Intern. Akaroa Music Festival - la Notte

Luca Manghi, flute
Alina Chen, flute
Wolfgang Kraemer, recorder
Ben Hadley, bassoon/ recorder

Mark Menzies, violin
Elvina Liu, violin
Robert Ashworth, viola
Clara Salzmann, viola
Edith Salzmann cello
Daniel Ng, cello
Tony Yan Tong Chen, violin/ harpsichord

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in g Minor “La Notte” for flute, bassoon, 2 violins & continuo, RV 104

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet for bassoon and strings in F Major, KV 370

Georg Philipp Telemann
Quartet in d Minor for recorder, two flutes, bassoon and B.c. from the Musique de table collection

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Sonata III in d Minor for bassoon and cello

Luigi Boccherini
Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 19, No. 1 for flute, two violins, viola and cello

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Trio Sonata in B flat Major

Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant
Sonata in F Major for two flutes

The 14th Akaroa Summer Music Festival will be featuring an array of NZ's best musicians. Well known performers and ensembles, such as the Auckland based Jade String Quartet and the Canterbury Trio, will be in residence in Akaroa between January 8th and 17th. Soloists Michael Endres, Mark Menzies, Ben Hoadley and Luca Manghi will join the line up for a programme including all - time favourites, new compositions and interesting discoveries.

This impressive line-up will be complemented by our young Ensemble in Residence, the Amio Quartet, four of NZ's most promising young musicians.

The Jade String Quartet will start things of with a spectacular evening including Schubert's famous string quartet “The Death and the Maiden” on January 8th in the Gaiety Hall, followed by Beethoven's op.131 on Saturday and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence on Sunday.

On Friday the 15th, Michael Endres, Mark Menzies, Robert Ashworth and Edith Salzmann will perform Faure's and Mozart's piano quartets in the intimate setting of the Powerhouse Gallery, a woodwind extravaganza on Saturday, and Arnold Schoenberg's Transfiguered Night will end the festival on Sunday.

We are very much looking forward to returning to Akaroa for another wonderful festival.