The annual Auckland Town Hall Organ Concert Series is back with the first of four free concerts set for next month. Since first starting in 2010, the annual Sunday concerts have become a local favourite, pulling in up to 1000 music lovers for each .
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Mountain Scene
April 30, 2021
By TRACEY ROXBURGH and PHILIP CHANDLER
The past’s set to meet the present in Arrowtown next Friday, in more ways than one.
World-acclaimed organist Kemp English and his partner, virtuoso violinist and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra assistant concert master Yuka Eguchi, will join the Central Otago Regional Choir’s concert series, starting at the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall.
And, as an added bonus, the first half of the choir’s programme will feature the New Zealand premiere of four of British composer Will Todd’s works.
Choir member and pianist Alison Frude says Todd was due to come to last year’s World Symposium on Choral Music, planned to be held in Auckland, which was ‘‘a big coup, anyway’’.