Chamber Music Festival in Nelson
Chamber Music Festival in Nelson
For chamber music fans
Christmas is possibly a lesser excitement on the
calendar
than the approaching Adam Chamber Music Festival, scheduled
to
start in Nelson on January 23.
Festival manager Roger Lloyd says the ticket sales are tracking well.
"We have a some people coming for the whole 16
days of the festival and many
others coming for a week or
more," he said. "This is what makes the Adam
festival
quite special - people are drawn together as a community by
their
interest in chamber music and that is reinforced
by the intimate nature of
the performances in Nelson's
heritage venues."
Mr Lloyd said the length of stay
also made the festival important in the
economic activity
of the Nelson region, with concert-goers also spending
on
accommodation and food as well as art, wine and other
shopping.
There is a lot of interest in the visit of
the world-famous Pražák String
Quartet from the Czech
Republic - two of them travelling with instruments
that
are almost 300 years old. The festival also features a
return visit
from London-based Australian pianist, Piers
Lane; there is a stronger than
usual vocal element with
performances by Swedish mezzo-soprano, Catrin
Johnnson;
and there is a one off concert from the Wellington
International
Ukulele Orchestra
A total of 42
events over 16 days, will be performed in the Cathedral,
the
School of Music and St John's Church in Nelson; the
Chanel Arts Centre,
Motueka; the Church of the Sacred
Heart, Takaka; and in Blenheim's Brancott
Winery and
Church of the Nativity.
Tickets from Everyman
Records, Nelson and, for the Blenheim concerts, from ends
the
Marlborough Centre. More info at
www.music.org.nz