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