On Sunday 19 July the Waikanae Music Society will present the Elouan Quartet with Bridget Douglas (flute) in a concert featuring a wide variety of music for flute and strings.
All of the ensemble are prominent New Zealand Symphony Orchestra members and their concert is part of a nation-wide Chamber Music New Zealand tour. The performance opens with a quintet by popular Australian composer Elena Kats Chernin, followed by one of the best-loved works for flute and string – Mozart’s Flute Quartet.
A novel item follows with New Zealand composer’s Ken Wilson’s Introduction, Theme and Variations, which will showcase Bridget Douglas playing on an extremely rare piccolo. Ken Wilson was a foundation clarinettist of the National Orchestra of
New Zealand (now NZSO) and the piccolo belonged to the orchestra’s flautist Richard Giese, who had a vast collection of unusual instruments. The Elouan strings will then present one of Beethoven’s legendary last works – the String Quartet No 16
in F major. On a lighter note the concert will close with Nightclub from Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango.
The concert will be at 2.30pm in the Waikanae Memorial Hall on 19 July. Ticket enquiries:
www.waikanaemusic.org.nz