NZSO 2012 Program by Ian Wheaton

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SEASON 2012 PERFORMANCE CALENDAR UNFOLD HERE

Season 2012 Performance Calendar Auckland

Town Hall

Wellington

Michael Fowler Centre

Christchurch

CBS Canterbury Arena

Hamilton

Founders Theatre

Fri 30 March 7 pm NZSO Soloists – Carmen Suite

Pg 41

Sat 24 March 8 pm NZSO Soloists – Carmen Suite

Pg 41

Wed 4 April 6 pm NZSO Soloists – Carmen Suite

Pg 41

Thu 29 March 7.30 pm NZSO Soloists – Carmen Suite

Pg 41

Fri 27 April 7 pm La Mer – Inkinen / Brueggergosman

Pg 15

Sat 14 April 8 pm L’Oiseau de Feu – Inkinen / Brueggergosman

Pg 14

Thu 22 November 6 pm Mahler 7 – Inkinen / Leppänen

Pg 49

Thu 26 April 7.30 pm La Mer – Inkinen / Brueggergosman

Pg 15

Sat 28 April 8 pm L’Oiseau de Feu – Inkinen / Brueggergosman

Pg 14

Fri 20 April 6.30 pm La Mer – Inkinen / Brueggergosman

Pg 15

Fri 11 May 7.30 pm For the Fallen – Grams / Harrell

Pg 22

Sat 12 May 8 pm For the Fallen – Grams / Harrell

Pg 22

Fri 4 May 6.30 pm For the Fallen – Grams / Harrell

Pg 22

Wed 6 June 6 pm Spellbound – Milanov / Latry

Pg 40

Thu 27 September 7.30 pm Around the World in 80 Minutes – Litton / Hough

Pg 38

Sat 19 May 8 pm Alpine Symphony – Zinman

Pg 31

Fri 18 May 6.30 pm Alpine Symphony – Zinman

Pg 31

Wed 25 July 5 pm Die Walküre

Pg 30

Thu 18 October 7.30 pm Forbidden Love – Harth-Bedoya / Benedetti

Pg 48

Fri 8 June 7 pm Spellbound – Milanov / Latry

Pg 40

Fri 1 June 6.30 pm Spellbound – Milanov / Latry

Pg 40

Sat 8 September 8 pm NZSO National Youth Orchestra / Youth Choir

Pg 54

Fri 16 November 7.30 pm Beethoven 7 – Inkinen / Leppänen

Pg 50

Sat 18 August 8 pm Cathedral of Sound – Young

Pg 23

Fri 17 August 6.30 pm Cathedral of Sound – Young

Pg 23

Fri 28 September 7 pm Around the World in 80 Minutes – Litton / Hough

Pg 38

Sat 22 September 8 pm Around the World in 80 Minutes – Litton / Hough

Pg 38

Dunedin

Fri 19 October 7 pm Forbidden Love – Harth-Bedoya / Benedetti

Pg 48

Sat 13 October 8 pm Forbidden Love – Harth-Bedoya / Benedetti

Pg 48

Tue 3 April 6.30 pm NZSO Soloists – Carmen Suite

Pg 41

Tue 27 March 7.30 pm NZSO Soloists – Carmen Suite

Pg 41

Sat 17 November 8 pm Mahler 7 – Inkinen / Leppänen

Pg 49

Sat 10 November 8 pm Mahler 7 – Inkinen / Leppänen

Pg 49

Wed 21 November 6.30 pm Beethoven 7 – Inkinen / Leppänen

Pg 50

Wed 9 May 7.30 pm For the Fallen – Grams / Harrell

Pg 22

Tue 25 September 7.30 pm Around the World in 80 Minutes – Litton / Hough

Pg 38

Tue 16 October 7.30 pm Forbidden Love – Harth-Bedoya / Benedetti

Pg 48

Wed 14 November 7.30 pm Beethoven 7 – Inkinen / Leppänen

Pg 50

Aurora Centre

Pg 39

Wed 1 February 7.30 pm Chinese New Year Concert

Pg 39

Palmerston North

Sat 11 February 8 pm NZSO National Youth Orchestra

Pg 54

Fri 10 February 6.30 pm NZSO National Youth Orchestra

Pg 54

Mon 15 October 7.30 pm Forbidden Love – Harth-Bedoya / Benedetti

Sat 9 June 8 pm Made in New Zealand – Wonderland

Pg 51

Fri 25 May 6.30 pm Made in New Zealand – Wonderland

Pg 51 Pg 30

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Wellington Town Hall

Pg 30

Sun 22 July 3 pm Die Walküre

Pg 48

Sat 28 July 4 pm Die Walküre

Regent on Broadway

Fri 3 February 7.30 pm Chinese New Year Concert

Municipal Theatre

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‘Every concert is a voyage and, like all travel experiences, you’re transformed as you arrive home. What you’ve encountered has enriched you beyond measure, and you’ll never be quite the same again.’ Pietari Inkinen, Musical Director.

NZSO INTRODUCTION

This is a benchmark season for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

CONTENTS

We continue to cherish our founding goal, to bring the indescribable beauty of live classical music to as many New Zealanders as possible – uplifting, inspiring and delighting them. But now, 66 years into our existence as New Zealand’s own orchestra, we also carry forward a renewed sense of passion, pride, and belief in the world-class quality of our art, and the unique freshness of our musical personality. That essential New Zealand quality – our energy and ardour for the music, and the electricity of our live performances – was clear to enraptured European audiences and critics on our 2010 International Tour. It also moved audiences at home to tears, and to their feet, during last year’s powerful 2011 season. Our artistic strength is the result of 66 years of wholehearted musicianship demonstrated by several generations of players. Four outstanding years under Music Director Pietari Inkinen have likewise played their part. His diamond-clear musical vision has coaxed the orchestra to extraordinary new critical heights, both in live performances and in recordings. Our partnerships with many of the world’s most respected conductors and soloists also sharpens our appetite for artistic perfection. But above all, our artistic strength as a national orchestra owes everything to our relationship with you. From the halting, handwritten thank-you letters of school children to concert-goers’ heartfelt calls and messages the day after a performance, it’s the emotional exchange at the heart of symphonic music that still matters the most. That is the essence of this 2012 season. Not just bringing you the finest symphonic music, in the best company, at the highest level we can offer. It’s our abiding love of the music and our unabashed pleasure in bringing it to you that will distinguish this as a very special season.

‘Only…the NZSO have been able to speak so eloquently for the people of Christchurch and to describe what we have lost…Last night’s performance has surely filled us all with even more determination to stand fast and rebuild our beloved home.’

L’Oiseau de Feu La Mer

14 15

For the Fallen Cathedral of Sound

22 23

Trish, Christchurch concert-goer, Leningrad, August 2011

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CONTENTS 2012 Performance Calendar

Foldout

Becoming a Season Ticket Holder

‘The Mahler was glorious, simply stunning’ Ros, Wellington concert-goer, Mahler 6, June 2011

‘An absolutely fantastic concert. Thank you NZSO for an unforgettable experience’ Mary, Auckland concert-goer, Apotheosis, April 2011

Die Walküre Alpine Symphony

Around the World in 80 Minutes Chinese New Year Spellbound NZSO Soloists – Carmen Suite

38 39 40 41

Forbidden Love Mahler 7 Beethoven 7

48 49 50

NZSO Young Originals

NZSO Music for Schools

NZSO Community Programmes

Salute to Sponsors

NZSO Supporters

Venue Maps

2012 Season Ticket Prices

2012 Booking Form Help

Getting to Concerts

2012 Season Ticket Booking Form

Musicians of the NZSO

Made in New Zealand NZSO National Youth Orchestra

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This 2012 Season Brochure has been made possible through the wonderful and unwavering support of NZSO Sponsors, The Church Design and Astra Print, a Kalamazoo Group Company.

MINISTER’S INTRODUCTION

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is recognised internationally for its energy and excellence. I had the pleasure of witnessing the NZSO’s performance at the Musikverein in Vienna in November 2010 and the rapturous reception from a very discerning audience. It was the highlight of my musical year and a validation of our national orchestra’s world-class status and quality. It has been gratifying to observe the impact of this triumphant tour on the musicians and an increased affirmation by New Zealand audiences following the orchestra’s return to New Zealand. Music Director Pietari Inkinen and the NZSO’s artistic team have created another exciting programme for 2012. There is an emphasis on big works, giving New Zealand audiences the chance to experience top-class performances of great romantics such as Strauss, Mahler and Wagner.

Hon Christopher Finlayson Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

PIETARI’S INTRODUCTION

Throughout the season, the NZSO will expand on its recording, as well as its education and community programmes in which players engage with schools, hospices and community centres throughout New Zealand. Through its National Youth Orchestra, the NZSO will continue to develop the professional musicians of tomorrow. I also look forward to the orchestra’s continuing visits to earthquake-stricken Christchurch. The NZSO has performed in the garden city every year since its inception in 1946 and I am pleased to see it playing its part in rekindling the artistic life of the region. My colleagues in government and I take great pride in the NZSO. It is a national treasure. I congratulate the NZSO management, sponsors and players and wish them well for the 2012 season.

If music takes you on a journey, then the players of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are your travel companions. We’re seasoned explorers. As New Zealand’s own orchestra, touring is our way of life and so we’re hardwired to seek adventure, taking uncut paths and finding sweeping new views to exhilarate and challenge us as artists, changing our music forever. That’s why we’ve chosen to extend this spirit of adventure this season, with a 2012 programme epic in both scale and imagination. Wagner’s Die Walküre and Strauss’ Alpine Symphony will be undoubted highlights here. I’m particularly looking forward to leading Stravinsky’s Firebird and Debussy’s La Mer in my first subscription tours of the season and later, continuing our Mahler cycle with the composer’s Seventh Symphony.

This season we’ve attracted some of the classical world’s most fearless and remarkable artists to join our journey, such as superstar conductor David Zinman, organ virtuoso Olivier Latry, and Kiwi tenor Simon O’Neill. You’ll also experience the formidable talents of Simone Young, as well as Lynn Harrell and Stephen Hough for their return visits to New Zealand. Just like last year, we hope you’ll enjoy making your concert selection by following the NZSO players featured in these beautifully-designed tableaux. From the high seas to the mountains, the desert plains and the seductive landscapes imagined by our chosen composers, the story laid out in these pages charts the year-long musical odyssey we have in store. Come with us.

Pietari Inkinen Music Director and the Musicians of the NZSO

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The seductive power of the ocean can inspire sublime art and the noblest of human endeavour, or dash the hopes of seafaring explorers, driving ship-bound men to madness and murder. From the shimmering impressionism of Debussy’s La Mer to Britten’s hounded sailor Peter Grimes, the swells and troughs of The High Seas will cut you loose from the safety of home, and pull you out to the distant horizon.

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Programmes

Claude Debussy La Mer Igor Stravinsky Firebird Gustav Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer Ernest Chausson Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes Jean Sibelius The Oceanides

Britten Four Sea Interludes

Debussy La Mer THE STORY

KEY WORDS

LUSTRE

WAVES MASTERPIECE

MOVEMENT

THE INSPIRATION

SHIMMER

RELAXATION SUBTLETY

SYMBOLIC

Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy drew on contemporary currents to create his masterful La Mer. As painters played with light on canvas, shocking the art world and enraging society, Debussy likewise took bold artistic steps, blending unusual orchestration and a daring use of harmony to evoke a musical seascape.

IMPRESSIONISTIC THE COMPOSER

Javanese Gamelan

Japanese artist Hokusai

Wagner

Impressionist art

StravinskyFirebird

Claude Debussy French 1862 – 1918

TIMELINE 1889: Eiffel Tower is inaugurated

1893: Chausson 1896: Mahler Poème de Songs of a l’Amour et de Wayfarer la Mer

1890

1900

THE STORY 1899: Oct 1905: Paris La Mer World premiere Expo

1914: Sibelius The Oceanides

1910

Though he hated the term, Claude Debussy is now remembered as a pioneer of impressionistic music. Bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he was a leading figure in modern music.

Chausson Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer

THE STORY

Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes tells the tale of a murderous and hopeless outsider. Taken from the opera, the Four Sea Interludes offer a glimpse into this fisherman’s psychology, revealing both great beauty and greater despair.

MESMERISING

LUSCIOUS

GATHERING STORM

TURBULENT

BUBBLING BILLOWING WAVES

FEATURED MUSICIANS (LEFT TO RIGHT): 1. Pam Jiang violin 2. Allan Chisholm cello 3. Rowan Prior cello 4. Roger Brown cello 5. Robert Orr oboe 6. Phil Green clarinet

Russian Folk Tales

Les Ballets Russes

DID YOU KNOW?

Igor Stravinsky visited New Zealand in 1961 and conducted the NZSO

Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer THE STORY

Rejected by the soprano Johanna Richter, Mahler’s heartbreak inspired his dark and brooding Songs of a Wayfarer. In this song cycle, nature provides the only solace for the lonely wanderer, desperate to forget his beloved and the torments of passion.

Inspiration

KEY WORDS

SINGING SPINE TINGLING

BITTER SWEET

EPIC BEAUTY

HEARTFELT

KEY WORDS ORCHESTRAL COLOUR

Composed at sea, the score evokes the Ocean King in a seascape teaming with his three thousand daughters, the ‘Spirits of the Waves’. A sea nymph looks on as bassist Malcolm Struthers is swept into aturbulent sea and is lost in the dangerous waters of Jean Sibelius’ The Oceanides.

EXOTIC

Massenet

SONG CYCLE

Franck

MOODY

LANGUID

VOCAL CARESS

IMPRESSIONISTIC

Sibelius The Oceanides THE STORY

NORTH SEA

ENCHANTMENT

INVENTIVE

PASSIONATE

ELEGANCE

TEMPESTUOUS

SCALE

LOVE & LOSS

ARD ENT

MURDER

The Inspiration

ACCESSIBLE VIVID LUXURY

The Inspiration

EROTIC

Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer uses images of the ever-changing sea to symbolize the ecstasies and agonies of love. The orchestra drowns in waves of seductive melodies as Measha Brueggergosman’s luscious voice sounds from the depths.

KEY WORDS

MOODY EXTREMES

THE STORY

frees imprisoned princesses from the clutches of an evil sorcerer. Composed for the Ballets Russes, Stravinsky’s music set Paris aflame with its fantastical, demonic rhythms and enchanting melodies.

KEY WORDS

SENSUAL

The Inspiration

The Russian fairytale The Firebird brought Igor Stravinsky from relative obscurity to international fame. In his orchestral tour de force, the mythical and elusive firebird bewitches sinister monsters into an infernal dance and

Beethoven

Brahms’ lieder

7. Peter Dykes oboe 8. Malcolm Struthers double bass 9. Anna van der Zee violin 10. Bridget Douglas flute 11. Pietari Inkinen Music Director

‘I am an inventor

LILBURN Symphony No. 3 Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer Stravinsky Firebird

of music.’

Igor Stravinsky

‘Music is the expression of the movement of the waves.’

Britten Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes Chausson Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer Sibelius The Oceanides Debussy La Mer

The AUDI Concerts

L’Oiseau de Feu

Claude Debussy

The AUDI Tour

La Mer

Firebird

Wellington / Saturday 14 April / 8 pm Auckland / Saturday 28 April / 8 pm

Pietari Inkinen Conductor Boldly intelligent with a diamond-clear musical vision, Pietari Inkinen has forged an international reputation and led the NZSO to sweeping critical acclaim. NZSO Music Director since 2008, he is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and an accomplished violinist and chamber musician. His performances and recordings on Naxos with the NZSO have won glowing reviews in prestigious international titles including Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Le Temps and Spiegel Online, which declared him “the Prince who kissed awake the sleeping beauty which was the NZSO”.

Measha Brueggergosman Soprano

‘ Measha Brueggergosman sang like a goddess… she is a born storytellersinger’

Tamara Bernstein, National Post

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Be swept away in the luxurious waters of the Mediterranean by Debussy’s iridescent symphonic sketches, La Mer. Debussy’s music evokes sunlight as it skips across the sea at dawn. With great waves of sound, the orchestra heaves like an ocean teeming with vibrant life in a work as exhilarating today as ever. Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes begins the concert. Taken from his opera Peter Grimes, this is a more sinister sea, full of achingly beautiful music undone by despair as deep as the ocean itself. Ernest Chausson’s intoxicating Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer is a rare treat made more exciting by the rich and luscious voice of Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman. A stunning talent, a recent review in The Telegraph exclaimed: “Everything she sings is radiated by an instinctive musicality… she has the gift of making the music glow.” Finished while making his first voyage across the Atlantic, Jean Sibelius’ tone poem The Oceanides celebrates the Ocean King and his three thousand daughters with music as haunting and as ever-changing as the sea itself.

Wellington / Friday 20 April / 6.30 pm Hamilton / Thursday 26 April / 7.30 pm Auckland / Friday 27 April / 7 pm

Pietari Inkinen Conductor

‘The Young Finn draws a playing of infectious zeal from the NZSO – what an accomplished band they have become’

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Measha Brueggergosman Soprano Celebrated as much for her radiant star quality as her sparkling musicianship, soprano Measha Brueggergosman has been described as a singer of rare gifts whose “superb voice is capable of just about anything” (Miami Herald). Her passion for classical music and her one-ofa-kind artistry have made her a favourite of the international press, and a national icon in her native Canada. SEASON TICKET Show No.

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The extraordinary expressive powers of Measha Brueggergosman are on full display in Gustav Mahler’s heartbreaking Lieder eines fahrenden Gessellen – Songs of a Wayfarer. Mahler’s exquisitely evocative song-cycle describes the despair of unrequited love, creating ample opportunity to indulge in Brueggergosman’s rich soprano voice as she delves into the music’s achingly dark colours. The concert begins with Douglas Lilburn’s Symphony No. 3, a work the composer described as a ‘personalised piece of searching rhetoric’. Lilburn’s music is a jagged, lyrical and mesmerising landscape, infused with a relentless energy that comes alive with the precise and detailed performance of an orchestra at the height of its powers. The second half of this concert is devoted to Stravinsky’s glittering ballet music, The Firebird. First performed by Diaghilev’s infamous Ballets Russes, this is the work that turned the composer into an overnight international success. In his setting of the Russian fairy tale, Stravinsky’s music is a fiery concoction of folk melodies, blazing colours and impulsive rhythms that heave and leap from the orchestra, blazing in the light of the Firebird’s triumph.

The Sea

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Elgar Cello Concerto

Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture

THE STORY

Key words

THE STORY

Caroline Alice Roberts (wife)

England

Key words

Roman Catholicism

TIMELINE 1914: Elgar conducts the first recording of his own works

late 1914: WW1 starts. The first trenches appear on the Western Front.

CRASHING WILDNESS

EPIC

RUGGED

Wagner

1869: Wagner completes his Ring Cycle

Fingal’s Cave

1920

Sir Walter Scott

Ossian Poems

Beethoven

Key words

BRILLIANCE SURPRISING

EMOTIONALLY DRIVEN

The idyllic town of Linz provided a much-needed respite for Mozart and his new wife following a miserable visit to the composer’s disapproving father. And it was while staying in Count von Thun’s picturesque castle that Mozart composed his dramatic Linz Symphony – a work that is brilliant, confident and completely charming.

CHEERFUL YOUTHFUL VERVE CELEBRATORY

ENERGY

MASTERWORK

INSPIRATION

FEATURED MUSICIANS (LEFT TO RIGHT): 1. Andrew Joyce cello 2. Kristina Zelinska violin

Beethoven

Clara Wieck

Siciliano

Linz

Haydn

Count Von Thun

ORNAMENTAL ELEGANCE

POIGNANT

DARK & LIGHT

ROMANTIC

VITALITY

EXTREMES

Key words

Schumann battled for three years to be allowed to marry Clara Wieck before the court ruled in his favour. They had eight children.

Mendelssohn

1875

Anton Brucker Austrian, 1824 – 1896

THE STORY

INSPIRATION

Hoffmann

Liszt

Romantic Art

1881, 25 Oct Pablo Picasso is born

1880

1883: Richard Wagner dies

1885

A composer of immense orchestral and sacred music, Anton Bruckner spent decades studying before feeling adequately equipped to follow in the footsteps of Beethoven.

Mozart Symphony No. 36 Linz

Edward Elgar English, 1857 – 1934

DID YOU KNOW

SPLENDOUR

THE COMPOSER

Edward Elgar often felt isolated from the society in which he lived. Born into a modest Roman Catholic family and self-taught, he would become the quintessential British composer.

Like a seabird suspended in flight, Schumann’s extraordinary introduction to his Fourth Symphony creates an atmosphere of time standing still. A tormented symphonic fantasy, Schumann’s music never breaks free from darker undercurrents yet remains exquisitely beautiful throughout.

ARCHITECTURAL

1873: Jules Verne 1875 – 1878: Bruckner publishes Around the composes his 5th World in Eighty Days Symphony

1870

THE COMPOSER

THE STORY

SCALE

TIMELINE

1919: Cello Concerto

1915

Schumann Symphony No. 4

Catholic Faith

INSPIRATION

1918, 11 Nov: Armistice Day End of WW 1

VISIONARY

INSPIRATION

LEGENDARY

MYTHICAL

Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture reflects the splendour and drama of Scotland’s coastlines. This churning and swelling composition was inspired by the composer’s own voyage to Fingal’s Cave and captures both the violent power and immense magnificence of waves crashing against desolate rocks.

INSPIRATION

Facing a potentially ruinous court battle, Bruckner composed his Fifth Symphony during a dark period of his life. Yet this magnificent symphony suggests neither grief nor sorrow, but instead basks in layers of resplendent, joyous harmonies. As the mountains stretch out into the distance, so too does Bruckner’s music, creating an expansive soundscape in which one can find solace.

OCEAN VOYAGE

BEAUTIFUL

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LENGTH

MELODY

YEARNING

EXQUISITE

ACHING

THE STORY

VAST SPACES OF SOUND

FAMOUS SOARING

ELEGY

Elgar’s Cello Concerto of 1919 introduces a darker palette of postwar disillusionment into his music, evoking society’s collective grief for the monumental loss of life, and the desolation of a victory without triumph. Here NZSO Section Principal Cello Andrew Joyce represents Elgar. Behind him falls away the untamed majesty of a sunlit Hebridean coast, symbolising everything he stands to lose against his opponent, first violinist Kristina Zelinska.

World War 1

Bruckner Symphony No. 5

‘Harrell’s playing was bold, imaginative, and surpassingly sensitive…fully human and rich in detail’

MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture ELGAR Cello Concerto SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4

For the Fallen Revel in the astonishing talent of the great cello superstar Lynn Harrell as he returns to New Zealand to perform one of the cello’s most beloved works – Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto. After witnessing the ravaging despair of World War I, Elgar’s last great orchestral work is a deeply personal masterpiece. Leading the orchestra is maestro Andrew Grams, universally heralded as one of America’s most promising and talented young conductors. His seemingly limitless energy and attention to detail are perfect qualities for Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture. Inspired by his tour of the Scottish isles, you can hear the great crashing of waves against desolate rocks and almost feel a salty sea breeze rush past as you are swept away by Mendelssohn’s soaring melodies. From its atmospheric and sinewy opening phrases, Schumann’s Fourth Symphony is equally dramatic. Dark and brooding yet filled with moments of triumphant defiance and exquisite beauty, Schumann’s music is transporting, bringing to a close a concert that will uplift, inspire and leave you wanting more.

Boston Globe

Andrew Grams Conductor

Lynn Harrell Cello

A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and The Curtis Institute, young American conductor Andrew Grams is enjoying a meteoric rise. He began conducting aged just 17 and has since made acclaimed appearances with many leading US orchestras, in particular with the Cleveland Orchestra. His recent debuts included the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. This is his debut tour of New Zealand.

American cellist Lynn Harrell is the consummate musician. A renowned recitalist, soloist, chamber musician and educator, he has worked with the world’s most prestigious orchestras and leading conductors. The Boston Globe declared that his “once in a generation” performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto had claimed the music back from the legendary brilliance of Paul Tortelier and Jacqueline Du Pré.

MOZART Symphony No. 36 Linz BRUCKNER Symphony No. 5

Franz Schalk, conductor of Bruckner’s premiere

Cathedral of Sound One of the most exciting and groundbreaking conductors of our time, Simone Young needs little introduction. Her recordings of Bruckner’s Symphonies established her at the forefront of the repertoire and her interpretation of his architectural Fifth Symphony will be a glorious highlight of the season. Bruckner’s music is a mighty ‘cathedral of sound’, with lingering whispers of melodies and great surges of blazing orchestral textures. This is a symphony filled with a wondrous joy to delight the senses. Such grandeur finds its equal in Mozart’s exquisitely elegant Linz Symphony No. 36. One of Mozart’s finest, this symphony was composed in an astonishing four days, though its perfectly proportioned phrases and easy grace belie its quick conception. The drama of Mozart’s music is in the hands of a modern master in a concert that will exalt the spirit.

Simone Young, AM Conductor Simone Young is one of the leading conductors of her generation. She regularly conducts a broad range of operatic and symphonic repertoire for major international opera companies and orchestras and has received many awards. Simone is General Manager and Music Director of the Hamburg Staatsoper and Music Director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra, Hamburg.

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Home to the Gods of Norse mythology, the timeless mountains bear witness to a famous act of compassion and betrayal. Brünnhilde reaches out to help the mortal Sieglinde, to the dread of her Valkyrie sisters; she will be doomed for her disobedience. The mountains also lay down a challenge to the climbers in Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony; will they reach the summit or only dream of it? Richard Wagner Die Walküre Richard Strauss Alpine Symphony Wolfgang Mozart Symphony No. 38 Prague

Strauss Alpine Symphony THE STORY

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MASSIVE

MAJESTIC

PROFOUND NARRATIVE

ELEMENTAL

AWE INSPIRING

Richard Strauss takes us on a vivid mountain expedition with his Alpine Symphony. Setting out at daybreak, our climbing party stumbles through ominous forests before reaching the summit. With soaring phrases in the brass, the organ creates a sense of transcendence before an astonishing storm interrupts our adventures. Calm prevails as the music returns to its beginnings and we safely reach home.

RICH

DRAMATIC SCALE STRIKING

EXPANSIVE

INSPIRATION

Wagner

Mahler

Late Romanticism

The Alps

TIMELINE 1910: English premiere of Strauss’ opera Elektra

Wagner Die Walküre

1910

1914: Charlie Chaplin makes his film debut

Oct 1915: Alpine Symphony

1914 – 1918: WW1

1920: League of Nations (now United Nations) established

1920

DID YOU KNOW? THE STORY

TIMELINE

A ferocious hoard of Valkyries look on as Wotan’s favourite daughter, Brünnhilde, reaches out to help the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde. Her punishment is to sleep imprisoned in a magical ring of fire atop the mountains. With music that culminates in the blazing ‘Ride of the Valkyries’, Die Walküre is the second of Wagner’s epic four-opera series Der Ring des Niebelungen and is filled with forbidden passion, betrayal and terrible destruction.

1870: Inauguration of Musikverein in Vienna

1870: First rugby game played in New Zealand

1870: Premiere performance of Die Walküre at Bayreuth

1870

1871: The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria

A recording of the Alpine Symphony, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, was the world’s first CD, pressed in 1983.

Mozart Symphony No. 38 Prague

1872

KEY WORDS

THE COMPOSER THE STORY

MOST BELOVED WORK

RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES

Even as Vienna began to tire of Mozart, Prague continued to loyally champion the composer’s music. To express his gratitude, Mozart premiered his new Symphony No. 38 in the Bohemian capital. It was another instant hit, and quickly adopted as the ‘Prague’ Symphony.

Richard Wagner German, 1862 – 1918

INSPIRATION

EXUBERANCE

SHINY CHARM

EPIC SCALE

Key words

KEY OF C MAJOR

Richard Wagner revolutionised opera. In search of the perfect balance between music, text and performer he created his expansive music dramas, the most famous of which is his epic Ring cycle.

OF GODS & MEN FAMILY FEUD TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY

1871: First Rugby Union international, Scotland vs England

GRAND MELODIES

FUGUE LYRICAL

POSITIVE

TRIUMPHANT

INSPIRATION

DID YOU KNOW?

Richard Wagner married Franz Liszt’s daughter, Cosima Weber

Liszt

Norse Mythology

Beethoven J. S. Bach

FEATURED MUSICIANS (LEFT TO RIGHT): 1. Emma Barron violin 2. Lisa Egen viola 3. Kirstin Eade flute 4.Haihong Liu violin

5. Alexander Gunchenko double bass 6. Rebecca Struthers violin

Prague

Father, Leopold Mozart

Sister, Maria Anna Mozart

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Die Walküre Internationally-renowned Wagnerian tenor Simon O’Neill returns home to join the crème de la crème of New Zealand and international singers for this concert performance of Wagner’s astounding Die Walküre. Very rarely are New Zealand audiences treated to Wagner’s epic music dramas, and this special concert is not to be missed. Full of love, infidelity, abandonment and incest, Die Walküre features some of the composer’s most memorable music, including the awe-inspiring Ride of the Valkyries. Lauded as the next great Wagnerian tenor, O’Neill sings the demanding role of Siegmund – one he has already performed at the Royal Opera House and La Scala. The exquisite Edith Haller is Sieglinde, whose crystalline soprano voice never fails to astound. Dramatic soprano superstar Christine Goerke will be an indomitable force singing the role of Brünnhilde. With an impressive six seasons at Bayreuth – the spiritual home of Wagner’s music – John Wegner is no stranger to the role of Wotan, King of the Gods, and he finds his match in the dramatic prowess of Margaret Medlyn’s Fricka. In the role of Hunding is another shining star – the charismatic Jonathan Lemalu, whose rich, resonant bass makes him an audience favourite. Supported by an astounding hoard of Valkyries, this extraordinary musical event conducted by our own Pietari Inkinen will be cherished and remembered for years to come.

Simon O’Neill Siegmund

Edith Haller Sieglinde

Christine Goerke Brünnhilde

Considered the great Wagnerian tenor of his generation, New Zealander Simon O’Neill is a principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Bayreuth Festival. His 2010 recording with the NZSO of Wagnerian arias, Father and Son, attracted glowing international praise and earned a rare double five-star review from the prestigious BBC Music Magazine.

Italian soprano Edith Haller reprises the role of Sieglinde with the NZSO after recent debuts at the Bayreuth Festival and the Vienna State Opera, were she was described as “simply sensational...erotic, seductive and passionate” in performance (Der Opernfreund). Acclaimed for her sparkling vocal qualities and expressive power, one critic declared her “the new discovery par excellence as Sieglinde” at Bayreuth.

Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Paris Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She is a Grammy Award winner of whom a New York Times’ critic wrote that “her powerful voice, technique, and honest passion are always good to hear. The pleasure she takes in the act of singing is communicable”.

John Wegner Wotan

Jonathan Lemalu Hunding

Margaret Medlyn Fricka

Described in breathtaking terms by critics for his Wagnerian roles, John Wegner has forged an impressive international career and performs regularly in leading opera houses, including La Scala, The Royal Opera House and Bayreuth. His interpretation of Wotan was once declared “intolerably moving”, balancing the athleticism and power demanded by the role with a peerless expressive ability.

His deep, velvet-rich voice has earned him international plaudits and a loyal following here at home. New Zealand-born Samoan bass baritone Jonathan Lemalu is deservedly an audience favourite for his stage presence and star quality, once described by The Times as “a singer who hooks an audience even before opening his mouth”.

Acclaimed New Zealand soprano Margaret Medlyn has sung for a host of leading international opera companies including the English National Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera and all the opera companies in Australia. She is lauded not only for her compelling musicality but also her nuanced acting ability and dramatic stage charisma.

Amanda Atlas

Anna Pierard

‘At last I have learnt to orchestrate’ Richard Strauss

Alpine Symphony Ascend to greater heights with Richard Strauss’ virtuosic Alpine Symphony. Composed for colossal orchestral forces, Strauss takes you on an expedition into the Alps with music that celebrates the elemental wonders of nature. Such a score could not be in finer hands than those of the world-renowned conductor David Zinman, whose recordings of Beethoven, Strauss and Schumann have made him into an international conducting superstar. Zinman has led many of the world’s finest orchestras with his exuberant and effusive passion being said to have made music a better world. From the grandeur of the Alps we gaze heavenwards with Mozart’s miraculous Prague Symphony. Gaining its nickname from the Bohemian city in which it was first performed, Mozart’s symphony is filled with moments of compelling complexity, sparkling melodies and a finale that is impressive, effervescent and always graceful. Woody Allen once said that ‘Mozart proves the existence of God’. Under the masterful baton of Maestro Zinman, this concert will certainly be an opportunity to exalt in the divinity of great music.

David Zinman Conductor Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the internationally-respected David Zinman is a highly-prized guest conductor, leading many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. He has earned a slew of distinguished international honours, including five Grammy Awards for his recordings and the prestigious Thomas Theodore Award for his outstanding conducting achievements.

Sarah Castle

Pietari Inkinen Conductor

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Kate Spence

Kristen Darragh

Lisa Morag Harper-Brown Atchison

Wendy Doyle

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Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 Egyptian THE STORY

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

THE STORY

DIZZYING SEA FRENETIC

Here, the head of Stalin lists in the sand. The forced patriotism of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, foisted on him by the relentless dictator, nonetheless reveals the subtle ways that art can resist a regime.

PIANO JOURNEY

VOY AGE

LUSHNESS TECHNICALLY

CHALLENGING

DEFIANT

Gounod

Impressionism

1896: Saint-Saëns completes the Egyptian

1897: Dukas 1905: Chinese completes The composer Xian Sorcerer’s Xinghai is born Apprentice

1900

Camille Saint-Saëns French, 1857 – 1934

1910

Harris The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village

One of the most important French composers of the 19th-century, Camille Saint-Saëns was a youthful pioneer and an elderly conservative. His exquisite orchestral music highlights his melodic talents and mastery of form.

Xian Xinghai 黄河协奏曲 The Yellow River Piano Concerto

Bizet/Shchedrin Carmen Suite THE STORY

VOCAL Journey down the Yellow River with Xian Xinghai’s beloved piano concerto. Composed in a cave house while China and Japan were at war, Xinghai’s music mirrors the expansive moving currents of this mighty river and symbolises the strength of the Chinese people.

Key words

CHINESE

GRACEFUL

PIANO PERCUSSIVE

COLOUR

MODAL

All the tunes from Bizet’s original opera are present in this ‘reimagining’ from Russian composer Shchedrin.

THE STORY

POETIC LUMINESCENT

FEATURED MUSICIANS (LEFT TO RIGHT): 1. Beiyi Xue violin 2. Andrew Thomson violin 3. Carolyn Mills harp 4. Hiroshi Ikematsu double bass

Marc Chagall

Vincent O’Sullivan

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The Arabian Nights, a tale centred on the beautiful Scheherazade and her murderous Sultan husband, is evoked in Rimsky-Korsakov’s exotic score. Scheherazade stays her execution by weaving tales that unfurl over 1,001 nights, mesmerising her husband and inspiring one of the most beloved orchestral works of the 19th century.

GLITTERING EVOCATIVE

VIOLIN

STORY TELLING

OPULENCE

INSPIRATION

DID YOU KNOW?

CONTEMPORARY

PATRIOTIC

DID YOU KNOW?

Under the stars of the Southern Cross, a conversation between New Zealanders Ross Harris and Vincent O’Sullivan led to the composition of The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village. Inspired by the dreamy paintings of the Belarusian Marc Chagall, these are songs of vivid colours and unforgettable images.

NEW ZEALAND

FLOWING

Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 Egyptian Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Xian Xinghai The Yellow River Piano Concerto Ross Harris The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Georges Bizet/Rodion Shchedrin Carmen Suite

Inspiration

Key words

PICTORIAL

Our journey takes us downriver, past the sun-baked Egyptian sands to the ancient heart of China. Gods and mythic figures walk among us, and the characters in stories – the gypsy lover Carmen, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice – flare into life. But, keep your wits about you. Like Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, or a persecuted Shostakovich, how you tell your story may be the key to your survival.

Cherchez la femme! The glamorous harp player Carolyn Mills stares defiantly into the distance, her assertive stance warning prospective lovers to tread carefully. And just like this beguiling temptress, Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite seduces your senses. In this work the composer re-imagines Bizet’s infamous Spanish femme fatale, breathing new life into her seductive gypsy songs with an orchestral score that shimmers and sparkles.

THE STORY

MELODIOUS

1890

1894: Nicholas 2nd becomes Tsar of Russia

SENSUAL

THE COMPOSER

TIMELINE 1888: Scheherazade first performed

ARTISTIC

ELATION PROPAGANDA

The standing ovation lasted over half an hour at the 1937 premiere in Leningrad.

EXOTIC

The Sea

SAL VAT ION

Ross Harris used to play the horn in the NZSO

LUCIDITY

Egypt

COMPLEXITY

RUSSIAN

DID YOU KNOW?

STARK

BIG

INSPIRATION

PATRIOTIC

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Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Arabian Nights

Orientalism

THE STORY

Key words

Inspired by Goethe’s ballad, Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is filled with magical mischief. This sparkling scherzo was intended as a musical joke, and Dukas was alarmed when it became an instant, international favourite. Regardless, the composition remains his most popular work.

CROWD PLEASING

PICTORIAL

Saint Saens’ Egyptian Piano Concerto delights in the pleasures of travel. The pianist sets sail along the Nile and the concerto itself is a complete voyage into richly spiced exotic lands.

BUSTLING

Key words

Borodin

Glinka

Inspiration

MAGICAL LUMINESCENT

WORLD FAMOUS

FUN WITTY

5. Cristina Vaszilcsin violin 6. David Bremner trombone 7. Robert Ibell cello

Goethe

Symphonic Poetry

‘The most perfect piano playing conceivable’

RITCHIE Diary of a Madman: Dedication to Shostakovich SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5 Egyptian SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

The Guardian, on Stephen Hough

The TV33 Concerts

Journey around the world with the NZSO. Setting forth with a work from Christchurch composer Anthony Ritchie, his Diary of a Madman: Dedication to Shostakovich draws inspiration from the Russian composer’s early works. Touching upon the brooding and heartfelt themes in Shostakovich’s music, Ritchie’s composition has a manic disposition, or as the composer describes it, ‘a sort of jumbled diary that lurches from farce to despair in rapid succession’. Our next port of call takes us to Paris, by way of Egypt, with Camille Saints-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5 Egyptian. The concerto is filled with allusions to rocking boats, croaking frogs and Nubian love songs. With filigree figures pouring forth from the soloist, Saints-Saëns’ music could be in no finer hands than those of Anglo-Australian pianist Stephen Hough. A consummate performer, his talents have been described as the ‘most perfect piano playing conceivable’. His interpretation of the French master will undoubtedly exceed all expectations. Our journey ends in Russia, with Shostakovich’s powerful Fifth Symphony. Caught in Stalin’s brutal regime and labelled an ‘enemy of the people’, his epic Fifth Symphony, ‘A Soviet Artist’s Practical, Creative Response to Just Criticism’, restored his reputation. Juxtaposing the naïve and the sardonic, triumph and despair, barbarism and elegiac beauty, Shostakovich’s music declares an apparent patriotism while revealing sinister undercurrents.

The NZSO is delighted to welcome back Perry So and we herald the Chinese New Year with a concert that celebrates the splendid beauty and vibrant colours of nature. The Yellow River Cantata composed by Xian Xinghai in 1939 and recomposed as a piano concerto during the Cultural Revolution, has become one of China’s most beloved compositions. This immense musical landscape, bursting with joyous folk melodies and the vitality and might of China’s great Yellow River, is brought to life by the astonishing virtuosity of soloist John Chen, one of New Zealand’s most exciting talents. This festive concert opens with Ross Harris’ luminescent and colourful The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village. Inspired by the dreamy visions of Marc Chagall and savouring the poetry of Vincent O’Sullivan, this entrancing song cycle is performed with the crystalline soprano voice of Jenny Wollerman. The Chinese New Year is a festival that celebrates the arrival of spring, and no symphony better captures the wonder of nature and her changeable moods than Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. With music that is blissful, lazy, thunderous and heartfelt, Beethoven’s symphony is a triumphant work to welcome in the Year of the Dragon.

Andrew Litton Conductor

Stephen Hough Piano

New York-born Andrew Litton is American music royalty. The internationally-distinguished conductor has led nearly all of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the London, New York, Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonics, and makes regular appearances in the most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein. He is presently Music Director of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Britain’s leading concert pianist is also a composer, writer, chamber musician and recitalist, an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and the Grammy-nominated veteran of more than fifty CD recordings. Stephen Hough has performed with the world’s leading orchestras including recent appearances with the Berlin Philharmoniker and the New York, London and Los Angeles Philharmonics. He has appeared more than 20 times at the BBC Proms, and was the first British instrumentalist in 20 years to give a solo recital at Carnegie Hall.

William Dart, New Zealand Herald

CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT

Chinese New Year Perry So Conductor

John Chen Piano

A precocious and sure young talent, Perry So is Associate Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic and a rare recipient of the first prize at St Petersburg’s prestigious International Prokofiev Conducting Competition. So was critically-praised during his last NZSO tour for his energy, focus and freshness of touch, and declared “disarmingly brilliant” by The Press.

John Chen made history in 2004 by winning the prestigious Sydney International Piano Competition, aged only 18. Seven years on, he has achieved a formidable reputation throughout Australasia. His ongoing international success is matched by critical acclaim at home, where he is praised for his “torrential brilliance” (NZ Herald) and “astonishing maturity” (NZ Listener).

Jenny Wollerman Soprano Wellington / Saturday 22 September / 8 pm Napier / Tuesday 25 September / 7.30 pm hamilton / Thursday 27 September / 7.30 pm Auckland / Friday 28 September / 7 pm

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New Zealand soprano Jenny Wollerman is noted for her expressive interpretations of

new and unfamiliar works. Her 2011 tour with NZ String Quartet performing Ross Harris and Schoenberg brought rapturous reviews: the NZ Herald critic was “utterly transported”, praising her as “moving” and “assured and lustrous-toned”.

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DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice POULENC Organ Concerto (Auckland & Wellington only) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade SPECIAL EVENT

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‘Latry was assured, controlled, and always allowed the composer’s voice to be heard. Another standing ovation left no doubt as to the enthusiasm of the audience.’ The American Organist

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Rossen Milanov Conductor

Olivier Latry Organ

Known for the clarity of his musical vision and his charismatic command of an orchestra, Rossen Milanov makes a welcome return to New Zealand this season to debut with the NZSO. The Music Director of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, he is a well-known figure in the US, singled out by The Seattle Times as “one of the most promising figures in the upcoming generation of conductors”.

An exceptional figure in international organ music, Olivier Latry has performed in more than fifty countries and considers himself an ambassador of seventeenth to twentiethcentury French organ music. Aged just 23 when he became a titular organist of the NotreDame Cathedral in Paris, he is also organ professor at the Paris Conservatory, and is renowned for his recordings.

Carmen Suite

‘What a group it is, offering playing…that sets new standards for this country – immediately world-class.’ John Button, Dominion Post (Oct 2010)

T O U R

The popular NZSO Soloists series returns – stripping back the full orchestra in favour of select ensembles which showcase, in intimate style, the world-class musicianship of individual players. Arvo Pärt’s Fratres is a work of austere beauty and stark minimalism. Emerging from a period of silence for the composer following a spiritual and artistic crisis, Fratres describes a new tonal landscape that will haunt modern audiences. Drawing upon medieval plainchant, polyphony and the musical traditions of his Estonian Orthodox faith for inspiration, the deceptive simplicity of Fratres hints at more complex mysteries. Its spiritual and visceral presence makes it easy to understand why Pärt is one of the most popular composers of the 21st century. In a stunning contrast, Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite is guaranteed to entertain. This re-imagining of Bizet’s effervescent score, composed for an orchestra with an array of percussion instruments, overflows with humour, wit and action. This fresh interpretation breathes new life into Bizet’s much-loved music, rediscovering a sense of surprise, suspense and danger in Carmen’s well known songs. Completing this exciting concert will be a new commission from one of New Zealand’s most respected composers and conductors – Kenneth Young.

Wellington / Saturday 24 March / 8 pm Napier / Tuesday 27 March / 7.30 pm hamilton / Thursday 29 March / 7.30 pm Auckland / Friday 30 March / 7 pm dunedin / Tuesday 3 April / 6.30 pm Christchurch / Wednesday 4 April / 6 pm

Vesa-Matti Leppänen Director NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen was accepted into the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki aged sixteen, having won Finland’s prestigious Heinonen National Violin Competition. He then joined one of Europe’s oldest symphony orchestras, the Turku Philharmonic, before joining the NZSO in 2000 and winning instant national recognition. Becoming Concertmaster in 2005, he directs the NZSO Soloists series, which has won fulsome critical praise for the quality of its artistic vision and exceptional musicianship.

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A battalion of determined buckets and brooms usually comes to mind whenever Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is heard. And it is no wonder Walt Disney was such a fan. Overflowing with shimmering, spellbinding melodies, this dazzling score is enchanting, mischievous and brilliantly witty. Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto is equally wondrous. Poulenc redefined organ music and this concerto revels in the awesome majesty and plaintive despair that only such a magnificent instrument can command. Performed by the extraordinary Olivier Latry, organist for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and declared “an organ God” by The Guardian, his performance will undoubtedly be an electrifying moment in the musical calendar. Rimsky-Korsakov’s incandescent Scheherazade completes this fantastical concert. This sumptuous score is ablaze with vibrant colour and breathtakingly virtuosic solo passages, as Rimsky-Korsakov recreates the tales of Princess Scheherazade’s 1001 Arabian Nights. Princesses, apprentices and a Poulenc masterpiece are brought together under the baton of the internationally-acclaimed maestro Rossen Milanov. Milanov, it has been said, is a conductor who must be seen by anyone who cares about the future of music; he proves that there is indeed magic in the music.

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Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Mahler Symphony No. 7 THE STORY

KEY WORDS

CONTRAST

OPPOSITION

INSPIRATION

FIERY

PIONEERING

KEY WORDS

The soloist is pitted against the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s powerful Violin Concerto. Composed in Switzerland in the aftermath of a disastrous marriage that lasted less than three months, Tchaikovsky produced a vital and emotional concerto filled with such passion, despair and angst it was declared unplayable. Despite this, it has since become one of the most cherished concertos in the repertoire.

MUSICAL GENIUS

GARGANTUAN COLOSSAL

It was in a small rowing boat, much like the one pictured, that glimpses of the opening movement of his Seventh Symphony finally revealed themselves to Mahler. The symphony is often called Song of the Night, though Mahler’s nocturnes have a bright, sparkling and vivacious atmosphere albeit filled with strange and ghostly visions.

THE STORY

VIRTUOSIC

THEATRICAL

FAMOUS

DEMANDING

INSPIRATION

Brahms

1908: Symphony No. 7

1911, 18 May: Gustav Mahler dies

1912, 15 April The Titanic sinks

Gustav Mahler German, 1860 – 1911

1890

1900

1910

1920

COUNTERPOINT

ARCHITECTURE

Nadezhda von Meck

Overcoming great personal tragedies, Mahler was one of most influential composers of his time. Blurring the lines between song and symphony, his works remain amongst the most popular in the repertoire.

Though his life was troubled by depression and doubt, Tchaikovsky’s music expresses the very heights of human emotions. With a rare gift of melody, his music continues to captivate.

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FEATURED MUSICIANS (LEFT TO RIGHT): 1. Eleanor Carter cello 2. Michael Kirgan trumpet 3. Cheryl Hollinger trumpet

Tensions boil over in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from his iconic musical West Side Story. Filled with a dangerous, impulsive energy, Bernstein’s music plots the tragic rivalries of the Sharks and the Jets. Amidst the violence led by the percussion and brass sections, Bernstein’s heartbreaking, soaring melodies emerge, vainly trying to quell the disquiet.

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YOUTHFUL GLORIOUS

Our wandering musicians celebrate terra firma with Beethoven’s glorious Seventh Symphony. With dancing rhythms inspired by Homer’s epic The Odyssey – Beethoven’s favorite book – the symphony is replete with soaring melodies and a funeral march that remains unsurpassed. First performed to benefit soldiers wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, it was an instant favourite and the unbridled energy of this symphony certainly quickens the heart and warms the spirit.

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Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Wolfgang Mozart Symphony No. 29 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 J. S. Bach Concerto for Two Violins

Bernstein West Side Story THE STORY

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Iosif Kotek

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian 1840 – 1893

Written shortly after Mozart’s 18th birthday, this precocious symphonic gem is filled with the composer’s signature elegance, restraint and finely tuned sense of drama. Within this music one can easily hear hints of the operas that would later so charm, provoke and entertain audiences.

Inspiration

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Every great city, like any perfect story, simmers with tension between lovers, rivals, warring families and gangs. Cultures collide on the boardwalk and so, as we dock, prepare for high drama and violent passion. The forbidden lovers from West Side Story will meet our ship here, and Tchaikovsky plays out his emotional turmoil in his peerless Violin Concerto. The joys of dance, however, are never far away.

Modest Tchaikovsky

Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Mozart Symphony No. 29

The string player is king in Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins. The NZSO performance features both the concertmaster and conductor as soloists. This concerto’s intricate, weaving contrapuntal melodies bring the entire orchestra together in a celebration of Bach’s genius. KEY WORDS

Nature

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TIMELINE 1886, 8 May: Dr John Stith Pemberton invents Coca-Cola

Beethoven

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DID YOU KNOW?

Leonard Bernstein conducted an international orchestra at the fall of the Berlin wall on Christmas Day, changing Beethoven’s words ‘Ode to Joy’ to ‘Ode to Freedom’

4. Graeme Browne bass trombone 5. Vesa-Matti Leppänen violin 6. Laurence Reese timpani

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Wagner

J.S. Bach Concerto for Two Violins

YOUNG Dance TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D major BERNSTEIN West Side Story: Symphonic Dances TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini

‘Benedetti is only 23…yet she has the complete assurance of a mature soloist and the wholehearted commitment of someone who knows exactly what she wants to do and how to do it.’

BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D minor MAHLER Symphony No. 7

‘Inkinen makes the music sound

as though it’s playing itself.’ Gramophone Magazine

The Independent

Forbidden Love

Wellington / Saturday 13 October / 8 pm Palmerston north / Monday 15 October / 7.30 pm napier / Tuesday 16 October / 7.30 pm Hamilton / Thursday 18 October / 7.30 pm Auckland / Friday 19 October / 7 pm

Mahler 7

Miguel Harth-Bedoya Conductor

Nicola Benedetti Violin

Emmy-Award winning Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya “naturally balances earth, air, fire and water” according to the Los Angeles Times. The current Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and former Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he is considered a charismatic master of colour, as charming as he is incisive on the podium.

A captivating talent with an impressive string of credits across Europe, the UK and the US, Nicola Benedetti has performed with many major orchestras, at leading festivals like the BBC Proms, and with star conductors such as Ashkenazy and Segerstam. Winner of the 2008 Classical BRIT Award for Young British Classical Performer, Benedetti is known for her full-bodied sound and electrifying charisma.

An enigmatic dream-world infused with nocturnal mysteries, Gustav Mahler’s tantalising Seventh Symphony is as intriguing as it is intoxicating. Combining modernist influences with the luscious textures and the bombastic Romanticism of the nineteenth century, this complex symphony continues to fascinate and beguile musicians and audiences. Conjuring fantastical night visions, Mahler’s music is animated by evocative mandolins, spectral waltzes and a strangely triumphant finale that will astound your senses and warm your spirit. Such a magical score finds its perfect companion in J. S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins. One of Bach’s most well-known and beloved compositions, this concert provides a rare opportunity to see NZSO Music Director, Pietari Inkinen, take on the role of violin soloist. Highlighting the impressive breadth of this maestro’s extraordinary talents, he will perform alongside the hugely gifted NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen. With music that finds a perfect balance between soloists, experience the wonder of Bach as our two Finnish stars deftly weave overlapping phrases of exquisite counterpoint, unveiling the beauty and emotion of Bach’s sublime concerto.

Wellington / Saturday 10 November / 8 pm Auckland / Saturday 17 November / 8 pm CHRISTCHURCH / Thursday 22 November / 6 pm

Pietari Inkinen Conductor and Violin

Vesa-Matti Leppänen Violin

Pietari Inkinen studied at the Cologne Music Academy with Zakhar Bron and has appeared as soloist with many leading Finnish Orchestras including the Helsinki Philharmonic, as well as WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, RAI Torino, Norrkopings Symphony and Orchestre National de Lyon. He also enjoys chamber music collaborations and has performed with the Inkinen Trio at the Wigmore Hall and at international festivals. Pietari is the current Music Director of the NZSO.

Finnish-born Vesa-Matti Leppänen studied at the Turku Conservatorium and the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki before joining one of Europe’s oldest symphony orchestras, the Turku Philharmonic. He joined the NZSO in 2000 and became Concertmaster in 2005. He has since led the NZSO on three international tours and performed many times as a featured soloist, including at last year’s Shanghai World Expo in China. He is an active chamber musician, soloist, violin teacher and jurist, and is a featured artist with Naxos Records.

National Tour Partner ®

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“My heart is full, it thirsts to pour itself out in music.” So Tchaikovsky confessed, following the disastrous fallout from his three-week marriage. While convalescing abroad, the composer conceived his breathtaking Violin Concerto. The work was initially declared unplayable but has become a cornerstone of the violin repertoire and a test for any soloist. It will quicken the heart in the hands of the exceptional Nicola Benedetti. Winner of the 2005 BBC Young Musician of the Year, Benedetti’s confidence, physicality and willingness to take risks are ideally matched to Tchaikovsky’s dizzyingly demanding score. Leading the orchestra is the Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Since first visiting New Zealand in 1995, Harth-Bedoya continues to explore our landscapes and our music. In his hands, Kenneth Young’s luscious and feisty Dance will enthral. Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances, extracted from the iconic West Side Story, continue the dance theme with music that is bold, vital and confrontationally modern. Bernstein’s score is filled with violence and passion – drama that is matched by Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno, the composer takes us to the depths of Hell to witness the consequences of forbidden love in a concert which proves that such tumultuous relationships nevertheless inspire great music.

The Radio Network Concerts

MOZART Symphony No. 29 BACH Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

‘Dare one say that it is he, Pietari Inkinen, who was the real star of the evening? This young conductor, also a violinist, combines stature and elegance. He knows how to make an orchestra sound.’ Le Temps, Geneva

The Radio Network Tour

Beethoven 7

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Rediscover the magnificence of music in a concert that showcases some of the most beloved works in the repertoire. Beethoven’s glorious Seventh Symphony was composed in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, and was first performed to benefit wounded soldiers. Filled with dancing rhythms and a driving, forward momentum that will sweep you up in the fervour of wild festivities, Beethoven’s Seventh is, as Richard Wagner once enthused, “the Apotheosis of the Dance itself”. Inspired by a visit to Vienna, Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 is another landmark composition. Bathed in sunny tonalities, this youthful masterpiece captures the delight, elegance and operatic drama that make Mozart’s music so inviting. J. S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins provides a rare opportunity to experience the breadth of excellence of NZSO Music Director Pietari Inkinen as he takes on the role of violin soloist, playing alongside talented NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen. Performing together in one of Bach’s most well-known works, their contrapuntal violin lines will create music that is filled with beauty and wonder.

NAPIER / Wednesday 14 November / 7.30 pm hamilton / Friday 16 November / 7.30 pm dunedin / Wednesday 21 November / 6.30 pm

Pietari Inkinen Conductor and Violin

Vesa-Matti Leppänen Violin

Pietari Inkinen studied at the Cologne Music Academy with Zakhar Bron and has appeared as soloist with many leading Finnish Orchestras including the Helsinki Philharmonic, as well as WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, RAI Torino, Norrkopings Symphony and Orchestre National de Lyon. He also enjoys chamber music collaborations and has performed with the Inkinen Trio at the Wigmore Hall and international festivals. Pietari is the current Music Director of the NZSO.

National Tour Partner ®

‘...with conductor Hamish McKeich… even the impossible holds no fear for the NZSO… the audience loved it all.’

BROWN Celestial Bodies CRESSWELL Concerto for String Quartet WHITEHEAD Alice SPECIAL EVENT

MADE IN NEW ZEALAND

Lindis Taylor, The NZ Listener Made in New Zealand 2011

Made In New Zealand

Wonderland A highlight of the musical year, the annual Made in New Zealand concert brings together our most innovative and vibrant composers, musicians and artists to showcase our voices, our experiences and our histories. Merging music and media, Chris Cree Brown’s spectacular Celestial Bodies contemplates the heavens above through the machinations of the orchestra, electro-acoustic sounds and images from artist Julia Morrison. Another stalwart of contemporary New Zealand music, Lyell Cresswell’s work searches for agreement between the complex and the approachable. He calls his Concerto for String Quartet one of his most important works, and brings together two national treasures to perform it – the NZSO and the New Zealand String Quartet. We round out this celebration of home-grown talent with Gillian Whitehead’s exceptional cantata Alice. Travelling alone and desperately unwell, Alice Adcock made an extraordinary voyage from Manchester to New Zealand in 1909. Her story of survival is performed by the spectacular Helen Medlyn, for whom the work was composed. Whitehead’s moving music captures the humour, despair and uncertainties of life in an unknown land.

Helen Medlyn Soprano

Acclaimed by the New York Times for their “uncommon eloquence”, the country’s premier chamber ensemble the New Zealand String Quartet enjoys a distinguished reputation in international chamber music, thanks to imaginative programming and insightful interpretations of the repertoire. Comprised of first violin Helene Pohl, second violin Douglas Beilman, Gillian Ansell on viola and cellist Rolf Gjelsten, the quartet champions New Zealand composition and has premiered many chamber works by New Zealanders. This year marks their 25th anniversary.

A 2002 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, Helen Medlyn is an accomplished and celebrated actress, musical theatre performer, cabaret artiste and opera singer. An innate stage animal and musical story-teller, Helen’s repertoire is eclectic and extensive, including the roles of Joy Gresham in the play Shadowlands, Fraulein Schneider in the musical Cabaret and Herodias in the opera Salome, as well as creating and performing numerous shows with pianist, Penny Dodd.

Hamish McKeich Conductor Hamish McKeich has forged an impressive international conducting career alongside a passionate loyalty for developing

the repertoire of contemporary and experimental New Zealand music at home. Working regularly in Europe, Australia and with New Zealand’s major orchestras, he has given over 80 world premieres of new works and is also chief conductor of the contemporary ensembles Stroma and 175East. He has established an acclaimed partnership with the NZSO and served as the orchestra’s Associate Conductor from 2002-2006.

Special Event Show No.

Wellington / Friday 25 May / 6.30 pm Auckland / Saturday 9 June / 8 pm

New Zealand String Quartet

The Church would like to thank the musicians and management of the NZSO for partnering with us on another daring and ambitious project. Yet again, every musician involved gave their all as we transformed them into sailors, oceanides, soldiers, angels of war, explorers, gangsters and valkyries. Without your effort and support we could not have created such an epic piece of work. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait for the chaos to start again next year. The Church Team

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The Sound of Tomorrow The NZSO National Youth Orchestra is firmly established as the pre-eminent training orchestra for New Zealand’s elite young musicians. 2012 promises to be one of the most exciting years to date for this dynamic ensemble.

Young Originals

Music for Schools

NZSO Young Originals is a programme of activities which offer developmental opportunities for New Zealand’s outstanding young musicians. • Conductor Training with Pietari Inkinen • NZSO Foundation masterclasses • Fellowship placements • NZSO National Mentoring Programme – Michael Monaghan Scholars • Youth Orchestra coaching • Instrument workshops • NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composers Award

‘All musicians need support in the early stages of their career. When I was starting out on my musical journey I was fortunate to be nurtured by people who understood my passion for playing the violin and for conducting. They believed enough in my talent to invest their time in me…’ Pietari Inkinen, NZSO Music Director

To find out more email youngoriginals@nzso.co.nz

We actively support the delivery of the Sound Arts (music) curriculum through inventive and inclusive events for schools; fostering a love of orchestral music in our future audiences at an early age. And there are so many ways to get involved!

‘The concert was fantastic… exactly the right level for intermediate age students and such a clever way to introduce them to the instruments of the orchestra. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed it!’

Schools Concert Programmes in Auckland, Hamilton, Napier, Masterton and Wellington Online resources teaching you everything you need to know about the orchestra NZSO in Miniature concerts for schools in Dunedin, Timaru and Christchurch. Classroom visits interactive performances in the classroom by small ensembles of NZSO players.

Principal, Napier Intermediate School

To find out more email musicforschools@nzso.co.nz

Community Programmes Community Programmes give the whole community the opportunity to engage with the NZSO and live orchestral music.

NZSO National Youth Orchestra Tour

80 young musicians with talent to spare! Four days of rehearsals and workshops with the NZSO principals. Two concerts in Wellington and Auckland with New Zealand conductor Tecwyn Evans and cellist Santiago Canon-Valencia in a programme featuring Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. This is a concert tour not to be missed.

NZSO National Youth Orchestra and New Zealand Youth Choir collaboration An historic collaboration which will overflow with youthful talents; the NYO will join forces with New Zealand Youth Choir to create an epic programme and a one-off special concert in Christchurch. Christchurch / Saturday 8 September / 8 pm

• Visits by small ensembles to Care Homes, Hospices, Hospitals, Residential Care Facilities, Youth Clubs and Marae. • Free Family Concerts for the young and the young at heart. • NZSO in Miniature: 18 musicians from the NZSO; a miniature orchestra delivering concentrated musical magic.

Wellington / Friday 10 February / 6.30 pm Auckland / Saturday 11 February / 8 pm To find out more, email communityprogrammes@nzso.co.nz

Salute

Gifts to the NZSO are gifts to the community

We salute our corporate sponsors and funding partners. Their support for our combined vision ensures we continue playing music for the nation.

Principal Sponsors

Circle Sponsors

Concerto Sponsors Adam Foundation Astra Print Canon New Zealand Ltd The Church Datacom Systems

Diessl Investments Ltd FishHead Magazine Four Winds Foundation Ltd Minter Ellison Rudd Watts The New Zealand Listener

MusicWorks New Zealand Van Lines Ltd North and South Magazine The Todd Corporation Wellington Convention Centre

Overture Sponsors Caffe L’affare The Cranfylde Charitable Trust Hamilton City Theatres Interflora Pacific Unit Limited Interislander

Special Funding Agencies

Lisa Hoskin Jewellery Marsh McLaren Associates Ltd Multi-Media Systems Ltd People and Process

Permission NZ Ltd Phantom Billstickers Ltd Red Spider Rembrandt Suits Limited Sempre Avanti Consulting

The NZSO has been the nation’s own orchestra for sixty-six years, enriching the country’s cultural life and developing New Zealand’s musical talents to an internationallyrespected level.

We’re completely dedicated to our aim of bringing New Zealanders inspiring live performances, developing world-class musicians, and energising young musicians and music-lovers of all ages. Under the visionary leadership of Pietari Inkinen, the NZSO is enjoying a new wave of artistic success. Now, more than ever before, we want to build on that success by growing our artists and developing our vital community programmes. Thanks to the unswerving generosity of our supporters, we know we can reach our goals. You too can invest in an exciting future for New Zealand music with every donation you make – enabling us to give New Zealanders the gift of music for many years to come. Please partner with us today.

All donations are administered by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Foundation, a registered charitable entity (CC24274) under the Charities Act 2005.

For further details, please contact us directly: Phone: 09 919 9104 04 801 3807 Email: Fundraising@nzso.co.nz Or visit: nzso.co.nz/support_us You can commit to a regular donation, or make a one-off gift with your season booking form.

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Fine print Proof of age or eligibility for other discounts must be supplied at the time you book. Concession prices apply to Gold Card Holders aged 65 years+; Unwaged; Disability Card holders. ^35 Down and Family tickets will be located in B or C Reserve based on availability. Family tickets: Young People must be school-aged, 18 years or under. To seat everyone together we recommend booking as far in advance as possible and booking everyone at once.

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Keep up to date with our national concert tours, events and special offers, either via email, SMS or through the post. If you are a teacher or parent, our Music for Schools communication will be invaluable. Decide which concerts to include in your Season Ticket. Auckland and Wellington supporters can simply select a five concert package on Fridays or Saturdays (or combine for ten concerts) at Step 3a. STEP 3

OR You can choose your own package in any city by selecting three or more concerts at Step 3b.

You can become a Season Ticket Holder by completing the attached booking form. When completing your order form please note that: • Each concert equates to a page number listed with every concert description (pages 14 – 51) • Concert prices are listed on page 59 • Concert dates and times are listed on the inside front cover

Special Events can be selected at Step 5. Concessions You are eligible for concession prices if you send photocopied proof of eligibility with your form. 35 Down prices apply to those 35 years of age or under at 1/1/12. Concession prices apply to holders of valid Gold Cards and Community Services cards. If you arrange to transfer your ticket to a person who does not hold an eligible concession, an upgrade fee may apply.

Additional seats Use this step to purchase additional seats for friends and family to those concerts nominated in your season package. Use the Season Ticket Holder – discount prices on page 59. If claiming concessions for additional seats, please enclose proof of eligibility for the ticket holder. Proof of concession should be carried when attending performances. STEP 4

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Refer to pages 30, 39, 40, 51 & 54 for descriptions of these events. Every Season Ticket Holder is entitled to one complimentary seat for a National Youth Orchestra performance in 2012. This offer is available until 30 March 2012.

Renewing your NZSO Season Ticket If you are renewing your season ticket, please use the separate personalised form included with your 2012 season guide. If you require another copy of this form, please call 0800 479 674. Please note that the preferential booking period for existing Season Ticket Holders closes on 18 November, 2011. Renewable seating cannot be guaranteed after this date.

Becoming a Season Ticket Holder for the first time Please complete the booking form opposite page 60. This booking form can be used to book up to two season tickets. Use additional forms downloaded from nzso.co.nz or photocopies to order more than two. Season Tickets are made up of three or more performances selected from concert numbers (pages 14 – 51).

Getting to Concerts Bus services These operate to selected NZSO concerts from a number of regions. Book your return tickets at the same time as applying for a Season Ticket to ensure a seat. See the table below for general information. Full boarding and arrival information will be provided in your Season Ticket pack. Car-parking Discounted car-parking is available in some cities when pre-purchased. Book and pre-pay for carparking when applying for a Season Ticket. See the table below.

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Send your completed form to 2012 Season Tickets New Zealand Symphony Orchestra P.O. Box 6640 Wellington 6141 Processing All forms will be acknowledged within 7 days of receipt. Priority period for renewing Season Ticket Holders 3 October – 18 November 2011.

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Additonal Seats Use this section to purchase additional seats for your concert selections from Step 3. Use the Season Ticket Holder Discount prices on page 59

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Musicians of the NZSO

SPECIAL EVENTS Select special events in addition to your Season Ticket package. Please note that seats allocated will be different to your Season Ticket seats

Number of Seats Required Event

Seating Preference eg: Stalls, aisle seat

Reserve

City (please write your choice)

Full

Concession*

Under 35* Family*

Die Walküre

Amounts

First Violins Basses

Chinese New Year Concert

Spellbound

Christchurch only

Made In New Zealand

1 reserve only

NZSO National Youth Orchestra Every NZSO 2012 Season Ticket Holder is entitled to ONE free ticket. Additional tickets can be purchase for $25 per seat. 1 reserve only. No. of comp tickets

Additional seats

seats @ $25

Second Violins

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Cor Anglais

Clarinets

Bass Clarinet

Baasons

Flutes

Contrabasson

Piccolo

Oboes

Horns

Car Parking and Buses Car Parking

Wellington $8

Auckland $12

Christchurch $3

Spaces required for concert dates:

Total number of spaces _______ @ $______________

Buses Seats required for each concert date:

Departure point:

Total number of spaces _______ @ $______________

Violas

Trombones

Trumpets

Bass Trombone

Timpani

Tuba

Dates: STEP 7 Donation Help secure the future of the NZSO with a gift today. All donations over $5 are tax-deductible. If you choose to give a regular donation, please include your first gift with this booking form; we will then contact you about setting up your ongoing donation.

Cellos

Percussion

Harp

I would like to make the following gift: Regular donation of $ ___________________________ (fortnightly / monthly / quarterly / annually) please circle One-off donation of $ ___________________________ 33

(if you have chosen to give a regular donation, please include your first gift with this booking form, we will then contact you about setting up your ongoing donation).

Please contact me about other ways to give

STEP 8 Gift Vouchers I would like to order ____________ NZSO gift vouchers @ $ ______________ each

Transaction Fee

$8.50

Total Amount Due

Supported by

Franz-Paul Decker Conductor Laureate

I wish to pay the total amount now I wish to pay in 4 installments (credit card only). Installment Dates: 1st Immediate 2nd 01/12/11 3rd 01/02/12 4th 01/03/12

Board Donald Best Chair Lisa Bates Marie Brown Peter Diessl Georgia Farmer Colleen Marshall Roger Taylor

Defer total payment until 18/02/12 Visa

MasterCard

Cheque

(Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton & Wellington, please make cheque payable to NZSO. Napier, please make cheque playable to Ticketek. Dunedin, please make cheque payable to TicketDirect).

Credit Card Number

Expiry Date ___________ /____________

Card Holders Name _________________________________________________________________________________

Signature ___________________________

NZSO gratefully acknowledges the following Section Sponsors A Kalamazoo Group Company

Violas

Diessl Investments Ltd

Payment Options * Please remember to enclose proof of eligibility for concession prices

Please send your completed form to:

Concertmaster

James Judd Music Director Emeritus

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I wish to pay by:

Pietari Inkinen Music Director

02 Vesa-Matti Leppänen

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Please select your payment choice:

2012 Season Tickets New Zealand Symphony Orchestra PO Box 6640 Wellington 6141

Cellos & Flutes

Clarinets

Horns

Percussion

Chief Executive Christopher Blake Harp

You will receive an Acknowledgement of receipt of your booking within 7 days of us receiving your form. Booking forms received will be processed from 02/10/11. If we can help you in completing this form please call us on 0800 479 674.

First Violins 02 Vesa-Matti Leppänen Concertmaster 03 Donald Armstrong Associate Concertmaster 04 Yury Gezentsvey Principal 05 Emma Barron 06 Ursula Evans 07 Pam Jiang 08 Haihong Liu 09 Anne Loeser 10 Gregory Squire 11 Rebecca Struthers 12 Anna van der Zee 13 Cristina Vaszilcsin 14 Beiyi Xue 15 Kristina Zelinska Second Violins 16 Andrew Thomson Section Principal 17 David Gilling + 18 Janet Armstrong 19 Sharyn Evans 20 Elspeth Gray 21 Andrew Kasza

22 23 24 25 26 27

Dean Major Vanya Mateeva Simon Miller Elizabeth Patchett Lucien Rizos Katherine Rowe

Violas 28 Julia Joyce Section Principal 29 Brian Shillito + 30 Peter Barber 31 Michael Cuncannon 32 Anna Debnam 33 Lisa Egen 34 Jenaro Garita 35 Norbert Heuser 36 Lyndsay Mountfort 37 Phillip Rose 38 Belinda Veitch 39 Peter van Drimmelen Cellos 40 Andrew Joyce Section Principal 41 David Chickering Associate Principal 42 Allan Chisholm

44 45 46 47 48 49

Brigid O’Meeghan Assistant Sub-Principal Emeritus Roger Brown Eleanor Carter Robert Ibell Annemarie Meijers Sally Pollard Rowan Prior

Basses 50 Hiroshi Ikematsu Section Principal 51 Victoria Jones + 52 Nicholas Sandle 53 Matthew Cave 54 Stephen Gibbs 55 Alexander Gunchenko 56 Malcolm Struthers 57 Steve Taylor Flutes 58 Bridget Douglas Section Principal 59 Kirstin Eade Associate Principal

Piccolo 60 Nancy Luther-Jara Principal

Contrabassoon 68 David Angus Principal

Tuba 80 Andrew Jarvis Principal

Oboes 61 Robert Orr Section Principal 62 Peter Dykes Associate Principal

Horns 69 Gregory Hill Principal 70 David Moonan + 71 Peter Sharman + 72 Heather Thompson +

Timpani 81 Laurence Reese Section Principal 82 Thomas Guldborg

Cor Anglais 63 Michael Austin Principal Clarinets 64 Patrick Barry Co-Section Principal 65 Philip Green Co-Section Principal Bass Clarinet 66 Rachel Vernon Principal Bassoons 67 Robert Weeks Section Principal

Trumpets 73 Michael Kirgan Section Principal 74 Cheryl Hollinger Associate Principal 75 Mark Carter + 76 Tom Moyer + Trombones 77 David Bremner Section Principal 78 Peter Maunder Associate Principal Bass Trombone 79 Graeme Browne Principal

Percussion 83 Leonard Sakofsky Section Principal Thomas Guldborg Associate Principal 84 Bruce McKinnon Section Principal Emeritus Harp 85 Carolyn Mills Section Principal

Key + Sub-Principal * Assistant Sub-Principal Acting

Special Thanks 2012 Season brochure management for NZSO Thierry Pannetier Head of Marketing / NZSO Head of Artistic Melissa King / Copy Frances Moore & Leah McFall / Research Josh Twaddle, Frances Moore, Sarah Chesney & Jason Henderson. The NZSO give special thanks to NZSO sponsors The Church Design and Astra Print, who have generously contributed to help make our 2012 Season brochure come to life as well as Frances Moore for going beyond the call of duty and Perendale Production for their generosity & support with the Geneva concert footage. www.thechurch.co.nz Brand Guardian, Creative Concept and Design / Chris Waind Creative Direction, Photography & Retouching / Josh Twaddle Lead Designer Kirsten Leighs & Rebekah de Beer-Lamont Project Managers / Ryan Ferguson Production Manager.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION: All prices are GST inclusive. $8.50 Transaction fees apply to all bookings. Details are correct at the time of publication. Dates, times, artists, repertoire, seating and venues are subject to change without notice. Prices are valid as at 02/10/11. Terms and conditions of ticket sales are printed on your tickets. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra respects information privacy. For a full explanation or our privacy policy please see our website www.nzso.co.nz

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PHOTO CREDITS: Nicola Benedetti Kevin Westenberg / Measha Brueggergosman Paul Elledge / John Chen Jane Ussher / Christine Goerke Christian Steiner / Andrew Grams Jonas Gustavsson Lynn Harrell Christian Steiner / Miguel Harth-Bedoya Van Lente / Stephen Hough Sim Canetty-Clarke / Pietari Inkinen Sandy Connon / Olivier Latry JF Badias / Jonathan Lemalu Sussie Ahlburg Vesa-Matti Leppänen Russ Flatt / Andrew Litton Steve J. Sherman / Helen Medlyn James Ensing Trussell / Rossen Milanov Amanda Stevenson / Simon O’Neill Lisa Kohler / Perry So Colin Beere John Wegner Jeff Busby / Jenny Wollerman Debbie Rawson / Simone Young, AM Klaus Lefebvre / David Zinman Priska Ketterer / Pietari’s Introduction Olivia Taylor / Subscription Offer Olivia Taylor NZSO NYO Robert Catto / Musicians of the NZSO Chris Waind. TERMS AND CONDITIONS: by completing and returning the 2012 Season Ticket order form, you are indicating your acceptance of our terms and conditions relating to the ordering and sale of New Zealand Symphony (NZSO) tickets, as determined by us and specified in full on the NZSO website. The NZSO will use its best endeavours to supply you with the tickets you order, however the NZSO cannot guarantee the availability of tickets, or that seating is available in the reserve you request. Allocation of tickets is subject to availability. The NZSO reserves the right to refuse any application for tickets or completed Season Ticket order form at its discretion. All dates, times, artists, repertoire, seating arrangements, venues and price reserves are subject to change or cancellation without notice. Where changes such as these are made, tickets are non-refundable unless required by law. The only exception is when an event is cancelled and there is no further performance of that event. A full copy of the terms of sale is available at nzso.co.nz or by calling 0800 479 674.