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Auckland’s Rare Opportunity To Hear Legendary Kiwi Pianist For One Night Only This November

Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 8:12 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is thrilled to be playing with legendary Kiwi pianist Michael Houstoun to perform in their last concert of the year. More >>

Auckland Opera Studio And Manukau Symphony Orchestra Join Forces For Powerful Verdi Meets Puccini Event

Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:44 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

This September, the highly acclaimed Auckland Opera Studio and South Auckland’s much loved Manukau Symphony Orchestra will give audiences two powerfully moving operatic performances, filled with the kind of rich emotion and romantic tragedy that can ... More >>

Manukau Symphony’s FAMILY CONCERT With Star Wars, Winners Of Aria Competition, And Youngest Ever MSO Soloist

Monday, 17 April 2023, 6:35 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

At the tender age of 13, Shan Liu has just started his first year at Westlake Boys High School but has already performed at numerous concert halls around the world. Shan most recently won Gold in the Pacific Rim International Piano Competition, Carnegie ... More >>

Michael Houstoun Plays Saint-Saëns, And World Premiere Of Salina Fisher’s “Kintsugi” For Orchestra.

Friday, 4 November 2022, 10:59 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is excited to feature concert pianist Michael Houstoun performing the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor. The No 2 concerto is regarded as the most popular of the five piano concertos Saint-Saëns wrote as ... More >>

Scheherazade

Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 1:58 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

One of New Zealand’s most in-demand conductors Vincent Hardaker is to conduct “Scheherazade” with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra September 25. The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is excited to have Vincent Hardaker as guest conductor for ... More >>

Mark Menzies Joins Manukau Symphony Orchestra For Brahms Violin Concerto

Monday, 23 May 2022, 4:09 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is excited to be performing their first concert for 2022, showcasing virtuoso violinist Mark Menzies playing the Brahms Violin Concerto, on Sunday 29 May, at 5pm at the Vodafone Events Centre. Performing with the MSO for ... More >>

Mahler Four With Manukau Symphony Orchestra ‘…a Dream’

Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 10:04 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

A Mahler symphony is a symbol of maturity for any orchestra. Together with soprano Anna Leese , Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) will perform Mahler’s Fourth Symphony on Saturday 28 August , 7.30pm at the Vodafone Events Centre . Leese, a sought-after ... More >>

World Premiere, Masterpieces And Henry Wong Doe

Friday, 18 June 2021, 8:41 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) takes music-making up a notch with the world premiere of a new fanfare, a captivating pianist Henry Wong Doe and orchestral masterpieces in Brahms 4 on Saturday 3 July , 7.30pm at the Vodafone Events Centre . Performing ... More >>

‘No Longer Retired’ – Houstoun Plays The Egyptian In Manukau

Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 5:05 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) begins its 2021 season with renowned New Zealand pianist Michael Houstoun in the twice-rescheduled concert Houstoun Plays The Egyptian on Sunday 2 May, 5pm at the Vodafone Events Centre. Houstoun always tries to avoid ... More >>

MSO Presents World Premiere In Seascapes

Thursday, 29 October 2020, 8:21 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra is full steam ahead with a world premiere, a cello concerto and two cantatas as it sets sail in Seascapes on Saturday 14 November, 7:30pm at the Vodafone Events Centre. An eagerly awaited return by soloist and Principal ... More >>

Manukau Symphony Orchestra In Opera Night

Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 8:24 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra is serving up a ‘ten-course classical degustation’ of operatic and concert masterpieces featuring not one, but four soloists in an Opera Night sitting on Saturday 22 August, 7:30pm at the Vodafone Events Centre. The Manukau ... More >>

Houstoun Plays ‘The Egyptian’ In Manukau

Friday, 6 March 2020, 8:09 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

After almost fifty years of playing, New Zealand’s foremost pianist Michael Houstoun will be performing in South Auckland for the final time on Saturday 21 March 2020 with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO), before ‘hanging up his fingers’ in ... More >>

Manukau Symphony Orchestra: Magic Mozart

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 9:53 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra welcomes the return of a soloist who will be performing the work that started her journey as a clarinettist at its ‘Magic Mozart’ concert on Saturday 16 November at the Vodafone Events Centre. More >>

Manukau Symphony Doubles the Tchaikovsky

Wednesday, 7 August 2019, 12:41 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra is set to perform two of Tchaikovsky’s greatest works with one of the country’s finest string players later this month. More >>

Three South Auckland Orchestra & Choirs ‘In Paradisum’

Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 10:49 am | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

An orchestra and two choirs based in South Auckland will join forces for the first time ‘In Paradisum’ (‘Into Paradise’) for one of the most widely-loved choral-orchestral works. More >>

Manukau’s Orchestra premieres Warwick Blair’s tamāhine

Thursday, 28 February 2019, 9:04 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

Influenced by the Maori concept of family, New Zealand composer Warwick Blair ’s ‘tamāhine’ from "Whānau" for any number of performers and electronics will be premiered by the Manukau Symphony Orchestra at the Vodafone Events Centre ... More >>

Orchestra Celebrates with 25th Fireworks

Monday, 5 November 2018, 8:21 pm | Manukau Symphony Orchestra

What brings an acclaimed concert pianist back to share the stage with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra for the fifth time to celebrate its 25th anniversary? More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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