Chamber Music New Zealand present pianist Piers Lane and the Doric String Quartet, live in concert at the Century Theatre in Napier.
The programme will include:
• Haydn - String Quartet in D Opus 64 No 5 ‘The Lark’
• Bartók - String Quartet No 3 (1927)
• Chopin - Nocturne in E flat Opus 55 No 2, Ballade No 3 in A flat
• Brahms - Piano Quintet in F minor Opus 34
Two giants of the Romantic repertoire are presented on this tour – two piano quintets by Schumann and Brahms, both breathtaking in their scope and emotional range. Each is balanced by a Classical Haydn string quartet, and a twentieth-century masterwork.
Exquisite solo piano works pay homage to Chopin two hundred years after his birth.
Piers Lane - piano Alex Redington - violin Jonathan Stone - violin Simon Tandree - viola John Myerscough - cello In their twelve years together, the prize-winning UK-based Doric String Quartet have successfully forged a career path that places them in highly acclaimed chamber music events and series around the world, and working in collaboration with world-class artists. London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane has a flourishing international career which has taken him to more than forty countries. He is in great demand as a chamber music collaborator, and in 2007 was appointed Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, held annually in Townsville.
Presented in association with Royal Over-Seas League.