Monday 6 September 2010 at 7.30pm

St Patrick's College Silverstream

presents

SiSoMo ELEVATE

Art & Music Showcase

St Patrick's College presents SISOMO Elevate 2010.

SISOMO has been running for the past 3 years and initially was the brainchild of Eddie Petersen and Blair Hungerford. The concept from the outset was to introduce the Performance Studies Music students and Visual Art/Design students to multi-faceted performance as required in the arts and entertainment industry. These facets are defined as the elements of Sight, Sound and Motion.

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $14 Adult, $14 Concession & $14 Child

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Tuesday 21 September 2010 at 8pm

Classical Expressions 2010

presents

MICHAEL HOUSTOUN

The annual Michael Houstoun recital has become a popular tradition in the Classical Expressions series. The programme for his September 2010 recital will include Robert Schumann's 'Phantasien fur das Pianoforte - Kreisleriana' and a Sonata by the Russian jazz maestro, Nikolai Kapustin, which Michael Houstoun describes as 'totally and immediately appealing music'.

Schumann Arabesque Op 18
Schumann Kreisleriana Op 6
Nikolai Kapustin Sonata No. 2, Op 54
Ravel 'Le tombeau de Couprin'

 

GENESIS ENERGY THEATRE

Tickets: $50 Adult & $45 Concession

(Friends of Expressions, Members of Upper Hutt Music Society, Expressions Piano Club Members)

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Michael Houstoun

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Friday 1 October 2010 at 8pm

Expressions Arts & Entertainment Centre

in conjunction with

The New Zealand Jazz Foundation

presents

2010 NEW ZEALAND

YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT

For the fourth successive year the New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra will perform in concert at the Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre. This concert will be the first in a short North Island concert tour being undertaken by the orchestra.

 

Selected by audition New Zealand wide, this exceptionally talented group of musicians including vocalists represents the best of New Zealand’s young jazz musicians.

 

The orchestra’s programme will feature a wide selection of big band jazz material in traditional and contemporary styles . As demonstrated in past years, the concert promises to be a great evening’s entertainment for the whole family .

 

This year the orchestra will be under the musical direction of internationally renowned American jazz drummer, percussionist, clinician, author, and educator, Steve Houghton. Steve initially received acclaim at age twenty as the drummer with Woody Herman’s Young Thundering Herd. Since then he has shared stage and studio with luminaries Gary Burton, Clay Jenkins, Shelley Berg, Toots Thielemans, Christian Mc Bride, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Freddy Hubbard, Lyle Mays, Billy Childs, Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Arturo Sandoval, Joe Henderson, Karrin Allyson and Maureen Mc Govern . Steve is currently Professor of Percussion and jazz at Indiana University.

 

Despite the youthful nature of these musicians previous overseas musical directors have always rated them highly and the equal if not better than their contemporaries in the United States, the home of jazz. Over the years the NZYJO has produced a significant number of New Zealand’s leading jazz musicians. Come and enjoy a wonderful evening of jazz.

Genesis Energy Theatre

Tickets: $15 Adult & $5 Student/Child

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Tuesday 5 October 2010 at 8pm

Classical Expressions 2010

presents

BONANZA TROMBONE QUARTET

BonaNZa , New Zealand 's premiere professional trombone quartet, was formed in 1997 comprising of members of the NZSO and Auckland Philharmonia.

 

This Classical Expressions 2010 presentation repeats the group's programme devised for the Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson in January 2009. Of this chronological journey - from Gabrielli to Dave Dobbyn - the Nelson Mail said 'This was four consummate professional musicians providing a scintillating evening of thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. They show every sign of enjoying themselves as much as we did.'

GENESIS ENERGY THEATRE

Tickets: $40 Adult & $35 Concession

(Friends of Expressions, Members of Upper Hutt Music Society, Expressions Piano Club Members)

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BonaNZa Trombone Quartet

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To book pre-show meals at Café Cibo

ph 527 3020.

The above descriptions of presentations are supplied by the individual promoters of events.  The promoters reserve the right to alter the artists and content of these programmes.

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