CSO presents Lamb & Hayward Masterworks “Cowan, Bruch Price”
June 14 @ 7:30 pm
CSO presents Lamb & Hayward Masterworks “Cowan, Bruch, Price” on Saturday 14th June 2025, 7.30 p.m. in the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium, Christchurch Town Hall, Kilmore Street, Christchurch
Award-winning Aotearoa composer Claire Cowan works across screen and stage seamlessly. Her score for the 2022 production of Cinderella with the Royal New Zealand Ballet enthralled audiences as well as our CSO players – so much so that we asked her to make a bespoke version for the concert stage for us to premiere in this performance.
NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen and his 1755 Guadagnini violin join CSO for a performance of Bruch’s beloved Violin Concerto No. 1. A go-to concerto for violinists around the world, it is jam-packed with emotion and lyrical melodies, coupled with the obligatory fireworks from both soloist and orchestra.
Florence Price had her first symphony premiered by the Chicago Symphony in 1932 – real landmark moment as the first orchestral work by a black woman to be performed by a major American orchestra. It is a delight to showcase this beautiful symphony that artfully weaves together classical forms and inspiration from folk music, spirituals and the blues.
With thanks to PKF Goldsmith Fox,
CSO Soloist Partner.
Ingrid Martin Conductor
Vesa-Matti Leppänen Violin
Claire Cowan Suite from Cinderella
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 26
Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor