International Akaroa Music Festival - Renaissance

Renaissance: an Elizabethan Consort
Roger Buckton: treble viol, flute, recorder
Nicolette Paul: tenor viol, recorder
Jane Brown: bass viol
Jonathan Le Cocq: lute
Tessa White: cittern, violin
Liam Oliver: bandora
Esmail Fathi: percussion

Renaissance is a wonderful combination of period instruments - treble viol, flute, bass viol, cittern, bandora and lute. The combination of instruments with the wind instrument - the flute, combined with the treble and bass viols and plucked strings of cittern, bandora and lute lead to it being given the name - “broken consort”. Just google broken consort to see more details and background. This is arguably the first chamber music ever written with each instrument being specified in the quite extensive repertoire of music available. It is many years since NZ has had the opportunity to hear a broken consort.

Come and join us for the 16th International Akaroa Music Festival in wonderful Akaroa. For the 2023 edition, we have created an exciting programme, featuring NZ’s most accomplished musicians as well as fabulous international guest artists.

Cellist Ramon Jaffe and pianist Michael Endres will be back this year, amazing clarinettist David Griffiths is joining us for the first time, and cellists Josephine Vains, Svetlana Bogosavljevic and Edith Salzmann can't wait for another edition of the Cellissimo series on Wednesday the 18 January.

We'll bring stellar young talented from NZ and Australia along, our young musicians will start the lunchtime concerts on Saturday the 14th. The evening concerts feature well known works such as Tchaikovsky's piano trio and 'Souvenir de Florence' sextet, Beethoven's trio for clarinet, piano and cello, Bach by Candlelight is back and much more.