CMNZ Series: Four Last Songs - Hamilton

Name: CMNZ Series: Four Last Songs - Hamilton
Start: 2025-10-16T09:30:00+13:00
End: 2025-10-16T11:30:00+13:00
Location: Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts and Gallery

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 09:30 am to 11:30 am

UTC+13:00

Location

Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts and Gallery | Hamilton, WK

This October, Chamber Music New Zealand is proud to tour Aotearoa's own NZTrio (Amalia Hall - violin, Somi Kim - piano, Matthias Balzat - cello) and Australian soprano Emma Pearson in Four Last Songs, a concert reflecting on the nature of goodbyes, endings, and renewals.
Named for Strauss' Four Last Songs which he wrote towards the end of his life — now arranged for piano trio and soprano — the songs reflect on the serene acceptance of mortality and a closeness with nature.
The concert also features Salina Fisher's Kintsugi, about the Japanese art of putting broken ceramics back together with gold and celebrating the beauty of a life not unmarred by difficulty, but made more beautiful by the resilience of overcoming hardship.
PROGRAMME
🎶 Elena Kats-Chernin | The Spirit and the Maiden
🎶 Salina Fisher | Kintsugi
🎶 Amy Beach | 2 Songs Op. 100 A Mirage and Stella Viatoris
🎶 Sergei Rachmaninoff | Vocalise
🎶 Richard Strauss (arr. Salina Fisher) | Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) TrV 296