New Zealand String Quartet
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD: still, echoing
Performed by pianist Kathryn Stott & New Zealand String Quartet Video, Audio
QuintEssence reviewed
Peter Mechen reviews Chamber Music New Zealand’s mini-festival QuintEssence. The programme features performances from The New Zealand String Quartet, Grammy-nominated violist James Dunham, The Pettman… Audio
DVOŘÁK: String Quartet in F Op 96, American
Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet live in concert at the Hunter Council Chamber, Wellington in August 2016. Audio
Gareth FARR: Te Tai-o-Rēhua
Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet live in concert at the Hunter Council Chamber, Wellington. Video, Audio
HAYDN: String Quartet in D, Op 71 No 2
Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet. Audio
SCHUBERT: String Quartet in C min, Quartettsatz
Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet live in concert at the Hunter Council Chamber, Wellington in August 2016. Audio
Fresh approach to music
The New Zealand String Quartet has just returned from touring the United Kingdom and Canada. Violist Gillian Ansell explains how new addition Monique Lapins is bringing a fresh approach to the… Audio
A new quarter
Australian violinist Monique Lapins is stepping into her new role this week as one quarter of the New Zealand String Quartet. She replaces Douglas Beilman as 2nd violinist. The two time Asia Pacific… Audio
Norman Meehan reviews Uri Caine
Pianist and composer Uri Caine is touring the country, first with the New Zealand String Quartet, then on his own. On the weekend he performed interpretations of Shubert, Beethoven and Bach. Norman… Audio
Uri Caine
New York pianist and composer Uri Caine is on tour for Chamber Music New Zealand with New Zealand String Quartet. He'll be reimagining the likes of Schubert, Beethoven and Bach, and will be presenting… Audio
You Call this Art 2014 Part 1
In front of a Wellington audience, composer Ross Harris, film-maker Louis Sutherland and poets Geoff Cochrane and Bill Manhire discuss differences and similarities in their approaches to creativity… Video, Audio
Me Korero - Composing for East and West
This year's SOUNZ Contemporary Award winner is Wellington based Michael Norris for his composition 'Inner Phases' Audio
HARRIS: Requiem for the Fallen (extract)
The world première performance of Ross Harris' work for tenor, choir, string quartet, with text by Vincent O'Sullivan, and taonga puoro by Horomona Horo. Written in commemoration of World War I… Audio
Ross HARRIS: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
New Zealand String Quartet; in a Radio New Zealand Concert recording from 1 April 2007. Audio
Patrick SHEPHERD: Glittering Fragments
New Zealand String Quartet; in a Radio New Zealand Concert recording from 14 September 1995 Audio
Ross HARRIS: String Quartet No 3, Blood Red Roses
Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet in 2006. Audio
HAYDN: Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross
New Zealand String Quartet
Recorded at Wellington's Opera House, 24 April, 2009 Audio
Ross HARRIS: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet. Audio
Jack BODY: Saetas
For string quartet and accordion (cello player doubles accordion). Performed by the New Zealand String Quartet. Audio
Neville HALL: a splinter of silence in the belly of time
Commissioned by Chamber Music New Zealand for the NZ String Quartet and Peter Scholes, and written during the composer's residency with Chamber Music New Zealand. Audio
