Michael Monaghan Foundation Young Artists' programme
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Some of the young soloists for this year's 10th Anniversary Michael Monaghan Foundation Young Artists Concert: (from
left) Heather Lewis, Asaph Verner, Amy Lewis, Peter van Drimmelen (Trustee and conductor) and Anne Kim.
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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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