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The New Zealand String Quartet, the country’s foremost chamber ensemble, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012.
They have forged a major international career, earning the acclaim of critics and the delighted response of audiences. The quartet has particularly distinguished itself through imaginative programming and insightful interpretations of the string quartet repertoire.
The string quartets of Beethoven’s ‘middle’ period, a period in which he expressed heroic and revolutionary sentiments, are substantial and profound works. The group includes the three Quartets of Opus 59, commissioned by Count Razumovsky, Russian Ambassador to Vienna. Completed in 1806 after a year of sketching and composing, these works are symphonic in scope.
The New Zealand String Quartet will announce its full 25th anniversary New Zealand concert schedule on 3 November 2011. For more information, visit www.nzsq.co.nz.
Photo by Robert Catto.
| Date | Programme | Time | Venue | Centre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 12 | Programme Two | 5pm | The Speirs Centre 263 Featherston St |
Palmerston North |
| 23 April 12 | Programme One | 8pm | Napier Municipal Theatre |
Napier |
| 24 April 12 | Programme Two | 7.30pm | Theatre Royal TSB Showplace |
New Plymouth |
| 26 April 12 | Programme One | 7.30pm | Otago Girls' High School | Dunedin |
| 28 April 12 | Programme Two | 7.30pm | Civic Theatre | Invercargill |
| 30 April 12 | Programme Two | 7.30pm | Middleton Grange Performing Arts Centre | Christchurch |
| 3 May 12 | Programme One | 7.30pm | Wellington Town Hall | Wellington |
| 4 May 12 | Programme One | 7.30pm | Nelson School of Music |
Nelson |
| 8 May 12 | Programme One | 8pm | Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts | Hamilton |
| 9 May 12 | Programme Two | 8pm | Auckland Town Hall | Auckland |