BEETHOVEN! - Chamber Music New Zealand
BEETHOVEN! - Chamber Music New Zealand
BEETHOVEN! - Chamber Music New Zealand
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Kaleidoscopes 2012<br />
4.<br />
Helene Pohl – violin<br />
Douglas Beilman – violin<br />
Gillian Ansell – viola<br />
Rolf Gjelsten – cello<br />
Principal Sponsor:<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong><br />
String Quartet<br />
The <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> String Quartet is<br />
the foremost chamber ensemble<br />
in this country, and the mosttravelled<br />
classical group. Formed<br />
by <strong>Chamber</strong> <strong>Music</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> in<br />
1987, the Quartet regularly visits<br />
both large and small centres in<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>, and also performs<br />
internationally each year. The group<br />
has just returned from performing<br />
in a <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> mini-festival at<br />
the Kings Place in London, and<br />
performing at the opening of<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>’s year as Country of<br />
Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair.<br />
Members of the <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong><br />
String Quartet play a pivotal role<br />
in the Adam <strong>Chamber</strong> <strong>Music</strong><br />
Festival in Nelson. As teachers,<br />
they also conduct the annual Adam<br />
Summer School for young chamber<br />
musicians, and are Quartet-in-<br />
Residence at the <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong><br />
School of <strong>Music</strong> in Wellington.<br />
The Quartet’s extensive list of CDs<br />
includes a recently-released disc<br />
of <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> quartets by John<br />
Psathas, Jack Body, Ross Harris,<br />
Gareth Farr and Michael Norris,<br />
‘Notes from a Journey’, which won
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