International Akaroa Music Festival - Mostly Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, KV 581

Nicola Matteis
The Scotch Humour

Francesco Barsant
Barsanti – Old Scots Tunes

Anton Arensky
Quartet in a minor, op. 35
for violin, viola and two cellos

Patrick Vaughn, clarinet
Mark Bennett, violin
Esther Oh, violin
Lisa Grosman, viola
Regina Baek, cello

Wolfgang Kraemer, recorder
Oksana Murashova- Thompson, violin
Edith Salzmann, cello

Curt Thompson, violin
Lisa Grosman, viola
Josephine Vains, cello
Ramón Jaffé, cello

Come and join us for the 16th International Akaroa Music Festival in wonderful Akaroa. For the 2023 edition, we have created an exciting programme, featuring NZ’s most accomplished musicians as well as fabulous international guest artists.

Cellist Ramon Jaffe and pianist Michael Endres will be back this year, amazing clarinettist David Griffiths is joining us for the first time, and cellists Josephine Vains, Svetlana Bogosavljevic and Edith Salzmann can't wait for another edition of the Cellissimo series on Wednesday the 18 January.

We'll bring stellar young talented from NZ and Australia along, our young musicians will start the lunchtime concerts on Saturday the 14th. The evening concerts feature well known works such as Tchaikovsky's piano trio and 'Souvenir de Florence' sextet, Beethoven's trio for clarinet, piano and cello, Bach by Candlelight is back and much more.