Welcome to NZTrio’s Website
Both versatile and genre-busting, NZTrio epitomises the relevance of live music in a digital age.
This group smashes preconceptions of classical music being stuffy and intimidating by engaging their listeners with intimate and dynamic performances. Each concert is a unique experience. Mixing musical cultures and genres, and often involving collaborations with a diverse range of international artists, NZTrio inspires people of all walks of life to see classical music, both old and new as approachable, essential and meaningful.
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New feature: programme notes now available online
We want you to enjoy the NZTrio concert experience as much as possible. So, as a new initiative, we will post our programme notes online a few weeks before each concert, giving you the opportunity to learn more about the music before you hear it live. Simply click on the specific event you're interested in - you'll be taken to a new page with everything you need to know about the music and the composers, along with all the booking details.
ANNOUNCING NZTRIO’S 2012 AUCKLAND SERIES
NZTrio: Loft Series
● Mondo Rondo: Sunday 22 April ● Lightbox: Sunday 22 July ● Dumky: Sunday 28 October
These three concerts in Loft at Q (Auckland’s newest and funkiest live performance space at 305 Queen St, just up from the Town Hall) epitomise the relevance of live music in a digital age – you have to be there to appreciate the journey.
On Sundays at 5pm, each concert welcomes you with the sounds of Spain. Then we’ll transport you closer-to-home with some high energy, cutting-edge new works from New Zealand and Australia, before launching into the romantic, bohemian world of Dvorak. Our first concert of the series, Mondo Rondo features music by Cassado, Ledger (Australia) and Farr (NZ), with Dvorak’s Bb Major Piano Trio rounding off the programme. CLICK HERE for more information.
March 2012 High Notes Newsletter
Watch NZTrio's latest YouTube video
During our recent trip to Melbourne, Stuart Greenbaum's gorgeous 800 Million Heartbeats was filmed for YouTube. CLICK HERE to view this beautiful work on our WATCH AND LISTEN page - simply select WATCH THE VIDEO of 800 Million Heartbeats.
Our Next Concert
Greytown Concert Series
20 May 2012
House Concert: 57 Wood Street, Greytown,
Greytown
Gaspar Cassado: Piano Trio
James Ledger (Australia): Inscriptions
Gareth Farr: Mondo Rondo
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Dvořák: Piano Trio No.1 in B Flat Major, Opus 21
RECENT REVIEWS
William Dart - New Zealand Herald
02 August 2011
...It is always a pleasure to relax and enjoy the sheer musicianship of this group. Brown, Justine Cormack and Sarah Watkins understand just what it takes to put the musical jigsaw together; and, with the testing weave of Brahms' opening Allegro, that proved a decided asset. From the zest-filled variations of the Andante through to a glittering whirl of a Scherzo, this was a performance to savour.
At the other end of the evening Schubert's B flat Trio was delivered with immense spirit and a real feeling for the composer's songfulness, only slightly marred by minor lapses in intonation. The highlight here was a brilliantly hued Rondo, with cimbalon-like tremolo from the strings and Watkins drawing a real gleam from the Museum's Fazioli...
John Button - Dominion Post
19 March 2012
This festival-ending concert...packed a mighty punch in repertoire of ear-tingling sounds...a concert of real substance and reward, blessed with superlative playing from all concerned. None of this music is easy to play, yet everyone displayed a virtuosity that allowed the music the freedom to speak. And speak it did.
Garth Wilshere - Capital Times, Wellington
21 March 2012
A short and intense concert of true excellence with 20th and 21st century pieces to capture your imagination closed the musical offerings at the Arts Festival...NZTrio are a New Zealand treasure their repertoire choices astute and adventurous...The whole was innovative, imaginative wonderful playing and performances.