MECHANICA — TRIBUTE TO LIGETI
2 NOVEMBER 2007

With a programme that delves into the territory of the musical-mechanical, you can expect rhythmic vitality, sparkling sounds, scintillating textures and raucous sonic excitement.

PROGRAMME

György Ligeti • Melodien for ensemble
György Ligeti • Hungarian Rock for solo harpsichord
György Ligeti • Continuum for solo harpsichord
Elliot Carter • Changes for solo guitar
Magnus Lindberg • Engine for ensemble
Michael Norris Machine Noises for solo piano
Harrison Birtwistle • Carmen Arcadiae Perpetuum Mobile for ensemble

GNARLY BUTTONS
7 MAY 2007

St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington

Featuring Richard Haynes, Patrick Barry, Andrew Uren and the Duo Stump-Linshalm

PROGRAMME

Jorge Sanchez-Chiong • Tropico Transito
Michael Norris • Icons & Artifice
John Adams • Gnarly Buttons
Chris Watson • Mandible
Giacinto Scelsi • Kya

EXTRAORDINARY STROMA
10 Feb 2007

Stroma at the Asia Pacific Festival
St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington

PROGRAMME

Songji Hong (Korea) • Descending Flow
Naoko Kachi (Japan) • Liberation
Nadav Ziv (Israel) • Circles
Anothai Nitibhon (Thailand) • Voiceless Sketches I & II
Christian Utz (Austria) • Together/Apart
Jeroen Speak (NZ) • Epeisodos

LUMEN
20 JULY 2006

Ilott Concert Chamber, Wellington

Featuring Rowan Prior and Richard Haynes

PROGRAMME

Karlheinz Essl • Entsagung
Alfred Schnittke • Dialogue for cello and ensemble
Helen Bowater • Lumen
John Young • Arriverderci
György Kúrtag • Kroó György in Memoriam
Sofia Gubaidulina • Concordanza

ICONS OF OUR TIME.
7 MAY 2006

PROGRAMME

Salvatore Sciarrino • Introduzione all'oscuro
Jack Body • Rainforest for flute and harp (world premiere)
Brian Ferneyhough • Lemma-Icon-Epigram
Oliver Knussen • Coursing
Pierre Boulez • Dérive

KNITTING DUST
11 NOVEMBER 2005

8pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington.

PROGRAMME

Rachel Clement • knitting dust
Jeroen Speak • Musik für witwen, jungfrauen und unschuldige
Arnold Schoenberg • Wind Quintet
John Adams • Chamber Symphony

BENT
17 JULY 2005

5pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington

Repeated in the Christchurch Arts Festival, Friday 22 July)

A concert of wildly twisted chamber music for saxophone and ensemble. Featuring Swiss saxophone virtuoso Lars Mlekusch

PROGRAMME

Michael Norris • Splinter Cells (World premiere)
Chris Watson • New work for saxophone & chamber ensemble (World premiere – Wellington only)
Dugal McKinnon • Untitled (Counterfeit Readymade #1) (World premiere)
Jacob ter Veldhuis • Grab it!
Hanspeter Kyburz • Cells

PATAHITANGA | CONVERGENCE
26 SEPTEMBER 2004

3pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington.

PROGRAMME

Brigid Bisley • In memoriam (world premiere)
Gillian Whitehead • Hine Te Kakara for bassoon, voiceand taonga puoro
Philip Brownlee • Te Hau o Tawhirimatea for flute and taonga puoro (world premiere)
Lyell Cresswell • Con Fuoco (world premiere)

RE:LOCATION
10 JULY 2004

8pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington.

PROGRAMME

José Evangelista • Ô Bali
Chinary Ung • …Still Life after Death
Chinary Ung • Khse Buon
Alison Isadora • the little baby jesus and the bee
John Croft • murmures secrez…Avernales eaux
Roberto Sierra • Cuentos

VELOCITIES II
9 MARCH 2004

Wellington Town Hall. 8pm

Stroma makes their second appearance at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts!

Featuring: Jeff Henderson (saxes), Riki Gooch (drums), David Long (guit)

PROGRAMME

Gavin Bryars • After the Requiem
John Adams • Chamber Symphony
Theo Loevendie • Bons
David Long • Cross Creek
David Downes • Utterances
David Downes • Generation
Howard Shore (arr. McKeich) • Naked Lunch Score
Charles Coleman • Rut Strut

SOUNDS KOREAN
4 APRIL 2004

Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington.

PROGRAMME

Yong Nan Park • River Bend Motion
Heejung Ahn • Labyrinth
Boknam Lee • Evolution
Chan Hae Lee • Colour in Colour
Dylan Lardelli • Paulownia

TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS CHAMBER MUSIC NZ TOUR
2 APRIL – 31 MAY 2004

PROGRAMME

George Crumb • Eleven echoes of autumn
Ross Harris • At the edge of silence (commission)
Olivier Messiaen • Quartet for the end of time

2 Apr • Nelson
5 Apr • Invercargill
15 May • Christchurch
17 May • Dunedin
24 May • Palmerston North
25 May • Wellington
26 May • Napier
30 May • New Plymouth
31 May • Auckland

[09]03 FESTIVAL
25-27 OCTOBER.

Various Auckland venues.

Concert at the (09)03 festival in Auckland.

Joint programme with 175 East ("571 Moa Tasters")
(Sunday evening, 26 October)

Brian Ferneyhough • Terrain
Edgar Varèse • Octandre
John Rimmer • De Aestibus Rerum
Dylan Lardelli • Four fragments
Richard Barrett • Stirrings
John Croft • Siramour

"Mainly Stroma"
(Monday morning 11am, 27 October)

Victoria Kelly • Song for Chamber Ensemble
Helen Bowater • Banshee
Iannis Xenakis • Échange
Liza Lim • The Heart's Ear
Philip Brownlee • Sparks Among the Geysers (world premiere)

SCINTILLATIONS AND EXULTATIONS
SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER. WELLINGTON CATHEDRAL, 7:30PM
Stroma @ the Wellington Cathedral Festival of the Arts

PROGRAMME

Ross Harris • Lament
Oliver Knussen • Two Organa
Toru Takemitsu • Water ways
Michael Norris • Scintilla
— INTERVAL —
Karlheinz Essl • four2eight
Dugal McKinnon • Christ lag in Todesbanden — mise en scène (world premiere)
James Macmillan • Exsultet

DIABOLICAL BIRDS
SATURDAY 2 AUGUST 2003. ST ANDREWS ON THE TERRACE, 8PM.
Cutting-edge contemporary music filled with the cacophony of birdsong.

Guest soloists: Ananda Sukarlan (pf), Madeleine Pierard (voice)

PROGRAMME

Julian Yu • Philopentatonia
Gillian Whitehead • Manutaki
James Wood • crying bird, echoing star
Liza Lim • Diabolical Birds
Jack Body • In the Curve of Song (world premiere)
Olivier Messiaen • Oiseaux Exotiques

STROMA IN AUCKLAND
30 MARCH 2003. AUCKLAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 3:30PM.

This concert features New Zealand music, timed to coincide with the Composers Association of New Zealand AGM the previous day.

PROGRAMME

James Gardner • Fetish Effigies
Gillian Whitehead • Manutaki
Philip Brownlee • Harakeke
John Rimmer • The Ripple Effect
Chris Watson • Derailleurs

cello: Robert Ibell
cond: Hamish McKeich

STROMA @ MARAMA HALL
4 NOVEMBER 2002. MARAMA HALL, OTAGO UNIVERSITY, DUNEDIN. 8PM.

Stroma's first tour to Dunedin, featuring music by Dunedin composers.

PROGRAMME

Lachlan McKenzie • Flute Quintet, Mvt I (world premiere)
György Ligeti • Continuum
György Ligeti • Hungarian Rock
Michael Norris • Wind Shear
Michael Norris • Scintilla (world premiere)
Jack Speirs • Three poems of Janet Frame
György Ligeti • Chamber Concerto

flute: Bridget Douglas
hpschd: Donald Nicolson
cond: Hamish McKeich

JAZZ AIN'T DEAD — IT JUST SMELLS FUNNY
23 OCTOBER 2002. THE PARTHENON, MT VICTORIA, WELLINGTON. 8PM.

Part of the International Jazz Festival 2002.

Featuring Jordan Reyne, Donald Nicolson and Jeff Henderson.

PROGRAMME

Miriama Young • Breathing on the A Train (world premiere)
David Prior • Somewhere Submarine (NZ premiere)
Franco Donatoni • HOT! (NZ premiere)
Victoria Kelly • Short Song Cycle (world premiere)
Theo Loevendie • Bons (NZ premiere)
John Zorn • For Your Eyes Only (NZ premiere)

cond: Hamish McKeich

CONCERT WITH VUW MUSIC STUDENTS
7 AUGUST 2002. HUNTER COUNCIL CHAMBER, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, 6PM.

PROGRAMME

Igor Stravinsky • Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Luciano Berio • "Points on the curve to find..."
Toru Takemitsu • Tree Line

cond: Hamish McKeich

DIGITALIA
Chamber music meets the electronic age
SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2002. TE WHAEA, NEWTOWN, WELLINGTON, 3PM.

Featuring Köln-based NZ saxophonist Hayden Chisholm.

PROGRAMME

Hayden Chisholm • Magnificat 3 for saxophone, boy soprano, ensemble and tape (world premiere)
Luigi Ceccarelli • Respiri for prepared horn and tape (NZ premiere)
Pablo Furman • Concerto for Ensemble and Electronic Sounds (NZ premiere)
Paul Doornbush • Continuity 3 (NZ premiere)
Tristan Murail • L'esprit des dunes (NZ premiere)

cond: Hamish McKeich

VELOCITIES
TUESDAY 12 MARCH 2002. TOWN HALL, WELLINGTON
Featuring the premiere of Psyzygysm by John Psathas.
With guest soloist, Portugese marimba virtuoso Pedro Carneiro.
Other music includes Downes, McGlashan, Reich, Zappa, Xenakis.
Features members of Stroma and Strike.

cond: Hamish McKeich

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2002. ILOTT CONCERT CHAMBER, WELLINGTON

Viennese composers

PROGRAMME

Arnold Schönberg • Verklärte Nacht
Anton Webern • Sinfonie Op21
Karlheinz Essl • Mise en Scène
Olga Neuwirth • Hooloomooloo

cond: Hamish McKeich

IN MEMORIAM IANNIS XENAKIS
SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2001. ST ANDREWS ON THE TERRACE, WELLINGTON.

The music of Iannis Xenakis, with tributes to Douglas Lilburn and Jack Speirs

PROGRAMME

Iannis Xenakis • Waarg
Douglas Lilburn • Wind Quintet
Iannis Xenakis • Naama
Jack Speirs • Three Poems of Janet Frame
Iannis Xenakis • Thallein

sopr: Pepe Becker
hpschd: Donald Nicolson
cond: Hamish McKeich

NEW ZEALAND MUSIC WEEK
SUNDAY 13 MAY 2001. FORMER NATIONAL MUSEUM BUILDING, BUCKLE ST, WELLINGTON.

AMBIENT AND ATMOSPHERIC CHAMBER MUSIC
SUNDAY 25 MARCH 2001. ILOTT CONCERT CHAMBER.

WIND, RAIN & LIGHT
FRIDAY 18 AUGUST 2000. ILOTT CONCERT CHAMBER.