Advance Notice: Annual General Meeting – Thursday June 24^th

Time: 7.30pm -9pm

Place:170 Tannery Rd, Meeanee Napier

All financial members of STANZA Hawkes Bay are invited to share some social time over a wine and nibbles followed by a brief meeting.

For catering purposes RSVP by June 20^th please

Email: raewyn@physiocare.co.nz or phone 06 8443992

Alexa Still and HBO in concert- May 30th

Alexa Still and the Hawkes Bay Orchestra in Concert

30 May 2010: 3pm – Hastings Opera House

Conductor: Michael Joel

This is an opportunity to hear one of the world's finest flautist's!

The Hawkes Bay Orchestra is thrilled to be hosting international Flautist Alexa Still and Wellington based conductor Michael Joel. The pair will conduct five days of coaching, workshops and rehearsals culminating in a family concert at 3pm on Sunday May 30th at the Hawke's Bay Opera House. 

A native of NZ, Alexa Still is based in Sydney, Australia, as head of flute at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and maintains a busy concert schedule.

For more information about Alexa’s Flute workshops visit :www.hbo.org.nz

Michael Joel is known in HB particularly as a conductor. In August 2006 he conducted an enthusiastically received and successful production of Die Fledermaus for Opera Hawke’s Bay and in 2009 he conducted concerts with renowned flute soloist, Alexa Still and the Hawke’s Bay Orchestra, and piano soloist Catherine McKay and the Wellington Chamber Orchestra.

Other guests in the programme will be Tessa Peterson and Heleen du Plessis- who will perform Anthony Ritchie’s Concert for Violin and Cello. Mr Ritchie will be in attendance in the audience.

Tessa Petersen,as an undergraduate student at The University of Otago, won numerous prizes, and led the New Zealand Youth Orchestra. After extensive studies and work overseas, Tessa is currently the William Evans Executant Lecturer in Violin at the University of Otago.

Cellist, Heleen Du Plessis has been well known in the South African music world for some time, as soloist, chamber musician and teacher and has, while living in the USA for the last 4 years, furthered her studies in Performing Arts, at the highly prestigious Conservatory of Music: The Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University in Baltimore.

PRICES: Adults: $25.00

Seniors 65+ or Students with ID: $15.00 / Family (2 Adults & 2 children): $60.00

SERVICE FEES APPLY Tickets available through the booking office- HastingsOperaHouse / or TicketDirect outlets

Bio Notes: Heleen Du Plessis

Heleen Du Plessis has been well known in the South African music world for some time, as soloist, chamber musician and teacher and has, while living in the USA for the last 4 years, furthered her studies in Performing Arts, at the highly prestigious Conservatory of Music: The Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University in Baltimore. She studied with renowned Israeli cellist, Professor Amit Peled, where she obtained the Graduate Performance Degree in May 2007 with a full scholarship. She was principle cellist of the Peabody Orchestra for two consecutive years. During this period she attended master classes and private lessons with Carter Brey, Richard Aaron, Ilya Finkelstein and Burton Kaplan.

While living abroad she was principal cellist of the Prince William Symphony Orchestra in Virginia, USA, with whom she appeared as soloist performing the Elgar Cello Concerto. Other recent performances include, the Haydn Cello Concerto in C with the Nova Manassas Symphony Orchestra, recitals in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.

Previous qualifications include the post-graduate Performer's Diploma under Daniel Grosgurin at the Conservatoire de Genève in Switzerland, while living there for 5 years. She attended and played for master classes with, Mtislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker, Arto Noras, Antonio Ménéses and private lessons with Marie-Paul Milone in Paris and performed at venues in and around Geneva.

Since her return in 2009 to SA, she has resumed her teaching at the University of Pretoria and was recently invited to perform and teach at the University of Otago in Dunedin, NZ. She has rejoined the Musaion Trio with Malcolm Nay and Zanta Hofmeyr, who previously performed at national and international venues like the Amsterdam Grachte Festival and the Het Loo Palace Apeldoorn, Holland, collaborating with Philippe Graffin and Colin Carr, the International Chamber Music Festival in Cape Town, at the Baxter Theatre, Rachmaninov festival in Stellenbosch, Brahms festival at the Musaion and Aardklop. Cello recitals with well known pianists like Malcolm Nay, Anton Nel and Charl du Plessis include highlights of performances in the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch, Hugo Lamprecht Hall , Paarl, Unisa Sunnyside Campus, Pretoria, Musaion, Pretoria, Atrium at Wits, Johannesburg and the University of Johannesburg.

Critics have referred to her playing as “velvet-like and colorful, smoothing to the ears, leaving audience breathless”, or have remarked that she “played with sensitivity and expression that is story like, imaginative and with a huge sound”.

She is currently busy with her D. Mus. in Performing Arts at the University of Pretoria, writing a dissertation on the teaching, learning and application of cello technique based on several scale systems of 3 famous American cello teachers, Amit Peled, Richard Aaron and Hans Jorgen Jensen.

Bio Notes : Tessa Peterson, John Van Buskirk

Tessa Petersen was brought up in Dunedin, New Zealand. As an undergraduate student at The University of Otago, she studied with Australian violinist Pamela Bryce, won numerous prizes, and led the New Zealand Youth Orchestra. A British Commonwealth Scholarship took her to London to study with Levon Chilingirian at the Royal College of Music after which she went on to play and tour with leading chamber orchestras in the UK and Europe.

From 1993 Tessa was active in the USA as an orchestral and chamber player, concertmaster, recitalist and teacher in New York and throughout New England. She taught at Smith College, Westfield State College, Mount Holyoke College, coached chamber music at the Greenwood Music Camp for gifted children and worked in schools in Massachusetts. She has participated in the Aldeburgh Music Festival in the UK, as well as The Waterloo, Wolfeboro, Mohawk Trail, Marlboro and Monadnock music festivals in the USA.

Tessa is currently the William Evans Executant Lecturer in Violin at the University of Otago and the National President of STANZA--the Strings Association of New Zealand, Aotearoa.

John Van Buskirk, a versatile pianist referred to by the NY Times as “sensitive and assertive”, has played from Los Angeles and New York to Budapest, Prince Edward Island and the Netherland Antilles as a recitalist, chamber music player and recital partner to singers and instrumentalists.

He graduated from the Eastman School of Music, holds a Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School and completed post-graduate study at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. While living in New York City he played in The Music Today Ensemble, The New York Chamber Symphony and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra of Lincoln Center. In New England, he taught at Bennington College, Westfield State College and Smith College.

He has played for broadcast on NPR and the BBC. Mr. Van Buskirk made many recordings as a member of the New York Chamber Symphony and the Harmonie Ensemble among others. His solo recordings include Music of Robert Schumann—Newport Classics, The Art of the Fortepiano—Lyrichord as well as Songs of Robert Schumann, with Jane Bryden, soprano—Gasparo. Mr. Van Buskirk has played with the Mendelssohn Quartet, members of the Guarneri Quartet, the Jacques Thibaud String Trio, the Ying Quartet and at music festivals throughout New England. He recently relocated to Dunedin, New Zealand where he performs with Tessa Petersen as the violin/piano duo La Belle Alliance. His most recent recording is of Allen Shawn’s Messages (dedicated to him), included along with the composer’s performances on an Albany CD (Allen Shawn Piano Music, Vol II).

Cello Workshops - Saturday May 29th

STANZA Hawkes Bay presents:

CELLO Workshops with Heleen du Plessis : Saturday May 29th

10am- 1pm @ Havelock Intermediate School : Music Suite

Students of Mrs Wendy Johnson

Suitable for Grades 1-6 level.

Workshops will cover bow colour/ tone, whole bow staccatos, spiccato, legato: shifting technique, vibrato.

Both sessions will also include some exercises/ group playing and a short demonstration from Heleen of some unaccompanied Bach or similar

Session 1: Grade 1-3

10am -10:40 : Bowing techniques for Grade 1-3

( covering legato/ spiccato, bowhold, bow tone). Group playing.

10:40am- demonstration short unaccompanied piece, question / discussion time

*****short break ******************************

Session 2: Grade 4-6

11am -11:45: Bowing techniques Grade 4-6.

.( this may include some adult pupils) covering the above but sl. more advanced ( adding full bow staccato/ saltato) Group playing .

11:45-12:20 Technique: shifting/ vibrato . Group playing.

12:20- 1pm Finish with performance of short unaccompanied work, question / discussion time.

CHARGES::

Session 1: $8 for Grade 1-3 (1 hour session)

Session 2: $12 for Grade 4-6 (11/2 - 2 hour session)

REGISTRATION: Directly with Mrs Johnson

Preferred sessions: 1 2 (circle your choice)

Name and address

Violin, Viola, Chamber Music Masterclasses - May 26th -29th

STANZA Hawkes Bay presents:

Violin / Viola / Chamber music Masterclasses with Tessa Peterson-

Wednesday 26^th May @ Havelock North Intermediate Music suite

Session One 4.00pm to 6.00pm

Session Two 7.00pm to 9.00 pm

Thursday 27^th May @ Havelock North Intermediate Music suite

Session Three 4.00pm to 6.00pm

Session Four 7.00pm to 9.00pm

Saturday 29^th May @ Hastings Opera House FOYER

Session Five 1.00 to 5.00pm

Tutor John van Buskirk

This session is particularly for (but not limited to ) chamber music groups requiring a piano.

Fee: Masterclass Participants: $20

Fee: Chamber music groups : $50

Observers Fees:

Students/members STANZA $10 per session or $35 for 5 sessions.

Non members STANZA: $15 per session or $60 for 5 sessions

REGISTRATION: Choose one of the following ways.

1. Email: info@hbo.org.nz with info about which sessions you wish to attend as an observer or as a participant.

Payment by direct credit to the ANZ bank in Marewa.

Account number: 010697 0110356 00 (don’t forget to put your name!!)

2. Fill in the registration form at the bottom and post (with cheque) to:

Raewyn Newcomb,

170 Tannery Road

Napier

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Participants Preferred sessions: 1 2 3 4 5 (circle your choices)

Observers: Sessions: 1 2 3 4 5 (circle your choices)

Are you a member of STANZA? Yes or No (circle)

Name and address

Phone (Home) Phone (Mobile) Email:

Alexa Still and Friends - Chamber Music Recital

Friday May 28^th 6pm @ St Matthews Church, HASTINGS

Internationall renown flautist Alexa will be joined by Tessa Peterson-violin, Michael Joel- viola, Heleen du Plessis -cello, John van Buskirk-piano

Programme :

Overture to "Die Zauberflote" -Mozart arr. by Johann Nepomuk

Hummel

Trio for flute, cello and piano-Bohuslav Martinu

Deux Interludes for flute, violin and piano-Jacques Ibert

Quartet for flute, violin, viola and cello K. 285 in D Major-Mozart

Tickets:

Door sales

$10 students

$15 senior citizens

$20 adults

$50 family (2 adults 2 children)

A New Zealander, Alexa Still was the principal flute of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the age of 23. In 1998, she left the NZSO to become Associate Professor of Flute at University of Colorado at Boulder. She then moved to Sydney at beginning of 2006, to take up the Head of Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium and is currently Chair of Woodwind.

“Still plays... so convincingly I cannot separate her from the music” (American Record Guide),

Tessa Petersen As an undergraduate student at The University of Otago, won numerous prizes, and led the New Zealand Youth Orchestra. After extensive studies and work overseas, Tessa is currently the William Evans Executant Lecturer in Violin at the University of Otago

Michael Joel is known in HB particularly as a conductor.In August 2006 he conducted an enthusiastically received and successful production of Die Fledermaus for Opera Hawke’s Bay and in 2009 he conducted concerts with renowned flute soloist, Alexa Still and the Hawke’s Bay Orchestra, and piano soloist Catherine McKay and the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

Cellist, Heleen Du Plessis has been well known in the South African music world for some time, as soloist, chamber musician and teacher and has, while living in the USA for the last 4 years, furthered her studies in Performing Arts, at the highly prestigious Conservatory of Music: The Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University in Baltimore

John Van Buskirk, a versatile pianist referred to by the NY Times as “sensitive and assertive”, has played from Los Angeles and New York to Budapest, Prince Edward Island and the Netherland Antilles as a recitalist, chamber music player and recital partner to singers and instrumentalists. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music, holds a Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School and completed post-graduate study at the Liszt Academy in Budapest