The 2017 Festival — our first
The inaugural Martinborough Music Festival held over the weekend of 29 September to 1 October was an artistic, critical and audience success.
The Festival headliner was the celebrated concert pianist, Michael Houstoun, who gave a solo recital on the Friday night and on the Saturday played with the Zephyr Wind Quintet and the Martinborough Festival Quartet, both featuring leading NZSO players. On the Sunday, the string and wind players combined to deliver the great Schubert Octet.
According to the Wairarapa Times-Age, the concerts featured ‘top-shelf playing from some of New Zealand’s finest’ and the Festival had ‘a lovely vibe’.
The 2017 Music and Musicians
Friday 29 September 7pm
Piano recital by Michael Houstoun
A selection of preludes and fugues from Book One of Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Well-tempered Clavier interspersed with two Gymnopédies and a Gnossienne by Erik Satie.
Franz Schubert Sonata in G
Saturday 30 September 2pm
Anton Reicha Wind Quintet in E flat major
Ken Wilson Wind Quintet
Jacques Ibert Trois Pièces Brèves
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Quintet in E flat major
Saturday 30 September 7pm
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No 11 in F minor
Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor
Sunday 1 October 2pm
Franz Schubert Triosatz in B flat major
Franz Schubert Octet in F major
The musicians
Michael Houstoun, piano
Bridget Douglas, flute
Robert Orr, oboe
Rachel Vernon, clarinet
Patrick Barry, clarinet
Robert Weeks, bassoon
Ed Allen, horn
Yuka Eguchi, violin
Andrew Thomson, violin
Julia Joyce, viola
Sophia Acheson, viola
Andrew Joyce, cello
Ken Ichinose, cello
Joan Peranau Garriga, double bass