Martinborough Music Festival
28 to 30 September, Martinborough Six celebrated musicians deliver four chamber-music concerts in a three-day feast of classical compositions ranging from 18th- century Bach ( Cello Suite
No 3) to the rhythms of contemporary New Zealand composer Gareth Farr’s No
2 Mondo Rondo. First violinist Wilma Smith (former concertmaster of the NZSO and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) leads a string quartet featuring Wellingtonbased violinist Amalia Hall, Australian violist Chris Moore and teenage Kiwi cellist Matthias Balzat along with soloists Diedre Irons (piano) and clarinettist Mark Walton. The four concerts traverse Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, César Franck, Schumann and Darius Milhaud. martinboroughmusicfestival.co.nz