Piers Lane Teams up with Doric String Quartet

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Acclaimed pianist Piers Lane Teams up with Doric String Quartet for NZ Tour

Revered London-based Australian pianist, Piers Lane and prize-winning UK string quartet, the Doric String Quartet, head to New Zealand for a 10-centre in September as part of Chamber Music New Zealand’s 2010 Diamond Anniversary season.

The tour is presented in association with Royal Over-Seas League and begins with a concert in Christchurch on Monday 6 September, followed by performances in Invercargill, Dunedin, Wellington, Nelson, Auckland, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Napier and Hamilton.

In their 12 years together, the Doric String Quartet members Alex Reddington (violin), Jonathan Stone (violin), Simon Tandree (viola) and John Myerscough (cello), have successfully forged a career path that sees them playing in highly acclaimed chamber music events and series around the world.

Career highlights include winning the Osaka International Chamber Competition and the Ensemble Prize at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany, participating in the critically acclaimed Haydn evening at Wigmore Hall (broadcast by BBC Radio 3) and collaborating with various musicians including Mark Padmore, Chen Halevi and Julius Drake.

London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane has a flourishing international career which has taken him to more than 40 countries. He is in great demand as a chamber music collaborator, and in 2007 Piers was appointed Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.

Other highlights of Pier’s career include playing a sold-out performance with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall, concerto performances at the Lincoln Centre’s Avery Fisher Hall and performing five times as a soloist at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Piers is looking forward to touring with the Doric String Quartet, “I thoroughly enjoyed my last collaboration with the Doric String Quartet. Despite their youth, they have experience and maturity aplenty, allied with intelligence, subtlety and a powerful urge to communicate.”

Piers Lane and the Doric String Quartet team up to present two giants of the Romantic repertoire on the Chamber Music New Zealand tour – piano quintets by Schumann and Brahms. Programme One features Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat and Britten’s String Quartet No 2. Programme Two has Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor with Bartók’s String Quartet No 3. Both programmes include a Haydn string quartet and a Chopin Nocturne and Ballade.
Doric String Quartet cellist John Myerscough says the quartet is excited about playing “two wonderful programmes. We feel we have a special affinity for Haydn’s music and it will be exciting to contrast this with Bartok and Britten”.

Piers Lane and the Doric String Quartet perform in 10 New Zealand centres from September 6-18. For details of concerts and to book tickets, visit www.chambermusic.co.nz

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