Please note the new venue for our meeting! Please note different date for this meeting – second Sunday, (9th April) due to Johannes Moeller concerts April 1st and 2nd Johannes Moeller in Concert Saturday 1st of April: Master Class Johannes Moeller, 1pm venue Adam Concert Room Saturday 1st of April: Concert Johannes Moeller (solo), 7:30pm Adam Concert Room ​ Here is a youtube of him playing the famous Recuerdos de la Alhambra You are warmly invited to an exciting concert by Swedish classical guitarist Johannes Möller who has captivated audiences throughout the world with charismatic and soulful performances. In 2010
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Our next meeting will be held on Sunday 5th March 2017 [box type=”shadow”]At Thistle Hall 293 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington The meeting will start at 4.15 and finish at 6.30 pm. Access to the meeting room is through an open door on the side of the building in Arthur Street. Then go upstairs to the first floor.[/box] Welcome If you’re a guitar listener, a beginner player, a seasoned professional or anywhere in between – you are very very welcome to join us as we enjoy listening to and playing music for guitar [box type=”shadow”]Sunday March 5th Feature Guests Sven
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*****Please note – no meeting for December 2016***** Unfortunately committee members have been overtaken by unavoidable commitments during December. So there will be NO Christmas Guitar Society meeting this year. However we are postponing it until March 5th 2016. Another newsletter will come out before then. What is happening in December?? The NZ Guitar Quartet are preparing for a concert tour in China in mid-December. 1. The NZ Guitar Quartet is giving a concert at the Little Theatre in Lower Hutt on Thursday 1st December starting at 7.30. This a certain to be a great concert. If you like great
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Please note the new venue for our meeting! At Thistle Hall 293 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington   Our next meeting will be held on Sunday 6th November At Thistle Hall 293 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington The meeting  will start at 4.15 and finish at 6.30 pm.   Special guest for Sunday 6 November meeting… Owen Moriarty ​ Giuliani concerto For Guitar and Orchestra (without orchestra)   Owen Moriarty had a performance of this virtuoso work coming up. It will be performed in Devonport, Auckland, Nov 13 at 2pm, Holy Trinity Church (20 Church St). The full programme is
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Guitar Ensemble: This month features an extended rehearsal of ensemble music for our Christmas Concert If you have yet to join our ensemble – be brave – choose a part that suits your ability – print the music and start practicing. Owen has very kindly (as he does each year) taken responsibility for organising the guitar ensemble music. The pieces we are playing for a start are the following: 1.       Joropo 2.       Tyrolean Cradle Song 3.       The Sage Leaf 4.       Going Cuckoo 5.       The Water is wide. 6.     Little Prelude 7.     Forrest Ensemble Series No. 5
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 Special guests for July 3rd meeting… Pepe Becker Soprano, Shruti Box) Don King (Lute) Robert Oliver (Bass Viol) “Hildegard to Handel” Pepe Becker (soprano, shruti box), Don King (lute) and Robert Oliver (bass viol) present a selection of early music, ranging from 12th Century chant (by Abbess Hildegard von Bingen) and other Medieval songs, to Italian and English Renaissance lute-songs, to 18th Century operatic arias (by G.F. Handel). They will use instruments in ways not often heard to accompany the voice in this repertoire: Robert’s “lyra viol” style of playing (with chords as well as the bass-line) replaces the more-often
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 Trio Archi d’Amore Zealanda would like to play at the next meeting – they head to Poland the following week and have two commissions to premiere, one piece by a NZ composer.   Michael Williams – Suite per antichi archi Arythmia Cavatina Fugue   Boris Pigovat – Strings of Love (2016)   Performed by Archi d’Amore Zelanda Donald Maurice – viola d’amore, Jane Curry – guitar, Emma Goodbehere – cello   Michael Williams (Waikato, NZ) and Boris Pigovat (Israel). These trios by were written just a few months ago and are dedicated to Archi d’Amore Zelanda.   This is an
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Owen Moriarty Giving us a preview of his up-coming St. Andrews solo concert. Owen Moriarty Born and raised in Wellington, Owen completed his Masters at Massey University in 2003, before heading to the US where he studied at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) with James Smith and Los Angeles Guitar Quartet members Scott Tennant and Bill Kanengiser. He also studied with Brian Head, Martha Masters, and Pepe Romero and participated in master classes with guitar luminaries Odair and Sergio Assad and Grammy award winning guitarist David Russell. Apart from his general public performances, Owen has released 3 CDs
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  Our next meeting will be held on Sunday 3rd April The address is Crossways (upstairs) at 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria. The meeting  will start at 4.15pm and finish at 6.30 pm.   This month our feature spot is dedicated to Ray Ahipene-Mercer. Ray has been building guitars for many years. On Sunday he will talk to us about the joys and challenges involved in building guitars. As a player he has a players perspective on what a guitar needs to do for a player. When Matthew Marshall used to be in charge of the guitar program at Massey
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