Colin Decio and Ingrid Prosser present a concert of piano music interspersed with poetry in Palmerston North on June 26. Photo / Supplied
The next Globe Sunday Matinee Concert on Sunday, June 26 will be a first for the series, combining the talents of pianist Colin Decio and poet Ingrid Prosser.
The husband and wife have been performing together since 2003, as a duo and also in larger ensembles. They met in the
UK, and came to New Zealand in 2016. They have performed since then as Piano & Poetry.
They create atmospheric and dramatic programmes of intertwined music and spoken word, sometimes on a particular theme, at other times linking groups of themes and emotions.
They are based in the wider Wellington area, and have given concerts throughout the region. In 2020, they were funded by Creative New Zealand to film three of their hour-long programmes for DVD.
Half-English, half-Ukrainian, Decio brings an innate ability for drama and subtlety into his playing, combined with his immediate composer's understanding of the music before him. He has been particularly complimented on his playing of the Russian repertoire, and the music of Haydn.
