OCT Ensemble - Orchestra on Tour

Conductor: David Kay

Soloist: Jayne Tankersley

Kawhia 2:30 pm Sunday 25 October Te Awa, The Base | Monday 26 October 10:15 & 10:45 am Zion Church, Te Awamutu | 2.:30 pm Monday 26 October

Welcome!

The uncertainty that Covid19 presented has been a challenge, but when the opportunity arose to take the spot usually reserved for the annual Labour Weekend ‘Spring Fling’ at the Kawhia Community Hall, coupled with the enthusiasm of the Pastor at Zion Church in Te Awamutu, and the added bonus of a ‘pop up’ style event at Te Awa the Base on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, OCT's 'Orchestra on Tour was born.

We believe that all people of the Waikato can benefit from extraordinary orchestral experiences, and that means getting the orchestra out of the concert hall and into communities that don’t normally get the opportunity to hear live music, especially from an orchestra.

OCT Ensemble, comprising 24 professional musicians, is conducted by David Kay, a French Horn player and conductor with the Auckland Philharmonia, and features soprano Jayne Tankersley. Music ranges from the popular ‘Libertango’ with exciting percussion beats, to Bach’s Air on a G String, Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, to movements from Mozart’s Horn Concerto. The programme also includes the much loved Margaret Mahy story ‘The Lion in the Meadow’ which is narrated with a delightful orchestral score by Philip Norman, along with a brand new poem written especially for the tour which is set to music written by NZ composer David Farquhar.

We want to encourage people of all ages to attend these concerts and hope this ‘family-friendly’ programme will appeal widely to our Waikato people. Due to the nature of the venues, this will also be a chance for anyone who has never heard a live orchestra to get up close and personal with the music and the musicians.

The programme runs for approximately 75 minutes.

PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY:

PROGRAMME Mozart Symphony No.40 1st mov Norman The Lion in the Meadow Bach Suite No.3 BWV1068 (Air on G String) Mozart Horn Concert No.4 K495 3rd mov Mozart Wind Serenade in Bb K361 3rd mov Handel Ombra mia fu the Largo Farquhar Ring Round the Moon (with Poem 'Dance with Me' by Susan Trodden) Cohen Hallelujah Piazzolla Libertango

MEET THE MUSICIANS Concertmaster Trudi Miles

Double Bass Marija Dimtrijevic*

Violin 1 Michie Nishiyama Jackie McCaughan Yuhka Nagai

Flute Agnes Harmath*

Violin 2 Kerry Langdon* Melody Gumbley Celia Griffiths Viola Chris Nation* Jill Wilson Cello Yotam Levy* Charlotte Ketel Tim Carpenter

Oboe Martin Lee* Josh Webster Clarinet Justus Rozemond* Sarah Shieff Bassoon Monica Dunn* Ruth Hickton

French Horn Henry Close* Sergio Marshall Timpani/Percussion Rachel Thomas* Keyboard David Woodcock* Stage Manager Moses Simpson

*section leader

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