears in
Bill Russo’s classic harmonica concerto,
Street Music.
Conductor Andrew Gourlay
Didgeridoo William Barton
Nielsen Aladdin Suite
Sculthorpe Earth Cry
Jack Body Melodies for Orchestra
Khachaturian Excerpts from Gayane
Suites
Inspired by Jazz: Corky Siegel cuts loose
with improvised blues and jazz.
Inspired by Exotica: Hear more of
William Barton on didgeridoo.
The allure of the exotic. For Danish
composer Carl Nielsen, Oriental music
inspired his incidental music for a play
on the Arabian Nights. Former APO
composer-in-residence Jack Body drew on
Greek, Sumatran and Indian music in his
Melodies for Orchestra. The late Australian
composer Peter Sculthorpe was slightly
closer to home in his Earth Cry, a howl of
rage at environmental destruction. Inspired
by the astonishing artistry of William
Barton, Sculthorpe later added a part for
didgeridoo – and Barton has taken his
friend’s piece all round the world. Likewise,
Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian
was in his own backyard for Gayane, but
what a colourful backyard it is.
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THE TRUSTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
OPERA IN CONCERT
Turandot
7.30pm, Friday 3 July
Auckland Town Hall
Puccini Turandot
Conductor Eckehard Stier
Cast includes:
Princess Turandot Tiziana Caruso
Liù Nadja Stefanoff
Calàf Thiago Arancam
Timur Rúni Brattaberg
Ping Andrew Moran
Pang Robert Macfarlane
Pong Richard Greager
Mandarin Warwick Fyfe
Chorus New Zealand Opera Chorus
Director John Rosser
Everything about Giacomo Puccini’s
last opera is spectacular. Set in Peking
in ‘legendary times’, it tells of the icy
Princess Turandot, who has declared
that anyone who wishes to marry her
must correctly answer three riddles, or be
executed at the rising of the moon. Calàf,
the deposed Prince of Tartary, sees the
beautiful Turandot and falls immediately
in love. He answers the riddles, and
Turandot, suddenly afraid, begs to be
released. Calàf offers her a trial: if she can
find out his name by dawn, he will allow
himself to be killed.
This magnificent music – including
what is arguably Puccini’s greatest hit,
Calàf’s aria ‘Nessun dorma’ – demands
magnificent singers. Italian diva Tiziana
Caruso plays the Princess Turandot,
while Calàf is sung by the young
Brazilian-Italian tenor Thiago Arancam.
German soprano Nadia Stefanoff
appears as Calàf’s servant, Liù – who is
hopelessly in love with Calàf and who,
crucially, knows his name.
A savage, erotic fairytale; splendid music;
a sumptuous, epic performance. Turandot
is what grand opera is all about.
“The story of the conversion
of an ice princess through the
power of love, placed in ancient
Peking, provides the essential
elements for grand opera –
passion, dramatic tension, an
exotic locale. Puccini gifts
us with one glorious aria
and ensemble after another.
The richness of melody and
the sumptuousness of the
orchestral music are the stuff
that create opera fans for life.”
— CultureVulture.com
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Tiffany Singh
“The Bloom of Time”
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Krystie Wade
“Depth Sounded from Above”
Water
and Light
8pm, Wednesday 4 March
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Kenneth Young
Flute Katie Zagórski
Soprano Patricia Wright
Choir The Graduate Choir NZ
Director Terence Maskell
Multimedia Tim Gruchy
Mussorgsky Khovanshchina: Introduction,
‘Dawn on the Moscow River’
Mendelssohn The Hebrides Overture
Takemitsu I hear the water dreaming
Kenneth Young In Paradisum (Into Paradise)
APO Composer-in-residence Kenneth
Young’s new composition is the focus
of this concert for Auckland Arts
Festival. Based on words from great
writers across the ages, from Buddha,
through Shakespeare to the present day,
Young’s piece is combined with visuals
by multimedia artist Tim Gruchy. It offers
a vision of a world where our relationship
with the environment – water in particular –
allows us to “sit by a river”and “find peace
and meaning in the rhythm of the lifeblood
of the Earth” (to quote from the text).
Water also pervades the rest of the
concert. Modest Mussorgsky’s introduction
to his opera flows with the inexorable, calm
majesty of the river it depicts. And APO
Principal Flautist Katie Zagórski plays To-ru
Takemitsu’s meditative response to an
Australian Aboriginal painting.
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“…the absolutely brilliant audio/visual work of Tim
Gruchy. His panels at the rear on which the visuals
are displayed draw the audience into the emotional
drama right from the very outset, and they are
used to brilliant effect… They reinforce all the
atmosphere shifts – without Gruchy’s efforts, would
it all work as well?”
— Review of Tim Gruchy's visuals in Ainadamar, The Dominion Post
A Child of
Our Time
Sir Michael Tippett
Conductor: Eckehard Stier
Soprano: Indra Thomas
Alto: Victoria Simmonds
Tenor: Nicky Spence
Bass: Derek Welton
The dark forces rise
like a flood. Men's
hearts are heavy:
they cry for peace.
Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir
New Zealand Youth Choir
When: Saturday 21 March, 8pm
Where: Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall
Shifting from shadow into light, A Child
of Our Time's wide-ranging musical
narrative begins with images of despair
and violence and ends by recognising
human resilience and our universal
capacity for compassion.
Tippett uses Handel’s heart-soaring
Messiah as the basis for the structure
of A Child of Our Time while five remarkably
arranged spirituals, inspired by the
chorale harmonies in Bach’s Passions,
boldly reinforce the plight of persecuted
peoples worldwide. Often performed in
unaccompanied versions by vocalists around
the world, these spirituals have become a
stand-out element of this oratorio.
Over 70 years have passed since its first
performance, yet the power and immediacy
of the music and the message remain.
Tippett’s oratorio is preceded by Arvo Pärt’s
Silouans Song and Messiaen’s Hymne.
Join the orchestra, the 100-plus strong
choir, four outstanding soloists and the
united minds of many to reflect on and
appreciate Tippett’s masterpiece.
Presented by
Photograph: Ali Erturk Photography. www.artofhdr.com
First performed in 1944, Sir Michael
Tippett’s A Child of Our Time is a unique
anti-war oratorio, the composer’s moving
response to a Jewish boy’s desperate
murder of a German official in Paris. It’s
a stirring, dramatic and astonishing live
concert experience.
In association with
Find out more about Auckland
Arts Festival at aaf.co.nz
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Lindy Fisher
“The Princess Mary Tin”
Letters in
Wartime
6.30pm, Monday 25 May
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Conductor Hamish McKeich
MC Monti Sauter, WW1 military expert
Soloists Emerging Artists of
New Zealand Opera
Choir Saint Kentigern College
Kenneth Young Gallipoli Armistice
Commission
Callum Blackmore The First Time I Stood
Louise Webster Your Letter
Jonathan Mandeno Au Revoir
Rachael Morgan Seeking Answers to the
Riddle
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On 24 May 1915, the Gallipoli armistice allowed both sides to bury their dead after a
month of fierce fighting. Exactly 100 years later, the APO presents a new work by APO
Composer-in-Residence Kenneth Young, commemorating this historic event.
The concert also features four new pieces by young composers, created to commemorate
the centenary of New Zealanders’ involvement in World War I. Setting the texts of
letters written from the front by New Zealand soldiers, they represent four very different
responses by contemporary New Zealanders to this watershed in our national story.
This concert is a unique opportunity for you to mark in music these historic moments –
and is the first time the APO, in collaboration with Auckland Museum, presents a concert
in the Auckland Museum Event Centre.
2015
QUEENSTOWN 5-8 JUNE
Solo and piano-accompanied works
with Diedre Irons and Sarah Watkins
AUCKLAND 10-11 JUNE
Piano trios with Ashley Brown
and Michael Houstoun
AUCKLAND 13 JUNE
Grand Finale with the APO (can be
purchased with your subscription)
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POST-CONCERT SPECIAL OFFER
Enjoy a post-concert dinner at FISH
restaurant, Hilton Auckland. Two-course
dinner, with a glass of wine on arrival.
Complimentary valet parking. $55 per
person.
Bookings: [email protected]
Phone: 09 978 2020.
Subject to availability.
Unwrap
the Music
Conductor, crusader, raconteur, master
Australian music educator, Richard Gill
is internationally acclaimed for engaging
audiences with the music he knows
encyclopedically and loves passionately.
UNWRAP 1: ELGAR’S
ENIGMA VARIATIONS
6.30pm, Thursday 21 May
Auckland Town Hall
UNWRAP 2: STRAVINSKY’S
THE FIREBIRD
6.30pm, Thursday 13 August
Auckland Town Hall
UNWRAP 3: BRUCH’S
VIOLIN CONCERTO NO.1
6.30pm, Thursday 10 September
Auckland Town Hall
What was Edward Elgar’s “Enigma”? It
may never be known, because Elgar never
told. But Elgar loved puzzles, secrets and
codes, and buried them throughout the
Enigma Variations. Join us to uncover them
and find out how Elgar weaves his music
out of a thread of melody.
Dazzling orchestration, electrifying rhythm,
a glowing finale: Igor Stravinsky’s fairytale
ballet The Firebird is his most fantastic
confection. What does it say about music
and dance in the early 20th century?
And what makes it so popular 100 years
later? Join us to explore the magic of
Stravinsky’s ballet music.
Encapsulating the soul of the violin – now
high-spirited, now deeply soulful – Max
Bruch’s concerto is justly one of the most
beloved ever written. With concertmaster
Andrew Beer playing the solo part,
discover the secrets of what makes Bruch’s
lyrical and melodic style so enticing.
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Image: Jeff Busby
Three fascinating concerts where you can listen, laugh, learn and
enjoy as the irrepressible Richard Gill introduces great orchestral
works and demonstrates what makes them tick. Part concert,
part interactive talk, Unwrap the Music will take your music
appreciation to the next level – whether you are new to orchestral
music or a regular concertgoer. All three works will be played as
part of main stage concerts later in the year, and we’ve developed
a series called The Full Works (see opposite page) so you can
easily learn about the piece in the Unwrap performances – and
then hear the entire work in the context of an APO concert.
Michael Smither
“The Harmonic Chart”
The Full
Works
Six-concert Series
You’ve heard Richard Gill unwrap the music.
Now delve deeper. We’ve created a new
series to showcase the three ‘unwrapped’
masterworks in concert alongside other
classical favourites. Select the three Unwrap
concerts plus their mainstage counterparts to
hear The Full Works and take advantage of a
six-concert package price.
All concerts are at Auckland Town Hall.
See booking form for The Full Works package. Unwrap the Music concerts are sold
with standard allocated seating, excluding Stalls level cabaret tables. Full Works
concerts limited to A reserve only, with seating allocated at APO discretion.
UNWRAP 1
6.30pm, Thursday 21 May
UNWRAP 2
6.30pm, Thursday 13 August
UNWRAP 3
6.30pm, Thursday 10 September
ENIGMA VARIATIONS
8pm, Thursday 18 June
MUSICAL TREASURES
8pm, Thursday 1 October
VIRTUOSO VIOLIN
8pm, Thursday 8 October
Elgar’s masterwork takes centre stage in this
concert. Richard Gill has shown how Elgar
builds from the tiniest scrap of melody; now
hear the whole piece unfold, from the quiet
opening, to Elgar’s affectionate pictures
of his friends, and its ebullient finale. The
other works we hear are Douglas Lilburn’s
evocative Aotearoa Overture, composed
when he was studying in London, and Béla
Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2, the soul
of Hungarian folk music. It is played by
Benjamin Schmid, a huge success with the
APO in 2014. (See page 10 for details.)
You’ve heard Richard Gill pluck The
Firebird, but hearing this magical piece
in full is a whole new experience:
Stravinsky’s fabulous score will carry
you away. In the full Out of this World
concert, APO Principal Cellist Eliah
Sakakushev-von Bismarck also plays two
delightful miniatures by Richard Strauss
and Ottorino Respighi, before we hear
Beethoven’s sunny Symphony No.4. This
concert is a treasure chest of humour,
magic and the joy of life. (See page 11
for details.)
Bruch’s intoxicating blend of romance and
Gyspy fire calls for a player of pyrotechnic
élan, and Viviane Hagner is that player. She
is unquestionably an international star, and
she will give a performance to remember.
In the same concert, Gustav Mahler’s
astonishing First Symphony tells stories
of love, death, nature; and it ends with the
sheer elation of being alive. Stupendous,
overpowering, exhilarating, it will sweep you
away. (See page 13 for details.)
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“Neighbourhood – the edge of the town”
In Your
Neighbourhood
Concerts that take APO
musicians and music
into neighbourhoods
around Auckland.
THE STRINGS SING
6.30pm, Monday 20 April
St Peter’s Church, Takapuna
BEST OF BAROQUE
6.30pm, Monday 8 June
All Saints Church, Howick
TROMBONE TONES
6.30pm, Monday 10 August
St Michael’s Church, Remuera
6.30pm, Tuesday 21 April
Sacred Heart College Chapel,
Glendowie
6.30pm, Tuesday 9 June
St Luke’s Church, Remuera
6.30pm, Tuesday 11 August
Takapuna Methodist Church
Mendelssohn Octet for Strings
Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet
Opus 11. (Prelude and Scherzo for Strings)
J.S. Bach Kommt, eilet und laufet
Zelenka Trio Sonata in F major
J.S. Bach Trio Sonata in C minor
Zelenka Concerto à 8 concertanti
Repertoire includes:
Derek Bourgeois Osteoblast
Enrique Crespo Bruckner Étude
Join Principal Viola Robert Ashworth who
introduces a programme that highlights
the glorious sound and depth of the string
octet, with two works written by master
composers while still in their teens.
Camille Wells, Associate Principal Oboe,
introduces a programme of Baroque
delights by Zelenka and his friend and
admirer, J.S. Bach.
Proudly supported by
Principal Trombone Doug Cross and
the seven like-minded trombonists of
Aucktet transform your perceptions of
the trombone with music that includes
Bruckner, Beethoven and Brahms.
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Virginia Leonard
“Lure”
Fiesta
Latina
2pm, Saturday 7 March
Government House Grounds,
Mt Eden
Conductor Andrew Sewell
Soprano Anna Leese
Programme includes:
Bernstein Music from West Side Story
Marquez Danzon No.2
Piazzolla Libertango
Rossini Barber of Seville Overture
The APO breaks out of the concert
hall and into the outdoors for a sizzling
celebration of Latin music. Join us for a
musical fiesta of rhythm and groove, in the
beautiful gardens of Government House
in Mt Eden. Grab a picnic*, practise your
cha-cha, and enjoy this concert with a
distinctly Latin flavour.
*Or purchase a picnic, juice or wine online at apo.co.nz
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Reuben Paterson
“GPS”
Celebrate
Christmas
7.30pm, Friday 11 December
3pm, Saturday 12 December
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell
Conductor Ben Northey
Mezzo Sarah Castle
Choir The Graduate Choir NZ
Director Terence Maskell
The spirit of Christmas comes to
Auckland, in the APO’s annual celebration
of carols and Yuletide cheer. Join the
orchestra as they combine forces with The
Graduate Choir NZ and mezzo-soprano
Sarah Castle to perform the joyous
sounds of the season in the beautiful and
historic Holy Trinity Cathedral.
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Blues to Bebop
James Morrison – A Journey through Jazz
8pm, Thursday 9 April
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Brett Kelly
Trumpet (and other instruments)
James Morrison
VocalistHetty Kate
Proudly supported by
Take a trip through the history of jazz in the company of Australia’s master of the medium,
James Morrison. An astounding multi-instrumentalist, James plays no fewer than ten
instruments, including trumpet, trombone, saxophone, piano and ‘keytar’ (and more – but
you’ll have to come to the concert to find out which!). James is your guide on this panoramic
survey of syncopation, taking you on a journey from the birth of the blues, to Dixieland, to
bebop, to Birdland. It’s a trip through its most important songs, people and moments.
For James Morrison, this is his personal selection of some of jazz’s highlights. For
aficionados, this concert is a chance to re-experience some of the most famous charts
and composers who have shaped the genre. For those who don’t know jazz very well, it’s
a terrific introduction, with some of the greatest and best loved songs in jazz’s history.
As well as the APO and conductor Brett Kelly, James is joined by vocalist Hetty Kate
and a rhythm section that includes his sons, who are talented instrumentalists in their
own right. It’s a sensational display of virtuosity you just won’t want to miss.
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Divas
8pm, Thursday 25 June
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Hamish McKeich
Singers Julia Deans, Anika Moa
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Julia Deans and Anika Moa combine with the APO to present their own songs with
full orchestration.
There is little to beat the awesome sound of New Zealand’s finest contemporary artists
with the incredible backing of a full-sized symphony orchestra. A no-holds barred
concert that highlights the talents of two divas of the New Zealand music scene.
The Last Night
of the Proms
8pm, Thursday 12 November
Auckland Town Hall
Conductor Hamish McKeich
Soprano Penelope Mills
Pomp, circumstance, flag-waving, tradition – there’s nothing quite like The Last
Night of the Proms. Come and join in the fun with the APO as, for one night only, the
Auckland Town Hall is transformed into the Royal Albert Hall.
Favourite orchestral works, the most entertaining British musical traditions – and, best
of all, music-making fit for the Queen herself from the APO, complete with a guest
appearance from the marvellous Penelope Mills.
It’ll be a grand night out. Bring your Union Jacks, your streamers, your noisemakers
and your friends.
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Settling the
Score Live
8pm, Thursday 26 November
Auckland Town Hall
Proudly supported by
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Who do you think is the greatest composer that ever lived? Is there one masterwork that
stands above all others? In collaboration with Radio New Zealand Concert, the APO
presents Settling the Score Live. In this annual event, you help create the concert from
scratch, by voting for your favourite piece of classical music. Then on 26 November,
come along and join the suspense as the top 10 orchestral works are revealed live at the
Town Hall.
6.45pm, Tuesday 10 March
Old Government House Grounds,
cnr Princes St & Waterloo
Quadrant, Auckland Central
Celebrate beauty, sublime art and the “sweet life” as you escape the everyday and let
the magic of Italy sweep you away at the APO’s black-tie fundraising dinner.
Join the APO to enjoy wonderful wines and fine cuisine with an Italian flair as APO
musicians evoke the beautiful Italian countryside with extracts from Vivaldi’s The Four
Seasons, and present cabaret-style performances alongside special guests.
For further information please contact 09 638 6266 or [email protected]
The evening supports APO Connecting, the orchestra’s award-winning education,
community and outreach programme.
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Meet the
orchestra
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
is Auckland’s leading performing
arts organisation, and the city’s
resident full-time professional
symphony orchestra.
In more than 50 main stage performances
annually, the orchestra presents a full
season of symphonic work showcasing
many of the world’s finest classical
musicians. Recent high-profile soloists
include percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie,
cellist Li-Wei Qin, soprano Christine
Brewer, pianist Joanna MacGregor, organist
Cameron Carpenter and violinist James
Ehnes, among many others.
The APO is also proud to support both
the New Zealand Opera and the Royal
New Zealand Ballet in their Auckland
performances again this season, as well as
working in partnership with Auckland Arts
Festival, Michael Hill International Violin
Competition, and Atamira Dance Company
to present performances in 2015.
Renowned for its innovation, passion
and versatility, the APO has collaborated
with some of New Zealand’s most
innovative and versatile artists, including
performances with Six60 and The
Adults; leading Auckland hip hop artists
in our Remix the Orchestra programme.
And in 2015 the APO performs with
contemporary artists Julia Deans and
Anika Moa.
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The APO promotes a vibrant arts culture by
providing leadership and support across
the arts sector. Through its numerous
APO Connecting (education, outreach
and community) initiatives the APO
offers opportunities to more than 20,000
young people and adults nationwide to
participate in music, ranging from hip hop
and rock to contemporary and classical.
The orchestra’s Sistema Aotearoa, in
partnership with Creative New Zealand,
enters its fourth year in 2015. This is the
first music education programme in New
Zealand to be based on El Sistema, one
of the world’s most successful music and
social development projects, and it now
teaches music to more than 300 children,
with instruments and teaching provided
free of charge.
PATRONS
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, ONZ, DBE
Dame Catherine Tizard, ONZ, GCMG,
GCVO, DBE, QSO
Sir James Wallace, ONZM, KNZM
Dame Rosanne Meo, DNZM, OBE
More than 100,000 people hear the
orchestra live each year, at concerts and
through live web streams of some of our
popular concerts. Many thousands more
are reached through special events, other
media and recordings.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Barbara Glaser
Most APO concerts are broadcast live
nationally and audio-streamed online on
Radio New Zealand Concert, allowing
everyone the chance to share the excitement
of a world-class performance.
VICE PATRON
Dame Jenny Gibbs, DNZM
AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA BOARD
Geraint A. Martin (Chair)
Richard Ebbett
Neil Haines
Professor Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, CNZM
Michael Moyes
Penelope Peebles
Kieran Raftery
Eric Renick
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Eckehard Stier
COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
Kenneth Young
AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA SOCIETY EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
Simon Williams (Secretary)
Carl Wells (Chair/Treasurer)
Annabella Zilber
Sue Wedde
Huw Dann
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MUSIC DIRECTOR
Eckehard Stier
COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
Kenneth Young
CONCERTMASTER
Andrew Beer
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
TBC
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Miranda Adams
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FIRST VIOLINS
Artur Grabczewski#
Mark Bennett
Elzbieta
Grabczewska
Ainsley Murray
Tomislav Nikolich
Alexander Shapkin
Lucy Qi Zhang
Caroline von
Bismarck
SECOND
VIOLINS
Dianna Cochraneß
William Hanfling#
Rae Crossley-Croft=
Sarah Hart
Jocelyn Healy
Rachel Moody
Milena Parobczy
Ewa Sadag
Katherine Walshe
VIOLAS
Robert Ashworthß
Christine Bowie#
Anne Draffin#
Ping Tong Chan
Gregory McGarity
Susan Wedde
CELLOS
Eliah Sakakushevvon Bismarckß
David Garner+
Liliya Arefyeva
Katherine Hebley
You Lee
BASSES
Gordon Hillß
Annabella Zilber+
Evgueny
Lanchtchikov#
Matthias Erdrich
Michael Steer
PICCOLO
Jennifer SeddonMori*
FLUTES
Katie Zagorskiß
Kathryn Moorhead+
COR ANGLAIS
Martin Lee*
OBOES
Bede Hanleyß
Camille Wells+
CLARINETS
Gordon Richardsß
Bridget Miles+
James Fry#
BASS CLARINET
Bridget Miles
BASSOONS
Ingrid Haganß
Yang Rachel Guan
Ebbett+
CONTRABASSOON
Ruth Brinkman*
TROMBONES
Douglas Crossß
Mark Close#
HORNS
Nicola Bakerß
Emma Richards*
Carl Wells#
Simon Williams#
David Kay
BASS
TROMBONE
Timothy Sutton*
TRUMPETS
TBAß
Huw Dann+
Norman McFarlane+
TIMPANI
Vadim Simongauzß
TUBA
TBA*
PERCUSSION
Eric Renickß
Jennifer Raven#
Shane Currey
HARP
Rebecca Harris*
Section Principal
Section Leader
Emeritus
*Principal
+
Associate Principal
#
Sub-Principal
ß
=
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APO
Connecting
Impact, Engage, Excite, Inspire
APO Connecting includes
education, community and
outreach initiatives and
encompasses four major strands
of activity. Whether you would
like to engage in free family
events, be excited by new ways
to discover orchestral music, be
inspired by our initiatives run in
partnership with the University of
Auckland School of Music and the
Freemasons Roskill Foundation,
or impacted by our deeper
mentoring programmes, we look
forward to welcoming you.
In addition to concerts, events and
activities, APO Connecting encompasses
two flagship programmes that reach
out to young people. Inspired by the El
Sistema movement, Sistema Aotearoa is
administered by the APO in partnership
with Creative New Zealand. Using
orchestral music making as a context
for social change, children learn from
early childhood through to adolescence,
bringing their musicianship to a high
level and enhancing all aspects of their
development. Remix the Orchestra,
now in its sixth year, connects young
urban musicians with professional APO
musicians, in a programme which explores
and forges new musical pathways, and
in which young artists create, record and
perform their own music.
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Sistema Aotearoa
Kiwi Kapers: Mangopare
In 2015, the first rehearsals of a children’s
symphony orchestra take place, complete
with strings, woodwind, brass and
percussion. Another intake of ‘Sistema
Kids’ starts, bringing the total of children
being taught orchestral instruments to
well over 300. The Sistema Aotearoa
tutor team will teach five days a week in
the school term to ensure our immersive
and holistic approach continues to
deliver positive outcomes for whanau
and the community. With the children’s
performances capturing imaginations
throughout New Zealand, the Auckland
Philharmonia Orchestra is taking a
leading role in the development of similar
programmes around the country, providing
mentorship and support to encourage
best teaching practice and effective
community engagement.
1pm, Wednesday 14 October
Aotea Centre
Remix the Orchestra
Remix expands into two strands in 2015,
with a Remix Sample Session added to
the mix. We continue to work with gifted
young songwriters looking for extension
and new challenges, as well as with
emerging students who can benefit from
the support of professional urban and
orchestral role models. Visiting blues
harmonica soloist Corky Siegel joins
the Remix Sample Session to perform
alongside APO musicians and the young
artists taking part. Watch our website for
application dates, as well as for the exact
timing of the Sample Session in July.
Flamboyant composer Gareth Farr
narrates an exciting variety concert for
all ages. With the full APO on stage, you
can enjoy well-loved music that ranges
from the theme from Tchaikovsky’s Swan
Lake, Smetana’s Vltava (The Moldau) and
‘The Blue Danube’ waltz, to the theme
tune to Pirates of the Caribbean.
To conclude the performance, we
present students dancing to the APO’s
performance of Gareth Farr’s From the
Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs,
one of the best-loved pieces of New
Zealand orchestral music. A stunning
presentation of rhythm and dance,
developed in collaboration with Atamira
Dance Company.
To ensure a seat, book online at
apo.co.nz or use the subscription
booking form.
Summer School Finale
Concert
2.30pm, Friday 23 January
Clouston Hall, St Cuthbert’s
College, Market Road, Epsom
Hear the results of week-long intensive
mentoring by APO musicians of young
orchestral musicians aged 8-14 years. Led
by Dunedin conductor Peter Adams, this
concert showcases the talent of tomorrow.
Tickets $15 adult/senior; $10 student/
child. Book at apo.co.nz
APO 4 Kids
Celebrating Lilburn
10am & 11.30am, Saturday 11 April
Auckland Town Hall
In 2015, APO joins in the celebrations of the
100th anniversary of the birth of the “father”
of New Zealand music, Douglas Lilburn.
Introduce your little ones aged 6 and
under to instruments of the orchestra
through an interactive concert presented
by actor Kevin Keys. A water theme
enables young audience members to get
in the swim of a musical adventure. They’ll
meet the “Slippery Fish” and other water
creatures, and hear the story of a river in
Smetana’s Vltava (The Moldau). Excerpts
from Carnival of the Animals feature the
aquarium; while ‘The Blue Danube’ waltz
and favourite songs to sing along to
continue the water theme.
Book at apo.co.nz
In May, at the annual schools’ Discovery
concert, we present Lilburn's Nine Short
Pieces For Piano, specially orchestrated by
Auckland composer Anthony Young. At the
same concert we also perform orchestral
versions of five of Lilburn's songs, originally
composed for voice and piano to texts
by New Zealand poets. These have been
orchestrated by Lilburn's biographer Philip
Norman and will be sung by Emerging
Artists from New Zealand Opera.
More information about the APO's Lilburn
100 activities is available on our website at
apo.co.nz.
APO 4 Kids Christmas
10am & 11.30am, Saturday 28
November
Auckland Town Hall
Celebrate Christmas with your preschoolers by taking them to an interactive
sing-along, dance-along, conduct-along
celebration featuring favourite carols and
Christmas songs.
Book at apo.co.nz
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Open Orchestra Central
Open Orchestra South
Open Orchestra West
1-4pm, Saturday 11 April
Auckland Town Hall
1.30-4pm, Saturday 11 July
Vodafone Events Centre
1.30-4pm, Saturday 10 October
Waitakere Trusts Arena
Enjoy a performance by Sistema Aotearoa
students at 1pm, followed by Sing with
the APO and Play with the APO as
the massed forces perform Polovtsian
Dances from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor.
Singers and instrumentalists can register
to perform with the APO at this free event
by emailing [email protected]. Or
simply come along and watch, talk to APO
musicians in the Music Zoo, and listen
as composer Robbie Ellis introduces his
double concerto for the Auckland Town
Hall organ and drumkit, Relish With
Immature Bombast.
Celebrate the combination of Pacific
artists and music with the APO. New
Zealand Music Awards winner Mark
Vanilau sings three of his songs with the
APO, Lavina Williams shares songs from
The Lion King which she has been touring
internationally, and we present new music
by Auckland composer Opeloge Ah Sam.
The programme concludes with a Walk
through the Orchestra, where families
can walk between the musicians while the
orchestra plays classic movie music such
as Star Wars.
Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite features in this
free family afternoon. Make music with
our Remix the Orchestra music director
Matthew Salapu in the Composer
Cave, explore the sounds of individual
instruments in the Music Zoo, join in Tunes
4 Toddlers, enter your team of three into
an orchestral game show presented by
Kevin Keys, and listen to the full APO in
performance. A afternoon of musical fun
for the whole family.
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There will also be a special moment when
Sistema Aotearoa students have their firstever performance onstage combined with
the full APO.
“I thoroughly enjoyed
your Remix programme!
Congratulations to
you and the wonderful
team for presenting
such an engaging and
fun programme for the
Papakura, Mangere
East and Clendon
libraries. The kids just
loved it and were really
keen to participate.”
— M arilyn Portman, Auckland Libraries
Music Librarian
“Just wanted to say what a wonderful
concert… A fantastic variety of music
was presented and we had a most
enjoyable evening.” — Leeanne Wojtowicz
“ACE Brass visited us on Monday and the concert was highly
entertaining. They performed in front of junior music classes and
the senior music class at school hall, and all students and staff
thought they were amazing. It was great to see everyone laughing,
and the music students were so keen to get their pictures taken
with the band at the end!” — Celia Liu, Head of Learning Area-
“I just wanted to give a huge thank you to the APO for giving me this
phenomenal opportunity. I was so excited (I may have teared up a
little…) when Lisa let me know I'd be singing with the orchestra, but
it was beyond anything I could have possibly imagined. It wasn't just
that moment of performing either… I can't even begin to describe
how unbelievably inspirational it was to meet people like Bryony and
Celeste who are doing such incredible things with their lives and
see such wonderful musicians in their element. In short, it was a
wondrous and surreal reminder of why I can't imagine myself doing
anything else with my life :). I know that this is only the beginning
of my journey and that makes me all the more grateful for this
opportunity. I have learnt so much and have never been so inspired
in my entire life.” — Kelly Harris (18-year-old soprano who sang at the
Performing Arts, James Cook High School
Discovery Concert 2014)
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How you can help
your orchestra
Here are some of the ways
you can help us make the
finest music available to
the greatest number of
people, now and in the
future. Ticket sales cover
only a small portion of the
cost of the APO’s work,
so we also rely on support
from individuals, trusts
and companies to help us
deliver our exciting concert
series and our innovative
education, outreach and
community events.
GIVE
PLEDGE
Subscription Appeal – when you
make your subscription booking for
2015 please add a donation in the space
provided.
Leave your mark in the music –
a gift in your will
Our Annual Appeal launches in March
each year. You can help by making a
donation.
Now or any time – make a donation
through the APO website (apo.co.nz/donate)
Chair Donor Programme – enjoy a
unique relationship with the APO
and its musicians
By making a minimum annual gift of
$4,000 you support a musician from the
orchestra and in doing so, have the rare
opportunity to get behind the scenes and
see the creative and operational processes
that make an orchestra tick. Enjoy a series
of private, boutique events with your
musician, the CEO and the Music Director.
For further information on becoming a
donor, please contact Annual Giving
Coordinator Caitlyn Westbrooke
on (09) 638 6266 ext 234 or
[email protected]
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“For me, having a superb orchestra is an
essential part of what makes Auckland
a wonderful place to live. Having
remembered the orchestra in my will I
can be confident that I am supporting its
future.” – Carolyn Reid
Leave a gift in your will to the APO and
ensure that future generations are touched
by music in the way that you have been.
Help build our future without impacting on
your life now.
No matter the size, every gift in a will
makes a difference.
For further information about how to
leave a gift in your will, contact APO
Fundraising Manager, Christopher
Johnstone on (09) 623 5628 or by email
[email protected]
JOIN
Crescendo – enjoy a richer
experience with the APO
Crescendo membership offers a series
of events throughout the year, from
sneak previews behind the scenes, to
opportunities to meet some of the worldclass artists that perform with the APO.
Membership starts from $75.
For further information please contact
Annual Giving Coordinator Caitlyn
Westbrooke on (09) 638 6266 ext 234 or
[email protected].
APO Friends
APO Friends provide vital help for many
areas of our work, including selling
programmes and looking after the
information table at concerts. For an annual
membership of just $30 you have the
opportunity to be a core part of the support
for the APO, contribute to an essential
element of Auckland’s cultural life and receive
invitations to Meet the Artist functions.
For information, contact Membership
Secretary Anne Stewart: (09) 444 5310 or
[email protected]
“The APO is such an integral part of so many
aspects of the arts and culture of our city. We
proudly support it in every way we can and
unashamedly encourage others to do so too.”
— Peter Wilson and Gerda McGechan (APO subscribers)
“The APO’s
mentoring scheme
has changed my
students’ attitude
to learning an
instrument and
performing in an
ensemble. I cannot
thank you enough
for what it has done
for music in this
school.”
— J ames Cook High
School teacher
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Subscribe and
enjoy in 2015
Book yourself an orchestral
adventure by selecting a
subscription. By doing this,
you support the orchestra
and receive a range of
benefits. Choose your
selection of old favourites
and exciting new works
and reap the rewards of
being a subscriber with
priority bookings, easy
ticket exchanges, lost ticket
replacement, discounts off
public ticket prices – and
no booking fees. Plus the
anticipation of musical
delights in store, and the
pleasure of meeting with
friends at concerts.
You can make your booking online, by
using the enclosed subscription form, or
by calling the APO ticketing team on
(09) 623 1052.
Book online at www.apo.co.nz
You can mail your completed booking form to:
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Freepost No.212030 (no stamp required*)
PO Box 56024 Dominion Road
Auckland 1446
*But feel free to help the APO save every little bit by
adding a stamp if you wish.
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12 EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER BENEFITS
Subscribe to our 2015 season and you save
on public ticket prices. You also receive a
range of additional benefits:
6. No booking fees – even for additional
concerts, when you phone our
ticketing office.
1. Priority seat selection and the ability
to retain your favourite seats for full
series subscribers.
7. Free subscription to the Naxos online
music library.
2. Your year’s musical entertainment
booked – knowing you have
your seats booked, and you have
wonderful concerts to attend all year.
3. Flexibility to exchange tickets to
another concert if your plans change
4. Free programme book and seat
retention if you subscribe to any full
series.
5. Savings of up to 25% on individual
concert prices.
8. Bring a friend for free. Full
New Zealand Herald Premier Series
subscribers receive two free tickets
to introduce friends to the APO.
9. Buy now, pay later in up to four easy
instalments.
10. Add on discounted tickets to
concerts throughout the year.
11. Option to buy very low-priced seats
(Thrifty) not on sale to the general
public.
12. Free lost ticket replacement.
Other ways
to book
Gift certificates
Group discounts
Public tickets
A perfect gift for someone who loves
music or to introduce friends to the
orchestra. Gift certificates come in three
denominations – $50, $100 and $250
– and can be redeemed by the recipient
through our ticketing office for any APO
concert(s) of their choice.
Receive a 19% discount for your group
of 8 or more. And receive a 9th ticket free.
Only available through the APO ticketing
office on (09) 623 1052.
Non-subscribers can buy tickets to any
concert from the Aotea Centre box office,
by visiting www.ticketmaster.co.nz or by
calling 0800 111 999 or 09 970 9700.
Prices are listed below. Service and
booking fees apply. Public ticket sales
open Monday 19 January 2015.
$20 for 20s & $30 for 30s
If you’re in your 20s or 30s, pay no more
than your decade for any APO concert.
Subject to availability, tickets can be
purchased online or through our ticketing
office (09 623 1052) from the Monday
before each concert.
2015 Public Ticket Prices Correct at time of printing. See booking form opposite for subscription prices.
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Adult
Deluxe
Senior
Premier
Adult
Premier
Senior
Premier
Student
A Res
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A Res
Senior
A Res
Student
B Res
Adult
B Res
Senior
B Res
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C Res
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C Res
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Student
The New Zealand Herald Premier Series
8
$125
$115
$105
$96
$57
$85
$76
$43
$68
$62
$36
$51
$46
$26
Bayleys Great Classics
14
$125
$115
$105
$96
$57
$85
$76
$43
$68
$62
$36
$51
$46
$26
Newstalk ZB Sources of Inspiration
16
$125
$115
$105
$96
$57
$85
$76
$43
$68
$62
$36
$51
$46
$26
Opera In Concert: Turandot
20
$139
$125
$120
$110
$64
$102
$91
$54
$89
$79
$47
$69
$64
$38
Water and Light
22
Fiesta Latina – Outdoor summer concert
30
Celebrate Christmas
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SERIES OR CONCERT
All price reserves: $45 adult, $35 senior, $25 student/child. Allocated seating on first come, best choice basis
$63 adult/senior; $30 student/child.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
$59
$46
$31
$48
$41
$26
N/A
N/A
N/A
Blues to Bebop (James Morrison)
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$92
$81
$77
$67
$40
$61
$50
$31
$50
$45
$26
$41
$36
$21
Divas
34
$92
$81
$77
$67
$40
$61
$50
$31
$50
$45
$26
$41
$36
$21
Last Night of the Proms
35
$92
$81
$77
$67
$40
$61
$50
$31
$50
$45
$26
$41
$36
$21
Settling the Score Live
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AAF & APO present A Child of Our Time
23
$125
$113
$105
$95
$95
$85
$77
$77
$68
$61
$61
$51
$46
$46
Michael Hill International Violin Competition
25
$125
$115
$105
$96
$57
$85
$76
$43
$68
$62
$36
$51
$46
$26
All price reserves: $45 adult, $35 senior, $25 student/child. Allocated seating on first come, best choice basis
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How to subscribe
It’s easy. Become a subscriber
by selecting a Full Series
subscription to our New
Zealand Herald Premier
Series, Bayleys Great Classics,
Newstalk ZB ‘Sources of
Inspiration’ concerts or The
Full Works Series. Or start a
Choose Your Own (CYO)
subscription by booking just
four tickets to one or more
concerts in our 2015 season.
All subscribers can then add
tickets for additional concerts
at CYO subscriber prices
during the year whenever
you wish.
For subscription options and
prices, please see the Booking
Form. If you have any questions,
contact the APO ticketing
team on (09) 623 1052 or email
[email protected].
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS
1. Full Series Subscription
Book all 12 concerts in The New Zealand
Herald Premier Series and receive up to
25% discount off public ticket prices.
Book all three of the Bayleys Great
Classics or Newstalk ZB series concerts
and receive up to 15% discount off public
ticket prices. Book all six concerts in The
Full Works series to receive up to 15%
discount.
All full series subscribers receive a
complimentary programme book and
priority booking, and you are guaranteed
your seats in the following year.* If you
were a full series subscriber in 2014 you
retain your chosen seats in 2015, or can
request new seats.
*Excludes The Full Works Series.
2. Choose Your Own subscription
Choose the concerts you want to go to and
make up your own subscription by booking a
minimum of four tickets. You’ll save at least
10% off public ticket prices, and receive
priority seat selection until 19 January.
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HOW TO BOOK
APO E-NEWSLETTER
Online at www.apo.co.nz
We send out a monthly e-newsletter
featuring future concerts and events,
news, special offers and competitions. If
you would like to receive this, fill in your
email address on the booking form or
email us at [email protected].
Mail booking form to:
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Freepost No.212030 (no stamp required*)
PO Box 56024 Dominion Rd
Auckland 1446
Phone:
Call APO Ticketing
on (09) 623 1052
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GO ONLINE www.apo.co.nz
Our website lists all concerts, with links for
booking tickets.
The website also features information
on our APO Connecting (education
and community) programme; players,
conductors and soloists; ways you can
support the orchestra, and much more.
Or stay in touch with the APO through
Facebook: facebook.com/aporchestra
Twitter: @aporchestra
Instagram: aporchestra
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KEY DATES
Friday 26 September: Subscription priority
period begins. Seats will be allocated in
the following order for bookings received
by Friday 31 October 2014:
1. R
enewing full (12-concert) New Zealand
Herald Premier Series subscribers
2. N
ew full New Zealand Herald Premier
Series subscribers
3. R
enewing full (3 concert) Bayleys Great
Classics and/or Newstalk ZB series
subscribers
4. New full Bayleys Great Classics and/or
Newstalk ZB series subscribers
5. Remaining subscriptions in date order.
Friday 31 October 2014: Priority
period ends. All bookings received from
1 November onwards will have seats
allocated in the order that they are
received. N.B. All subscription bookings
will be in your mail box before the APO
office closes for 2014 on Friday 19
December. For enquiries, please phone
the APO ticketing team on (09) 623 1052.
Fri 19 Dec 2014:
APO ticketing office closes.
Mon 5 Jan 2015:
APO ticketing office reopens.
Mon 19 Jan 2015:
Public tickets available.
Fri 30 Jan 2015:
Last date for entry into subscriber prize
draw.
Plan your visit
MEET THE MUSICIANS
The Civic Car Park is closest to Auckland
Town Hall, but if it is full, there is alternative
parking as indicated on the map:
Auckland Town Hall
Aotea Centre
P1 Skycity Car Park – Victoria Street/
Federal Street. Approx. 15 min walk.
Wheelchairs: Can be accommodated
in the Stalls level of the Great Hall or the
Aotea Centre. Please advise ticketing
staff when booking if you require a
wheelchair position.
P2 Wilson Parking – Elliott Street.
Approx. 10 min walk.
P3 Atrium Car Park – Albert Street.
Approx. 10 min walk
P4 Tournament Parking – Wellesley Street
West. Approx. 8 min walk
Say goodbye to driving and parking
stresses. The APO Friends organise
buses to most APO concerts, depending
on demand, for just $10 per round trip.
These buses make attending concerts
easy. Simply telephone the convener
for your area and arrange a convenient
pick-up point. You will be picked up there,
transported to the Town Hall door, picked
up at that door again after the concert and
returned to your pick-up point. The bus
routes are:
Hearing impaired: An induction loop
system is available with full coverage in
most seats. Just adjust your hearing aid to
the “tele” (T) position. Please contact us
for advice on the best seats with coverage.
P5 Civic Car Park – Greys Avenue/Mayoral
Drive. Approx. 2 min walk.
P6 Rendevous Hotel Car Park – Mayoral
Drive/Vincent Avenue
Approx. 5 min walk.
For any questions regarding Auckland
Live venues (including Auckland Town
Hall, Aotea Centre, Civic Theatre)
or patron services, please go to
www.aucklandlive.co.nz/planyourvisit or
phone (09) 307 2677
P7 Tournament Parking – Greys Avenue.
Approx. 5 min walk.
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Convener Liane Hume: Ph (09) 817 0476
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North: Devonport – Hauraki Corner –
Takapuna – Milford – Northbridge
Convener Anne Norris: (09) 446 1228
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Street car park. Approx. 10 min walk.
East: Howick – Highland Park – John’s
Lane/Glenmore Road – Panmure – Sunhill
– Meadowbank – Remuera
Convener John Pybus: (09) 534 7415
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The best mobility access into the Aotea
Centre is via the Civic car park or next
to the box office at the Northern end of
the building. Lifts in Aotea Centre are
located at the southern end of the building
towards Greys Avenue.
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Access: There is lift or ramp access to all
foyers in the Auckland Town Hall. There
is a glass lift in the central atrium as you
enter from Aotea Square.
CAR PARKING
45 minutes before the start of each
major concert (7.15pm for The New
Zealand Herald Premier Series concerts,
and Newstalk ZB Sources of Inspiration
series concerts; and 6.45pm for Bayleys
Great Classics series concerts and
Opera in Concert) in the Town Hall our
knowledgeable guest speakers offer you
fascinating insights into the programme
you are about to hear. This is your chance
to discover more about the composers,
music and musicians, and enrich your
concert-going experience. Join us in the
Supper Room or Concert Chamber (see
signage at the Town Hall for venue) and let
us set the scene for the concert to come.
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At least 48 hours before the day of a
concert please let the APO ticketing team
know if you have any special needs, and
we will make sure the venue supervision
team is aware of your needs.
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PRE-CONCERT TALK
Alternatively, use public transport or
arrive early and enjoy a pre-concert
snack, or attend our pre-concert talks.
Public transport details can be found at
at.govt.nz/bus-train-ferry
Accessibility – Great Hall,
Auckland Town Hall; Aotea Centre
Relive the music at our casual gatherings
after the concert. Everyone is welcome to
join the musicians, soloists, conductors
and fellow concertgoers after most APO
concerts, in the Town Hall D Bar on
Stalls level.
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We hope you enjoy attending
the concerts you have selected.
Here are some suggestions
to help make your experience
even more enjoyable:
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2015 Composers
COMPOSER
WORK/S
John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
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8
J.S. Bach
Overture from D Major Suite, BWV
1068
Trio Sonata in C minor
8
29
COMPOSER
WORK/S
Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Introduction, ‘Dawn
on the Moscow River’
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Nielsen
Aladdin: 7 pieces
19
Piazzolla
Libertango
30
10
22
Kommt, eilet und laufet
29
Poulenc
Organ Concerto
Barber
Adagio for Strings
14
Prokofiev
Symphony No.6
11
Bartók
Violin Concerto 2
10
Puccini
Turandot
20
Dance Suite
16
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.3
14
Beethoven
Symphony No.4
11
Ravel
Piano Concerto in G
11
Symphony No.7
10
Boléro
14
Piano Concerto No.2
13
Respighi
Adagio with Variations
11
Berio
Folksongs
16
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
13
Bernstein
Songs from West Side Story
30
Rossini
Barber of Seville Overture
30
Bernstein/Foss
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
18
Russo
Street Music
19
Bizet
Carmen Suites
14
Schoenberg
13
Jack Body
Melodies for Orchestra
19
Accompaniment to a cinematographic
scene
Borodin
Overture to Prince Igor
14
Sculthorpe
Earth Cry
19
Brahms
Symphony No.1
10
Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No.2
Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1
Bruckner
Symphony No.7
11
Copland
Clarinet Concerto
19
Corigliano
Pied Piper Fantasy (Concerto for
Flute and Orchestra)
13
13, 26, 27
Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
11
Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
14
Dutilleux
Dvorˇák
Tout un monde lointain, Concerto for
cello and orchestra
Violin Concerto
Elgar
Enigma Variations
Enescu
Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Falla
Gareth Farr
8
8
Sibelius
Two Pieces for String Octet Opus 11.
(Prelude and Scherzo for Strings)
Symphony No.1
Smetana
Overture to The Bartered Bride
14
Bent Sórensen
Trumpet Concerto
10
Strauss
Romance
11
An Alpine Symphony
13
Stravinsky
14
10, 26, 27
8
Symphony No.5
29
8
10
Pulcinella Suite
The Firebird Suite
11, 26, 27
Takemitsu
I hear the water dreaming
16
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake Suite (Excerpts)
14
The Three Cornered Hat Suites 1 & 2
16
Kenneth Young
In Paradisum
29
From the Depths Sound the Great
Seas Gongs
42
Gershwin
Girl Crazy Overture
19
Ross Harris
Violin Concerto
Haydn
8
Trumpet Concerto
10
Symphony No.34
10
Holst
The Planets
Khachaturian
Excerpts from Gayane Suites
Ligeti
Melodien
Lilburn
Aotearoa Overture
10
Mahler
Symphony No.1 ‘Titan’
13
Marquez
Danzon No.2
14
Mendelssohn
Mozart
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Zelenka
8
19
8
Violin Concerto in E minor
11
Octet for Strings
29
The Hebrides Overture
22
Piano Concerto No.25, K.503,
C Major
14
29
Gallipoli Armistice Commission
24
Trio Sonata in F major
29
Concerto à 8 concertanti
29
YOUNG COMPOSERS
Works by young New Zealand composers included in our
programme this year:
COMPOSER
WORK/S
Callum Blackmore
The First Time I Stood
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24
Jonathan Mandeno Au Revoir
24
Rachel Morgan
Seeking Answers to the Riddle
24
Louise Webster
Your Letter
24
2015 Artists
SOLOIST
INSTRUMENT CONCERT
Nicolas Altstaedt
Cello
Out of this World
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Thiago Arancam
Tenor
Turandot
20
William Barton
Didgeridoo
Inspired by Exotica
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Piano
French Twist
Andrew Beer
Violin
8
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CONDUCTOR
CONCERT
Eckehard Stier,
Music Director
Out of this World
8
The Splendour of Organ
10
19
Fairytales
13
11
Alpine Adventure
13
26
Inspired by Jazz
19
Julian Bliss
Clarinet
Unwrap Bruch's
Violin Concerto
No.1
Inspired by Jazz
Rúni Brattaberg
Bass Baritone
Turandot
32
David Briggs
Organ
10
Lionel Bringuier
From Leipzig
11
Fiona Campbell
Mezzo
The Splendour of
Organ
Inspired by Folksong
16
Michał Dworzyn´ski
Chang and Boléro
14
Tiziana Caruso
Soprano
Turandot
32
Fabien Gabel
Russian Pictures
14
Sarah Castle
Mezzo
Celebrate Christmas
31
Rumon Gamba
Enigma Variations
10
Sarah Chang
Violin
Chang and Boléro
14
Richard Gill
Unwrap Elgar's Enigma Variations
26
35
Unwrap Stravinsky's Firebird
26
Julia Deans
Singer
The Last Night of
the Proms
Divas
Unwrap Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1
26
Emerging Artists of
NZ Opera
Isabelle Faust
Vocalists
Letters in Wartime
24
Violin
From Leipzig
11
Eivind Gullberg Jensen
The Trumpet Shall Sound
10
Blues to Bebop
33
19
34
Turandot
32
Peter Adams
Summer School Finale Concert
43
Giordano Bellincampi
Musical Treasures
11
Virtuoso Violin
13
Andrew Gourlay
French Twist
11
Inspired by Exotica
19
Warwick Fyfe
Baritone
Turandot
32
Brett Kelly
Kirill Gerstein
Piano
Russian Pictures
14
Gergely Madras
Clocks and Clouds
32
Hamish McKeich
Letters in Wartime
24
Divas
34
31
Richard Greager
Tenor
Turandot
Ilya Gringolts
Violin
The Planets
Tim Gruchy
Multimedia Artist Water and Light
Viviane Hagner
Violin
Virtuoso Violin
8
8
22
Ben Northey
Celebrate Christmas
13
Alejo Pérez
Film Classics
14
10
Ilyich Rivas
Inspired by Folksong
16
Andrew Sewell
Fiesta Latina
30
14
Garry Walker
The Planets
33
Kenneth Young
Water and Light
22
The Last Night of the Proms
35
Tine Thing Helseth
Trumpet
Michael Houstoun
Piano
The Trumpet Shall
Sound
Film Classics
Hetty Kate
Singer
Blues to Bebop
Claire-Marie Le Guay
Piano
Alpine Adventure
13
Anna Leese
Soprano
Fiesta Latina
30
Robert Macfarlane
Tenor
Turandot
32
Penelope Mills
Soprano
35
Anika Moa
Singer
The Last Night of
the Proms
Divas
Andrew Moran
Baritone
Turandot
20
James Morrison
Trumpet
Blues to Bebop
33
Eliah Sakakushev-von Cello
Bismarck
Benjamin Schmid
Violin
Musical Treasures
11
Enigma Variations
10
Corky Siegel
Harmonica
Inspired by Jazz
19
Nadja Stefanoff
Alto
Turandot
32
Kathryn Stott
Piano
Clocks and Clouds
Adam Walker
Flute
Fairytales
13
Patricia Wright
Soprano
Water and Light
22
Katie Zagórski
Flute
Water and Light
22
34
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CHOIR
CONCERT
New Zealand Opera
Chorus,
Director John Rosser
Saint Kentigern College
Choir
The Graduate Choir NZ,
Director Terence Maskell
Turandot
20
Letters in Wartime
24
Water and Light
22
Celebrate Christmas
31
Viva Voce
Director John Rosser
PAGE
The Planets
8
ACTORS & MCS
ROLE
CONCERT
Gareth Farr
MC
Mangopare
42
Kevin Keys
Actor, MC
APO 4 Kids
43
MC
APO 4 Kids
Christmas
Letters in Wartime
24
Monti Sauter
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Concert calendar
DATE
TIME
SERIES
CONCERT
LOCATION
Friday 23 January
2.30pm
APO CONNECTING
Summer School Finale Concert
Clouston Hall, St Cuthbert’s College
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Thursday 19 February
8pm
PREMIER 1
The Planets
Auckland Town Hall
Thursday 26 February
8pm
PREMIER 2
Clocks and Clouds
Auckland Town Hall
8
Wednesday 4 March
8pm
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
Water and Light
Auckland Town Hall
22
Saturday 7 March
2pm
OUTDOOR SUMMER CONCERT
Fiesta Latina
Government House, Mt Eden
30
Tuesday 10 March
6.45pm
DELOITTE SUMMER CONCERT
La Dolce Vita
Old Government House Grounds
37
Saturday 21 March
8pm
AUCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL
A Child of Our Time
Auckland Town Hall
23
Thursday 9 April
8pm
Blues to Bebop (James Morrison)
Auckland Town Hall
33
44
8
Saturday 11 April
10am & 11.30am
APO CONNECTING
APO 4 Kids
Auckland Town Hall
43
Saturday 11 April
1-4pm
APO CONNECTING
Open Orchestra Central
Auckland Town Hall
44
Thursday 16 April
8pm
PREMIER 3
Out of this World
Auckland Town Hall
Monday 20 April
6.30pm
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD 1
The Strings Sing
St Peter’s Church, Takapuna
29
Tuesday 21 April
6.30pm
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD 1
The Strings Sing
Sacred Heart College Chapel, Glendowie
29
Thursday 30 April
7.30pm
GREAT CLASSICS 1
Chang and Boléro
Auckland Town Hall
14
Wednesday 6 May
8pm
PREMIER 4
The Trumpet Shall Sound
Auckland Town Hall
10
Thursday 14 May
8pm
SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
Inspired by Folksong
Auckland Town Hall
16
8
Thursday 21 May
6.30pm
UNWRAP 1
Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Auckland Town Hall
26
Monday 25 May
6.30pm
APO CONNECTING
Letters in Wartime
Auckland Museum
34
Monday 8 June
6.30pm
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD 2
Best of Baroque
All Saints Church, Howick
29
Tuesday 9 June
6.30pm
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD 2
Best of Baroque
St Luke’s Church, Remuera
29
10-11 June
7.30pm
MICHAEL HILL IVC
Round Three
Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber
25
Saturday 13 June
7.30pm
MICHAEL HILL IVC
Grand Finale
Auckland Town Hall
25
Thursday 18 June
8pm
PREMIER 5
Enigma Variations
Auckland Town Hall
10
Thursday 25 June
8pm
Divas
Auckland Town Hall
34
Friday 3 July
7.30pm
OPERA IN CONCERT
Turandot
Auckland Town Hall
32
Thursday 9 July
8pm
PREMIER 6
The Splendour of Organ
Auckland Town Hall
10
Saturday 11 July
1.30-4pm
APO CONNECTING
Open Orchestra South
Vodafone Events Centre
44
19
Thursday 16 July
8pm
SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
Inspired by Jazz
Auckland Town Hall
Thursday 23 July
8pm
PREMIER 7
From Leipzig
Auckland Town Hall
11
Thursday 6 August
7.30pm
GREAT CLASSICS 2
Russian Pictures
Auckland Town Hall
14
Monday 10 August
6.30pm
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD 3
Trombone Tones
St Michael's Church, Remuera
29
Tuesday 11 August
6.30pm
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD 3
Trombone Tones
Takapuna Methodist Church
29
Thursday 13 August
6.30pm
UNWRAP 2
Stravinsky’s The Firebird
Auckland Town Hall
26
Thursday 20 August
8pm
PREMIER 8
French Twist
Auckland Town Hall
11
Thursday 27 August
8pm
SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
Inspired by Exotica
Auckland Town Hall
19
Thursday 10 September
6.30pm
UNWRAP 3
Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1
Auckland Town Hall
26
Thursday 1 October
8pm
PREMIER 9
Musical Treasures
Auckland Town Hall
11
Thursday 8 October
8pm
PREMIER 10
Virtuoso Violin
Auckland Town Hall
13
Saturday 10 October
1.30pm-4pm
APO CONNECTING
Open Orchestra West
Waitakere Trusts Arena
44
Wednesday 14 October
11.30am
APO CONNECTING
Kiwi Kapers
Aotea Centre
42
Wednesday 14 October
1pm
APO CONNECTING
Kiwi Kapers: Mangopare
Aotea Centre
42
Thursday 22 October
7.30pm
GREAT CLASSICS 3
Film Classics
Auckland Town Hall
14
Thursday 5 November
8pm
PREMIER 11
Fairytales
Auckland Town Hall
13
Thursday 12 November
8pm
The Last Night of the Proms
Auckland Town Hall
35
Alpine Adventure
Auckland Town Hall
13
Settling the Score Live
Auckland Town Hall
36
Thursday 19 November
8pm
Thursday 26 November
8pm
PREMIER 12
APO CONNECTING
Saturday 28 November
10am & 11.30am
APO 4 Kids Christmas
Auckland Town Hall
43
Friday 11 December
7.30pm
Celebrate Christmas
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell
31
Saturday 12 December
3pm
Celebrate Christmas
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell
31
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Thank you
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the contributions made by the
following companies, trusts and organisations. These funds support the orchestra’s current
operations and education programme.
PLATINUM
William & Lois
Manchester Trust
GOLD
POTTER TRUST
Freemasons New Zealand
SILVER
NZ COMMUNITY TRUST
BRONZE
Adrian Malloch Photography
Hamana Charitable Trust
Marshall Day Acoustics
APRA
Ikebana International Auckland Trust
Ministry of Education
Deane Endowment Trust
Impressions International
North & South Trust
Epicor
Karajoz Coffee
Orongo Bay Homestead
Auckland
Philharmonia
Orchestra
PO Box 56024
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Auckland 1446
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Ticket Office (09) 623 1052
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