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25 Jul 2010 : NZTRIO FLOURISHES
A watery theme pervades this NZTrio's third album, particularly the new commissions - "Entering the Stream" by Wellington-based Indonesian composer...
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8 Jul 2010 : Truly high-quality piano trio - Flourishes CD
NZTrio are a truly high-quality piano trio whose concerts are a mixture of the established classics from a rich repertoire and new music, much of...
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14 Jun 2010 : NZTrio Among the Best
After their Concert Chamber performance yesterday, NZTrio left no doubt that they are among the best of our chamber music ensembles.
There was a...
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29 May 2010 : Flourishes. NZ Trio. Rattle CD.
Sarah Watkins (piano), Justine Cormack (violin) and Ashley Brown (cello) have played together since forming this trio in 2002, and they have...
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11 May 2010 : Treasures from often uncharted waters
(Relevant excerpt from a compilation review of concerts within the World Music Days)
NZTrio brought music from both sides of the Tasman, much of it...
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8 May 2010 : Exciting works well interpreted
ENERGETIC, intelligent, lyrical and much-more-than-tonal new works performed by NZTrio were applauded enthusiastically by a full house at the Glenroy...
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4 May 2010 : Modern and traditional, with feeling
Despite the trials of touring 10 centres, the New Zealand Trio showed composure and great commitment in their performance.
Schumann's Second Piano...
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1 May 2010 : No need to be funky
One of our musical icons, the NZTrio, (Justine Cormack, violin, Ashley Brown, cello, and Sarah Watkins, piano), always presents imaginative...
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24 Apr 2010 : NZTRIO Review (Wellington)
In recent years NZTrio has established itself as one of the finest chamber ensembles in Australasia and, given the richness of the piano trio...
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24 Apr 2010 : NZTrio review (Auckland)
You have to wonder what the University of Auckland was thinking when it ended its long relationship with the NZTrio last year. As...
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24 Apr 2010 : MODERN WORKS THAT THRILL
With a well-selected and varied programme, the NZTrio proved again what masterful musicians they are, engaging, delighting and imparting new...
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22 Apr 2010 : Enchanting dialogue in ultimate dreamworld
The NZTrio shows its true colours with the classy playing we have come to expect.
Justine Cormack, Ashley Brown and Sarah Watkins have never...
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21 Mar 2010 : 3 sophisticated musicians displayed at Auck Museum
Last weekend the NZTrio gave their first Auckland Museum series concert performing in the new Auditorium. This is one of the best chamber music...
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9 Mar 2010 : Arts Festival Review - NZTrio: Movement
This was the concert I should have brought my aspiring teenage musicians too. What an exciting, fascinating new music fiesta! I say this in spite of...
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1 Mar 2010 : NZTrio with Richard Nunns and Phil Dadson
I am a huge fan of this group who over the years just get better and better. Three highly talented, innovative musicians Sarah Watkins, Justine...
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16 Nov 2009 : Talented trio achieves faultless rapport
The New Zealand Trio gave a recital entitled “Flourishes” in Marama Hall on Saturday evening. The audience may have been rather small, but the...
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7 Sep 2009 : NZTrio concert at Mill's Reef on Sunday
The New Zealand Trio presented drama, romance and innovation to the concert audience at Mill's Reef last night (Sunday Sept 6). Violinist Justine...
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12 May 2009 : Minutes seem like mere moments
Minutes seem like mere moments in global tour de force:
This country is fittingly at the apex of the NZTrio's musical journey.
It would be...
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5 Apr 2009 : “Vontasia” - Forum North, Whangarei
What’s “Vontasia”? I sought enlightenment. The blurb burbled on about “innovative repertoire”, “dynamic interpretations” and “sheer musical chops”....
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2 Apr 2009 : NZTrio – Vontasia
I came to an appreciation of classical music relatively late in life, so when it comes to describing it I’m a bit like the uneducated art critic who...
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1 Apr 2009 : NZTrio – Vontasia
Don’t think of comparing this chamber music trio with the traditional picture of a Victorian parlour where relatives and neighbours of the...
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23 Sep 2008 : Plenty of colour in skilled trio's Pale complexity
Gifted: The NZ Trio were in commanding form with an excellent musical mixture.
Beyond the Pale seems a somewhat daunting title for the NZ Trio's...
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17 Sep 2008 : Impressive skills and unexpected delights
The NZTrio love to perform programmes of contrast. They have amazing energy and ambition.
All three have achieved impressive individual success in...
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10 Sep 2008 : Bravo!
Probably the most diverse concert I have heard for a long time was the internationally acclaimed NZTrio at The Centre last Sunday afternoon. Pianist...
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12 Jul 2008 : BRIGHTTIDEMOVINGBETWEEN, NZTrio
Rattle’s modern titling format – with a lower-case elided brighttidemovingbetween – matches NZTrio’s new perspective, indicating we belong to the...
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28 Apr 2008 : A winning combination makes its mark
Justine Cormack, Ashley Brown and Sarah Watkins can be proud of the following they have built up during their five years together as the NZ Trio,...
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26 Apr 2008 : A Gem
NZTrio’s latest recording is a gem. It included works by four international composers of note – Bright Sheng, Ross Edwards, Toru Takemitsu and...
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24 Apr 2008 : NZ Trio's journey packs a wallop
Fantastical birds are all over the artwork of the NZ Trio's second album, while the title, brighttidemovingbetween, with its four words modishly run...
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23 Apr 2008 : A Sheer Delight
The Sunday 3pm slot, normally occupied by the Wellington Chamber Music Society’s big winter series, was filled last Sunday by Auckland University’s...
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16 Apr 2008 : Outstanding Trio
Christchurch was the choice for the start of this tour of the New Zealand Trio. This group of three young musicians resident at the University of...
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20 Nov 2007 : 'Jangkrik Genggong' returns with NZ musicians
Yogyakarta welcomed Friday a trio of New Zealand chamber musicians, among others, including violinist Justine Cormack, cellist Ashley Brown and...
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4 Oct 2007 : Fire in the Belly warms the cockles of your heart
The NZ Trio showed precision, wit and brevity. Was the image of a fire-extinguisher on the NZ Trio's programme a warning? Would there be hot...
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27 Aug 2007 : Go Farr
Just a few years ago a programme of Charles Ives, Gareth Farr and Prokofiev might have scared the audience away from a mainstream subscription...
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9 Jun 2007 : Shock of the New
How to make a rod for your own back: tour a programme that has four new works and only one classic. Tougher still, three were new New Zealand Trio...
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16 May 2007 : Close to Flawless
THE New Zealand Trio is most definitely of international quality.
Violinist Justine Cormack, cellist Ashley Brown and pianist Sarah Watkins...
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29 Apr 2007 : Richly Rewarding Concert
For some this might have looked, on paper, not to be a very exciting concert, but in realisation clearly pleased everyone present. Part of the...
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30 Aug 2006 : Frantic work-out of fingers and bows
Lyell Cresswell's Moto Perpetuo was a zesty launch for the New Zealand Trio's Sunday concert. The composer may describe its perpetual motion...
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20 May 2006 : Strongly Recommended
This debut CD is a showcase of the NZ Trio’s concerted vim and its mastery of a wide style range from six New Zealand composers all in their...
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3 May 2006 : Concert by the New Zealand Trio
The advance publicity for the concert in Napier's Century Theatre on 18 April by the NZ Trio, described the ensemble as 'comprising three of NZ’s...
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28 Apr 2006 : Great Concert, small audience
It’s a pity that there was such a small audience in attendance, for this was a splendid concert; an intelligent, unhackneyed programme delivered...
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15 Apr 2006 : Assured young trio of highest standard
Seldom does one hear a group of young people who work so naturally together.These three musicians all variously studied abroad before...
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22 Feb 2006 : Vital for your collection
One of New Zealand’s dashing, young and direct chamber ensembles have released their first CD. The New Zealand Trio’s first commercial outing is...
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13 Dec 2005 : You will be hooked
Excerpt from a recommended Christmas gift list - "Kiwi Sounds for Chrstimas"
Those looking for homegrown chamber music won't want to miss the...
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10 Nov 2005 : A "must have" for lovers of chamber music.
The New Zealand Trio's first album is exemplary of contemporary chamber
music at its finest. Composers Psathas, Kelly, Norris, Grenfell, Axtens,...
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9 Nov 2005 : Ensemble of bright sparks
It's the cover image of Gretchen Albrecht's lithograph Core that is most likely to catch your eye if you see the New Zealand Trio's Spark album in...
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3 Oct 2005 : Premiere greeted by loud applause
Christchurch Symphony with New Zealand Trio at Christchurch Town Hall auditorium. Conductor Marc Taddei.
Gareth Farr does not mince...
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15 Aug 2005 : Trio will always be welcome
Taranaki's Festival of the Arts said goodbye to the Fine Music section with a well-received concert by the New Zealand Trio, Justine Cormack...
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2 Aug 2005 : Satisfying feasts for the ears
Fresh new works were on the menus of the NZ Trio and NZSO
The loyal audience for the New Zealand Trio was amply rewarded. An early...
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1 Dec 2004 : The Evening's Perfection: Beethoven Triple
Relevant excerpt from the full orchestral review:
...The New Zealand Trio of violinist Justine Cormack, cellist Ashley Brown and pianist Sarah...
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29 Nov 2004 : Crystal Clarity - Beethoven Triple Concerto
Relevant excerpt from the full Orchestral review:
...The New Zealand Trio of Justine Cormack violin, Ashley Brown cello and Sarah Watkins piano...
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27 Sep 2004 : Poetry and luxuriantly lyrical playing
Relevant excerpt from full orchestra review:
Justine Cormack, Sarah Watkins and Ashley Brown do have the measure of Beethoven's poetry,...
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24 Aug 2004 : All good things come in threes
Audiences will want to hear a great deal more from the University of Auckland's resident trio
The New Zealand Trio's concert on Sunday to...
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24 May 2004 : New beginnings celebrated
The tour’s title of “Youthful Mastery” neatly describes both the programme and performers. The New Zealand Trio, comprising Justine Cormack (violin),...
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8 Mar 2004 : Convincing variations on a French theme
Theme concerts are an attractive idea for a festival. Nothing too obscure or erudite here: just French music of the late 19th and mid 20th centuries....
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1 Feb 2004 : Celestial Event
New Zealand Trio: Sarah Watkins (piano), Justine Cormack (violin), and Ashley Brown (cello). At the Music Academy of the West, Sunday, February...
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1 Oct 2003 : Trio champions musical genre
From the opening bars of Ahi by Gareth Farr, written in 1998, it was clearly evident that these intuitive musicians are splendid champions of the...
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1 Oct 2003 : Three-way win for local group
The New Zealand Trio must now be reckoned, on the strength of Sunday’s concert, as among the best chamber groups in the country: we only await...
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26 May 2003 : Proving three’s a crowd-pleaser
Chamber music group’s debut show they might fulfil lofty ambitions.
Wednesday night’s weather would have tested ducks, but those who braved the...
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15 Mar 2003 : Ensemble provides masterly touch to concert
The Trios performance of the Opus 87 Piano Trio by Brahms was distinguished by bold shapes, strong lines and great firmness of rhythm and line. The...
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