New Zealand Double Reed Society

Bede Hanley (principal oboe, APO) will be taking an OBOE MAINTENANCE WORKSHOP from  4.30-5.30pm on Saturday 18 October  (after Chamber Music Club). Venue: TBC (Auckland) Cost: free to NZDRS members; $10 non members Please let us know if you would like to attend. email: nzdoublereeds@gmail.com

Saturday 18 October Time : 2- 4.30pm Venue : TBC depending on numbers (AUCKLAND) Anyone can come along to our club. Simply sign up and you will be put in a group and sent some music to prepare. At the club, you will work on the music together and receive help from a professional tutor. Lots of fun! No performance involved. Send an email if you would  like to come along and make your payment by Friday 10 October (details below). If you would like to bring your own group including non double reed players, you are most welcome. Just bring your own music to work on. The maximum cost for a group such as this is $100 regardless of how many people, as long as one person is an NZDRS member. Cost:  NZDRS members: adults $30, school /university students, $5       Non members: adults $35, school/university students $10 (Non members are invited to come along to one session at member's rates)  Please make payment to NZDRS 38 9016 0011004 00 Include your name/Ch Mus Cl/Month

Time : 2- 4.30pm Venue : TBC depending on numbers Anyone can come along to our club. Simply sign up and you will be put in a group and sent some music to prepare. At the club, you will work on the music together and receive help from a professional tutor. Lots of fun! No performance involved. Send an email if you would  like to come along and make your payment by Friday 12 September (details below). If you would like to bring your own group including non double reed players, you are most welcome. Just bring your own music to work on. The maximum cost for a group such as this is $100 regardless of how many people, as long as one person is an NZDRS member. Cost:  NZDRS members: adults $30, school /university students, $5       Non members: adults $35, school/university students $10 (Non members are invited to come along to one session at member's rates)  Please make payment to NZDRS 38 9016 0011004 00 Include your name/Ch Mus Cl/Month 

A very pleasant afternoon was spent with Todd Gibson-Cornish who is studying at the Royal College of Music in London.  Many thanks to Peter Sandiford for the use of his home and afternoon tea. Thanks for organising and bringing a yummy chocolate cake, Kate Nelson! Peter, Natasha, Jacqui, Kate Noah, Gordon, Todd

For Sale: Moosmann Model 100. It has been well looked after, and John Robinson recently did a couple of little repairs that it needed. $7000 was paid for the instrument and would like to sell it for much that price.  It also comes with a lighter travelling case that was $200.  Please contact Robert Skinner at skinners65@paradise.net.nz if interested.

 

Sunday 21 September 5pm Bach Musica  NZ Strauss Oboe Concerto and Rutter Magnificat Thomas Hutchinson - oboe soloist *************************************************** * Special offer to NZDRS members  (usually $45/40) 6 - 9 people: $30 each (adults and seniors) 10 or more: $25 each (adults and seniors) **************************************************** If you are interested, let us know by 12 September. We will then make a group booking if there are sufficient people.   email: nzdoublereeds@gmail.com

Chamber Music Club      2.00- 4.00pm       Anyone can come along to our club. Simply sign up and you will be put in a group and sent some music to prepare. At the club, you will work on the music together and receive help from a professional tutor. Lots of fun! No performance involved. Send an email to nzdoublereeds@gmail.com if you would like to come along.  Make your payment by Friday 8 August (details below).  N.B new bank account If you would like to bring your own group including non double reed players, you are most welcome. Just bring your own music to work on. The maximum cost for a group such as this is $100 regardless of how many people, as long as one person is an NZDRS member. NZDRS members: adults $30, school /university students, $5           Non members: adults $35, school/university students $10 (Non members are invited to come along to one session at member's rates)  Please make payment to NZDRS 38 9016 0011004 00 Include your name/Ch Mus Cl/Month

Time : 2- 4.30pm (school students 3.15 - 4.30pm) Venue : TBC depending on numbers Anyone can come along to our club. Simply sign up and you will be put in a group and sent some music to prepare. At the club, you will work on the music together and receive help from a professional tutor. Lots of fun! No performance involved. Send an email if you would  like to come along and make your payment by Friday 11 July(details below).  N.B new bank account If you would like to bring your own group including non double reed players, you are most welcome. Just bring your own music to work on. The maximum cost for a group such as this is $100 regardless of how many people, as long as one person is an NZDRS member. Cost:  NZDRS members: adults $30, school /university students, $5       Non members: adults $35, school/university students $10 (Non members are invited to come along to one session at member's rates)  Please make payment to NZDRS 38 9016 0011004 00 Include your name

When: Saturday June 21, 2.00 - 4.00pm Including: Afternoon Tea with Peter Dykes 4.00 - 5.00pm New Venue! Music Department, Epsom Girls Grammar School, Silver Road, Epsom   This month we will be having afternoon tea at the end of the session and will be joined by  Peter Dykes  (Associate Principal Oboe, NZSO) who will talk about his journey as an oboist. Everyone is welcome to come along, even if you do not come to the chamber music session beforehand. FREE Our venue will be the music department of Epsom Girls Grammar School, Silver Rd, Epsom. Details of how to get in will follow.  Send an email if you would  like to come to chamber music club and make your payment by Friday 13 June(details below). Anyone can come along to our club. Simply sign up and you will be put in a group and sent some music to prepare. At the club, you will work on the music together and receive help from a professional tutor. There is no performance.  Lots of fun!  Tea/coffee provided. If you would

Monday, 19 May   7:30pm   Philharmonia Hall, 427 Dominion Rd Auckland This  is an informal, friendly, fun opportunity to practise performing!  Bring along a piece you are preparing for exams or chamber music competitions, or just something you are working on in your lessons.  Feel free to bring your own pianist or chamber group members.   Entry for members is FREE, non-members $10. Sign up by email (nzdoublereeds@gmail.com) by Friday,16 May.   Please state what piece you wish to play when you reply.

When:  Sunday 18 May   3.00 - 5.30pm.  Where:  St Peters College, Mountain Rd, Epsom Tutor:  TBC Cost:   NZDRS members: adults $30,  school /university students, $15                 Non members: adults $35,  school/university students $20 Send us an email to let us know you would like to come and make your payment  by  Thursday 9 May (details below). nzdoublereeds@gmail.com Payment should be made to: NZDRS account: 011840-0028449-00     Include your name/ chamber music club/month   No refunds, sorry.. Non members are invited to come along to one session at member's rates.            

When: Saturday 26 April   2.00 - 4.30pm.  Where: Venue TBC depending on numbers.  Tutor: Gordon Skinner Cost:   NZDRS members: adults $30,  school /university students, $15                 Non members: adults $35,  school/university students $20 Send us an email to let us know you would like to come and make your payment  by  Thursday 24 April  (details below). nzdoublereeds@gmail.com Payment should be made to: NZDRS account: 011840-0028449-00     Include your name/ chamber music club/month   No refunds, sorry.. Non members are invited to come along to one session at member's rates.            

...was so much fun! Thank you to all our sponsors and organisers  who made the weekend such a success.

Only a couple of days to go... Remember to bring: Your instrument and reeds A NAMED music stand Your music for Double Reed Band (downloadable on the post below) Some money for lunch Dinner on Saturday night has been booked for 7.30pm at a great place in Takapuna: The Elephant Wrestler. We have our own space, not in amongst everyone else! On arrival at Carmel College, you will receive a welcome pack which includes a booklet with all the information you will need. Make sure you get yours! Here is the current version of the timetable: (this is in the booklet so you don't need to print it out!)

March 1 - 2, 2014 Carmel College Shakespeare Rd Takapuna Carmel College has a new performing arts centre with an excellent auditorium and comfortable foyer and practice areas. Elise Millman Eve Newsome We are very pleased to announce that Eve Newsome, Oboist from Brisbane, and Elise Millman, Bassoonist from Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, are our guest tutors for Double Re ed Weekend.   The weekend is for everyone- all ages and stages! Click HERE to fill in the online application form.   Extra Information ·         Double reed band NZDRS has commissioned a new work by NZ composer Anthony Young, especially for our 2014 weekend. There will be parts for oboe, oboe d’amore, cor anglais, bassoon and contra bassoon. The composer will rehearse and direct the first performance at the closing concert. Download your part from our website.  www.nzdrs.org.nz from 17 February 2014 Ensembles Participants will get the chance to play in groups wi

Here are the parts for the Double Reed Band.  Please print off your own copy and bring to the Double Reed Weekend.  *** Make sure you read  the performance notes below from Anthony Young.*** The Score if you'd like to have a look! Oboe d'Amore Oboe 3 Oboe 2 Oboe 1 Cor Anglais Contra Bassoon Bassoon 3 Bassoon 2 Bassoon 1 Suite for Double Reed Band by Anthony Young Performance notes for First Draft (13/2/14) Please be aware that there maybe a few alterations and changes on the 1st March in rehearsals. This has been a challenging ensemble to write for, and I cannot be sure of being certain of every detail of the mechanics of double reed instruments.  If something seems too difficult or unidiomatic, please don’t fret: it may very well be changed during the rehearsal.  2ND MOVEMENT   There is a solo for oboe d’amore at the start. The following instructions mean:  • Colour trill – creating the a trill without pitch change