Whakatipu Music Festival Photo: © 2023 JR Media Productions, all rights reserved.
Welcome to a programme recorded at the 2022 Whakatipu Music Festival in Queenstown. The festival fosters upcoming musicians and gives them a performance platform. It was established by the team of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, which couldn’t be held during the COVIC pandemic.
The senior festival artists perform at the Whakatipu Music Festival. Photo: © 2023 JR Media Productions, all rights reserved.
Part of the idea for the festival is to team up younger musicians who are at the start of their careers, or who are still at university, completing their music performance degrees, with established and experienced players. Of course having all those pros together is a great excuse to programme a concert by them. So here we are! We have Robin Wilson on violin, Andrew Joyce on cello, Bridget Douglas on flute, soprano Madeleine Pierard and pianist Stephen De Pledge.
They kick off their concert with Trio in D Major, Hob XV:16, by Joseph Haydn.
Here is flute player Bridget Douglas with a premiere of a piece by Gillian Whitehead for solo flute.
The senior festival artists perform at the Whakatipu Music Festival. Photo: © 2023 JR Media Productions, all rights reserved.
Now Madeleine Pierard joins the group on stage for three songs by Maurice Ravel.
Next, Bridget Douglas, Robin Wilson, Andrew Joyce and Stephen De Pledge play a selection of Bartók pieces they transcribed for flute, violin, cello and piano. It's music from Bartók's short pieces that he collected in the Hungarian and Romanian countryside.
Madeleine Pierard performs at the Whakatipu Music Festival. Photo: © 2023 JR Media Productions, all rights reserved.
And to round up the programme, here they all are again with beautiful songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff: Do not sing, My Beauty, Oh Thou, My Field
Produced and engineered by Adrian Hollay.
