Saturday 20th April, Michael Fowler Centre (7.30pm)
Brent Stewart — Conductor
The Armed Man — A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins
This is a very popular and well-known anti-war piece that has been a box office favourite worldwide since it was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 2000. In addition to text from the ordinary mass, The Armed Man text incorporates words from other religious and historical sources, including the Islamic call to prayer and the Mahabharata. Writers whose words appear in the work include Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Sankichi Toge, who survived the Hiroshima bombing.
Featuring: Maaike Christie-Beekman — Alto and the award winning Wellington Brass Band
World premiere commission
We are thrilled to have commissioned New Zealand composer Takerei Komene to honour NZ’s 28th Battalion, known as “E Kiwi E”. The work will be sung in te reo Māori and will also feature a children’s choir and a kapa haka group.
The two works will combine to achieve an unmissable concert paying homage to the victims of war — past, present, and future.
Saturday 24 August, Michael Fowler Centre (7.30pm)
Brent Stewart Conductor
The Creation by Joseph Haydn
This oratorio, written in 1797 and 1798, is considered by many to be one of Haydn’s masterpieces, and depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as narrated in the Book of Genesis.
With Orchestra Wellington and a stellar line-up of soloists including Soprano Anna Leese, Tenor Frederick Jones, and Bass Robert Tucker, this will be an uplifting and memorable concert.