Greytown Music Group diary dates

The Greytown Music Group Concert Series 2024 is ready to roll.

Ed and Juliet Cooke, organisers of the annual Greytown Music Group concert series, are pleased and excited to have this year’s concerts settled, and brochures sent to the printer. 

Juliet says “it is wonderful to have old favourites back, especially Donald Armstrong’s Amici Ensemble, this year a string quintet, and to finish with, the Kugels Klezmer Group.” 

Ed adds “As a violinist myself, my favourite for the year will be Andrew Beer, down from Auckland with harpist Ingrid Bauer.” 

Concert dates are as follows: 

Sunday 7 April: Karen Batten’s Amiki Trio – Karen on flute, soprano Barbara Paterson, and pianist Rachel Thomson. Their programme will include works by Delibes, Corigliano,Ravel, Reinecke and Schubert. 

Sunday 28 April: Amici Ensemble – this time made up of violinists Donald Armstrong and Malavika Gopal, Andrew Thomson, and Alexander McFarlane on viola, and cellist Andrew Joyce, playing Mozart and Brahms string quintets. 

Sunday 26 May: Duo Enharmonics – Beth Chen and Nicole Chao – a piano duo combination. playing Bach, Schubert, Ravel, John Psathas, Rachmaninov and Strauss. Look them up on YouTube if you haven’t heard them play. 

Saturday 22 June: Andrew Beer and Ingrid Bauer, violin and harp – programme includes works by Piazzolla, Debussy, Saint-Saens, and Kenneth Young. 

Sunday 22 September: NZTrio: “Triptych 2, Untrodden Ways” – Mendelssohn, Jelleyman/Bach, Higdon and Babadjanian. 

Sunday 13 October: The Kugels Klezmer group, led by Debbie Rawson and Ross Harris – they were very popular here two years ago, with wild and haunting tunes of traditional Klezmer combined with original works by composer Ross Harris. 

All concerts are at 57 Wood St, Greytown, at 4.00 p.m. 

Note that the June concert is on a Saturday, but the rest are on Sundays. 

Contact the Cookes if you would like a concert brochure emailed to you:  efjacooke@gmail.com

or phone 06 304 9497.