2022 Auckland Music Festival
7th Music Competition
Venue: 100 Saint Heliers Bay Road, St Heliers, Auckland
Timetable
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Thursday 13th Oct Church Hall 9.30am Class 7 Class 8 Class 9 Class 10 11.00am Class 19 Class 22 Class 23 Class 24 1.00pm Class 13 3.00pm Class 14 Class 16 Class 18 |
Thursday 13th Oct Upper Hall 9.00am class38 10.00am Class 25 11.00am Class 26 Class 27 Class 28 1.30pm Class 29 Class 30 2.30pm Class 31 Class 32 |
2022 Results
Overall Champion 2022: Xuyao Alex Bai
Our Adjudicators:
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Justin Bird is a widely acclaimed pianist and teacher, whose fresh interpretations include an affinity for underrated repertoire. He has won the New Zealand Kapiti Coast International Piano Competition, and was awarded the NZ Young Performer of the Year for piano. Other awards have been finalist in the NZ Young Musician of the year Competition, MTNA National Young Artist Competition in the USA, and representing New Zealand in the finals of the Kowhai Australasian Piano Concerto Competition. Justin has had the privilege to appear with many college and youth orchestras, as well as the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
As a young pianist Justin studied with Rae de Lisle, then Bryan Sayer at the University of Auckland. Continuing his studies in the USA with Read Gainsford at Ithaca College and Florida State University, and Marian Hahn at the Peabody Institute, Justin then moved to Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music to complete a Doctorate in Music studying with André Watts. Justin has been sharing his love for music since the nineties, always maintaining a private studio wherever he lives, as well as teaching class piano in many different colleges and schools. After his Associate Instructorship at IU, he taught at Vincennes University as Adjunct Faculty, and was then appointed as Artist Faculty at Omaha Conservatory of Music in Nebraska. Now living again in New Zealand, he teaches a full studio of pianists in Auckland, performs piano, violin, and viola with various orchestras and ensembles, and services and tunes pianos. |
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SCOTT TERZAGHI | CELLIST
started learning cello at age eight, later studying in California with Willy Van den Burg (student of Pablo Casals and principal cello of the Philadelphia and San Francisco orchestras). He moved to New Zealand at age eighteen where he studied cello with Wilfred Simenauer at Victoria University of Wellington, obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Music. With a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand grant he continued his cello studies in Europe, first in Paris with Radu Aldulescu, then in Geneva with Pierre Fournier and Guy Fallot at the Conservatoire de Genève (Switzerland), where he received the Prix de Virtuosité diploma. He then went back to New Zealand to take up the position of Lecturer in Cello at the University of Otago. During this time he did a nationwide tour of cello and piano recitals in all the main centres and many of the smaller ones, played concertos in Dunedin and Invercargill, and recorded a series of sonatas and trios for Radio New Zealand-Concert FM. He subsequently pursued his career as principal cello of a number of European orchestras: the Philharmonique de Nice (France), for six years, the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada Orchestre (Spain), for one year, and the Orchestra del Teatro Bellini in Catania (Italy), where he remained for eight years. He performed as concerto soloist with all of these orchestras and played most of the important cello solos in the orchestral repertoire. Scott then returned to New Zealand, again as Lecturer in Cello at the University of Otago where he was also in charge of the chamber music programme. There he played in recitals with pianist Terence Dennis and as a member of the University of Otago Trio, with concerts around the nation including at the NZ Festival of the Arts in Wellington and a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto in Dunedin, as well as in Japan for a series of concerts and master classes. At that point he moved back to Europe as an independent musician based in the Geneva region, from where he regularly performed solo and chamber music concerts in different European countries. He returned as principal cello with the Orchestra del Teatro Bellini in Catania for several complete seasons and other shorter periods, and as guest principal cello with the Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 2016. As a concerto soloist, he has performed with orchestras in France, Spain, Italy, New Zealand and Morocco—where he was accompanied by the BBC North Symphony Orchestra (Brahms double concerto, with Patrice Fontanarosa, violin). He has given cello and piano recitals in those same countries and in Greece, Switzerland and Lithuania, and made recordings for different radio networks. He has also played solos on several motion picture soundtracks (notably An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion and Rote Erde, a German television series). Scott now lives in the greater Auckland area. |
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