NEW ZEALAND ARTIST

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2017, 26 March 1914, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND ARTIST

PRAISE BY THERESA OARJiK.VO. "There is nothing more to tcash your niece. Her technique is perfect—her only teachers now must lie experience and herself." These arc the words that Madauio Theresa Carreiio ir«ed when Mr. Tlieo. Queree, of Wellington, who has just- returned from a tour.of Euiope, inqtrired' as to tlia progress of Miss lieue Querec, daughter of M:. and Mrs. Ernest Queree, of Wellington. It will Ije remembered that Miss Querce ivent Homo some three years ago to finish her studies wider the tutelage of tlw great Camna. who had been taken by flits' tslmited Wellington girl. They were together in Berlin, in Dresden, and Switzerland, working hard until not quite- a year ago, when Miss Queree was released a per* feet artist in pianoforte. Mr. Qtteree states that his niwsV playing fiar-s improved out of recognition: She had not tho strength of a C'antnio or the extreme delicacy of a Leonard Berwick. but she had developed into a really fine. emotional player. .She hntl lost lier gi-riisli'consciousness of arms and hands, and her .whole self seemed now tD be concentrated in bringing out the emotional beauties of the-music. While s'no is as catholic in her taste as Carrtma, 1 fancy she prefers to play Chopin. In May last shjs caitie over from Berlin ■ to meet mo in London., and at the end of Jtily she «as -engaged to tour with Me-lsa, a- brilliant young Polish violinist, as solo pianist. I lwafu her. play in sev-. oral places, including .Wales, Jersey, and Guernsey, and die always made' ari excellent impression, in London sls-o gave .a recital before a distinguished gathering of musicians, including Mr. Haniish M'Oann-j Mr, Fair-burn (mutroger of Covent Garden Opera HoUso), Mr. Fishier Scbeli (an eminent teacher of vcealisni), Professor Ma,~sh.sll Bali,.and Mr, Cooper ■ Mitchell, and they were one and all : charmed with Miss Quercc's nnconvnwn -brilliance. They advised hesr to wait ijci" ctance ■ of a Queen's Hall appearance, W'ten she was sure to establish herself : : as an artist to be reckoned witli. 1 "As she stands now. Miss Querce is a finished artist, technically, lint who mav require time to develop individuality. Carreno used to say to her, 'You must not admire nty playing so iniich. You must- play a-3 you feel—that is the basis of all 'artistic greatness." < "There is a. possibility that JJiss ■Quefee- nifty come, out on ..a visit to Tier father and mother. at the cud of the ..year, hut shift is making the pianoforte lier profession."