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Pianist Lorelle McNaughton will play for a Warkworth audience at the Town Hall on Saturday, May 28, the second concert in this year’s Warkworth Music series.
She will present a colourful guided tour in a programme entitled Spanish Composers in Paris. It includes the Iberia suite, as well as well-loved works by Debussy and Ravel, and closes with the charming suite of Four Spanish Pieces by Manuel de Falla.
McNaughton studied in New Zealand and Australia before her passion for Spanish music took her to Barcelona, where she was awarded the prize for best performance of Spanish Music at the International Barcelona Piano Academy.
As a Spanish resident for several years, she has performed extensively throughout the world and was recently invited to play at the Oceania Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, playing Michael Parekowhai’s carved grand piano. Lorelle has been particularly commended for her inspired interpretation of the music of the great Spanish composers and has been invited to give presentations at some of the world’s leading music conservatoriums.
After almost 10 years living abroad, she recently returned to New Zealand where she is teaching music and continuing a successful career as a solo and collaborative pianist.
She is one of a small number of pianists worldwide to have performed the complete Iberia suite, Isaac Albéniz’s masterpiece written in 1909 and considered one of the most complex and challenging works for the piano.
Doors open at 4pm. Tickets are $30 available online and at the door; school students are free. Warkworth
