Please join us in beautiful Nelson for the Adam Chamber Music Festival which kicks off this week. 2013 winner, Nikki Chooi, is one of the featured artists and he shares the stage with lots of other Michael Hill judges and collaborating artists: Anthony Marwood, Wilma Smith, Helene Pohl, Jian Liu, Gillian Ansell, to name a few. Nikki Chooi in Concert Specially curated for the Adam Festival, this all-solo programme spans the expressive breadth of the violin, from the…
New Zealand’s most prestigious international music competition returns 31 May to 8 June 2019 The impressive list of competitors in New Zealand’s most prestigious international music competition, the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, has been announced for 2019. From 31 May to 8 June 2019, sixteen 18 to 28-year-old violinists from across the world will go head-to-head in Queenstown then Auckland, for a prize package valued at over $100,000. They are: Jacqueline Audas (USA), whose previous acknowledgements…
1 of 10 recipients of the 2019 Lincoln Center Awards for Emerging Artists 28-year-old violin virtuoso, Angelo Xiang Yu has today been announced as 1 of 10 recipients of the 2019 Lincoln Center Awards for Emerging Artists – in New York City. The annual prizes honour outstanding artistry and serve to acknowledge the promising future of selected performers within the 11 resident organisations of the Lincoln Center. The 2019 recipients are: • Violinist Angelo Xiang Yu • Dancer…
Photography by Mikel Hoyle and Anne Rodda. On the last day of October we close the chapter of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2018 Winner’s Tour by featuring the stories, concert reviews and adventures of Ioana Cristina Goicea who saw off her tour last week with performing the Shostakovich Violin Concerto with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at the Auckland Town Hall. The week prior, Ioana undertook a variety of community outreach projects: she judged the Auckland Chamber…
Photography Mikel Hoyle Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Power & Brilliance concert fulfilled the promises of its title with two major 20th century masterpieces, one featuring the winner of last year's Michael Hill International Violin Competition. True, it was unfortunate that the opening overture, from Borodin's Prince Igor, had been played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra only three weeks ago. However, despite a few moments of unsettled ensemble, conductor Alan Buribayev fashioned a zesty launch pad out of it.…
Another Michael Hill laureate wins a top prize. Canadian Timothy Chooi (our 2015 3rd prize winner and brother of Nikki, our 2013 1st prize winner) has just won top honours at the Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Ida Kavafian, and current post graduate student of Catherine Cho at The Juilliard School, Timothy is a former major prize winner at the Schadt and Michael Hill International Violin Competitions…
Keep Up With The Play Part 5. What girl wants, what girl needs... As you might know our Russian-Romanian duo had turned into a female solo straight after Andrey Gugnin went back to Russia last week. His departure was a time for bittersweet emotions and goodbyes, but, who knows when those two meet again and inspire the audiences with their fantastic combined artistry? Winners’ Tour 2018, as a part of The Michael Hill International Violin Competition, was definitely…
Whangarei Music Society’s final event of the 2018 season seemed to warrant a larger venue than the rather cosy Old Library recital room.
