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Nelson Opera in the Park 16th February

Royal NZ Ballet Made to Move 27th February–2nd March

The Dominion Post Summer Concert at Government House 9th March (10th March Rainday)

Baby Pops 14th April

NBR NZ Opera Season of Madame Butterfly 11th–18th May

SUBS 1 NIGHT CREATURE 26th May

Handel’s Messiah with Voices New Zealand 2nd June

SUBS 2 POUNAMU 28th July

SUBS 3 LA DONNA IDEALE / THE IDEAL WOMAN 8th September

Orpheus Choir Performance of Mozart Mass in C minor 28th September

Royal NZ Ballet Season of Tutus on Tour 23rd–24th October

SUBS 4 FANCY FREE 17th November

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Dear Friends in music

It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to our exciting 2013 season! Now that we have clearly survived the scheduled Mayan apoclypse of 2012, what better way to celebrate than with some of the most vibrant and alive music ever written?

Our main theme for this year is the inspiration that composers derived from popular music. We feature great American composers most clearly associated with this impulse — George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein but also feature contemporary masters such as Luciano Berio and our very own John Psathas, Juliet Palmer and Karlo Margetic in inspiring works that are very individual responses to the popular music of today.

Another major theme for the year is our traversal of all of the Leonore Overtures and the overture to Fidelio by Beethoven. One of Orchestra Wellington’s recurring programming approaches has been to present musical cycles, as doing this greatly increases enjoyment, appreciation and builds a wonderful sense of anticipation throughout the season.

2013 will be another exciting year for Orchestra Wellington.

Under the dynamic leadership of Music Director Marc Taddei, Orchestra Wellington will once again present really interesting programmes tailored to the communities it serves.

In addition to its diverse and accessible subscription concerts, Orchestra Wellington is continuing with its internship and residency partnerships for composers and conductors. In line with its recent strategic planning, Orchestra Wellington plans to further expand its engagement with young players by supporting local grassroots endeavours. Reaching out to young people through music has the power to positively influence not only the lives of individuals, but also the wider community.

I congratulate the orchestra on its many achievements, including its ability to attract strong support from its loyal and appreciative audience. I look forward to seeing Orchestra Wellington continue to develop in 2013 and applaud the orchestra’s long-term commitment to connecting with the Wellington community and surrounding areas.

Wellington, prepare your ears for another year of stunning music from your very own orchestra!

In 2013 Orchestra Wellington will again be contributing to our city’s cultural wealth as they accompany operas, showcase talented soloists, and introduce the thrill of live music to the next generation. The programme promises to entertain first time listeners through to musical aficionados.

Our city is a smart, creative capital full of talented people, and when it comes to music we set a high standard. It is wonderful to see so many composers emerging from the Wellington Orchestra residency programmes. I look forward to hearing their work, and encourage everyone to support these gi!ed musicians.

For the younger players, this year will provide opportunities to learn and be inspired through the Orchestra’s outreach initiatives and support as well as school concerts — make the most of it!

Let our city’s orchestra move you in 2013 with some world-class performances. Enjoy the music, Wellington!

We have some fun with “themed” soloists as well. We feature two of Bernstein’s most moving works for orchestra and string soloist and are excited to feature the Michael Hill Intrnational Violin Competition and Paganini Violin Competion winner, Natalia Lomeiko and the NZSO’s newly appointed principal cellist, Andrew Joyce as the soloists. We also o"er a listen to some of the very finest voices New Zealand has produced in multiple genres — Lexus Song Quest winners Jonathan Lemalu and Madeliene Pierard and the extraordinary Warren Maxwell!

Add the ever popular Government House and Nelson Opera in the Park concerts, our delightful Baby Pops programmes and the tireless work that your orchestra does for you accompanying opera, ballet, choruses, musical theatre as well as an abundance of visiting artists and we believe that Orchestra Wellington shows its versatility and role in the musical life of our great city.

Finally, we would like to thank every one of you for your support over the years. We cherish the opportunity to make music and present events with your gi!ed orchestra and we assure you that the best is yet to come.

Marc Taddei Music Director Adán E. Tijerina General Manager

Celia Wade-Brown Mayor, Wellington

Chris Finlayson Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage

FIRST VIOLINMatthew RossCM

NZ Community Trust Chair DonorStephanie RolfeP

Landa van den Berg & Rutger Keijser Chair DonorOlya CurtisSUB-P

Emma BrewertonSlava FainitskiHelen WeirRupa MaitraKate OswinJonathan TannerSandra LoganAP

Emma ColliganAP

Vivian StephensAP

Leah JohnstonAP

Christine WatsonAP

Alexa ThompsonAP

SECOND VIOLINPascale ParenteauSP Glenda West Chair DonorKonstanze ArtmannP

ElenaOscar BullockLinden BartonSarah McCrackenVanessa LeighsAP

Claire MacfarlaneAP

Philippa WatsonAP

Ann WhiteAP

Sarah MartenAP

VIOLAVictoria JaeneckeSP

Linda SimmonsP

Chris van der ZeeMichael JoelSusan Fullerton-SmithAP

Alison EldredgeAP

Anna DawsonAP

Vincent HardakerAP

John RoxburghAP

Deborah WoodleyAP

CELLOBrenton VeitchSP

Christine and Jim Pearce Chair DonorJane YoungPPaul MitchellSUB-P

Jane DalleyKathy PatersonGeo%rey HeathMargaret GuldborgAP

Kat ThompsonAP

Jane BrownAP

Jocelyn CranefieldAP

Jocelyn WoodleyAP

DOUBLE BASSPaul AltomariSP

Toni St ClairPJessica ReeseSUB-P

Tony RivePEMichael SteerAP

FLUTEKaren BattenSP

Jennifer VaughanSUB-P

Timothy JenkinAP

Tjasa DykesAP

Hannah DarrochAP

PICCOLOJennifer Vaughan

OBOEMerran CookeSP

Julian Arnhold Chair DonorLouise CoxSUB-P

Madeline SakofskyAP

COR ANGLAISLouise Cox

CLARINETMoira HurstSP

Tim WorkmanTui ClarkAP

Mary ScottAP

BASS CLARINETTim Workman

BASSOONPreman TilsonSP

Alex ChanAP

Penny MilesAP

HORNShadley van WykSUB-P

Leslie Austin Chair DonorErica ChallisSUB-P

Dillon MayhewAP

Alex MortonAP

Ed AllenAP

Sung-Soo HongAP

TRUMPETBarret HockingSP

Slade HockingAP

Chris WooleyAP

TROMBONEMatthew AllisonSP

Peter MaunderAP

Jonathan HarkerAP

Julian KirganAP

Hamish JellymanAP

BASS TROMBONEMatthew SheltonP

TUBAKerry BengeAP

TIMPANIBrent StewartAP

PERCUSSIONJeremy FitzsimonsSP

Anonymous Chair DonorBrent StewartSUB-P

Grant MyhillAP

Dori RaphaelAP

Takumi MotokawaAP

HARPAnita HuangAP

Madeline Gri&thsAP

Michelle VelvinAP

KEYBOARDMichael PanstersAP

Dayle JellymanAP

CM: Concert MasterSP: Section PrincipalP: PrincipalSUB-P: Sub-PrincipalAP: Associate Player PE: Principal Emeritus

ADMINISTRATIONAdán E. TijerinaGeneral ManagerKurt GibsonOperations ManagerKerry-Anne Gilberd MNZM

Sponsorship ManagerMargaret MyersEvent ManagerTjasa DykesMusic LibrarianSteve IsaacNZ Van Lines LtdInstrument Transport

BOARDAlick Shaw ChairSaki HannahCaroline HeathGrant MyhillLanda van den BergMurray Newman

LIFE MEMBERSBrian BuddGraham HanifyElsa JensonRoger LloydChristine Pearce MNZM

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVEMargaret ChristensenMasterton

PLAYERS

Kahurangi Children’s Performers, vocals and guitar Baby Pops, 14th April

Winner of the 2012 NZMusic Award for Best Folk Album, Amiria Grenell is also an experienced performer at Early Childhood Centres throughout the country, and alongside partner, Tola Newbery, has performed as Kahurangi specifically for young audiences at several notable arts festivals, including both WOMAD and Nelson Arts Festival in 2012. Their show brings together the wonders of treasure/taonga, song, dance, te reo M#ori, unique instrumentation, characters and lots of laughs! Do not miss their first collaboration with Orchestra Wellington’s Education Composer in Residence, Thomas Goss.

Andrew Joyce, cello Night Creature, 26th May

Principal Cellist for the NZSO, Andrew was born in Norwich in England and, prior to his appointment with the NZSO, performed for several years with many of the UK’s top orchestras. With Orchestra Wellington, Andrew will perform Three Meditations for Cello and Orchestra from Leonard Bernstein’s Mass as part of the first Subscription Series Concert of the year, Night Creature.

Jonathan Lemalu, baritone Pounamu, 28th July

Grammy award winning bass baritone, Jonathan Lemalu, continues to be in great demand on the global stage as an opera singer, concert performer, recitalist and recording artist. In 2013, Jonathan’s performance of Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death is presented as part of the very special Pounamu programme, featuring the work of three of New Zealand’s preeminent artists at the very top of their respective forms.

Warren Maxwell, vocals and guitars Pounamu, 28th July

Warren was one of five inaugural recipients of an Arts Foundation New Generation Award in 2006 and is the driving force behind several musical projects. A multiple award-winning pop and roots artist, Warren has also collaborated with composer John Psathas to present the concert Little Bushman meet the APO which took place in the Auckland Town Hall in July 2008 and again with the NZSO in 2009. Psathas’ work, Pounamu, is the result of another exciting collaboration in 2011 between the two and will close out this exciting last concert performance in Wellington Town Hall before it is closed for seismic strengthening.

Madeleine Pierard, soprano La Donna Ideale / The Ideal Woman, 8th September

While the title of this programme comes from one of the songs in the Berio cycle, Folk Songs, it is also a nod to the talents and versatility of one of New Zealand’s most promising vocal exports. A!er an actively engaged year performing throughout Australasia, this will be Madeleine’s final concert performance in the Capital before returning to the UK to perform in The Royal Opera’s season of Parsifal.

Natalia Lomeiko, violin Fancy Free, 17th November

Natalia Lomeiko launched her solo career aged seven with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic, and a few years later, was invited to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School (the late Lord Menuhin hailed her as “one of the most brilliant of our younger violinists”). A!er completing her studies at the Royal College and the Royal Academy of Music, Natalia won several prestigious international competitions, including the ‘Premio Paganini’ in Italy and ‘Michael Hill’ in New Zealand. Orchestra Wellington is pleased to see Natalia return to the country to perform Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade to close out the Season.

SOLOISTS

THE DOMINION POST

SUMMER CONCERT AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE A safari to the heart of

the orchestra for ages 2–6

The gorgeous grounds of Government House are the perfect setting for an a'ernoon of beautiful music with a picnic lunch and glass of wine. The 2013 Summer Concert will include popular arias & symphonic works that follow a theme of Love and War, complete with live cannon fire in Beethoven’s Battle Symphony ‘Wellington’s Victory’.featuring

Does the lion sleep tonight? Who’s the king of the swingers, the jungle VIP? Can the orchestra straighten up and fly right? Young listeners can find out while they dance to the rhythm of the log drums, growl with the trombones, and “ook-ook” with the woodwinds. Education composer in residence Thomas Goss has again created a programme designed to get young listeners interacting with the music close-up by singing along, conducting, then exploring the jungle trail right through the Orchestra! featuringKahurangi Children’s Performers, vocals and guitar

SAT 9th MARCH 2PM GOVERNMENT HOUSE!GROUNDS WELLINGTONRAINDATE: SUNDAY MARCH 10TH

Tickets on sale through Ticketek from 01 December 2012 www.ticketek.co.nz 0800 842 538

Sun 14 April 3PM MICHAEL!FOWLER CENTRE

BABY POPS BACK TO THE JUNGLE

Marc Taddei, ConductorEmma Fraser, SopranoBianca Andrew, Mezzo SopranoStephen Diaz, CountertenorGareth Farr & Lilith Lacroix, MCs

George Gershwin An American in Paris

Leonard Bernstein Three Meditations from Mass

Karlo Margetic Music for Wind, Brass and Percussion

Duke Ellington Night Creature

Orchestra Wellington’s first subscription concert features three American composers who e%ortlessly blend the vitality of jazz and popular music with the classical idiom. It also shows o% the wind and brass in Music for Wind, Brass and Percussion, from our Emerging Composer in Residence, Karlo Margetic.featuring Andrew Joyce, cello

An American in Paris is the result of Gershwin’s 1928 trip to Paris. Bustling with French sparkle, the suite’s more bluesy moments also reflect Gershwin’s thoughts of home.

Ellington’s 1955 Night Creature is a kind of concerto grosso. A jazz combo, starring saxophone quartet, serve as soloists within a body of masterfully coloured orchestral textures.

Bernstein considered his Mass to be his magnum opus. The soulful Three Meditations for Cello are drawn from that enormous and eclectic work. The orchestra is proud to welcome NZSO Principal Cellist Andrew Joyce as soloist. Joyce, who hails from Norwich, England, has performed all over the world with the London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras. He has played as Guest Principal with the Northern Sinfonia, the Bournemouth Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, and maintains an international career in chamber music.

SUBS 1

NIGHT CREATURE

PREFERENTIAL BOOKINGAll Subscriptions A Reserve $48 Subscriptions available from Orchestra Wellington prior to Friday 29 March 2013

BOX OFFICE PRICEAdult A Reserve $63Adult B Reserve $52Concession A Reserve $58 Concession B Reserve $50 (Concession = Seniors 65+ with Gold Card)Tickets available from Ticketek Monday 1st April 2013

Sun 26TH May WELLINGTON TOWN!HALL 4PM Free pre-concert talk by Music Director, Marc Taddei, and guest(s) at 3pm

Beethoven Leonore Overture No 2, Op 72aMussorgsky Songs and Dances of DeathJohn Psathas Pounamu

Sun 28TH July WELLINGTON TOWN!HALL 4PM Free pre-concert talk by Music Director, Marc Taddei, and guest(s) at 3pm

SUBS 2

POUNAMU

The long gestation of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio resulted in four overtures. The first, known as the Leonore overture No 2, is a glorious 15 minutes of music filled with dramatic emotion. As an overture it almost overshadowed the opera; as a stand-alone concert piece it works brilliantly.

Pounamu grew from a 2011 collaboration between John Psathas and legendary New Zealand musician Warren Maxwell, of Trinity Roots, Little Bushman and Fat Freddy’s Drop. Maxwell will reprise his performance as soloist on vocals, acoustic and bass guitars. This is a folk-roots concerto for acoustic and bass guitars, voice and orchestra, it takes as its subject ‘invisible people’: the homeless, the elderly, the impoverished. “I enjoy these sorts of collaborations,” says Psathas. “Warren and I generally work in separate worlds, so concerts like this remind us that what we do isn’t jazz or roots or classical — it’s music.”

In Songs and Dances of Death, Mussorgsky’s richly-scored song cycle paints four unforgettable vignettes. Death is a compelling spirit whose serenades are in turns consoling, seductive and fierce.

To perform them we have Grammy-award winning bass baritone Jonathon Lemalu, globally acclaimed as an opera singer, concert performer, recitalist and recording artist. Dunedin-born Lemalu’s career includes performances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Glyndebourne and Salzburg Festivals. He has worked with conductors Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Colin Davis among others.

This concert features two of New Zeland’s greatest male singers — the Lexus song quest winning Jonathon Lemalu sings Mussorgsky’s masterpiece while Warren Maxwell sings a work composed in collaboration with John Psthas — Pounamu.We also begin a cycle of all of Beethoven’s Leonora overtures (and Fidelio, for good measure!).

featuring Jonathon Lemalu, baritoneWarren Maxwell, vocals and guitars

There is no point beating around the bush. Lemalu, a New Zealand born Samoan, is a major talent. His voice defies easy categorisation, combining the depth and authority of a bass with the flexibility and vocal colouring of a baritone. The Gramophone Magazine

PREFERENTIAL BOOKINGAll Subscriptions A Reserve $48 Subscriptions available from Orchestra Wellington prior to Friday 29 March 2013

BOX OFFICE PRICEAdult A Reserve $63Adult B Reserve $52Concession A Reserve $58 Concession B Reserve $50 (Concession = Seniors 65+ with Gold Card)Tickets available from Ticketek Monday 1st April 2013

SUBS 3

LA DONNA IDEALEIn this programme we feature another one of New Zealand’s great Lexus Song Quest winners — Madeliene Pierard singing two very di%erent hommages to popular culture. Berio’s Folk Song set is one of his most enduring masterworks while the work of OW’s composer in residence, Juliet Palmer is a post modern rendering of three classic pop songs. Beethoven both opens and closes the concert with one of his very greatest works — the 8th Symphony.

featuring Madeleine Pierard, soprano

Blessed with a voice of glittering, secure virtuosity… The Classical Source, July 2012

This soprano is clearly a rising international star with huge potential. Opera Britannia, July 2012

The misleadingly-named Leonore No 1 was found among Beethoven’s papers a!er his death. Written in 1807 for a planned Prague performance, the yearning lines of its opening alternate with passages of bold activity and joy.

Beethoven’s 8th symphony serves as a breather in his symphonic output, a “cup of tea and a lie down” if you like, between his startling and monumental 7th and 9th symphonies. Canny, light-footed and charming, its concise classical form still conceals a few surprises.

Fresh from a residency at the Royal Opera, Madeleine Pierard hails from one of New Zealand’s leading musical families. With The Royal Opera, Madeleine has sung Contessa di Folleville (Il Viaggio a Reims), Lisa (La Sonnambula), Sandman (Hänsel und Gretel), High Priestess (Aida), Noémie (Cendrillon), Nymph (Rusalka), Slave (Salome) and Musetta in Copley’s acclaimed production of La Boheme. Pierard is noted for her mastery of a range of styles.

For Orchestra Wellington, she will premiere a new work by our 2012 Composer-in-Residence, Juliet Palmer. Palmer’s Solid Gold mines the space between memory and fact, creating an “acoustic remix” of unshakeable pop songs for soprano and orchestra. As Palmer puts it, “Pop songs worm their way into your ear, lurking until an innocent karaoke night or a moment in the supermarket aisle.” Pierard also performs Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, written in 1964 to celebrate the “artistry and vocal intelligence” of his longtime collaborator Cathy Berberian. Their imaginative sounds recall and reinvent folk music from places as diverse as Azerbaijan, Kentucky, Sicily, Genoa, Auvergne and Armenia.

Beethoven Leonore Overture No 1, Op 138Juliet Palmer Three Pop Songs “Solid Gold”Berio Folk SongsBeethoven Symphony No 8, Op 93 in F Major.

Sun 8TH SEPT THE!OPERA HOUSE 4PM Free pre-concert talk by Music Director, Marc Taddei, and guest(s) at 3pm

THE IDEAL WOMAN

PREFERENTIAL BOOKINGAll Subscriptions A Reserve $49.50 Subscriptions available from Orchestra Wellington prior to Friday 29 March 2013

BOX OFFICE PRICEAdult A Reserve $63Adult B Reserve $52Concession A Reserve $58 Concession B Reserve $50 (Concession = Seniors 65+ with Gold Card)Tickets available from Ticketek Monday 1st April 2013

We round out the year with Beethoven and Bernstein! Completing our traversal of the Leonore and Fidelio Overtures, we perform for you two of Bernstein’s greats. Fancy Free — a ballet written for Jerome Robbins in 1944, and inspired On the Town — plus Bernstein’s Serenade a'er Plato’s Symposium, written in 1954 as a tour de force for both soloist and orchestra. Michael Hill International Violin Competition winner, Natalia Lomeiko is our soloist for the evening.

featuring Natalia Lomeiko, violin

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FANCY FREENatalia Lomeiko is one of the most brilliant of our younger violinists. Yehudi Menuhin

Leonore No 3 is actually the second of Beethoven’s four overtures to Fidelio and was written for a shorter 1806 version of the opera. Tightly restructured in sonata form, it condenses the heroic sweep of the opera’s journey from darkness to light.

When the opera was revived in 1814, Beethoven wrote a completely new overture. Now known as Fidelio, it packs a mighty punch right from the fearless, leaping challenge of its opening chords.

Bernstein’s jazzy romp, Fancy Free was written for a 1944 ballet about the adventures of three sailors on shore leave. It was wildly successful and confirmed Bernstein’s reputation as a composer to watch. The music gives a nod to Stravinsky’s motoric rhythms, but Fancy Free’s biggest influences are the lively streets and clubs of New York as Bernstein saw them.

The Serenade for solo violin shows Bernstein’s other side as a purely classical composer. He likened it to Plato’s Dialogue, “a series of related statements in praise of love”. Performing it with Orchestra Wellington is Natalia Lomeiko, well-known in New Zealand since winning the 2003 Michael Hill International Violin Competition. Born into a family of musicians in Novosibirsk, Russia in 1979, Natalia Lomeiko has established herself internationally as a regular performing artist and has won many other international prizes including First at the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition. She has performed as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic and the Tokyo Royal Philharmonic, and her chamber music colleagues include Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet and Dmitry Sitkovetsky.Sun 17TH nOV

THE!OPERA HOUSE 4PM Free pre-concert talk by Music Director, Marc Taddei, and guest(s) at 3pm

Beethoven Leonore Overture No 3, Op 72bLeonard Bernstein Serenade for Violin (a'er Plato’s Symposium)Beethoven Fidelio Overture Op 72cLeonard Bernstein Fancy Free

PREFERENTIAL BOOKINGAll Subscriptions A Reserve $49.50 Subscriptions available from Orchestra Wellington prior to Friday 29 March 2013

BOX OFFICE PRICEAdult A Reserve $63Adult B Reserve $52Concession A Reserve $58 Concession B Reserve $50 (Concession = Seniors 65+ with Gold Card)Tickets available from Ticketek Monday 1st April 2013

Nelson Opera in the Park Saturday 16th February Trafalgar Park, Nelson

Orchestra Wellington joins a stellar lineup of contemporary performers and some of New Zealand’s best opera singers, including soprano Madeleine Pierard, fresh from a residency at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and her sister, mezzo soprano Anna Pierard, who has recently returned to New Zealand from a busy career in the opera houses of Europe. The popular picnic concert also features Don McGlashan and Julia Deans.

Handel’s Messiah with Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir Sunday 2nd June Wellington Town Hall

Karen Grylls, conductor

Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir joins Orchestra Wellington to present Handel’s Messiah in the expanded orchestration devised by Mozart. New Zealand soloists are Morag Atchison, soprano and Bianca Andrew, mezzo soprano. They are joined by Australians Henry Choo, tenor, and James Clayton, bass. Sung in English.

Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Orpheus Choir Saturday 28th September Michael Fowler Centre

Mark Dorrell, conductor

Orchestra Wellington joins the Orpheus Choir to perform Mozart’s solemn and splendid Great Mass in c minor K427, and the famous motet for soprano and orchestra, Exsultate Jubilate K165.

PERFORMANCE PARTNERS

IN THE PIT

Royal New Zealand Ballet Made to Move Wednesday 27th February–Saturday 2nd March St James Theatre

Nigel Gaynor, Conductor

The RNZ Ballet opens 2013 with three new dance works celebrating the joy of dance. The triple bill will feature Orchestra Wellington accompanying one of those works, a spirited comedy set in a Bavarian beer hall, set to music by Johann Strauss II. It is Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel’s first original work created for the RNZ Ballet.

Royal New Zealand Ballet Tutus on Tour Wednesday 23rd October– Saturday 26th October St James Theatre

Nigel Gaynor, Conductor

Orchestra Wellington joins the Ballet again for a classic score, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. RNZB dancers turned choreographers Brendan Bradshaw and Catherine Eddy create a sparkling new version featuring narration by Te Radar.

Madame Butterfly Saturday 11th May– Saturday 18th May St James Theatre

Tobias Ringborg, conductor

Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is one of the most popular opera masterpieces ever written. The haunting aria Un bel di and the famous Humming Chorus are only a few of the instantly recognisable melodies it contains.

This new production stars Australian soprano Antoinette Halloran (who sang Mimi in 2008’s La Bohème) as Butterfly, with Italian tenor Piero Pretti as Pinkerton and English baritone Peter Savidge as the American Consul Sharpless.

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET

NEW ZEALAND OPERA

OUTREACH

Emerging Composer-in-Residence

Karlo Margetic was named as Emerging Composer-in-Residence in 2012 and will complete the second year of his term with the Orchestra in 2013.

Born in 1987, Margetic holds degrees in composition and clarinet from the New Zealand School of Music. He has received numerous prizes in composition, including the NZSO/Todd Young Composer Award (2006), the Trusts Young Composer Competition (Auckland Philharmonia) (2005), the New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest SOUNZ prize for original composition (2004 and 2005).

He was Composer in Residence with the NZSO National Youth Orchestra in 2007 and Young Composer in Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 2007 and 2008 for which he has written a number of orchestral and chamber works.

Margetic has received commissions and performances from NZ Trio, Duo Solaris, Saxcess, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Auckland Chamber Orchestra, and the Wellington Youth Sinfonietta. His

music was workshopped by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as part of the CreativeNZ/SOUNZ Readings in 2009 and 2011.

Also an active performer, Margetic is Co-Director of the SMP Ensemble and has appeared with the group as composer, clarinetist, conductor and narrator.

October 2012 proved to be a big month for Karlo, as he completed a commission for quartet for Bärmann Trio and Udo Diegelmann, which premiered in Frankfurt, Germany on the 13th, as well as a work for NZTrio, Lightbox, which was met with rave reviews throughout the New Zealand.

In April of this year, Karlo will take part in ‘The Intimacy of Creativity 2013’, an exciting two-week composition workshop in Hong Kong, where he will be participating with his piece, Svitac, for clarinet and piano.

Karlo’s commission for Orchestra Wellington, Music for Wind, Brass and Percussion, will be part of the first Subscription Concert of the year, Night Creature, on 26th May.

KARLO MAGNETIC 2013

Composer-in-Residence

As the 2011/2012 Creative New Zealand-Jack C Richards Composer-in-Residence Juliet Palmer was the second Orchestra Wellington Composer-in-Residence in 2012. Palmer’s commission for the Orchestra, Solid Gold, will be performed as part of this year’s third Subscription Series Concert and will feature lauded soprano, Madeleine Pierard.

Now based in Toronto, Palmer moved from New Zealand to New York in 1990 to work with composer-performer Meredith Monk. Palmer completed her PhD at Princeton in 1999 and now works in diverse media from chamber music to multimedia installations, dance, music theatre, opera and symphonic works.

Her work has been featured around the world, from New York’s ‘Bang on a Can Festival’ to Italy’s Angelica Festival and Australia’s Adelaide Festival. Performers of her music include the Penderecki String Quartet, Trio Fibonacci, the Gryphon Trio, Toca Loca, Continuum, l’Orchestre Métropolitain conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Tapestry New Opera Works (Canada); Les Percussions de Strasbourg (France); Fontanamix

(Italy); Piano Circus (UK); California EAR Unit and the Bang on a Can All-Stars (USA); and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Juliet co-founded the interdisciplinary collective urbanvessel in 2006. Their 2010 work inspired by women boxers, Voice Box, was acclaimed by Musicworks Magazine as “a performance piece that smashes the boundaries between disciplines and leaves them sprawled out on the mat, down for the count”.

JULIET PALMER 2012

Composer-in-Residence

Orchestra Wellington’s Composer-in-Residence for 2013 is David Downes. David is a New Zealand born composer/film maker/performer that has pursued a diverse and individual creative career. His various music, sonic art, film and animation works have been performed, presented, screened and exhibited at many international music, film, and arts festivals, art galleries, concert halls and cultural events earning him several awards.

Downes’s music, although broad in both style and form, draws its main influence from popular culture and is strengthened by several years of classical piano training and a degree in music composition. His work has included private and public commissions, theatre/film scores, orchestral pieces, electro-acoustic pieces, and songwriting. Downes’s music has been commissioned and toured by groups such as The New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, NZTrio, Stroma (NZ), Defying Gravity (Australia), BackBeat (UK) and Strike (NZ) Downes has also worked alongside a number of notable New Zealand musicians and composers including John Psathas, Mahinarangi Tocker, Zane Te Wiremu Jarvis and Jack Body.

Since 1988 he has also made a considerable contribution to modern choreographic work in New Zealand with his contemporary dance scores. Collaborations in this area include work with choreographers such as Michael Parmenter, Lynne Pringle, and Daniel Belton.

David is the 2012/2013 Creative New Zealand-Jack C Richards Composer-in-Residence at Te Koki, the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, and a work composed as part of his residency will be performed by Orchestra Wellington as part of the 2014 Subscription Concert Series.

DAVID DOWNES 2013

Education Composer-in-Residence

For the past several years, parents and children in the Wellington region have been enjoying Thomas Goss’ Baby Pops programmes. In 2012, Orchestra Wellington formalised a very successful existing relationship by naming Thomas Goss as their Education Composer-in-Residence. Scripted around themes children love such as Down on the Farm, Down in the Jungle, and Once Upon a Time, Baby Pops has featured familiar music arranged by Goss as well as new works written for the purpose such as Tane and the Kiwi and Maui’s Fishhook.

His show for 2013 revisits Down in the Jungle and will feature counting rhymes, age-appropriate compositions for toddlers and, of course, Murray the Bear.

Assistant Conductor Internship

Brent John Stewart took up position as HOD Music at Wellington East Girls’ College in 2010. In 2012, as choirmaster, Brent led the Wellington East Girl’s Cantala Treble Choir to a first-equal finish in their category of the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival in Vienna finale to their two week ‘On Wings of Song’ tour of Singapore, London, Paris and Vienna.

In addition to his work in education, he has acted for several years as Musical Director of the Hutt Valley Orchestra and is known to Orchestra Wellington audiences as Sub-Principal Percussionist. Brent is also and accomplished pianist and is o!en requested as accompanist, including for the Gisborne International Music Competition.As soloist, he has performed Karlo Margetic’s Xylophone Concerto with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, recorded the entire piece with the NZSO, and in 2012, performed it as part of Orchestra Wellington’s Education Concert Series.

Like Karlo, Brent is completing the second year of his term with Orchestra Wellington, and 2013 will see him wielding his baton on several occasions throughout the year.

Gisborne Competition Winners

Orchestra Wellington would like to celebrate and support the fantastic quality of contestants in the Gisborne International Music Competition. What better way to reward a winner than a spot on our concert stage? Once again, Orchestra Wellington is o"ering a feature soloist spot in next year’s programme for the 2012 winner of the Gisborne International Music Competition.

Established in 1989, the competition provides young players of orchestral instruments on the cusp of professional careers the opportunity to hone their performance skills against their colleagues from around the world and to learn from jurors who are themselves musicians of the highest calibre. Past finalists can now be found playing in orchestras and chamber groups throughout the world such as the NZSO and APO, the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, the Macau Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, the Hanover Band, the New Zealand Trio and the Australian String Quartet, while others have successfully pursued careers as concert soloists.

Arts Administration Internship

An innovative new partnership between Orchestra Wellington and Whitecli"e College of Arts and Design was established in 2012 with the aim of creating a unique learning opportunity for aspiring arts administrators.

Again in 2013, an opportunity will exist for one MA student in the Arts Management Programme at Whitecli"e to undertake an internship with Orchestra Wellington. Each internship will cater for individual students’ research needs and provide the opportunity to gain practical arts management experience through work in the Orchestra management o$ces.

The Arts sector in New Zealand consists of a mosaic of di"erent organisations. They have the same broad general requirements but o!en very di"erent modes of operation. This joint internship gives students a valuable perspective that straddles both the visual and performing arts and Orchestra Wellington is proud to continue to o"er this opportunity to students in the sector.

Your Orchestra Wellington presents concerts for all ages and fulfils a valuable role accompanying opera, choir, ballet and musical theatre in the region.We need your help by becoming our FriendWe are grateful for the on-going support of our sponsors, funding organisations, donors and friends. We know that support from generous individuals will be increasingly important for us so that we can continue to provide high quality orchestral experiences across our region. This is why we need your help and hope you want to join our community of Friends. For this purpose we have redefined our Friends programme. With your support we can continue our role in the cultural life of our community.

How you can helpEvery gi! makes a di"erence, regardless of size. If you can a"ord it, please consider joining our community of friends, possible from only $75 per annum. In return we o"er you a great range of benefits that go beyond the favourable ticket pricing we o"er our loyal audience buying their tickets in advance (for subscription discounts and benefits, see corresponding page in this brochure and/or visit the website – www.orchestrawellington.co.nz).

Society membershipWe are an incorporated society; our members are important to govern our organisation. For only $20 per year you become a member with voting rights at our AGM — a great way to get more deeply involved with our organisation

Did you knowYour contribution to us is tax deductible from your taxable income:- Use the general tax rebate of 33%- Speak with your employer about

“payroll giving”

An annual donation of $500 will only cost you $6.45 per week a!er your tax refund, which is less than the amount for two co"ees a week!

Corporate supportAre you interested in supporting us as corporate sponsor? We have a range of options that might be of benefit to you. Please contact Sponsorship Manager, Kerry-Anne Gilberd on (04) 801 3997.

Music Directors Club $2,500 per yearJoin this small, select community that builds a personal relationship with our highly acclaimed and inspiring Music Director. In return for your generosity:- You are invited to attend events,

pre/post concert functions and to meet the conductor, soloist and orchestra players

- You receive a complimentary concert programme for each of our subscription concerts.

- You are invited to our annual Music Directors Club event.

- Your donation is publicly acknowledged (for example in our concert programmes and/or on our website).

Chair Donor $1,500 per yearChoose your favourite instrument and become the private donor of a player (subject to availability). In return for your generosity:- You are invited to attend pre/post

concert functions and to meet the conductor, soloist and orchestra players

- You receive a complimentary concert programme for each of our subscription concerts.

- You are invited to a dress rehearsal, followed by refreshments and an opportunity to meet with your player.

- Your donation is publicly acknowledged (for example in our concert programmes and/or on our website).

Friend $75+ per yearYou choose what you can a"ord. By becoming our friend:- You are invited to our annual

Friends event and other special events.

- Your donation is publicly acknowledged (for example in our concert programmes and/or on our website).

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PREFERENTIAL BOOKING

All subscription bookings o"ered A Reserve priority seating and personalised service.

Preferential booking period closes on Friday 29th March 2013 5pm

SUBSCRIBERS DRAW

All Subscription booking received by 29th March will go in a draw to win a Premium double-pass to Opening Night of NBR NZ Opera’s Wellington season of Madame Butterfly, featuring your Orchestra Wellington on accompaniment duties in the pit.

Kapiti Concert Bus: Secure your seat with a Return Journey for $20, this can be booked with your subscription series using the booking form.

Please note, general public are welcome to use the bus for $25 (Return Journey), to book please call Orchestra Wellington on 04 801 3882.

PUBLIC SALES

Tickets available from all Ticketek outlets, from Monday 1st April 2013 9am. Phone 0800 842 838 or visit www.ticketek.co.nz (service fees will apply).

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MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CLUBJulian Arnhold, Francis Cooke, Grant Corleison

CHAIR SPONSORS AND DONORSJulian Arnhold, Leslie Austin, Landa van den Berg & Rutger Keijser, Christine & Jim Pearce, Glenda West, Anonymous

We gratefully acknowledge our existing Friends: Denis and Verna Adam, Paul Baines, Jim Baltaxe, Christine and Martin Bland, Barbara Bourke, Jocelyne Brandon, Virginia Breen, Judith Burch, L M Burrell, Bruce and Margaret Carson, C E Chapman, Marie and Michael Crooke, Linda and Grant Crowley, Diana Du" Staniland, Desmond Dunbar, Geo" Eades, Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, C R Fenton, Christopher Finlayson, Laurie Greig, Margaret Harris, Gary and Helene Hawke, Les Holborow, Julia Mary Humphries, Russell and Carol Hurst, David Jenkinson, Rosemary Jones, Bernice Kelly, Maurice Kennedy, Boyd Klap, Keith and Gill Knox, David Lewis, Barbara Mabbett, C B MacDonald, John Marchington, David Marrison, Janet M Marsland, George McClelland, Drew and Mary McEwen, Alison McLeod, P M Miles, Doug Miller, John and Diana Morrison, Hilary and Gowan Patton, Sue and Ian Pearson, O F Prior, Ken and Mary Rae, Heather Rae, Douglas and Pam Robertson, Karen W Roper, Dennis Rose, Ailsa Salt, Pat Sanger, J E Swain, Pauline Swann, Fay Swann, Deidre Tarrant, Jill Waddington, A.M. Werren, Helen Young, and P T Young.