NZTrio presents “Tectonic Shift”

NZTrio: Tectonic Shift

The Arts Centre te Matatiki Toi Ora

2 Worcester Blvd, Christchurch Central

Thursday, July 11th – 7pm

Tickets $40 Adults / $30 TAC Friends / $20 Students

Tickets via Eventfinda – LINK:

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2019/nztrio-tectonic-shift/christchurch

Approx. 90 mins plus interval

Programme:

• Frank Bridge (UK) Allegretto
• Gillian Whitehead (NZ) Te waka o te rangi (NZTrio new commission)
• Frank Bridge (UK) Gavotte
• Michael Norris (NZ) dirty pixels
• James MacMillan (UK) Piano Trio No.2

*interval*

• Jennifer Higdon (USA) Pale Yellow and Fiery Red
• Anton Arensky (Russia) Piano Trio No.1 in d minor

Tectonic Shift sets sail aboard the Endeavour embarking on a huge voyage across oceans with the sounds of English parlour music in our ears – Bridge’s Allegretto – and arrive on these shores to the startling sounds of taonga pūoro. The music that follows is NZTrio’s very latest commission, from Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead and is a melding of cultures that contemplates those first encounters between Māori and European through the lens of music – European instruments responding with open understanding and consideration to the uniquely Māori sounds that prevailed earlier. It’s a contemplation of worlds colliding.