14 May 1999 Chamber Music Concert at Lincoln University

Acclaimed New Zealand pianist Richard Mapp joins the New Zealand String Quartet for a lunchtime concert at Lincoln University on Wednesday (19 May).

Christchurch-born, Richard Mapp made his performing debut with the Christchurch Civic Orchestra in 1965. In 1975 he began studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London, winning many important prizes and scholarships while there and gaining the coveted Recital Diploma.

Wednesday's concert is presented by Chamber Music New Zealand in association with Lincoln University Music Society. One of Chamber Music New Zealand's objectives is to encourage collaboration between leading chamber music ensembles and other musicians. In this concert they bring together the New Zealand String Quartet and pianist Richard Mapp.

The centrepiece of the programme is Schumann's exquisite Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op 47.

"It is not one of the most well-known pieces, but it has a most beautiful slow movement in particular, and the last movement bubbles along – as Schumann sometimes does," says Mr Mapp.

Also in the programme the Quartet will perform the lyrical Italian Serenade by Hugo Wolf and one of Beethoven's late string quartets, Opus 130, plus the rarely performed Grosse Fuge, Op 133.

Admission is free, residents of the communities around Lincoln University are welcome to join staff and students for the recital, and it starts at 12.40pm in Memorial Hall.

Ian Collins, Journalist, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand