Violinist Peter Clark Photo: Supplied
Time off from touring doesn't mean time off from working.
Not if you're Peter Clark, a member of the New Zealand String Quartet.
RNZ Concert caught up with Clark while he was back home in Wellington, ahead of the second half of the quartet's current tour of the North Island.
Clark says he has plenty of teaching work on, and he's also helping out the violin section of Orchestra Wellington which will take on Shostakovich's massive Fourth Symphony this Saturday.
From left: New Zealand String Quartet's Peter Clark and Gillian Ansell with guest artists Arna Morton and Callum Hall. Photo: NZSQ
Then it's straight back on the road for the second part of the NZSQ tour which will see the quartet travel to the Auckland region to perform in All Souls Church in the small town of Clevedon southeast of the city, on Sunday 21 September.
NZSQ members Clark and violist Gillian Ansell will be joined by guest artists Arna Morton (violin) and Callum Hall (cello).
On the programme, more music by Shostakovich, a string quartet by Grieg, and a new work by New Zealand composer Mika Cornelius, inspired by fungi.
The following week, there's three more gigs around Auckland city including a fundraising concert with, and for, the young players from Sistema Aotearoa at Sinfonia Hall in the central suburb of Freemans Bay.
Clark, who moved to New Zealand from Australia last year to join the NZSQ, says he's loving New Zealand life.
He's also loving the local weather, which is much like the climate he grew up with in the southern state of Tasmania.
