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# Orchestra Wellington

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## Posts
- [Two Creation Stories: Tānemahuta Gray on choreographing for CREATION](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/two-creation-stories-tanemahuta-gray-on-choreographing-for-creation/): Prior to composing La Création du Monde, Darius Milhaud encountered jazz in London in 1920, but his experience of Black American jazz in Harlem during his 1922 visit to New York had a particularly profound impact on him. He became fascinated by its rhythms, instrumental colours and freedom. He then essentially took those sounds home and incorporated them into a European classical composition. He wrote La Création du Monde, Op. 81a, in 1922–23 as a ballet for the Ballets Suédois in Paris. It premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 25 October 1923. The story describes the creation of the world, drawing on African mythology as it was represented in Cendrars's Anthologie nègre. It moves from primordial chaos through the emergence of plant and animal life, then humanity, desire and finally a kind of spring-like resolution.
- [Your Generosity in Action: Expand Access to Music](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/your-generosity-in-action-expand-access-to-music/): Orchestra Wellington's new website - our digital front door.
- [Your Generosity in Action: Create New Musical Legacy](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/your-generosity-in-action-create-new-musical-legacy/): Orchestra Wellington premieres Hour of Lead by 2024 Composer-in-Residence Eve de Castro-Robinson. Photo credit: Andy Best.
- [Your Generosity in Action: Transform Young Lives](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/your-generosity-in-action-transform-young-lives/): Arohanui Strings+ perform on-stage with Orchestra Wellington at the Michael Fowler Centre for the 2025 SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra | Te Tono Mahinga a SOUNZ mā te Rāngai Puoro me te Rāngai Puoro Taiohi a Sistema.
- [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: 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.
- [BIG BASH](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/big-bash/): Instrumentalists! Singers! Everyone is invited!
- [REVELATIONS](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/event/revelations/): Working with our friends at the SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, this concert also features the World Premiere of the 2026 SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra | Te Tono Mahinga a SOUNZ mā te Rāngi Puoro me te Rāngi Puoro Taiohi a Sistema with the young Arohanui Strings+ musicians.
- [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
- [Madeleine Pierard](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/madeleine-pierard/): Madeleine Pierard joins us in 2026 for OCEANS on 28 November, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Te Kōkī Orchestra](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/te-koki-orchestra/): Te Kōkī Orchestra joins us in 2026 for COLOSSAL on 22 August, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Trust Porirua City Brass](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/trust-porirua-city-brass/): Porirua City Brass joins us in 2026 for COLOSSAL on 22 August, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Wellington Brass Band](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/wellington-brass-band/): Wellington Brass Band joins us in 2026 for COLOSSAL on 22 August, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Kyle Stegall](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/kyle-stegall/): Kyle Stegall joins us in 2026 for COLOSSAL on 22 August, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [Michael Houstoun](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/michael-houstoun/): Michael Houstoun joins us in 2026 for CREATION on 22 August, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [John Psathas Group](https://orchestrawellington.co.nz/our-people/john-psathas-group/): The John Psathas Group joins us in 2026 for CREATION on 22 August, 7:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre.
- [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.
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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.