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Tickets are now on sale for a Southern Lakes chamber music festival that’s attracting internationally-acclaimed musicians as well as remarkable homegrown talent.
This year’s theme for At the World’s Edge Festival (AWE) — running in Queenstown, Wānaka, Cromwell and Bannockburn from October 3 till 11 — is ‘Lines as boundaries and bridges’.
Among the impressive line-up of musicians are German couple Tanja Tetzlaff and Florian Donderer.
Tetzlaff’s one of the most influential cellists of her generation, and her film, Suites for a Suffering World, framing Bach’s cello suites as a reflection on nature’s beauty and vulnerability, won the Opus Klassik Innovation Award for Sustainability.
Violinist Donderer has been praised for playing with ‘‘exceptional beauty, breathtaking technique and shocking intensity’’, and is first violin for the Bremen-based Signum Quartet.
Other newcomers include pianist David Fung (Australia, United States), who was praised by The Washington Post for his ‘‘ravishing and simply gorgeous’’ performances, and American violist Matthew Lipman, who’s said to be one of the most sought-after instrumentalists of his generation.
AWE founders/violinists Justine Cormack and Benjamin Baker will again be performing along with talented Kiwis, violist Julia Joyce and cellist Matthias Balzat and Australian-raised New Zealand-based violinist Monique Lapins.
Composer-in-residence Michael Norris is working on two commissions for debuting at AWE including one he’s creating in dialogue with Queenstown sculptor Ed Cruikshank.
Tickets are for sale at worldsedgefestival.com
