Works for keyboard in C.S.O. concert

Press, 9 November 1988, Page 27

Works for keyboard in C.S.O. concert

Two works for keyboard and orchestra feature in the final concert in the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra 1988 Trust Bank Canterbury Spring Series. A Christchurch-born pianist, Jeffrey Grice, will return to perform the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto, and an organist, Martin Setchell, will feature in a performance of the Saint-Saens “Organ Symphony.” The programme, which will begin with the “Carnival Overture” by Dvorak, will be conducted by Donald Johanos, music director of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. Johanos previously conducted the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in May 1987, in a programme which premiered John Ritchie’s “Papanui Road Overture,” and included a spirited account of Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony. Johanos has conducted throughout the United States, and prior to his Honolulu appointment had been principal conductor and musical director of

the Dallas Symphony, and associate conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has appeared with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Netherlands Philharmonic. He studied in London, Salzburg and Vienna, and has toured in South

America and China. Johanos is a frequent guest conductor of the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra. Jeffrey Grice will return to New Zealand from his base in Paris. Following numerous competition successes Grice gave his first oublic concert at the

age of 16, and in 1976 was awarded a French Government bursary to study in Paris with Yvonne Loriod and Germaine Mounier. In Israel in 1980 he met Professor Enrique Barenboim, with whom he worked for a year. Grice has given many recitals in Europe.