A youthful string quartet’s performing an exciting programme tonight at Queenstown’s Thomas Brown Gallery.
Magic Carpet String Quartet, which is on a 13-concert South Island tour entitled ‘BLOOM’, was formed early this year to give performance opportunities to talented young musicians and expose smaller communities to more classical music.
The quartet’s led by tour director and multi-award-winning violinist/composer Rakuto Kurano, who’s just 22.
He’s joined by violinist Cameron Stanley, a data analyst/transport engineer who’s also a Wānaka swimming coach, University of Canterbury violinist Harry Kim and University of Otago cellist Boudewijn Keenan.
Their programme includes Mozart’s cheerful string quartet in C major, and early Beethoven quartet in G major, new works by Kurano and young New Zealand composer Sarah Fouhy and Elgar’s famous Salut d’Amour.
Magic Carpet String Quartetn, Thomas Brown Gallery, 7pm tonight. Tickets $45, including refreshements, from Arrowtown’s Lakes District Museum and Humanitix
