An enchanted evening with Bruce Paine

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greetings Everyone,

I would like to bring to your attention my next concert which will be on Saturday November 8th, 7.30pm at the historic house Alberton.  I will be playing a varied programme of solo works by Albeniz, Arcas, Granados, Mozanni, Sor and will include a small selection of my own compositions.

Guests will be offered a complimentary drink on arrival from 7pm until shortly before the concert and some light sweet treats are planned for afterwards. Bookings are essential due to limited space.   If you have questions, or would like to reserve a seat, please contact Alberton, 100 Mt Albert Road, Auckland – tel (09) 846 7367 – email: alberton@heritage.org.nz – hours: Wednesday-Sunday 10.30am – 4.30pm.  Please refer to the coupon below for further details.

To my overseas contacts, as much as I’d love to see you at the concert I do not expect you to travel the many thousands of kilometres it would take to get here!  Instead I would like to invite you and all of my contacts to be among the first to view my latest music video.  The video entitled “The Little Church in the Field” features a performance of my composition “Finchdean”, which I will play on November 8th.

Best wishes,
Bruce

Guitar Concert with Cheryl Grice. Saturday 27th Sept. 8pm

Cheryl has reciently returned from a very successful tour of Canada and UK……….she will be giving one concert here in Auckland​.
​website      cherylgriceguitar.com

Cheryl Grice won a Scholarship to the Royal Manchester College of Music at 16, also studying privately with John Williams in London. At the age of 19 she won both the Allessandrio (It) and the Lanchester (UK) International Guitar Competitions, also gaining equal 2nd place in the Segovia IGC (UK) a few years later.

 In 1980, after giving an outstanding performance of Sevilla in a BBC Master Class with Julian Bream, the Maestro personally invited Cheryl to record a lesson with him in Paris, which was broadcast on French Television.

 In the same year she gave her London debut at the Wigmore Hall, followed by the 1st performance of Wilfred Joseph’s Saratoga Concerto for Guitar, Harp and Harpsichord at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Cheryl toured extensively as a soloist, appearing many times on BBC TV and radio. She emigrated to NZ in ’97 with her young family, and continued to tour as a soloist and with Trio Con Brio (guitar/violin/viola.

 Cheryl has just returned from an extensive tour of British Columbia. Performing and teaching in Vancouver and around the Gulf Islands. Also in the UK at Winchester, Bristol, Oxford and the Dillington Guitar Summer School. Cheryl presently lives in Wellington and tours as a soloist and with Duo Mosaica (guitar/violin and sax).

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 Programme

Variations on a Theme of Mozart………..Fernando Sor

Celtic Blues……………Cheryl Grice

Chaconne in D……………. J.S.Bach

                           INTERVAL

Toku Wairua…………….Cheryl Grice

Vals in D ………………. Augustin Barrios

La Maja de Goya……………… Enrique Granados

Sevilla…………… Isaac Albeniz

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​Where:   1012 East Coast Rd., Torbay (between Glamorgan Drive and Glenvar Rd.) see attached map.​

​When :  Saturday 27th September at 8pm. (door opens at 7.30pm)
Price :   $30 adult, $25 concession, $15 student/ child……….Tapas,wine and juice included.
          

Please   R.S.V.P.   with numbers   Rod  Capper   E-mail  rod@capperguitars.com  or phone 09 473 2226

CGSA News Letter Sep. 2014

The Auckland Guitar Society

 Date:   Sunday, 14th September 2014

Venue:            All Saints Church Hall, 284 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby

Time:              7.30 pm

Format: 1st Half : Open Floor 2nd Half:Guest Artist
Admission:   $8.00 (Financial members – free)

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GUEST PLAYER

Hard Case Duo(Michelle Birch & Jakub Roznawski)

 

Michelle Birch.
 
Michelle  began her guitar studies at the age of 7.

. Her Honours research paper, “Jazz Mind and Classical Hands- Roland Dyens and his style of arranging and performing” is on Wikipedia on Roland Dyens’ page and athttp://www.rolanddyens.com/. The connection made with Mr Dyens during the writing of the paper resulted in a warm mutual regard, and dinner together in Paris in the European winter of 2009.
Primarily Michelle sees musical performance as a way to connect with people, and her collaboration with other guitarists in duo reflects this. In addition to Michelle’s partnership with Jakub, she worked with the Wellington guitarist Julie Bevan for eight years, and the Auckland guitarist Paul McIvor aka “The Owl and the Pussycat” for two.
Michelle holds, in addition to a first class honours degree in performance earned under the tutelage of Gunter Herbig, merit Grade 8 certificates both in solo and duet performance; the duet certificate with Julie. She earned her Certificate in Executant Music in 1984 under the tutelage of Ron Burt.
Michelle is an Auckland-based guitarist and teacher.
Jakub Roznawski.

Jakub  has played the guitar since the age of 11. He studied in Wellington and achieved a Master of Music under the tutelage of Gunter Herbig. He currently teaches guitar in a number of schools around Auckland, and wants to buy a dog next year. He hates writing bios, and tries to keep them as short as possible!
Michelle and Jakub, aka “The Hard Case Guitar Duo”, have known one another since 2005, when Jakub had dreadlocks and Michelle didn’t. They were at the time both doing their Honours degrees in Performance, and were matched as a duo for some of their performance pieces. The duo was so successful that in 2006, despite living in different cities, they toured the North Island together. Their motivation as a duo is to avoid being serious unless absolutely necessary, and then only under extreme provocation!