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Queenstown – Semi-final Rounds I & II
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Auckland – Chamber Music Round III (Piano Trios)
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Auckland – Final Round (with Orchestra)
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Since her return from America in 1997, where she performed and taught for 8 years, mainly in Boston, Bernadette has given concerts in all States of Australia and in New Zealand for Musica Viva. With her brother Michael Kieran Harvey she formed the highly acclaimed Australian Virtuosi in 1998 and released her first CD The Glass House was released. Australian Virtuosi won the 1999 Australian Entertainment Industry's 'Mo' award for best classical music performance of the year with a performance of Messiaen’s Visions of the Amen and won the award again in subsequent years. In past years Bernadette’s engagements included performances with the Sydney and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, CD recordings, recordings for the ABC, solo recitals and performances with the Australian Virtuosi.
More recently Bernadette has appeared at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and in 2003 she gave the world premiere performance of composer Tim Dargaville’s first piano concerto written for her. She has also formed a duo with soprano Sara Macliver and has given a number of concerts with her including Jane Austen: A Life in Music for Musica Viva which toured throughout Australia in 2004. Bernadette has appeared at various festivals and in The Shock of the New with the Sydney Symphony in 2005.
2006 engagements include performances with the Australia Ensemble, Sonic Art Ensemble, Sydney Soloists, at the Huntington Festival for Musica Viva, concerts at the NSWArtGallery, Sunday Live, concerts with Sara Macliver, Diana Doherty and several festivals around Australia and New Zealand
Sarah Watkins, Piano (New Zealand)
Sarah Watkins has enjoyed an impressive career as chamber musician, collaborative partner and recording artist, touring widely throughout Japan, England and the US with some of America’s leading instrumentalists. A graduate of the University of Canterbury, she holds both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in collaborative piano from the Juilliard School in New York City. Resident in the US for fourteen years, Sarah has been a staff pianist at Juilliard, Yale University and the Aspen Music Festival. Among academic highlights was her work as coordinator of the collaborative piano program at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and several years tenure on the music faculty of Purchase College, New York.
Along with Justine Cormack, violin and Ashley Brown, cello, Sarah formed NZTrio, which has been Ensemble in Residence at The University of Auckland since 2004. At the School of Music she teaches piano, collaborative piano and chamber music. In addition, Sarah has been an official pianist for the Michael Hill International Violin Competition since its inception in 2001, has performed as a freelance player in both the New Zealand Symphony and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestras, and has appeared as concerto soloist with St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra and the APO.
Gareth Farr was born in Wellington in 1968. He studied composition, orchestration and electronic music at Auckland University and was a regular player with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and the Karlheinz Company. Further study followed at Victoria University , Wellington , where he became known for his exciting compositions, often using the Indonesian gamelan. In the 1990s his compositions have included commissioned works for all the major professional New Zealand music-making groups, and the country’s main arts festivals.
Gareth has had two CDs of his music released on the Trust label, and is currently Composer-in-Residence with the APO.
Ashley Brown, Cello (New Zealand)
As a student, Ashley Brown won the TVNZ Young Musicians Competition, the CCMC National Concerto Competition and a TVNZ Young Achievers Award. He also won prizes at the Adam International Cello Competition and the ROSL Music Competition in London. Ashley holds a Master of Music from the University of Canterbury, and an Artist Diploma from Yale University.
He has held the positions of Cellist of the Turnovsky Trio, Principal Cellist of the Auckland Philharmonia and Lecturer in Cello at the universities of Waikato and Canterbury. Presently, he is Senior Lecturer in Cello at the University of Auckland and Cellist of NZTrio.
Ashley enjoys close collaborative relationships with composers and musicians across the spectrum of musical genres. He plays a 1762 William Forster cello.
Michael Houstoun was born in Timaru, New Zealand in 1952. He became interested in the piano when he was a small child and began lessons at the age of 5. Under the tutelage, first of Sister Mary Eulalie in Timaru, and then of the great Maurice Till in Christchurch and Dunedin, Michael moved through the examination grades and by the age of 18 had won every major competition in New Zealand.
In 1973 he entered the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition where he placed third. Other international competition successes came in 1975 at the Leeds Competition (fourth prize) and in 1982 at the Tchaikowsky Competition (sixth prize).
Michael lived away from New Zealand from 1974 until 1981 and in this time studied with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (‘74/’75) and with Brigitte (‘Gigi’) Wild in London (’78/’79). He performed in the USA, UK, Germany and Holland.
In 1981 Michael followed his heart back to New Zealand where he has continued to live and concertise ever since, performing also in Australia, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong.
He plays from a large repertoire which stretches from JS Bach to the present day, including 40 concertos and chamber music. A strong advocate of New Zealand music, works from Douglas Lilburn to John Psathas are regularly featured in his programmes. During the 1990s he concentrated on the music of Beethoven, playing the complete sonatas in five cycles around New Zealand - Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier. He played the concerto cycle in NZ and Australia.
Michael frequently adjudicates music competitions in New Zealand, and in 1998 was a juror at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City.
He is Patron of the Nelson School of Music, the Regent on Broadway theatre in Palmerston North, the Piano Tuners and Technicians Guild of New Zealand and the Kerikeri National Piano Competition.
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (New Zealand)
Over the past 29 years, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra has established itself as a valued cultural asset for the Auckland region and as a nationally recognised symphony orchestra with a reputation for excellence, engagement and innovation.
As the Auckland region's only professional symphony orchestra, the APO presents a full season of symphonic work in Auckland and educates and nurtures new audiences throughout the year, presenting a variety of series: the APN News & Media Premier Series, the Vero Series Great Classics and the Splendour Series, as well as an annual offering of Opera in Concert and Choral Masterpieces.
It also engages with the wider community through its education programme and its popular contemporary music concerts with New Zealand artists such as Little Bushman, Dave Dobbyn, Goldenhorse and Shapeshifter and international artists such as Serj Tankian, Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, Meatloaf and Burt Bacharach. The orchestra also has close links with the NBR New Zealand Opera and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
At the heart of Auckland's culture, the APO continually strives for artistic excellence in all its activities, reflected in the commitment and passion it engenders from its players, its partners and its audiences alike.
Roy Goodman, Conductor (New Zealand)
Roy Goodman is Principal Guest Conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia New Zealand, the English Chamber Orchestra, and (since taking over in December 2003 from Charles de Wolff) Conductor of the Bachkoor Holland accompanied by the Royal Concertgebouw Kamerorkest. He has worked as guest conductor with 120 orchestras and opera companies worldwide [see: www.roygoodman.com].
Goodman is well known for his work as director and founder of the Brandenburg Consort (1975-2001), as co-director/founder of The Parley of Instruments (1978-1986), co-founder of the London Handel Orchestra (in 1981), Principal Conductor of the Hanover Band (1986-1994), Music Director for fifteen years of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (1989-2004), Principal Conductor of the Händel Festspiele at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe (1990-1998), the first Principal Conductor of Umeå Symphony Orchestra & Norrlands Opera Sweden (1995-2001), Music Director of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra in Winnipeg (1999-2005) and as the first Principal Conductor of Holland Symfonia (2003-2006). Goodman is very much a disciple and colleague of Sir Charles Mackerras and Sir Roger Norrington - and in just a couple of years he will be 60.
Born in January 1951, Roy Goodman achieved international fame as a chorister with the choir of King’s College Cambridge - as the 'high C' soloist in Allegri’s Miserere (Decca 1963). Already in 1970 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and completed his violin studies with both a performer's and a teacher's diploma. After six years as a High School music teacher, from 1977 Goodman worked primarily in Europe as a principal violinist - playing as concertmaster or soloist with Ashkenazy, Brüggen, Ivan Fischer, Gardiner, Herreweghe, Hickox, Hogwood, Jacobs, King, Koopman, Mackerras, Marriner, McCreesh, Norrington, Pinnock, Rattle and Schreier. Goodman was the first concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and during the 1980's he conducted for CD with the Hanover Band the first ever performances on historic instruments of the complete symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Weber, as well as 14 symphonies by Mendelssohn and 60 symphonies by Haydn. In addition to directing more than forty world premières of contemporary music - many from the 21st century - he has conducted over 120 CDs (several receiving rosettes in the Penguin CD Guide)ranging from Monteverdi's sacred vocal music to Holst's Planets (played on historical instruments!), including further orchestral and choral works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Berwald and important baroque works by Purcell, Corelli, Handel and Bach. His CD recordings of the complete Schumann symphonies for BMG/RCA Red Seal have received outstanding critical praise worldwide.
An invitation to conduct a televised Haydn & Sibelius programme with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1993 was the catalyst for Goodman's flourishing career as a serious international conductor. In 2006 he made his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and returned to San Francisco Opera to conduct a new production of Mozart’s Figaro. Concerts in 2007-9 include the Hallé in Manchester, RSNO in Glasgow and Residentie Orchestra in the Hague, WDR Cologne, NDR Hannover and SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestras, Recreation Graz and Kristiansand Symphony, Tampere and Bergen Philharmonics, Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, the English, Geneva, Manitoba, Uppsala and Swedish Chamber Orchestras, Grand Teton Festival Orchestra Wyoming, Western Australia Symphony Orchestra in Perth and Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand. Roy Goodman is an honorary Doctor of Music (University of Hull) and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music (London) - he has three children and four grandchildren.
