Tēnā koutouContinuing to explore high quality chamber music in its diverse guises, it is with great pleasure that I now introduce you to one of the finest jazz and early music improvisers, pianist Francesco Turrisi. This is Francesco’s second appearance for CMNZ — he was the captivating pianist in L’Arpeggiata’s touring ensemble in 2017. We are delighted to welcome him back to our shores, this time as a solo pianist. The performance you will experience tonight tells the poignant story of Francesco’s journey from the heart of the Mediterranean to the moody surrounds of Ireland. Aptly described as a “musical alchemist”, Francesco Turrisi seamlessly weaves his way through many different musical styles in Northern Migrations creating his own very beautiful, evocative and sometimes elusive musical language.

Catherine GibsonChief ExecutiveChamber Music New ZealandPuoro Taiwhanga Aotearoa

Throughout June the NZCT Chamber Music Contest District and Regional Rounds are also taking place. With generous support from the Judith Clark Memorial Fund, we have offered an opportunity for accomplished participants in the Contest to perform before Francesco takes the stage in many centres around the country. These young musicians are inspiring and perfectly demonstrate our confidence in the future of New Zealand music. We are grateful to our many supporters for this tour, in particular to the Southern Trust. And particular thanks to H.E. Mr Fabrizio Marcelli, the Italian Ambassador to New Zealand for his generous assistance.Tonight’s performance by Francesco Turrisi is truly the music of, for and amongst friends. I do hope you enjoy sharing this unique musical journey.

“I consider myself a very privileged

migrant, but like every other migrant in the

world, I don’t belong where I came from anymore, and I will never fully belong

where I go…” – Francesco Turrisi

Please respect the music, the musician, 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.

Francesco Turrisi has been defined a “musical alchemist” and a “musical polyglot” by the press. He left his native Italy in 1997 to study jazz piano and early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he obtained a Bachelor and a Master’s degree. Since 2004 he has been collaborating with celebrated early music ensemble L’Arpeggiata. With L’Arpeggiata he has performed at the major early music festivals in Europe and around the world (Turkey, Russia, China) and has recorded for Virgin, Naive and Alpha. He regularly collaborates with Italian traditional singer Lucilla Galeazzi and with Irish ensembles Yurodny (Balkan music/contemporary jazz), The Gregory Walkers (early music), Resound (contemporary music), and eX ensemble (early music).

Francesco is also the leader and founder of The Taquín Experiments an ensemble that pushes the boundaries of contemporary jazz, world music and early music.

He has released four critically acclaimed albums as a leader and two as co-leader on Diatribe records and on his own label Taquin records.

His latest album Grigio, features sean- nós singer Roisin El Safty, early music singer Clara Sanabras and percussion virtuoso Zohar Fresco. The album was described as “Lyrical, sensitively assembled and beautifully sung” by John Fordham in a review for The Guardian.

His vast range of collaborations includes artists from jazz, world and early music such as:

Bobby McFerrin, Dave Liebman, Gianluigi Trovesi, Nils Landgren, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Barry Guy, Gabriele Mirabassi, Savina Yannatou, Maria Pia de Vito, Theodosii Spassov, Gavin Bryars, Bang on a Can, Misia, The King’s Singers, Veronique Gens, Philippe Jaroussky, Pepe el Habichuela, Lucilla Galeazzi, Bijan Chemirani.

Francesco Turrisi - Pianist

The Embassy Of Italy Wellington

Tour Partner

“For Turrisi, tradition and improvisation

are not different countries but

two sides of the same mountain.”

– All About Jazz

The Auckland concert is being recorded for later broadcast by RNZ Concert.

The Hamilton concert is supported by Donald Barriball’s bequest to the Hamilton Chamber Music Society

“I first started thinking about a piano solo program about 4 years ago, when I got asked to perform a solo concert at the Hugh Lane gallery. I had flirted with that idea for a long time, but somehow was always a bit intimidated by the format.

I am used to collaborating and playing with ensembles that range from very large to very small, but being all alone on a stage is a completely different energy. There is something very introspective about performing piano solo, something about feeling very naked and exposed. At the same time there is the exhilarating feeling of being free to do whatever you want at any given moment. So it’s not a coincidence that a personal album such as Northern Migrations came about at a very difficult and transitional period in my life. A moment of big changes, a moment of pain, a moment of letting go of many things dear.

This album is a very deep and personal reflection on many things that have happened in my life until now. It’s about migration, about being far from the origins, about the nomadic life of musicians, about not belonging to a place in particular. It’s also about separation and loss,

about pain and crisis, about grief and about learning to let go.

Northern Migrations is also about the journey that has been my experience as a musician and everything I have picked up on the way. It reflects on my Mediterranean roots, on the modal melodies, instruments and rhythms that connect Sicily with North Africa. It reflects on the early baroque music which I have studied and researched while living in the Netherlands, on the harmonic and melodic ideas behind the music of the great keyboard masters of the 17th century.

It reflects on my visceral passion for jazz, the only music that I have properly studied at a conservatory, on my passion for improvisation and for living the music moment by moment. There are probably too many other influences and connections that I can’t individually pinpoint in this music, coming from my constant thirst for finding and understanding new forms of musical expression.

After 12 years of different musical projects and recordings, Northern Migrations represent a distilled version of my entire musical life.”

– Francesco Turrisi

Northern Migrations

Founders' Circle MembersAnonymousGraeme EdwardsArnold and Reka SolomonsThe Estate of Jenni CaldwellThe Estate of Aileen ClaridgeThe Estate of Walter FreitagThe Estate of Chisne GunnThe Estate of Warwick Gordon HarrisThe Estate of Joan KerrThe Estate of Monica Taylor Ensemble ($10,000+)Anonymous Robin & Sue HarveyKaye & Maurice ClarkGill and Peter DavenportPeter and Carolyn DiesslProfessor Jack Richards

Octet ($5,000+)M Hirschfeld Children's TrustHylton LeGrice and Angela LindsayThe Lyons Family - in memory of Ian Lyons Murray ShawKerrin and Noel VautierLloyd Williams and Cally McWha

Quintet ($2,500+)Joy ClarkJohn and Trish GribbenAnn HardenJane KominikCollin PostArnold and Reka SolomonsPeter and Kathryn Walls Quartet ($1,000+)Anonymous (2)Donald and Susan BestRoger and Joanna BoothPhilip and Rosalind BurdonMD and MA CarrRick and Lorraine ChristieRoger ChristmasThe Cranfylde Charitable Trust Graeme and Di EdwardsPeter and Rae FehlFinchley TrustDame Jennifer GibbsPatricia GillionDavid and Heather HuttonLinda MacFarlaneElizabeth McLeay

Roger and Jenny MountfortBarbara PeddieRoger ReynoldsMartin and Catherine Spencer Basil & Jenny StantonAlison ThomsonAnn TrotterJudith TrotterAnna WilsonBruce Wilson and Jill WhiteAnn WylieDavid Zwartz

Trio ($500+)Anonymous (6)Diane BaguleyPhilippa BatesHarry and Anne Bonning Sarah BuistJD CullingtonJonathan CweorthHanno FairburnTom and Kay FarrarJohn FarrellAnne French Consulting LtdBelinda GalbraithC & P GibsonLaurie Greig Gary and Helena HawkeDouglas and Barbara HolborowE Prof Les HolborowMichael Houstoun and Mike NicolaidiCaroline ListFiona Macmillan and Briony MacmillanMargaret MalaghanRaymond and Helen MatiasAE McAloon Fiona McAlpineAndrew and Mary McEwen Heather Miller Margaret NielsenPrue Olde Robert and Helen PhilpottMiles RogersSylvia RosevearPeter and Juliet RoweJohn and Kathryn SinclairRoss Steele Mary SmitPriscilla TobinDavid TrippPatricia UngerRichard and Elaine WestlakeTim Wilkinson

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REGIONAL CONCERTS

THE DONIZETTI TRIOWhakatane 8 June

Kerikeri 12 JuneTauranga 16 June

Lower Hutt 19 JuneWanaka 21 June

Cromwell 22 JuneMotueka 25 June

Whangarei 30 June

THE 2019 ADAMTROUBADOURSRotorua 11 JulyTaupō 14 July

Lower Hutt 17 July

THE MORTON TRIOLower Hutt 7 August

Kerikeri 9 AugustWarkworth 11 AugustWhakatane 13 August

Rotorua 14 AugustWhanganui 17 AugustWellington 18 AugustMotueka 20 August

Christchurch 22 August

BoardKerrin Vautier CMG (Chair), Hon Chris Finlayson, Quentin Hay,Andreas Heuser, Matthew Savage, Vanessa Doig

StaffChief Executive, Catherine GibsonArtistic Manager, Jack HobbsArtistic Administrator, Lizzie BisleyOutreach Coordinator, Beckie LockhartOperations Coordinator, Rachel HardieMarketing & Development Manager, Will GaisfordSenior Designer, Darcy WoodsMarketing Executive, Aja LethabyTicketing & Database Executive, Laurel BruceContent Producer & Comms Executive, Anna van der LeijMarketing & Fundraising Coordinator, Rafaela Gaspar

BranchesAuckland: Chair, Roger Reynolds; Concert Manager, Bleau BusteneraHamilton: Chair, Murray Hunt; Concert Manager, Sharon StephensNew Plymouth: Concert Manager, Cathy MartinHawkes Bay: Chair, June Clifford; Concert Manager, Jamie MacphailManawatu: Chair, Graham Parsons; Concert Manager, Virginia Warbrick Wellington: Concert Manager, Rachel Hardie Nelson: Chair, Annette Monti; Concert Manager, Clare MontiChristchurch: Concert Manager, Jody KeehanDunedin: Chair, Terence Dennis; Concert Manager, Richard DingwallSouthland: Chair, Rosie Beattie; Concert Manager, Jennifer Sinclair

Regional Presenters Marlborough Music Society Inc (Blenheim), Christopher's Classics (Christchurch), Cromwell & Districts Community Arts Council, Geraldine Academy of Performance & Arts, Musica Viva Gisborne, Music Society Eastern Southland (Gore) Arts Far North (Kaitaia),Aroha Music Society (Kerikeri), Chamber Music Hutt Valley, Motueka Music Group, Oamaru Opera House, South Waikato Music Society (Putaruru), Waimakariri Community Arts Council (Rangiora),Rotorua Music Federation, Taihape Music Group, Tauranga Musica Inc, Te Awamutu Music Federation, Upper Hutt Music Society, Waikanae Music Society, Wanaka Concert Society Inc, Chamber Music Wanganui, Warkworth Music Society, Wellington Chamber Music Trust, Whakatane Music Society, Whangarei Music Society.

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