Hamish McKeich conductor
Heleln Medlyn mezzo-soprano
New Zealand String Quartet
BROWN Celestial Bodies
CRESSWELL Concerto for String Quartet
WHITEHEAD Alice
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. {more below}
