Baroque Music Community and Educational Trust presents: Back to Classic from the Travel Through Time Series

String Trios On Period Instruments

Come and enjoy the beauty of the classic era through the instrumentation of the intimate String Trio. The artists will be performing on period instruments in authentic historical interpretation. The venues have been chosen to beautifully amplify the sound of these instruments so that you can hear how this music would have sounded in Mozart's time. The concert will be featuring Mozart's masterpiece Divertimento KV 563 and other hidden gems of string trios from the Classical Music era.

Violin (period instrument) - Mark Menzies

Viola (period instrument) - Henry Nicholson

Cello (period instrumnet) - Tomas Hurnik

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Mark Menzies is described in the Los Angeles Times as an ‘extraordinary musician’ and a ‘riveting violinist’, Mark Menzies’ career as a viola and violin virtuoso, chamber musician and pianist, conductor and advocate of contemporary music, has seen performances in Europe, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and across the United States.

​Tomas Hurnik has a rich musical career performing with Czech symphonies, recording for radio and television, winning various chamber music competitions and taking part in prestigious chamber groups such as Talich Chamber Orchestra. He has played with various period instrument groups such as Musica Florea, Capella Regia Prague and Solamente Naturali with which he performed and toured around Europe. He continues to be passionate about period instrument playing and organizes and performs in concerts, workshops and master classes of Baroque music in New Zealand.

Henry Nicholson, an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based based violinist, conductor and artistic director. He completed a Master of Music majoring in performance violin and conducting with Professor Mark Menzies and Associate Professor Justin DeHart at the University of Canterbury in 2023, having graduated from Burnside High School in 2017. As part of his research, Henry studied both modern and historical performance practice, as well as researching and analysing instrumental music of the early Baroque period. He studied conducting with Dr Helen Renaud and Professor Mark Menzies, and has been an active participant in the CSO Conducting Masterclass with CSO Chief Conductor Benjamin Northey.