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Five of New Zealand’s finest performers will present a programme featuring four exceptional baroque composers when they perform at the Warkworth Town Hall on September 17.
The Strings Amore concert has been arranged by Warkworth Music in partnership with Chamber Music NZ.
Strings Amore was established to perform baroque music on modern instruments with attention to performance practices of the 18th century, the height of the baroque era.
It showcases the talents of Donald Maurice on viola d’amore, Martin Riseley and Rupa Maitra on violins, Sophia Acheson on viola and Margaret Guldborg on cello.
Riseley is well-known as head of strings at the NZ School of Music, while Maurice has recorded two CDs of music for the viola d’amore and has taught and performed in NZ and overseas.
Maitra, a first violinist in Orchestra Wellington, is a violin teacher, as well as a part-time pathologist.
Studies in Spain and the United States inspired Acheson’s interest in early music, including playing the viola d’amore and the viola da gamba. Back in NZ, she worked as a freelance musician before being appointed principal violist of Orchestra Wellington.
Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Guldborg studied and worked in Boston, Denmark and Malaysia before moving to Wellington. She also plays with various ensembles, including Orchestra Wellington.
The concert programme will focus on the viola d’amore and on the four famous baroque composers who wrote for this exquisitely beautiful baroque instrument – Vivaldi, Telemann, Graupner and Bach. The programme will include two of the most loved concertos from the era, Bach’s Concerto for Violin in E major and Telemann’s Concerto for Viola in G major.
Tickets are $30 available online and at the door. School students are free and the concert starts at 4pm.
