Sign In / Register
Warkworth audiences will have the chance to hear an international chamber music ensemble on their own doorstep when Cane & Horsehair: A Global Odyssey comes to Warkworth Town Hall on Saturday, October 3.
The concert is one of just seven performances around New Zealand, with the other stops in Auckland, Cambridge, Nelson, Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin.
The ensemble brings together five musicians from five different countries, led by Auckland Philharmonia principal oboist Bede Hanley.
He will be joined by violinist Wilma Smith, former concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and a founding member of the New Zealand String Quartet; cellist Ashley Brown, formerly of NZTrio; and Australian musicians violinist James Armstrong of the Penny Quartet and violist Caroline Henbest, head of viola at the Australian National Academy of Music.
The concert’s unusual name refers to the materials used in the instruments – cane for the oboe’s reed and horsehair for the bows of the string instruments.
The “Global Odyssey” theme is reflected in the programme, which features composers from Austria, the Netherlands, Australia, Poland, New Zealand and England.
The programme opens with Mozart’s Quartet in F Major for Oboe and Strings, followed by Dutch composer Henriëtte Hilda Bosman’s String Quartet and New Zealand composer Lee Bradshaw›s The Language of Trees: Quartet for Oboe and Strings.
After the interval, the musicians will perform Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s Trio for Oboe, Violin and Cello, New Zealand composer Salina Fisher’s Mata-Au for String Trio, and Arnold Bax’s Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet.
The performance starts at 2.30pm on Saturday, October 3, at Warkworth Town Hall, 5 Baxter Street.
Tickets are $49.50 for adults, $44.50 for seniors, $46.50 for groups of three or more, $24.50 for students and $16.50 for children accompanied by an adult.
Bookings are available through https://www.wilmaandfriends.com.au/cane-and-horsehair-global-odyssey
