Diedre Irons Piano
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.5 (8/11/2003)
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3 (10/8/2004)
Diedre Irons was born in Winnipeg, Canada. As a child prodigy she came to the attention of Russian born composer-violinist-pianist S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté whose master pupil she became. She made her official debut with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at age eighteen playing Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds. After graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, she was invited by her teacher, Rudolf Serkin, to join the faculty of that prestigious conservatory and she taught there for the next seven years. During those years she toured Canada and the United States as a soloist and as a chamber music player. She avoided the international competition circuit, seeing the aims of competing to conflict with those of music.
She moved to New Zealand in 1977 and has since performed frequently with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the APO and the CSO, toured many times under the auspices of Chamber Music New Zealand, and recorded extensively for Radio New Zealand. She continues to travel internationally having presented concerts in 25 countries. Diedre was awarded an MBE for services to music in 1989. She is senior lecturer in piano at the University of Victoria in Wellington.
Miranda Adams Violin
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (13/3/2004)
Miranda Adams is the Assistant Concertmaster with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. She has been a soloist with numerous NZ orchestras, including being a member of the Tasman Trio, a member of Bravura (jazz/tango band), a leader of Auckland Gamelan, and a leader of the Auckland Ensemble. Miranda has played on numerous CDs, and is currently recording a CD of tangos with Tatiana Lanchtchikova and Yevgeny Lanchtchikov. She has been a guest artist with many groups, classical and modern, and is considered to be an extremely versatile performer, who enjoys improvising.
Pavel Strobl Trombone
Wagenseil - Trombone Concerto (13/3/2004)
Pavel was born in Czechoslovakia in 1968. After studying at the Prague Conservatory of Music (1982-88) he was engaged by the National Theatre in Prague in the orchestra of the Smetana Opera House (1988-93). During this time he also studied at the Music Academy of the Charles University in Prague (from 1990), graduating in 1995. Already during his university studies he became associated with prominent symphony and chamber orchestras (Prague Philharmonic, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Prague, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Virtuosi Pragensis, Dvorak Symphony Orchestra) In 1993 he left the opera house to concentrate on work with these orchestras. He has performed with them in many European countries. Pavel is also interested in the interpretation of old music played on original instruments.