Michael Monaghan Foundation Young Artists' Program

Michael Monaghan Foundation Young Artists' programme

The tenth anniversary Michael Monaghan Foundation Young Artists' Concert will take place on Sunday 14 October in St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington. This year the concert will feature eight instrumentalists aged between 13 and 17 playing popular concertos by Mozart, Kreisler, Reinecke, Saint-Saëns, Chopin and Bruch on violin, cello, flute and piano. This concert has become a keenly anticipated annual event and provides an important Œstepping-stone' experience for young instrumentalists.

When studying the concerto repertoire for their instrument, most students perform with the orchestral parts rearranged and reduced to a piano score. The Young Artists concerts aim to give promising young musicians the chance to perform these works as they were intended ­ with a full orchestral accompaniment. Musicians from the Vector Wellington and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, along with conductors Ken Young and Peter van Drimmelen, donate their time and talents for this special event organised through the Michael Monaghan Foundation.

"The experience is invaluable for these students," says Peter van Drimmelen, also a founding trustee of the Foundation. "The layers and textures that an orchestra provides helps them to understand these works better and many of these young soloists have been encouraged to continue on into careers as professional musicians.

In fact, this year for the tenth anniversary concert, the circle has come right around with several of the musicians in the orchestra having been concerto soloists in the Monaghan Young Artists programme in previous years!"

Michael Monaghan was a young NZSO player and in 1996, following his death, the Foundation was set up with the aim of encouraging young players of orchestral instruments. Tickets for the concert are available only at the door. Adults $15.00, Unwaged $10.00, Students $5.00, Families $25.00, school children free. The Michael Monaghan Young Musicians Foundation acknowledges generous financial support from Wellington City Council Community Arts Office.

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