Location and date:
Sunday, 2.30pm.
Old Library Building Arts Centre
7 Rust Avenue, Whangarei
Overview:
The Antipodes Quartet is an ensemble of selected top young musicians at the early stage of their professional careers. A focus of a development programme by both Chamber Music New Zealand and the New Zealand String Quartet, this concert is an opportunity to hear top emerging young talent.
Bringing together four distinct artistic voices in a programme that spans three centuries and multiple continents, the Antipodes Quartet explores the vast possibilities of the string quartet, where individuality meets cohesion, and music becomes a conversation without words.
Programme
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) – String Quartet in F Major, Op. 50 No. 5, “The Dream”
Anton Webern (1883-1945) – Langsamer Satz
—Interval—
Salina Fisher (b.1993) – Heal
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) – String Quartet in F Major
Musicians
New Colombo Plan scholar and winner of the Junior Category of the Queensland International Chamber Music Competition, violinist Eden Annesley has roots in regional NSW, Australia. She obtained her Bachelor of Music (Distinction) at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, graduating as the highest-achieving third year student. She has performed across Australia as part of the Australian Youth Orchestra, Queensland Youth Symphony and Ensemble Q. Sponsored by the Australian Government’s New Colombo Plan, in 2024 Eden undertook a year of exchange in Yamanashi, Japan, researching Japanese cultural influences in the violin music of Tōru Takemitsu.
Māori/ Japanese violinist, Mana Waiariki (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) completed her Bachelor of Music at Te Kōki New Zealand School of Music with Helene Pohl at the end of 2023. Mana was generously supported by the Deane Endowment Trust throughout her undergraduate studies and they will continue to support her as she pursues her postgraduate studies specialising in Chamber Music with Peter Clark in 2025.
She has played in performing art festivals and orchestras across Aotearoa such as the Fringe Festival, Classical on Cuba, Cuba Dupa, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, Marlborough Civic Orchestra, Nelson Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Wellington, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the New Zealand String Quartet.
Mana plays a violin on loan to her through the Hill Family Foundation’s Instrument Bank by Karla Mitchell.
Born in Sydney and based in Aotearoa, violist Tal Amoore is a recipient of the NZSM Director’s Award and is completing his Bachelor of Music at Te Kōkī, New Zealand School of Music, studying with Peter Clark and Gillian Ansell. In 2019, he founded the Eden Quartet, which held performances across New Zealand, engaging with audiences through innovative programming and collaborations such as with Steinway Artist Jason Bae.
A versatile orchestral musician, Tal has performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NZ Opera, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Orchestra Wellington, Wellington Opera, the Hawke’s Bay Symphony Orchestra, and the Nelson Symphony Orchestra. He has also participated in the Gisborne International Music Competition, National Concerto Competition, and the National String Competition, where he was a semi-finalist.
Tal was recently awarded one of two Royal Over-Seas League Pettman Scholarships.He has also been an Emerging Artist at the At the World’s Edge Festival in 2022 and2024.
Nelson-born cellist, Lavinnia Rae moved to London following her undergraduate New Zealand studies, where she completed a Master of Performance with Distinction at the Royal College of Music with Richard Lester. As a Leverhulme Arts Scholar she completed a M Perf with Distinction in Orchestral Artistry in association with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, under the tutelage of LSO principal cellist Rebecca Gilliver, and continued to freelance with the LSO. Recently, she was on contract with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared as acting principal cello of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.