BORDERLANDS
Van Diemen’s Band
“The gasps from the audience said it all, as the music became ever more dramatic and the harmonies ever more progressive… Proof, should it be needed, that music truly does transcend time and space.”
– Limelight Magazine
Borders divide us. Yet in the meeting places between one thing and another is sometimes found the greatest variety and vitality. From Tasmania comes a group of performers that revel in the liveliness and intrigue of borderlands. Playing music of composers who lived and worked, as fluid borders shifted beneath their feet. A musical backdrop to the tumult of the Thirty Years War and the meeting of cultures at the edges of the Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires.
Julia Fredersdorff, artistic director/violin, has curated a programme that explores the sublime simplicity of music of the early baroque period, as well as works startling for their originality and spirited evocations of battles and dances—all performed with the raw freshness that audiences have come to know from music on gut strings and original set ups.
Highlights include
DIETRICH BECKER
Sonata a 5 in F major
SAMUEL SCHEIDT
Galliarda Battaglia
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ VON BIBER
Ciacona from ‘Mensa sonora’
DONALD NICOLSON
A new work (premiere)
TOMASO ALBINONI
Sinfonia a cinque. op 2
Julia Fredersdorff Artistic director/violin
Simone Slattery violin/recorder
Lizzy Welsh viola
Laura Vaughan bass viol
Anton Baba bass viol/cello
Donald Nicolson harpsichord
TOUR DATES
2 – 15 September 2022
DURATION
90 minutes including an interval
LOCATIONS
Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Hamilton, Auckland & Napier
PRICE RANGE*
$32 to $54
Limited $10 ‘Rush Tickets’ available
*prices differ city to city and exclude ticketing and booking fees.
GENRE
Baroque
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INVERCARGILL
Fri 2 Sep at 7.30pm
Civic Theatre
DUNEDIN
Sat 3 Sep at 7.30pm
Glenroy Auditorium
CHRISTCHURCH
Mon 5 Sep at 7.30pm
The Piano
NELSON
Wed 7 Sep at 7.30pm
Nelson Centre for Musical Arts
WELLINGTON
Thu 8 Sep at 7.30pm
Public Trust Hall
PALMERSTON NORTH
Fri 9 Sep at 7.30pm
The Globe
NEW PLYMOUTH
Sun 11 Sep at 5.00pm
4th Wall Theatre
HAMILTON
Mon 12 Sep at 7.30pm
Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts
AUCKLAND
Tue 13 Sep at 7.30pm
Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall
NAPIER
Thu 15 Sep at 7.30pm
MTG Century Theatre