Lunchtime Concert: Viola Extravaganza — Students from the NZSM
2024-06-06 12:15 - 13:00, 2024-10-09 12:15 - 13:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | St Andrews Church, 30 The Terrace, Wellington, 6011, Wellington, The Terrace, 6011, New Zealand

Lunchtime Concert: Byron “Buzz” Newton - tuba and euphonium
2024-06-12 12:15 - 13:00
Renowned tuba and euphonium artist, Byron “Buzz” Newton, takes center stage alongside pianist Brandan Agnew and special guest, NZSM baritone horn student Kate McGregor.
Featured Repertoire:
Concerto for Bass Tuba by R. Vaughan Williams: Immerse yourself in the rich harmonies and deep resonance of Vaughan Williams’ masterpiece.
Blind Sport (for euphonium) by Gilles Rocha: Let yourself be enchanted by the expressive melodies and dynamic contrasts of Rocha’s modern classic.
Fnugg Purple (for Looping Station) by Øystein Baadsvik/B. Newton: Brace yourself for the innovative soundscape of Fnugg Purple. With the aid of looping technology, Buzz creates intricate layers of sound, pushing the boundaries of what is possible on the euphonium.

Born in Ashburton, Byron ‘Buzz’ Newton earned his sweet nickname while working in the family honey business. Buzz holds degrees from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand School of Music, and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, achieving a flawless 100% in his Master’s recital.
His diverse career includes stints with the Tredegar Town Band (Wales), Wellington Brass Band, and over a decade in the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band. Buzz has performed with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Currently, he serves as the Principal Tuba of Orchestra Wellington.
Committed to music education, Buzz has been an Artist Teacher at the New Zealand School of Music since 2013. In 2016, he founded the Buzzing Brass Academy, fostering musical talent through a full-size brass band and a “Beeginner” group.

Lunchtime Concert: Otis Prescott-Mason, solo piano
2024-06-19 12:15 - 13:00
Brahms – Two Rhapsodies, Op.79
York Bowen – Three Sketches, Op.43
Chopin – Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise, Op.22

Lunchtime Concert: Quang Hong Luu, solo piano
2024-06-20 12:15 - 13:00
Join us for a wonderful programme of Debussy’s:Prelude No.7/II: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune and Liszt’s complete first volume “Switzerland” from the years of Pilgrimage.
The recital will begin with the mysterious and exquisite Prelude and the main part of the program is dedicated to the first volume – Switzerland from the Years of Pilgrimage by Franz Liszt. These are among Liszt’s most celebrated masterworks and the summation of his musical style. This is also the research topic for Luu’s doctoral thesis. Luu is thrilled to begin his own “pilgrimage” in Wellington, New Zealand, examining the spiritual experiences of Liszt’s Romantic soul and sharing his first performance in the capital.

Lunchtime Concert: Voces Luce, the premier choir of Queen Margaret College
2024-06-26 12:15 - 13:00

Lunchtime Concert: Mezzo-sopranos Szilvia Hernyak & Grace Burt with Liam Furey, piano
2024-06-27 12:15 - 13:00
Mezzo-sopranos Szilvia Hernyak; Grace Burt present classic German Lieder repertoire, from Schumann to Strauss.

Lunchtime Concert: NZSO National Youth Orchestra Chamber Music Concert
2024-07-03 12:15 - 13:00
Members of the 2024 NZSO National Youth Orchestra present a concert of chamber music at St. Andrews on the Terrace. Featuring a diverse range of styles, composers and instrument combinations, this concert promises to be a vibrant and exciting showcase of our young musicians’ talents that you won’t want to miss!

Lunchtime Concert: ASQ International Music Academy 2024 Tutors Concert
2024-07-10 12:15 - 13:00
Join the Aroha String Quartet – Haihong Liu, Konstanze Artmann, Zhongxian Jin and Robert Ibell, along with guest tutors and players from this year’s String Academy for a beautiful chamber music concert.

Lunchtime Concert: Box Hill Quartet
2024-07-17 12:15 - 13:00
Joanna Dann, Celia Griffiths and siblings David and Sylvia Neild perform Schumann’s sparkling and sunny Piano Quartet, Op. 47.

Lunchtime Concert: NZSM Wind/Brass Solo Recital
2024-07-24 12:15 - 13:00

Lunchtime Concert: Dulcis Tibia Recorder Quartet
2024-07-31 12:15 - 13:00
Katrin Eickhorst, Rachel Patrick, Roger Palmer and Tessa Coppard present a programme of Renaissance music, including Marini and Monteverdi, along with gems by Bach, folk and 20th-century popular songs.
Dulcis Tibia was founded in 2018 and has been performing regularly in the Wellington area since 2018. It comprises four accomplished and experienced players with tertiary music degrees, who have extensive performance and teaching experience to tertiary level also on other
instruments. They have long been active members of the Recorders and Early Music Union, two of them as past and present presidents.

Lunchtime Concert: Jia Ling - Chinese Guzheng (zither) and Pei-Ying Pan, piano
2024-08-07 12:15 - 13:00
Join Jia Ling (Guzheng) and Pei-Ying (Piano) on a Romantic journey to the east, sharing an exquisite blend of Eastern and Western music, ranging from Traditional Chinese music to modern interpretations of Guzheng.
Jia Ling is a GuZheng lecturer of China Cultural Centre and the Confucius Institute of Victoria University in Wellington. She graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Majored in GuZheng Performance. Jia Ling has been learning Gu Zheng with Chinese National Gu Zheng Master, Educator, Professor Sun Wenyan. Jia Ling moved to New Zealand in 2018. She has lectured in more than 50 schools in and around the Wellington area from primary to tertiary institutes. Jia Ling has been invited to perform by Weta Studio, Wellington Jazz Festival and the NZ government at the Parliament, with around 100 multicultural performances all over NZ.
Pei-Ying completed her M.Mus (Piano Performance) in 2005 with Diedre Irons and Maurice Till at the University of Canterbury. She has worked as a rehearsal accompanist alongside Dame Malvina Major and performed with several soloists including Hayley Westernra, Yoomia Sim and Wolfgang Kraemer. Pei-Ying currently works as a piano teacher from her studio and as a collaborative pianist, working alongside members from NZSO and Orchestra Wellington.

Lunchtime Concert: Classical Voice Students of the NZSM
2024-08-14 12:15 - 13:00

Lunchtime Concert: Middle Fiddles - Wellington Viola Academy
2024-08-21 12:15 - 13:00
The Wellington Viola Academy meets monthly to provide a performance platform and rehearse music for viola ensemble. This all-Bach programme features Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb major, BWV 1051.

Lunchtime Concert: Flute Squadron
2024-08-28 12:15 - 13:00
Members of the RNZAF Symphonic Band – Rebecca Steel, Karen Batten, Elizabeth Bush-King and Mitch McEwan – present an eclectic programme including a delightful work for cat lovers, “Cats” by Marc Berthomieu in five movements:- Persian Blue, Puma, Siamese, Lynx and Perching Cat.
Can it be a coincidence that the composer’s name has a mieu (meow) in it?
Add to this, some arrangements of favourites by Grieg and Debussy for a most delightful lunchtime feast.

Lunchtime Concert: Chamber Music with Inbal Megiddo and Paul Altomari
2024-09-04 12:15 - 13:00
Performers:
Anna van der Zee – violin
Christine Wang – violin
Chris van der Zee – viola
Inbal Megiddo – cello
Paul Altomari – double bass

Repertoire:
Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981) – ‘Strum’ for string quintet
Adolphe Blanc (1828-1885) – String Quintet No. 3 in D Major

Allegro Moderato
Menuet – Moderato quasi Andante

III. Finale – Allegro

Lunchtime Concert: Afternoon Serenade: Johanna Gruskin, Sophia Acheson and Christine Wang
2024-09-11 12:15 - 13:00
Join Joanna Gruskin, Sophia Acheson and Christine Wang for a programme of music for flute/piccolo, viola and violin.
Piccled by Michael Norris
Piccolo
Fantasia in F major, from 36 Fantasias for Harpsichord
By Telemann arr. Jan Sielemann for violin and viola
First madrigal from Three Madrigals, H.313 by Martinu
Violin and viola
Serenade in D major, Op. 25 by Beethoven
Flute, violin and viola
Biographies:
Sophia Acheson
Sophia, from Christchurch, studied with New Zealand violist Donald Maurice. She was
subsequently awarded scholarships to study at the University of Southern California with
Donald McInnes and the University of Texas at Austin with Roger Myers.
In 2023 Sophia began her permanent role as section player with the New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra. She has enjoyed playing in many chamber groups and as a soloist with Kāpiti
Concert Orchestra.
Johanna Gruskin
Johanna Gruskin joined the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as Principal Piccolo in 2022.
Previously she was a member of the New World Symphony (Florida) and the Knoxville
Symphony Orchestra. Originally from Minnesota, she studied flute and piccolo at the
Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, and Colburn Conservatory.
Christine Wang
Christine has been a member of the second violin section of New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra since 2022. Prior to this, she was Assistant Concertmaster of San Antonio
Symphony. She holds a Bachelor of Music from Eastman School of Music and Master of
Music at Rice University, studying under Oleh Krysa and Kathleen Winkler respectively.
Photos courtesy of New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Te Tira Pūoro o Aotearoa.

Lunchtime Concert: NZSM Cello Ensemble
2024-09-18 12:15 - 13:00
Program will include popular favorites, including Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and España, by Chabrier.

Lunchtime concert - Quang Hong Luu, solo piano
2024-09-19 12:15 - 13:00
The program starts with Franz Liszt’s Funérailles, a dramatic work that captures the revolutionary spirit of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. It is followed by Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, op. 15, a collection of miniature works that expresses the more intimate and delicate charm of the piano repertoire. The final work is the monumental f-minor Sonata by Brahms, a grand symphonic-scale work that mixes passion with nobility.
Luu has won numerous prizes at competitions in Italy, Germany and Japan and has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra of England, the Wuhan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Orchestra of Australia. He has given recitals in Australia, Vietnam, Japan, China, Malaysia, the USA and France.
He will soon release a CD of Liszt’s 12 Transcendental Studies under the Rattle recording label. Quang is now completing a Doctor of Musical Arts at
the New Zealand School of Music in New Zealand under the guidance of Dr Jian Liu.

Lunchtime Concert: Joanna Dann, cello and David Neild, piano
2024-09-25 12:15 - 13:00
Joanna Dann, cello and David Neild, piano present Beethoven’s Cello Sonata Op. 5, No. 2 in G minor and Grieg’s Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36.

Lunchtime Concert: Martin Riseley, violin and Kathryn Mosley, piano
2024-09-26 12:15 - 13:00
Music of Alfred Hill and other New Zealand composers

Lunchtime Concert: NZSM String Ensemble
2024-10-02 12:15 - 13:00

Lunchtime Concert: NZSM Piano Extravaganza
2024-10-10 12:15 - 13:00

Lunchtime Concert: Duo Zweisamkeit – Piano Duo
2024-10-16 12:15 - 13:00
Join us for a piano four-hands performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a, and The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a.

Lunchtime Concert: Katrin Eickhorst, recorder and Michael Stewart, harpsichord
2024-10-23 12:15 - 13:00
Katrin Eickhorst, recorders, and Michael Stewart, organ and harpsichord, present solo and chamber music works from the Renaissance and the Baroque, including works by Fontana, van Eyck (Staeps), Frescobaldi and Telemann.
The highlight of the programme is Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach’s Sonata in g minor for flute or violine and obligato harpsichord. One of the gems of 18th century literature, it was attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as his BWV 1020. But recent research suggests it to be a work of Johann Sebastian’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Lunchtime Concert: Kugels
2024-10-30 12:15 - 13:00
Debbie Rawson, Ross Harris, Anna Gawn, Nick Tipping and Robin Perks
Take 3 former NZSO players, an Arts Laureate composer, a jazz bass player, and a charismatic singer, and you have The Kugels ! The ensemble has been together for 15 years now, and has completed nationwide tours for Arts on Tour NZ and Chamber Music New Zealand, as well as performing as guest artists at several NZ festivals.
The Kugels are looking forward to the next appearance at St Andrew’s! We will thrill you with an intoxicating mix of cutting edge art song, laced with high end instrumental folk, wild improvisation, and a zesty premiere or 2…

Lunchtime Concert: Stringendo - Wellington Children’s Orchestra
2024-11-06 12:15 - 13:00
Stringendo – Wellington Children’s Orchestra
St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Wednesday, November 6th, 12:15pm, koha
This training orchestra for school-aged string players founded by Donald Maurice and Rupa Maitra, offers early-level musicians the opportunity to develop skills in a fun and inclusive environment. Directed by Alex Vaatstra and Hilary Ferrald.

Lunchtime Concert: Douglas Mews, Chamber Organ
2024-11-13 12:15 - 13:00
Performing Handel, Stanley and Samuel Wesley on St Andrew’s chamber organ.

Lunchtime Concert: Dianne Halliday, organ
2024-11-20 12:15 - 13:00
This concert combines a variety of themes – sacred (Christian and Jewish) and secular, serious and comedic, domestic and international. Original organ music by Andrew Perkins, John Keeble, Marcel Dupre and Ernest Bloch. And is P.D.Q. Bach related to J. S.? Come and find out!
