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# Orchestra Wellington: New Zealand's Oldest Regional Orchestra

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- [Between the Lines](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/between-the-lines/): Between the Lines is a FREE monthly early-evening chamber music series and book club that brings music and literature into conversation. Beginning on Thursday 30 April, these concerts take place monthly from April to October on the final Thursday of each month.
- [COLLABORATIONS: 2026 with Orchestra Wellington!](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/collaborations-2026-with-orchestra-wellington/): At its heart, music is never solitary. It begins with a composer’s spark, comes alive through performers, and finds its deepest meaning in you — our audience. Music is, and always has been, a collective act: a collaboration.
- [2025 SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/2025-sounz-commission-for-orchestra-and-sistema-youth-orchestra/): SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music in collaboration with Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings invites proposals from Aotearoa New Zealand composers regardless of background and experience.
- [About our 2025 season](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/about-our-2025-season/): From Marc Taddei - Music Director
- [2023/24 Arohanui Strings Scholarships Announced!](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/2023-24-arohanui-strings-scholarships-announced/): Arohanui Strings Sistema and Orchestra Wellington are thrilled to announce and congratulate Ryo Sribunwongsa, Nina Sribunwongsa, and Nadine Martinez as the recipients of the 2023-2024 Orchestra Wellington-Arohanui Strings scholarship!
- [The story of our 2024 season](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/the-story-of-our-2024-season/): From Marc Taddei - Music Director
- [Interview with FABIAN ZIEGLER](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/interview-with-fabian-ziegler/): Hello Fabian! We're very excited to have you here with us in New Zealand. How does it feel to be performing somewhere so far-flung given the difficulties we've all had to face for the last few years?
- [Interview with ARJUNA OAKES](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/interview-with-arjuna-oakes/): Hello Arjuna! You've had a very busy few years since your Watcher EP in 2019. Multiple projects including airtime with highly respected radio stations, and of course now your collaboration with the incredible John Psathas. Creatively speaking, how are you currently feeling? 
- [Interview with JOHN PSATHAS](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/interview-with-john-psathas/): Thank you. For me, it's a big occasion having Zahara played again. The history of it, is that I had written an earlier saxophone concerto for legendary player Michael Brecker, the jazz musician who has since passed away, and the premiere of that was one of the big moments of my life. It was in the big Piazza in Bologna, a huge outdoor concert, and it was very successful. At that concert there was also an Italian saxophonist, Federico Mondelci. I was struck by his playing. He's a wonderful classical saxophone player, and he was very impressed with my saxophone concerto. He got in touch with me afterwards and said he'd like to commission something new from me. I was really into that, and I wrote this piece, Zahara – inspired by a book called “Skeletons on the Zahara”, which is an amazing read – then, Federico came out to New Zealand to premiere the piece. That’s a long time ago, almost 20 years ago now. We did three concerts. They went really well, and it's never been played since. I love this piece – it’s a big deal for me. For me, it's a very grounded and powerful kind of writing – from my output anyway. So the fact that it's being played, again, is super important and very special for me. Also, it's very exciting that Valentine Michaud is coming over from Switzerland, because she's a wonderful player, she's young, she's got this incredible virtuosity and amazing stage presence. So I'm also very excited – her and I are in contact quite frequently sorting out little things in the score and sharing little bits of advice backwards and forwards. So I think it's going to be pretty incredible.

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## Events
- [Between the Lines: The Devil’s Bargain with Orchestra Wellington](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/between-the-lines-the-devils-bargain-with-orchestra-wellington/): Between the Lines is a FREE monthly early-evening chamber music series and book club that brings music and literature into conversation. Presented in the beautiful setting of Ngā Pou Ruahine in Te Matapihi, the series invites audiences to listen, think, and chat. No prior knowledge of music or literature is required, just a curious mind.
- [Between the Lines: Language Games with Orchestra Wellington](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/between-the-lines-language-games-with-orchestra-wellington/): Between the Lines is a FREE monthly early-evening chamber music series and book club that brings music and literature into conversation. Presented in the beautiful setting of Ngā Pou Ruahine in Te Matapihi, the series invites audiences to listen, think, and chat. No prior knowledge of music or literature is required, just a curious mind.
- [Manon](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/manon/): Wellington Opera proudly presents Manon, one of the most popular and enduring works in French opera, starring internationally acclaimed Kiwi singers Amina Edris, Pene Pati, and Phillip Rhodes.
- [BIG BASH](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/big-bash/): First held in 2020, Orchestra Wellington's Big Bash is an annual mass play-in event which brings together hundreds of instrumentalists from across the Wellington region in a glorious afternoon of music-making.
- [Kiri and Lou Live in Concert](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/kiri-and-lou-live-in-concert/): This August, the Michael Fowler Centre will transform into a vibrant, prehistoric forest of sound, laughter, and friendship. Orchestra Wellington is thrilled to announce a spectacular, interactive family concert bringing the award-winning New Zealand animated series Kiri and Lou to life on stage at the Michael Fowler Centre on Saturday, 29 August 2026 at 2:30pm.
- [CREATION](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/creation/): In Darius Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, instead of accompanying invisibly from the pit, the orchestra shares the stage with the Ballet Collective Aotearoa. Milhaud’s work, described as “a milestone in cross-Atlantic pollination”, weds European art music to jazz harmonies and melodies Milhaud picked up from his visits to Harlem and to New York bars and clubs. They were “a revelation” to him: “Against the beat of the drums, the melodic lines criss-crossed in a breathless patter of broken and twisted rhythms.” The Creation’s opening lays a soulful saxophone over a kind of Baroque prelude as Milhaud sets an African creation myth to bluesy wailing, cakewalks, and playful jazz fugues.
- [COLOSSAL](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/colossal/): Orchestra Wellington’s largest collaboration invites a dazzling who’s who of Wellington musical organisations to join them for Berlioz’s mighty Requiem. Our tenor soloist Kyle Stegall, four Wellington Region brass bands, Te Kōkī Orchestra, and the Orpheus Choir are among the groups that will will truly make the Michael Fowler Centre resound. It promises to be a real blast!
- [REVELATIONS](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/revelations/): Orpheus Choir Wellington is one of our orchestra’s most frequent partners. We showcase the choir’s altos and sopranos in Claude Debussy’s Nocturnes. The music reflects another kind of partnership: Debussy was inspired by the “Nocturne” paintings of American artist James McNeill Whistler. Whistler called his Nocturnes, “…an arrangement of line, form, and colour first,” a description that equally suits Debussy’s work. It’s delicate, magical music with the women’s voices like Sirens rising wordlessly from Debussy’s moonlit waves.
- [OCEANS](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/oceans/): Amalia Hall is the NZTrio’s violinist as well as Orchestra Wellington’s concertmaster and frequent soloist. The orchestra’s regular audience will be delighted to learn that she’s playing Ravel’s fiery and beguiling Tzigane.

## Our People
- [New Zealand String Quartet – Te Rōpū Tūrū o Aotearoa](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/new-zealand-string-quartet/): NZSQ join us in 2026 for VIRTUOSI on 27 June, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Te Kōkī Big Band](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/te-koki-big-band/): Te Kōkī Big Band joins us in 2026 for W:ELLINGTON on 30 May, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Ballet Collective Aotearoa](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/ballet-collective-aotearoa/): Ballet Collective Aotearoa joins us in 2026 for CREATION on 22 August, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Inbal Megiddo](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/inbal-meggido/): Inbal joins us in 2026 for VIRTUOSI on 27 June, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [David Fung](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/david-fung/): David joins us in 2026 for W:ELLINGTON on 30 May, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre before continuing on to Christchurch where he will perform at The Piano on Sunday 31 May.
- [Tudor Consort](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/tudor-consort/): The Tudor Consort join us in 2026 for W:ELLINGTON on 30 May, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Orpheus Choir Wellington](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/orpheus-choir-wellington/): Orpheus joins us once again in 2026 for COLOSSAL on Saturday 12 September and REVELATIONS on Saturday 24 October.
- [Jian Liu](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/jian-liu/): Jian joins us once again in 2026 for REVELATIONS on Saturday 24 October, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Victoria Kelly](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/victoria-kelly/): Victoria Kelly is an award-winning composer based in Auckland, whose career has embraced the full spectrum of musical genres — including contemporary classical music, popular music, and music for film, television, theatre and dance. Victoria’s works have been commissioned, performed and recorded by New Zealand artists and performers including the NZSO, Auckland Philharmonia, Voices New Zealand, NZTrio, and the New Zealand String Quartet.
- [Marc Taddei](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/marc-taddei/): Conductor Marc Taddei begins his 20th season as Music Director of Orchestra Wellington in 2026.
- [Amalia Hall](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/amalia-hall/): Noted by The Strad for her "blazing insight and dazzling virtuosity", New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall is the Concertmaster of Orchestra Wellington, a member of NZTrio, and regularly performs internationally as a soloist.
- [John Psathas](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/john-psathas/): New Zealand–Greek composer Ioannis (John) Psathas has a history of large-scale, collaborative projects — such as writing for the ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, and collaborating with iconic artists such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman, Serj Tankian, Oum, and many others.

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- [Coffee Keep-Cup](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/product/coffee-keep-cup/): Keep your hot drinks at the perfect temperature for longer with our beautiful glass coffee keep-cup! Emblazoned with our Orchestra Wellington logo and our classic red covering the lid. Cork mid-riff for easy heat-proof holding while on the go!
- [Samuel Barber String Concerto](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/product/samuel-barber-string-concerto/): Recorded live at the Michael Fowler Centre in 2020, this timeless CD, manufactured in New Zealand, showcases the beautiful concerti for violin and cello, with Amalia Hall violin and Lev Sivkov cello as the inimitable soloists.
- [LEVIATHAN](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/product/leviathan/): Djinn (2009)

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Orchestra Wellington is New Zealand’s oldest regional orchestra, based in Wellington and founded in 1948. It presents a dynamic programme of orchestral performances, combining classical masterpieces with contemporary works and New Zealand compositions.

The orchestra delivers an annual concert series at the Michael Fowler Centre, alongside a wide range of community, education, and outreach performances that engage audiences of all ages across the Wellington region.

Known for its bold and imaginative programming, Orchestra Wellington collaborates with leading soloists, choirs, dancers, and arts organisations, including partnerships with New Zealand Opera and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

With a strong focus on accessibility and community connection, the organisation delivers concerts in both traditional venues and public spaces, while supporting music education initiatives and opportunities for young musicians.

Orchestra Wellington plays a key role in New Zealand’s cultural landscape, offering high-quality live orchestral experiences and contributing to the growth and appreciation of music within the community.