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URI CAINE & NEW ZEALAND STRING QUARTET AT AAF 2016

Friday 18 March 2016
Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

Grammy Award-nominated New York jazz pianist Uri Caine joins the New Zealand String Quartet for a concert at Auckland Town Hall’s Concert Chamberas part of Auckland Arts Festival 2016, presented in association with Chamber Music New Zealand.

Known for his collaborations with a range of musicians and ensembles from the Beaux Arts Trio to John Zorn, the Woody Herman Band to the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Uri Caine re-imagines the classics, taking classical music and using it as a springboard for improvisation in fascinating and entertaining ways.

The programme for the Auckland concert features novel variations on classic themes reflecting on the Allegretto convariazioni of Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ Quartet Op. 74, and Bach’s magnificent Goldberg Variations, described by the composer as “diverse variations composed for music lovers to refresh their spirits”. The concert will also include Uri Caine originals for piano and string quartet - Jagged Edges and String Theories.

Following the performance, concertgoers can continue the experience at a post-concert Q&A session with Uri Caine.

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"Caine's arrangements are wonderfully inventive and they're brilliantly executed, too. There's humour aplenty, yet Caine respects musicality - each variation is crafted with due expertise. Parody? Pastiche? It's more a carnivalesque celebration of Bach's enduring appeal. If only more tributes could be this bold, this creative, this much fun.” – ClassicalMusic.com (BBC)

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