SOLOIST – Gillian Ansell CONDUCTOR – Michael Joel – First monument Sunday 19 October 2.30pm
St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra presents to you one of New Zealand’s most distinguished performing musicians. Born in Auckland, Gillian Ansell made her concert debut as a violinist with the Auckland Philharmonia aged 16. By 19 she took up a scholarship to the Royal College of Music London, where for three years she studied violin, viola and piano, moving on to Germany to the Musikhochschule Cologne, where she studied with Igor Ozim and the Amadeus Quartet. Working professionally in London, Gillian returned to NZ in 1987.
This move was to become a founding member of the New Zealand String Quartet. She was second violinist for two years before taking up the position of violist of the group. With the NZSQ, Gillian has toured overseas bi-annually to the USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, China, Asia and Australia as well as regular touring within NZ. The NZSQ has a compilation of 19 CDs and has been involved in commissioning and giving countless premieres of New Zealand works. On any overseas tour, an NZ piece will always be included.
In 1992, Gillian founded the Adam Chamber Music Festival and has been the artistic director of the festival since 2001. She served on the jury of the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2019. Gillian plays on a 1619 Nicolo Amati Viola generously loaned by the Adam Foundation. In 2008, she was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her outstanding services to music in NZ.
Michael Joel is the Music Director and Conductor of St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra. NZ born, he studied at Otago University and also with conductors Heinz Walburg, Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Jac van Steen at the Darlington International Summer School. At home with orchestral, operatic and choral repertoire, he has conducted many orchestras and companies in NZ and in the UK and has worked on the music staff of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra is an accomplished orchestra performing a wide repertoire of music specifically providing performance opportunities for New Zealand musicians, composers and conductors.
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