Composer Portrait: Gao Ping

Date: 5 October 2013 Time: 3.00 pm

COMPOSER PORTRAIT: GAO PING is part of 'Journey to the East', a two-concert series celebrating the music of today's China, curated by Jack Body for the Confucius Institute at Victoria University. Featuring the New Zealand String Quartet with Gao Ping (piano) and David Griffiths (baritone)

Programme:

Wordless Mantras (for 2 violins, Tibetan bowl and handbells) (*world premiere)

Three Poems of Mu Xin (for string quartet and bass)

Leftango (piano solo)

Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju (for piano quintet)

Tickets: $30 (door sales); advance tickets available at eventfinder.co.nz

NZSQ CD

A new CD 'Asian Music for String Quartet' recently released by Naxos will also be launched at a reception following this concert. The CD features New Zealand String Quartet recordings of music by Tan Dun, Toru Takemitsu, Chinary Ung, Zhou Long, and Gao Ping.