Ingrid Culliford will play with HyeWon Kim (left) and and Kris Zuelicke as the Kowhai Trio for a Spring Romance concert.
Ingrid Culliford will play with HyeWon Kim (left) and and Kris Zuelicke as the Kowhai Trio for a Spring Romance concert.
Romance will be in the air when the Kowhai Trio play at the Whanganui War Memorial Concert Chamber on October 22.
The Kowhai Trio of HyeWon Kim on violin, Ingrid Culliford on flute and Kris Zuelicke on piano will celebrate spring with some classical and modern compositions.
Music by Elgar, Ilbert, Mozart, Granados and more will bring the romance of spring to the concert chamber.
Kim is a professional violinist who plays in major New Zealand orchestras as well as being a chamber musician, soloist and teacher.
She has returned to New Zealand from Spain where she was working as a member of the Orquesta sinfonica de Castilla y León and Orquesta sinfonica de Cadaqués.
She has also lived in Japan as a member of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra.
Kim graduated with a MMus from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London under David Takeno and while in the UK worked with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Halle Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and Southbank Sinfonia orchestras.
The Korean-born Kiwi was also a member of UBS Verbier festival orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein festival orchestra and Pacific Music Festival orchestra.
Flautist Ingrid Culliford probably needs little introduction to Whanganui audiences but for those unaware of her talents, she is an internationally renowned musician, teacher and examiner.
Ingrid Culliford
While living in London, she was professor of flute at Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music junior department.
Culliford has played with the London Sinfonietta, Royal Philharmonic and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, as well as contemporary music ensembles.
Since returning to live in New Zealand in the mid 1990s, she has taught at Nga Tawa School, Waikato University, and the NZ School of Music and played in several collaborations with local and visiting musicians.
Her most recent concert was with counter tenor Stephen Diaz at Element Cafe last Sunday.
The third member of the trio is United States import Kris Zuelicke who holds undergraduate degrees in music, linguistics and German from Miami University and a Master's degree in Music Theory and cognate in Music Education from Indiana University.
Zuelicke taught piano, cello and voice in Palmerston North before moving to Wellington in 2011.
She has performed as a soloist, accompanist and with ensembles including Stroma, Manawatu Sinfonia, Trio Bella, the Renaissance Singers, along with other choirs and theatres.
Springtime Romance: The Kowhai Quartet, Whanganui War Memorial Concert Chamber, October 22. Adults $20, students $5, Music Society members $12. Book at RWOH or pay at the door.
