NZTrio, New Zealand’s leading trio ensemble, performed with internationally renowned guzheng musician Xia Jing夏菁at the New Zealand School of Music on 16 September.

NZTrio, New Zealand’s leading trio ensemble, performed with internationally renowned guzheng musician Xia Jing夏菁at the New Zealand School of Music on 16 September. The concert 发 is the first Chinese-themed performance at the NZSM following the launch of the Chinese instruments collection 惠风和畅 provided by Hanban 汉办(Confucius Institute Headquarters). Jointly sponsored by Victoria University’s Confucius Institute and the China Cultural Centre in New Zealand, 发 played to a full house. NZTrio is renowned for their performing style and repertoire of avant-garde music that combines Chinese and western genres and, in 2013, they performed with guzheng musician Chen Xiyao陈希尭 in the Confucius Institute’s Journey to the East music series. Following a guzheng solo by Zhou Long, Xia Jing and the NZTrio performed four world premieres during发: Serendipity Fields (Jeroen Speak), Shells (Dylan Lardelli), String Taxonomy (Dorothy Ker) and Feng Zheng (Gao Ping). Feng Zheng is dedicated to the late New Zealand composer Jack Body who pioneered New Zealand-Chinese musical collaboration and who was the music consultant of the Confucius Institute. The concert evoked the unity of sound and soul during this Moon Festival.

A fabulous piece produced by Lynda Chanwai-Earle for Radio New Zealand’s flagship programme Voices.

Stars dreaming in music.

Each of the new musical works of the FA 发 concert was recorded by Radio New Zealand.

Listen to the concert.

NZTrio was interviewed by Eva Radich of Radio New Zealand’s Upbeat about their tour to China in 2016 and meeting up with Guzheng virtuoso Xia Jing to remount the Wellington concert in Beijing at Capital Normal University.

NZ Trio head to china.

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