Cantenir four

Press, 23 July 1986, Page 22

Cantenir four

Four promising young Christchurch musicians will give a string instrument recital at the Arts Centre this Friday. The four, who have called themselves the Cantenir Quartet, will present works by Mozart and Alexander Borodin in the Great Hall from 1.10 p.m. Mark Menzies and Martin Rlseley (violin), Janet Sim (cello) and Tony van Bureu (viola) named the quartet after the eighteenth century Rumanian prince who introduced musical notation into Turkey. All music students at the University of Canterbury, they have an impressive list of career distinctions.

Mark Menizes, aged 17, began studying under Carl Pini at the university when he was only 15 and has since won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London and this year’s National Instrumental Concerto Competition. The three meh are all semi-finalists in the forthcoming Young Musicians’ Competition, while Janet Sim and Tony van Bureu are long-time members of the National Youth Orchestra and Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. They will perform Quartet in G Major K 387 by Mozart and Borodin’s ’ Quartet No. 2 in D Major.