ASQ International Music Academy 2018 - 23-28 JULY WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND - Aroha String Quartet
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ASQ 23–28 JULY International WELLINGTON Music Academy NEW ZEALAND 2018
ASQ The ASQ International Music Academy
will culminate in a participants concert
be organised into ensembles for coaching.
Music will be sent out in advance.
International in the wonderful acoustic of St Andrew’s Applicants who are unable to attend
Music on The Terrace on the evening of
Saturday 28 July. There will be two
the whole course from 23–28 July
may apply for the short course from
Academy public lunchtime concerts: a participants 26–28 July, beginning at 9:30am on
concert on Wednesday 25 July and a Thursday 26 July. A maximum of three
tutors concert on Thursday 26 July. pianists will be accepted, for the full
The timetable includes time to course only.
Join fellow musicians from around practise, to relax and socialise with The ASQ Academy application
New Zealand and overseas for six other participants and to enjoy the scenic form can be downloaded from
days of stimulating and enjoyable and cultural attractions of Wellington. www.arohaquartet.co.nz
music-making in Wellington, In the evenings, there will be time for
New Zealand’s cultural capital. informal concerts and workshops as
The 2018 ASQ International Music well as other social events. “The Academy was everything
The ASQ International Music
Academy will take place at St Andrew’s
Academy is ideally suited to student
I’d hoped it would be and (for
on the Terrace in Wellington and will
and non-professional musicians with me anyway) one of the musical
begin on Monday 23 July at 9:30am. highlights of the year. Many
Each day, participants will be busy with a minimum standard of Grade VI.
chamber music coaching and rehearsals In 2018, the focus of the Academy is many thanks for the massive
taken by members of the Aroha String again on strings and piano. Pre-formed effort you put in and I will
Quartet. Guest tutors will direct chamber ensembles are welcome to apply. certainly be back next year.”
ensembles and masterclasses. Participants not in an existing group will 2017 ParticipantThe Tutors Aroha String Quartet Haihong Liu & Ursula Evans violins Zhongxian Jin viola & violin Robert Ibell cello/Double Bass Acclaimed as demonstrating Haihong Liu and Zhongxian Jin The Aroha Quartet performs regularly 2013, and perform at the Huntington “accomplished brilliance, soulfulness are founder members of the Quartet. around NZ in centres from the Deep Music Festival in Australia in 2011. and sublime intensity in perfect balance Robert Ibell joined the group in 2009 South to the Far North. In 2014 they The Aroha Quartet’s first ASQ and tonal unity” (The Dominion Post), and Ursula Evans in 2017. performed five concerts as part of International Academy in Asia took the Aroha String Quartet is firmly The Aroha Quartet is committed Chamber Music New Zealand’s place in Zhongshan, China, in late established as one of New Zealand’s to presenting string quartet works Kaleidoscope series. January 2018. finest chamber music ensembles. from western classical and avant-garde Overseas trips have seen them Founded in 2004, this versatile repertoire to traditional Chinese folk participate in the prestigious Wellington-based quartet is known music, as well as works for larger forces International Summer Academy in for its passionate musicality, impressive through collaborations with numerous Austria in 2010, give concerts and technique, and multicultural innovation. high-profile musicians. masterclasses in China in 2010 and
Guest Tutors Donald Armstrong Ken Ichinose violin cello Donald Armstrong is Associate He performs regularly in British cellist, Ken Ichinose, is a Ken is also co-founder of an annual Concertmaster of the NZSO. He was New Zealand with his own chamber graduate of the Royal Academy of chamber music festival in Brignac formerly Music Director of the NZ group, the Amici Ensemble. Donald Music in London having studied with near Montpellier, France. Chamber Orchestra, Principal Second is interested in preserving and advancing Paul Watkins. During this time Ken Before joining the New Zealand Violin of the Tivoli Sinfoniorkester in New Zealand’s musical heritage. He co-founded the Galitzin String Quartet Symphony Orchestra as Associate Denmark and Co-Concertmaster of has taught as an artist teacher at the with whom he performed for ten years Principal in 2014, Ken enjoyed 10 years the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice New Zealand School of Music and he completing major tours in the UK, freelancing with London orchestras in France. He studied in New York and teaches, coaches and encourages young Germany, Holland, Portugal and France. including the Philharmonia, Academy Boston with teachers including Josef instrumentalists. The Quartet were first prize winners of of Saint Martin in the Fields, and the Gingold and Masuko Ushioda, and He plays a violin by Nicolo Gagliano the 2007 Charles Hennen International Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. chamber music with Louis Krasner, of 1754. Chamber Music Competition. Ken plays on a Lorenzo Carcassi Eugene Lehner and Laurence Lesser. cello made in Florence in 1747.
Joan Perarnau Garriga Emma Sayers double bass piano After finishing his initial studies in In 2010 Joan won a Co-principal Emma Sayers studied piano for many Emma is also an enthusiastic Spain, Joan Perarnau Garriga moved position in the Orquesta Sinfónica years with noted Wellington teacher teacher. As a lecturer at the Massey to the UK, where he graduated from de Castilla y León in Spain, a position Judith Clark, with whom she completed Conservatorium of Music & NZ the Guildhall School of Music and he held until he was appointed her undergraduate degree at Victoria School of Music from 1999-2012 she Drama in London in 2005. He then Associate Principal Double Bass with University in Wellington. From 1993- coached and accompanied students of moved to Japan as a founding member the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 1998 she attended the Ferenc Liszt all instruments and vocal types, as well of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in April 2013, becoming Section Academy in Budapest, Hungary, studying as teaching chamber music and solo Orchestra where he was principal double Principal in April 2017. He is an with renowned Hungarian musicians Rita piano. These days she runs a busy private bass until 2008. In 2008 and 2009 he Artist Teacher at the New Zealand Wagner, Ferenc Rados, Péter Solymos, teaching studio, and is an artist teacher was a member of the Lucerne Festival School of Music. János Devish (Kodály Quartet) and at the New Zealand School of Music. Academy and since 2009 he has been a Hargitai Géza (Bartók Quartet). member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland.
“Thank you all – it was great.
I enjoyed it all much more
than I expected. Great tutors,
great atmosphere, and music
Brian Shillito
very well chosen.”
2017 Participant
chamber music
Christchurch-born Brian Shillito took During that time he was also a foundation
degrees in English Literature and Viola member of the NZ Chamber Orchestra
Performance from the University of and an active chamber musician, being
Canterbury before joining the NZSO a member of the Pleyel Piano Quartet,
in 1973. After 2 years he left to pursue the Gezentsvey Quartet, and the Linden
post-graduate studies in the US, followed Ensemble.
by several years working in Canada and He is now enjoying more time for the
the UK, where he freelanced with major garden, for reading, and for trips into
orchestras such as the Philharmonia, the the New Zealand bush.
RPO and the London Mozart Players.
In 1981 he returned to the NZSO as
Sub-Principal Viola where he served
35 years until his recent retirement.Cathie McCallum Administrator – ASQ IMA 2018 Cathie McCallum’s background is in This was followed by a move to project administration and management. Barcelona, Spain with her family for She was born and worked in Wellington a further 3 years. before travelling to the UK as an I.T. In late 1998 they returned to Consultant in the mid 1980’s. Wellington where she has undertaken After London she worked for 6 several admin roles. years in Hong Kong for multi-national She has more recently assisted with companies such as Moët & Chandon the Trinity Music exams. and United Distillers in I.T. Consultancy.
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