Gallery to ring to sound of Italian baroque

STRING THEORY: Polly Sussex will be playing the baroque cello at this weekend's concert. Photo/supplied

Beautiful Baroque music is coming to Tauranga when Hausmusik NZ presents its Imported from Italy concert on Sunday, November 8, at the Tauranga Art Gallery.

The concert, starting at 5pm, will feature a variety of Italian Baroque chamber music by popular Italian or Italian-trained composers of the period.
The programme includes secular love cantatas by Steffani and Scarlatti, arias by Handel and Vivaldi, and instrumental music by Platti, Geminiani, Heinichen and Barsanti.

Hausmusik NZ performs mainly baroque music on original instruments and brings together various instrumentalists and singers to enable performance of music in a wide variety of formations. All members of the ensemble are dedicated to the highest performance standards. By emphasising diverse programming for all ages, in family-friendly settings, Hausmusik NZ aims to connect a broad spectrum of Kiwis with the beauty and elegance of baroque music and encourage continued support for classical music and the arts in general.

"Typically, concerts and performances are held in intimate settings with small audience sizes to ensure an exceptional, up-close-and-personal concert experience, which is something that suits the gallery perfectly," says the venue's marketing and media coordinator Martine Rolls. "The music is melodic and beautiful and can be immediately appreciated by modern audiences and people of all ages," she says. The ensemble members performing on period instruments at the gallery on Sunday evening are Rita Paczian (mezzo and harpsichord), John Paczian-Green (baroque oboe) and Polly Sussex (baroque cello).

the fine print
What: Hausmusik NZ presents Imported from Italy
Date: Sunday, November 8
Time: 5pm
Location: Tauranga Art Gallery, cnr Wharf & Willow Streets, Tauranga
Cost: $20 general admission / $15 students and friends of the gallery