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Piano soloist Sylvia Jiang will join the St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra in concert at the Warkworth Town Hall on Saturday, August 20, starting at 4pm.
Critics describer Jiang as “New Zealand’s most notable young emerging pianist” and “a gifted young pianist of genuine substance”.
Currently studying at the Juilliard School, her performances have featured on BBC News, as well as radio and television shows in Australia and New Zealand. Over the years, she has won numerous top prizes at national and international level competitions, including the prestigious Wallace National Piano Competition.
Jiang has performed as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, and has given solo recitals in New Zealand, Great Britain, Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and the United States.
St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra is an accomplished orchestra performing a wide repertoire of music and is dedicated to providing performance opportunities for New Zealand musicians, composers and conductors.
Founded more than 40 years ago, the orchestra performs mainly at St Matthew-In-The-City in Auckland and is currently Auckland’s longest established chamber orchestra.
It is a non-profit cooperative made up of musicians who all play for their love of music, as well as contributing to all aspects of the orchestra’s organisation.
The orchestra will be conducted by Michael Joel who has worked on the music staff of the Royal Opera House and at Covent Garden on productions such as Tosca, La Bohème, La Traviata and Carmen.
The programme for the Warkworth concert features the Tremain Symphony for Strings, Gounod’s Little Symphony for Wind, the Farquhar Divertimento for Brass and Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. It will be a rare occasion to hear an orchestra of this calibre playing in Warkworth.
Tickets are $30 available online and at the door. School students are free. For more information, visit: www.warkworthmusic.org.nz.
