Source: Tony Ryan
After two previous attempts to bring a star Tuba player from Australia – Third Time Lucky!
Thomas Allely, principal tuba of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, is travelling from Brisbane specially to play with Christchurch’s excellent and innovative local orchestra Resonance Ensemble in the première of Tony Ryan’s newly revised Tuba Concerto on Sunday 4 December.
The concerto, which has considerable and spectacular audience appeal, was originally written for Thomas while he was still a school student in Christchurch, and which he played with the NZ Secondary Schools Symphony Orchestra in Auckland.
Also on Sunday’s programme is Otto Nicolai’s colourful and vivacious Overture to his Shakespearian opera The Merry Wives of Windsor, and two even more well-known works by Scandinavian composers: Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite showcases Resonance Ensemble’s superb string section, while Sibelius’s tone poem Finlandia is
not only one of his finest works, but a gloriously patriotic and emotional declaration of his homeland’s national culture in the face of Russian oppression.
All of these works will come to life with Resonance Ensemble’s usual flair and dynamism in the stunning acoustic of Christchurch’s wonderful concert venue, The Piano, at 3.00pm on Sunday 4 December.
- Resonance Ensemble – A Tuba Comes to Town Conductor: Tony Ryan
- Soloist: Thomas Allely (Tuba)
- At The Piano, 156 Armagh Street, Christchurch Sunday 4 December, 3.00pm
Book at Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/resonance-ensemble-tuba More details at: https://www.resonance.net.nz/
and https://thepiano.nz/events/a-tuba-comes-to-town-resonance-ensemble/
