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Welcome

Thank you for joining us for this performance by Kiwi soprano Madeleine Pierard and pianist Terence Dennis. They will be joined by Anna Pierard for a trio recital in four North Island centres, and we would love to welcome you to the audience for those concerts as well, either in person or on RadioNZ Concert.

Since winning the 2005 Lexus Song Quest we have kept a close eye and ear on Madeleines career as she emerges onto the world stage. It will be a real treat for us to hear her in recital performing a gorgeous range of songs and arias.

We are very grateful for the ongoing partnership with Deane Endowment Trust that dates back to 2007. They take an active interest in supporting our emerging musicians, including singers such as Jonathan Lemalu and Anna Leese. Many of you will recall with pleasure their recital tours for Chamber Music New Zealand, which were also supported by the Deane Endowment Trust.

We also thank Vice-Chancellor Pat Walsh for supporting the Wellington concert by Victoria University alumnus Madeleine Pierard.

We hope you will enjoy this concert.

Euan MurdochChief Executive, Chamber Music New Zealand

Message from the Tour Donors

We are pleased to support this national tour by the wonderfully talented soprano Madeleine Pierard performing with her equally talented sister Anna and accompanied by Terence Dennis. Our partnerships with Chamber Music New Zealand have previously supported Latitude37, NZTrio, singers Jonathan Lemalu and Anna Leese with pianists Terence Dennis and Malcolm Martineau, and the innovative multi-media production of Haydns Seven Last Words. This demonstrates the extraordinary wealth of creative talent that New Zealand has to off er.

Deane Endowment Trust

Sir Roderick Deane was awarded a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit this year for his contribution to business, policymaking and for supporting the arts and disability sector for more than 30 years. Trustees Gillian and Roderick Deane were honoured in 2008 for the substantial and sustained generosity they have provided to the arts in New Zealand. They received the annual Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage, presented by Perpetual Trust.

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Programme

Canteloube Five songs from Les Chants dAuvergne Page 4

Messiaen Trois Mlodies Page 4

Berg Sieben frhe Lieder Page 5

INTERVAL

Ross Harris Songs for Beatrice (premire) Page 6

Bellini Tre Ariette Page 9

Rossini Tre canzonette: La regata veneziana Bel raggio lusinghier from Semiramide Page 11

HAMILTON 22 AUGUST WELLINGTON 20 AUGUST NELSON 18 AUGUSTCHRISTCHURCH 11 AUGUST DUNEDIN 14 AUGUST INVERCARGILL 16 AUGUST

Please respect the music, the musicians, and your fellow audience members, by switching off all cellphones, pagers and watches. Taking photographs, or sound or video recordings during the concert is strictly prohibited unless with the prior approval of Chamber Music New Zealand.

The Wellington concert is being recorded for broadcast by Radio NZ Concert

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Madeleine Pierard grew up in Napier, playing the piano and singing in the New Zealand Youth Choir. While studying music and composition at Victoria University, she sang with the Tudor Consort and Voices New Zealand. In 2005 she won the Lexus Song Quest, and then undertook further studies at the International Opera School of the Royal College of Music in London with Lilian Watson. She has won many other competitions including the Great Elm Award at the Wigmore Hall (2007), Les Azuriales Ozone Opera Competition in France (2008), the Lies Askonas Prize, and the Singers Award at the Royal Overseas League Competition (2009). Madeleine Pierard received an New Generation Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2008.

She is now a Jette Parker Young Artist with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and has performed numerous roles with the company. Other engagements include oratorio performances, orchestral concerts, and recitals, including at the Wigmore Hall and Westminster Abbey in London. Madeleine Pierard has appeared in concert with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in New Zealand and China. In 2006 she joined the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to give the premire of Symphony No 2 by Ross Harris, written for her, and she has recorded a CD of works by Lyell Cresswell with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Madeleine Pierardsoprano

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Terence Dennis was born in Christchurch and graduated from Otago University and the Staatliche Hochschule fr Musik, Cologne. He is currently Professor and Head of Performance Studies at the University of Otago Department of Music. He was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, and is a Fellow of both the NZ Academy of Humanities and of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

As one of New Zealands leading pianists, he regularly partners leading musicians from overseas and in New Zealand both in recital and recording. His collaboration with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has recently seen him perform at a royal recital in Windsor, UK, and in acclaimed recitals throughout Australia and Hawaii.

Since 1991 he has been the pianist for the Lexus (formerly Mobil) Song Quest fi nals, and has been offi cial pianist for seven international string competitions. He has been a guest adjudicator of the regional fi nals of the USA Metropolitan Opera Auditions Competition and in 2009-10 was on the staff of the Solti-Te Kanawa Accademia di Bel Canto Summer School in Italy. His CD of piano works by Liszt and Wagner was issued in 2007 by Ode Records.

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Joseph CanteloubeBorn Annonay, 21 October 1879Died Paris, 4 November 1957

Songs from Les Chants dAuvergneBalro Chut, chutLa delassdoLo fi olairLou boussu

Olivier MessiaenBorn Avignon, 10 December 1908Died Paris, 28 April 1992

Trois MlodiesPourquoi?Le SourireLa Fiance Perdue

Messiaen was one of the most infl uential composers of the 20th century and a remarkable keyboard player. He was noted for his improvisations at the organ of Sainte Trinit in Paris, where he was the organist from 1931 until his death in 1992. He was also an inspired teacher who encouraged and assisted many well-known composers of the mid to late 20th century. In addition to his performing and teaching work, he developed a unique musical language which used both rhythm and harmonic colour in new ways.

His early compositions were infl uenced by Debussy, Ravel and Messiaens teacher Dukas. In 1927 his mother, the poet Ccile Sauvage, died and three years later Messiaen completed the Trois Mlodies as a homage to her, using a fragment of her writing as the centrepiece. The outer two songs use texts by the composer.

In Pourquoi? the singer wonders why she has lost her enjoyment of nature - of birdsong, the seasons, refl ections in the water. Tenderness brings a smile in Le Sourire, which notes how intimate and fragile love is. La Fiance Perdue contains musical references to the previous two songs, and ends with a prayer for peace for a lost love.

Canteloube grew up in southern France, and in 1906 he moved to Paris to study with DIndy, who shared his interest in using folk traditions to develop classical music for the future. Canteloube collected an enormous number of regional songs, mostly from southern-central France, and is now mainly known through his fi ve series of Chants dAuvergne. These songs from the Auvergne region, near where Canteloube grew up, are written in the Occitan language of the region. The composer arranged them with both orchestra and piano accompaniment, in an impressionistic and picturesque style.

Balro is a shepherds song, in which the singer calls across the river to attract attention. Chut, Chut means hush, hush and tells of a girl whose father has given her the job of looking after the cows, but who spends her time being kissed by her sweetheart. In La delassdo, a shepherdess sings of being abandoned by her lover: I was certain he loved me, for I loved him so. The spinner in Lo fi olair recounts how she generously gave a shepherd two kisses in payment for his help with her sheep. Lou boussu is a hunchback who is treated very rudely by the young woman he professes his love for, making him bitter.

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Alban BergBorn Vienna, 9 February 1885 | Died Vienna, 24 December 1935

Nacht (Night; text by Hauptmann) describes elements of nature - the noble world is so dreamily pure - and celebrates them - my soul, drink this solitude.

In Schilfl ied (Reed song; text by Lenau) the poet uses a walk along a forest stream to sadly recall a lover - I think I hear the gentle sound of your voice wafting past.

Die Nachtigall (The nightingale; text by Storm) refers opaquely to the eff ect of a nightingales song on a woman - she carries her summer hat in her hand, enduring the heat of the sun, and does not know what to begin.

Traumgekrnt (Crowned through a dream; text by Rilke) is another refl ective poem - you came to me to take my soul . and quietly, as in a fairy tale, the night resounded.

Im Zimmer (In the room; text by Schlaf) is a happy description of an autumn evening in front o