MECHANICA — TRIBUTE TO LIGETI
2 NOVEMBER 2007

With a programme that delves into the territory of the musical-mechanical, you can expect rhythmic vitality, sparkling sounds, scintillating textures and raucous sonic excitement.

PROGRAMME

György Ligeti • Melodien for ensemble
György Ligeti • Hungarian Rock for solo harpsichord
György Ligeti • Continuum for solo harpsichord
Elliot Carter • Changes for solo guitar
Magnus Lindberg • Engine for ensemble
Michael Norris Machine Noises for solo piano
Harrison Birtwistle • Carmen Arcadiae Perpetuum Mobile for ensemble

GNARLY BUTTONS
7 MAY 2007

St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington

Featuring Richard Haynes, Patrick Barry, Andrew Uren and the Duo Stump-Linshalm

PROGRAMME

Jorge Sanchez-Chiong • Tropico Transito
Michael Norris • Icons & Artifice
John Adams • Gnarly Buttons
Chris Watson • Mandible
Giacinto Scelsi • Kya

EXTRAORDINARY STROMA
10 Feb 2007

Stroma at the Asia Pacific Festival
St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington

PROGRAMME

Songji Hong (Korea) • Descending Flow
Naoko Kachi (Japan) • Liberation
Nadav Ziv (Israel) • Circles
Anothai Nitibhon (Thailand) • Voiceless Sketches I & II
Christian Utz (Austria) • Together/Apart
Jeroen Speak (NZ) • Epeisodos

LUMEN
20 JULY 2006

Ilott Concert Chamber, Wellington

Featuring Rowan Prior and Richard Haynes

PROGRAMME

Karlheinz Essl • Entsagung
Alfred Schnittke • Dialogue for cello and ensemble
Helen Bowater • Lumen
John Young • Arriverderci
György Kúrtag • Kroó György in Memoriam
Sofia Gubaidulina • Concordanza

7 MAY 2006
ICONS OF OUR TIME.

PROGRAMME

Salvatore Sciarrino • Introduzione all'oscuro
Jack Body • Rainforest for flute and harp (world premiere)
Brian Ferneyhough • Lemma-Icon-Epigram
Oliver Knussen • Coursing
Pierre Boulez • Dérive

KNITTING DUST
11 NOVEMBER 2005

8pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington.

PROGRAMME

Rachel Clement • knitting dust
Jeroen Speak • Musik für witwen, jungfrauen und unschuldige
Arnold Schoenberg • Wind Quintet
John Adams • Chamber Symphony

BENT
17 JULY 2005

5pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington

Repeated in the Christchurch Arts Festival, Friday 22 July)

A concert of wildly twisted chamber music for saxophone and ensemble. Featuring Swiss saxophone virtuoso Lars Mlekusch

PROGRAMME

Michael Norris • Splinter Cells (World premiere)
Chris Watson • New work for saxophone & chamber ensemble (World premiere – Wellington only)
Dugal McKinnon • Untitled (Counterfeit Readymade #1) (World premiere)
Jacob ter Veldhuis • Grab it!
Hanspeter Kyburz • Cells

PATAHITANGA | CONVERGENCE
26 SEPTEMBER 2004

3pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington.

PROGRAMME

Brigid Bisley • In memoriam (world premiere)
Gillian Whitehead • Hine Te Kakara for bassoon, voiceand taonga puoro
Philip Brownlee • Te Hau o Tawhirimatea for flute and taonga puoro (world premiere)
Lyell Cresswell • Con Fuoco (world premiere)

RE:LOCATION
10 JULY 2004

8pm. St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington.

PROGRAMME

José Evangelista • Ô Bali
Chinary Ung • …Still Life after Death
Chinary Ung • Khse Buon
Alison Isadora • the little baby jesus and the bee
John Croft • murmures secrez…Avernales eaux
Roberto Sierra • Cuentos

VELOCITIES II
9 MARCH 2004

Wellington Town Hall. 8pm

Stroma makes their second appearance at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts!

Featuring: Jeff Henderson (saxes), Riki Gooch (drums), David Long (guit)

PROGRAMME

Gavin Bryars • After the Requiem
John Adams • Chamber Symphony
Theo Loevendie • Bons
David Long • Cross Creek
David Downes • Utterances
David Downes • Generation
Howard Shore (arr. McKeich) • Naked Lunch Score
Charles Coleman • Rut Strut

SOUNDS KOREAN
4 APRIL 2004

Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington.

PROGRAMME

Yong Nan Park • River Bend Motion
Heejung Ahn • Labyrinth
Boknam Lee • Evolution
Chan Hae Lee • Colour in Colour
Dylan Lardelli • Paulownia

TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS CHAMBER MUSIC NZ TOUR
2 APRIL – 31 MAY 2004

PROGRAMME

George Crumb • Eleven echoes of autumn
Ross Harris • At the edge of silence (commission)
Olivier Messiaen • Quartet for the end of time

2 Apr • Nelson
5 Apr • Invercargill
15 May • Christchurch
17 May • Dunedin
24 May • Palmerston North
25 May • Wellington
26 May • Napier
30 May • New Plymouth
31 May • Auckland

[09]03 FESTIVAL
25-27 OCTOBER.

Various Auckland venues.

Concert at the (09)03 festival in Auckland.

Joint programme with 175 East ("571 Moa Tasters")
(Sunday evening, 26 October)

Brian Ferneyhough • Terrain
Edgar Varèse • Octandre
John Rimmer • De Aestibus Rerum
Dylan Lardelli • Four fragments
Richard Barrett • Stirrings
John Croft • Siramour

"Mainly Stroma"
(Monday morning 11am, 27 October)

Victoria Kelly • Song for Chamber Ensemble
Helen Bowater • Banshee
Iannis Xenakis • Échange
Liza Lim • The Heart's Ear
Philip Brownlee • Sparks Among the Geysers (world premiere)

SCINTILLATIONS AND EXULTATIONS
SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER. WELLINGTON CATHEDRAL, 7:30PM
Stroma @ the Wellington Cathedral Festival of the Arts

PROGRAMME

Ross Harris • Lament
Oliver Knussen • Two Organa
Toru Takemitsu • Water ways
Michael Norris • Scintilla
— INTERVAL —
Karlheinz Essl • four2eight
Dugal McKinnon • Christ lag in Todesbanden — mise en scène (world premiere)
James Macmillan • Exsultet

DIABOLICAL BIRDS
SATURDAY 2 AUGUST 2003. ST ANDREWS ON THE TERRACE, 8PM.
Cutting-edge contemporary music filled with the cacophony of birdsong.

Guest soloists: Ananda Sukarlan (pf), Madeleine Pierard (voice)

PROGRAMME

Julian Yu • Philopentatonia
Gillian Whitehead • Manutaki
James Wood • crying bird, echoing star
Liza Lim • Diabolical Birds
Jack Body • In the Curve of Song (world premiere)
Olivier Messiaen • Oiseaux Exotiques

STROMA IN AUCKLAND
30 MARCH 2003. AUCKLAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 3:30PM.

This concert features New Zealand music, timed to coincide with the Composers Association of New Zealand AGM the previous day.

PROGRAMME

James Gardner • Fetish Effigies
Gillian Whitehead • Manutaki
Philip Brownlee • Harakeke
John Rimmer • The Ripple Effect
Chris Watson • Derailleurs

cello: Robert Ibell
cond: Hamish McKeich

STROMA @ MARAMA HALL
4 NOVEMBER 2002. MARAMA HALL, OTAGO UNIVERSITY, DUNEDIN. 8PM.

Stroma's first tour to Dunedin, featuring music by Dunedin composers.

PROGRAMME

Lachlan McKenzie • Flute Quintet, Mvt I (world premiere)
György Ligeti • Continuum
György Ligeti • Hungarian Rock
Michael Norris • Wind Shear
Michael Norris • Scintilla (world premiere)
Jack Speirs • Three poems of Janet Frame
György Ligeti • Chamber Concerto

flute: Bridget Douglas
hpschd: Donald Nicolson
cond: Hamish McKeich

JAZZ AIN'T DEAD — IT JUST SMELLS FUNNY
23 OCTOBER 2002. THE PARTHENON, MT VICTORIA, WELLINGTON. 8PM.

Part of the International Jazz Festival 2002.

Featuring Jordan Reyne, Donald Nicolson and Jeff Henderson.

PROGRAMME

Miriama Young • Breathing on the A Train (world premiere)
David Prior • Somewhere Submarine (NZ premiere)
Franco Donatoni • HOT! (NZ premiere)
Victoria Kelly • Short Song Cycle (world premiere)
Theo Loevendie • Bons (NZ premiere)
John Zorn • For Your Eyes Only (NZ premiere)

cond: Hamish McKeich

CONCERT WITH VUW MUSIC STUDENTS
7 AUGUST 2002. HUNTER COUNCIL CHAMBER, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, 6PM.

PROGRAMME

Igor Stravinsky • Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Luciano Berio • "Points on the curve to find..."
Toru Takemitsu • Tree Line

cond: Hamish McKeich

DIGITALIA
Chamber music meets the electronic age
SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2002. TE WHAEA, NEWTOWN, WELLINGTON, 3PM.

Featuring Köln-based NZ saxophonist Hayden Chisholm.

PROGRAMME

Hayden Chisholm • Magnificat 3 for saxophone, boy soprano, ensemble and tape (world premiere)
Luigi Ceccarelli • Respiri for prepared horn and tape (NZ premiere)
Pablo Furman • Concerto for Ensemble and Electronic Sounds (NZ premiere)
Paul Doornbush • Continuity 3 (NZ premiere)
Tristan Murail • L'esprit des dunes (NZ premiere)

cond: Hamish McKeich

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2002. ILOTT CONCERT CHAMBER, WELLINGTON

Viennese composers

PROGRAMME

Arnold Schönberg • Verklärte Nacht
Anton Webern • Sinfonie Op21
Karlheinz Essl • Mise en Scène
Olga Neuwirth • Hooloomooloo

cond: Hamish McKeich

IN MEMORIAM IANNIS XENAKIS
SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2001. ST ANDREWS ON THE TERRACE, WELLINGTON.

The music of Iannis Xenakis, with tributes to Douglas Lilburn and Jack Speirs