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Helene Pohl, violin Douglas Beilman, violin Gillian Ansell, viola Rolf Gjelsten, cello
The New Zealand String Quartet has established an international reputation for its its imaginative programming, and the development of an international audience for New Zealand music, now with over 80 concerts each year. The group has been quartet-in-residence at Victoria University of Wellington, now the New Zealand School of Music, since 1991. In North America they have been artists/teachers-in-residence at the Banff Centre, Quartet Fest West, and The Quartet Program at Bucknell, Pennsylvania. Career highlights have included débuts in London at Wigmore Hall, in New York at the Frick Collection and in the concert series in Washington’s Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium. International tours and festival successes have taken the group to Canada and the United States for twice-yearly visits as well as to Mexico, Curaçao, South Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and the Netherlands. In 2012 the quartet’s European tour culminated in a week-long residency at the Kings Place in London. The New Zealand String Quartet has recorded a wide repertoire including works by New Zealand composers and, for Naxos, the complete Mendelssohn string quartets.
For more information, visit www.nzsq.co.nz.