Music in the air: school chamber groups compete

Look, I Made A Hat chamber music group members, from Bayfield High School, (from left) Emma Rogers-Bromley, Wallace Pu, Luke Bridgman, Sam van Betuw, Leon Hooke, Britta Hamill, Emma Bridgman and Finn Boyle perform Sondheimesque Suite in the 2012 New Zealand Chamber Music Contest held at Marama Hall, Dunedin, yesterday.

More than 40 chamber groups from 10 Otago secondary schools took part in the contest, which was won by Sunshine Daisies Butter Mellow, of Columba College, whose members were Laura Barton (violin), Natasha Kumar (clarinet) and Hoyoun Lee (piano).

The adjudicator was Graham McPhail, of Auckland.

The national finals will be held in the Auckland Town Hall concert chamber, in August.