NZTrio Announce Hypnotique: The Final Programme In Their 2025 Season

NZTrio He Taonga Wairere continues to push the boundaries of chamber music with Hypnotique, a spellbinding programme that blends classical elegance, contemporary innovation, and raw emotional power. This final instalment in NZTrio’s 2025 season will tour Aotearoa in November, with performances in Whangārei, Whitianga, Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch, and Wellington.

Guest cellist Matthias Balzat joins violinist Amalia Hall and pianist Somi Kim for this tour. Matthias will officially become the trio’s new permanent cellist in 2026, and Hypnotique offers audiences a chance to witness the next chapter of NZTrio’s musical journey begin.

“It’s been a real joy to perform with Amalia and Somi throughout the season, and I’m thrilled to officially join NZTrio as a core member next year. Hypnotique feels like a perfect way to mark that transition, it presents a diverse mix of works that challenge expectations of chamber music and I can’t wait to share with audiences around Aotearoa,” says Matthias.

The programme opens with a burst of energy in Lyell Cresswell’s Moto Perpetuo, a virtuosic ride from one of Aotearoa’s most distinctive composers. French composer Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Trio in D minor follows, rich with lyrical warmth and lush harmonic colour, then American composer Pascal Le Boeuf’s Obliquely Wrecked fuses jazz, percussion, and electronic textures in unexpected and exhilarating ways. From across the ditch, Elena Kats-Chernin’s Calliope Dreaming pays playful homage to Haydn, blurring the lines between classical tradition and modern whimsy. The concert closes with the emotional depth and romantic grandeur of Arnold Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht, in an intimate piano trio arrangement structured around the five stanzas of Richard Dehmel’s haunting poem.

Tickets and more information at: www.nztrio.com/event-directory

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