Tour to end at Akaroa

Press, 4 October 1977, Page 12

Tour to end at Akaroa

The Wellington-based concert pianist, Rae de Lisle, will end a tour of 11 centres with a lateaftemoon concert at Hie Gallery, Akaroa, on Sunday. Miss de Lisle — who in private life is the wife of Bill McCarthy, a TVI news reader — will play compositions by Haydn, Schumann, Debussy, and Chopin in her recital, which will start at 5 p.m.

Miss de Lisle’s tour was arranged by the Music Federation. By the time she arrives in Akaroa she will have been on tour for a little less than a month, and will have performed in Ashburton, Gore, and Balclutha as well as a number of North Island centres.

When Rae de Lisle made her international debut as a recitalist in

London in 1975 she already had behind her a distinguished musical career in New Zealand, where she had been a soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, had played on radio, and had won the Auckland “Star” piano concerto prize. In 1969 she won a New Zealand Arts Council bursary which enabled her to attend the Guildhall School of Music in London. While in Britain she won other grants to enable her to prolong her studies, and she also continued her competitive playing with a prize in 1974 in the Hastings Concerto Competition and a place in the final in the Greater London Council’s Young Musicians Competition in the same year. She has also played on 8.8. C. radio.