Freelance Violinist

At this point in my career, I am deriving great artistic fulfilment performing as soloist, chamber musician and guest-concertmaster with a broad variety of my favourite musicians and ensembles.

In October 2021, I launched  At the World’s Edge Festival (AWE Festival) with London-based kiwi violinist Benjamin Baker, fulfilling a long-held dream to create a chamber music festival within the stunning landscapes of New Zealand’s Queenstown Lakes. Performing with leading international chamber musicians from around the globe is now an annual performing highlight for me each October.

A significant project this decade has involved the rare privilege of performing two complete cycles of Beethoven’s ten violin and piano sonatas with pianist Kate Boyd.

In February 2020 we performed our first cycle in my gorgeous Central Otago neighbourhood, performing all ten sonatas over just three days. Three years passed before we were able to repeat the cycle in the Northern Hemisphere as originally planned, delayed due to covid disruptions. Our second perfomance of the cycle took place at Butler University, Indianapolis in January 2023.

Violinist of NZTrio

From 2002 to mid-2017, I was a founding member and violinist of NZTrio, performing throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia, South America, the USA, Europe and Scandinavia.

We collaborated broadly across the arts spectrum working with animated film (David Downes, 2009), contemporary dance (New Zealand Dance Company, 2012/2013), theatre (Massive Company, 2013), voice (tenor Simon O’Neill, 2016), as well as cross-cultural musical works with masters of Maori taonga puoro, Chinese guzheng, and Cambodian traditional instruments.

Later highlights were a New Zealand tour of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with UK clarinetist Julian Bliss (2016) and a significant cross-cultural project recording nine new piano trios by Chinese composers in China.

I am hugely proud of the legacy NZTrio built during my 15 years with the ensemble. We commissioned and performed close to 40 works from NZ composers and showcased these compositions within diverse programmes on the world stage. At my final performance with NZTrio, we were awarded the Lilburn Trust Citation for Outstanding Services to New Zealand Music. You can watch some live performances and listen to recording excerpts of NZTrio on this website.