Violin Masterworks
Violinist Martin Riseley, who has just been appointed Head of Strings at the New Zealand School of Music (NZSM), makes a concert appearance on August 12, at the Music Centre Chapel in Christchurch. He will be accompanied by notable pianist Diedre Irons.
Riseley, who has been concert master of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for the past 15 years, and Ms Irons will perform masterworks from the violin/piano repertoire, including sonatas by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.
The New Zealand-born violinist gave his first solo concert when he was 10, and upon graduating from the Canterbury school of Music went to New York’s famed Julliard School in 1989, where he studied with famed pedagogue Dorothy DeLay, gaining his Doctorate of Musical Arts there in 1996.
Highlights of his career to date include his involvement in the Mozart Bicentennial celebrations at the Lincoln Centre and a season in 2002-2003 as interim associate concertmaster of the National Arts Centre. In 2003 he was also guest concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
He was a regular performer at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, playing with artists such as Andrew Dawes, Amanda Forsyth, Andres Diaz and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
Wednesday 12 August
Music Centre Chapel, 140 Barbadoes Street, Christchurch
Door sales only
Tickets $25 / concessions $15
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