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World Premiere by New Zealand Quartet at Centre
TODAY'S DATE: November 24, 1999
WHO: New Zealand String Quartet
WHAT: Final events of Music & Sound Fall Concert Season
WHEN: November 30 to December 10, 1999
WHERE: Rolston Recital Hall at The Banff Centre, St. George's-in-the-
Pines Anglican Church at 100 Beaver Street in Banff, Policeman's Creek Drop-in Centre in
Canmore
A world premiere performance by the New Zealand String Quartet can be heard on Friday, December 3 at 7:30pm in Rolston Recital Hall.
Zoltan Szekely, former violinist with the renowned Hungarian Quartet, now artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre, composed a string quartet many years ago that only now is being realized. The New Zealand String Quartet has been to Banff in the past to work with Mr. Szekely, and now returns to premiere this work.
Violinists Helene Pohl and Douglas Beilman, violist Gillian Ansell and cellist Rolf Gjelsten constitute the New Zealand String Quartet. Formed in 1987, the quartet has had an ever expanding international schedule with tours to North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Dedicated teachers as well as performers, the quartet has been in residence at Victoria University of Wellington since 1991, where in addition to individual teaching they have established New Zealand's most comprehensive chamber music program.
Other visiting artists at the Centre for the December 3 concert are pianist Diedre Irons (New Zealand/Canada) and bassoonist Chris Millard (Canada). All work with musicians and composers in the Centre's residency program for the week prior to the concert, and collaborate with them in the concert.
The New Zealand String Quartet also performs Dvorak on Wednesday, December 1 at 12 noon, with Esther Honens Laureate pianist Eugene Watanabe (USA) performing Chopin etudes and the Horus Piano Duo (Egypt/Hungary) performing Poulenc with the Bergmann Piano Duo (Canada), in Rolston Recital Hall.
Musicians travel to Canmore on Sunday, December 5 for a 2:30pm concert at Policeman's Creek Drop-in Centre, 701-9th Street. Works by Brahms, Prokofiev and Haydn are presented, and Isobel Moore Rolston is hostess.
Final concert Friday, December 10, 7:30pm St. George's in-the-Pines Anglican Church located at 100 Beaver Street in Banff. Works by residency program composers are performed during this final event of the Fall Concert Season.
Several informal afternoon concerts take place at 4:30 in the Chamber Music Studio between December 1 to 9. These hour-long recitals offer program participants a venue to present many of the projects that have been their focus during the residency.
Please call The Banff Centre Box Office for further details, or tickets, at 762-6301. Evening concert tickets are $12/$8, Sundays and noonhour concerts are pay-what-you-can and 4:30 concerts are free.
Music & Sound's Winter Concert Season begins January 19 and runs thru until March 15. Visiting artists include percussionist Jean-Pierre Drouet (France), the Miro String Quartet (USA), jazz pianist and bassist Don Thompson (Canada), pianist Anton Kuerti (Canada), violinist Thomas Brandis (Germany), cellist Antonio Lysy (Canada), harpist Erica Goodman (Canada) and hornist Soren Hermansson (Sweden).
For more information
contact:
Lisa Ramsey, Music & Sound, Communications Coordinator
phone: 403.762.6237, fax: 403.762.6338
e-mail: Lisa_Ramsey@banffcentre.ab.ca