Mulled Wine Concerts, Memorial Hall, Paekakariki (2025)

Name: Mulled Wine Concerts
Address: Memorial Hall, Paekakariki, 5034, NZ
Telephone: +64211019609

12/02/2025

NEW ZEALAND STRING QUARTET IN KAPITI
CONCERT IN PAEKAKARIKI IN MARCH

Paekakariki's Mulled Wine Concert series has been presenting top-class music in Kapiti for nearly twenty years. Organiser Mary Gow says she is really excited to be bringing to her home region one of the most well known and highest quality groups of classical musicians. The New Zealand String Quartet is probably the best loved chamber music ensemble in the country. It is made up of talented musicians who are all dedicated performers and mentors to students across the country. The longest-serving member of the Quartet, violinist Gillian Ansell, was awarded the MNZM (Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit) honour for services to music in New Zealand. The other permanent member is violinist Peter Clark.

As an exciting development in their history, and for the first time ever, the NZSQ have announced that two other positions in the group - violinist and cellist - will be filled by invited guest artists The invited musicians for the Paekakariki concert will be violinist Monique Lapins, who was previously a member of the NZSQ. The other invitee - who will be of great interest to followers of the Mulled Wine Concert series - is Andrew Joyce, dynamic first cellist of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Andrew is no stranger to Kapiti audiences, having played in many concerts here.

As a group, the quartet promise that their 2025 season will be an epic one. "The rest of 2025 will be filled with toe-tapping, awe-inspiring, boundary-pushing chamber music. From epic works for chamber orchestra by Shostakovich to the premiere of a brand-new New Zealand piece; from dancers to poets; from your local community centre to the depths of space, we’re bringing the music to you", they say.

The Paekakariki concert will take place at St Peter's Hall on 16 March 2025 at 2:30PM and will feature works by Haydn, Dame Gillian Whitehead, Dave Flynn, Dvořák String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96, the 'American Quartet' and excerpts from the Danish String Quartet's "Wood Works / The Last Leaf". A concert not to be missed, indeed!

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Mulled Wine Concerts presents the New Zealand String Quartet in concert

Sunday 16 March 2025 at 2:30PM
St Peter's Community Hall, Beach Rd, Paekakariki

Tickets $35, Students $15.
Online sales: [email protected]. Tel: 021 101 9609

Info: www.mulledwineconcerts.com, or on FaceBook: Mulled Wine Concerts.

Ticket outlets: Magpie Paramata, Mana Esplanade; Finn's Hotel, Paekākāriki; Moby Dickens Bookshop, Paraparaumu Beach; Jenoa, 2 Mahara Place, Waikanae.

15/05/2024

VIOLIN AND HARP COMBINATION IN PAEKAKARIKI

Classical music enthusiasts adore the sound of strings – all the great composers have written music to be played on the violin. In comparatively recent times, the concert harp has become one of the most favoured instruments in the orchestra. Kapiti concertgoers will have the opportunity to hear the violin and harp together when Mulled Wine Concerts presents Andrew Beer (violin) and Ingrid Bauer (harp) at St Peter's Community Hall in Paekakariki on Sunday 23 June 2024 for a concert of music old and new.

Violinist Andrew Beer was awarded Best Classical Artist at the 2020 NZ Music Awards, confirming his place as a star performer in New Zealand. He has been concertmaster of the Auckland Philharmonia since 2014 and has performed as guest concertmaster with orchestras around the world.

Acclaimed Wellington-born harpist Ingrid Bauer holds the position of Principal Harp with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. She has been described as “undoubtedly one of the best harpists of her generation in Australasia”

Their concert will include music by favourites Camille Saint-Saëns and Claude Debussy as well as more recent compositions by Astor Piazzolla and Kenneth Young and others. Andrew says "I'm really enjoying working with harpist Ingrid; it's fun to explore such a broad range of sound colours and some lesser-known but gorgeous repertoire. I'm especially excited to perform Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango, as he's one of my favourite composers and tango music is a special interest of mine." Ingrid says "It's always a joy to play with Andrew, and as a native Wellingtonian it's extra special for me to bring our Auckland-based duo to the Kapiti Coast. Our programme has beauty and energy in equal measure, and I'm particularly looking forward to performing Ken Young's charming Folk Songs in the composer's own stomping ground”.

Mulled Wine Concerts presents Andrew Beer (violin) and Ingrid Bauer (Harp)
2:30 PM on Sunday 23 June 2024 at St. Peter's Village Hall, Beach Road, Paekakariki.
Tickets $35, Students $15.
Online sales: [email protected]. Tel: 021 101 9609
Info: www.mulledwineconcerts.com, or on FaceBook: Mulled Wine Concerts.
Ticket outlets: Magpie Paramata, Mana Esplanade; Finn's Hotel, Paekākāriki; Moby Dickens Bookshop, Paraparaumu Beach; Jenoa, 2 Mahara Place, Waikanae.

04/02/2024

Dear Mulled Wine Concert Live Music supporters
Here is our first concert for 2024. (Pre-paid reservations will guarantee you reserved places)!!

He will also perform in Featherston's Anzac Hall on Sunday March 3 at 3 pm and at Rathkeale College on Tuesday March 5 at 7.30pm. So please share this email with friends in the Wairarapa as well as in Kapiti.

Kapiti concert-goers raved about Nikolai Saratovsky on his all-too-brief visit to New Zealand last year. The master pianist is a highly regarded academic professor in the prestigious Music Department of the University of Taiwan. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of classical piano and an impeccable technique and is in great demand for student masterclasses wherever he goes in the world.

His NZ mentor, Mary Gow first met him in Brussels on a concert tour of her own. “I knew right away that this young man was very special” she says. “He has such fire and dynamism in his playing and he demonstrated such an understanding of the great composers, even the ones demanding great skill and technique, I knew he would be going far”. At the first opportunity, she arranged a concert tour to New Zealand for him. “He fell in love with the country”, she says. “He loves the outdoors, and NZ worked its spell on him.”

Nikolai has returned several times, even though he has received international recognition, occupies an important teaching post and whenever he gives a concert, fills prestigious concert halls in the Far East and in Europe. Nikolai will be playing at the MEMORIAL Hall in PAEKAKARIKI on SUNDAY March 10 at 2.30PM
The programme will include a selection from Scarlatti Sonatas, Chopin Preludes, Brahms Opus 76, Debussy Preludes and Rachmaninoff Musical Moments OP 16.

Information and tickets ($35, student $20) from [email protected]. Website: www.mulledwineconcerts.com

Address

Memorial Hall
Paekakariki
5034

Opening Hours

2:30pm - 4pm

Telephone

+64211019609

Website

http://www.mulledwineconcerts.com/

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