Piers Lane and the Doric String Quartet

Presented by: Chamber Music NZ in association with Royal Over-Seas League

Piers Lane, piano
Alex Redington, violin
Jonathan Stone, violin
Simon Tandree, viola
John Myerscough, cello

 “I thoroughly enjoyed my last collaboration with the Doric String Quartet and am looking forward hugely to this one. Despite their youth, they have experience and maturity aplenty, allied with intelligence, subtlety and a powerful urge to communicate.”- Piers Lane

“It was a great thrill and privilege to work with Piers last year. To play with someone of his experience, knowledge and powerful musicality was very inspiring. We are very excited about working with him again particularly on two cornerstones of the piano quintet repertory.”- Doric String Quartet

“No praise could be high enough for Piers Lane whose playing throughout is of a superb musical intelligence, sensitivity, and scintillating brilliance.”- Gramophone

London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane has a flourishing international career which has taken him to more than forty countries. He is in great demand as a chamber music collaborator, and in 2007 was appointed Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, held annually in Townsville.

In their twelve years together, the prize-winning UK-based Doric String Quartet have successfully forged a career path that places them in highly acclaimed chamber music events and series around the world, and working in collaboration with world-class artists. This tour to New Zealand, in partnership with the Royal Overseas League, sees them team up with one of our favourite international touring pianists, Piers Lane.

Programme Two
Performed in Hamilton, Napier, Wellington, Nelson and Invercargill
Haydn: String Quartet in D Opus 64 No 5 ‘The Lark’
Bartók: String Quartet No 3 (1927)
Chopin: Nocturne in E flat Opus 55 No 2, Ballade No 3 in A flat
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor Opus 34
A giant of the Romantic repertoire is presented in this programme: Schumann's piano quintet is breathtaking in its scope and emotional range. This is balanced by a Classical Haydn string quartet, and a twentieth-century masterwork. Exquisite solo piano works pay homage to Chopin two hundred years after his birth.

Programme One
Performed in Auckland, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Christchurch and Dunedin
Haydn: String Quartet in A Opus 20 No 6
Britten: String Quartet No 2 in C Opus 36 (1945)
Chopin: Nocturne in G Opus 37 No 2, Ballade No 4 in F minor
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Opus 44

A giant of the Romantic repertoire is presented in this programme: Brahms' piano quintet is breathtaking in its scope and emotional range. This is balanced by a Classical Haydn string quartet, and a twentieth-century masterwork. Exquisite solo piano works pay homage to Chopin two hundred years after his birth.