Overseas musicians for university winter series

Press, 29 May 1985, Page 20

Overseas musicians for university winter series

Three overseas artists are expected for the Canterbury University’s School of Music winter evening recitals during the next two months. The first of the recitals is next Wednesday evening when the School of Music’s three resident artists, Maurice Till, Walter Goedde and Carl Pini, will play in the James Hay Theatre. For the following three recitals an overseas artist will feature. On July 3 Edmund Bohan, one of Britain’s most versatile tenors, will join Maurice Till, Walter Goedde and Paul Mayhew in a programme of Schubert’s music. Edmund Bohan was born

in New Zealand and first went to England after initial study here. He is now a member of London Concert Artists, a group of solo singers. The music will include a duet for horn and piano and for cello and piano. On July 16 Rainer Moog and New Zealander Alison Lander will combine to play a number of pieces for viola and piano. Rainer Moog has played as a solo artist with the Berlin Philharmonic and, in 1978, became professor of viola at the Cologne Musikhochschule. He is much sought after as a teacher and as a chamber music performer. Alison Lander is a New

Zealand pianist who has been living and working in Cologne for some years. Both artists will appear courtesy of the Goethe Institute. On July 30 Maurice Till and Walter Goedde will be joined by the latter’s brother, Wilfred Goedde, in the Christchurch Town Hall. Wilfred Goedde is a violinist who first became a concertmaster with a symphony orchestra when he was 27. He now fills that position for the orchestra of South-western Radio, Kaiserlauten. They will play a Trio in B flat by Schubert and another in D minor by Mendelssohn.