Global couple play in Chch

Press, 27 April 1984, Page 4

Global couple play in Chch

A cosmopolitan air surrounds Monique Duphil and Jay Humeston, two musicians at present giving recitals in Christchurch. Monique Duphil, a French pianist, and Jay Humeston, an American cellist, live in Hong Kong. They met some years ago at a music festival in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. After marrying four years ago, Mr Humeston took a job as principal cellist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, which is made up of musicians from more than 20 different nations. The couple have travelled and performed throughout the United States and Europe and in Asia, Japan, and Korea, playing as a duo and individually. Soon after her return to Hong Kong, Miss Duphil will set off on a concert tour of South America. With two musical careers to consider the musicians spend a lot of time apart. “A trip like this to New Zealand is marvellous. We can travel and perform together,” said Mr Humeston yesterday, after a lunchtime recital at the School of Music of the University of Canterbury. It is the couple’s third visit to New Zealand. The first was in 1981, when they gave university concerts in the North Island, and the second was last year, for a recording in Wellington.