March 7-10, 2008 Coromandel Peninsula - New Zealand

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Piano Concerts

Sponsored by the

Whitianga Music Society

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c/o Diana Morcom

705 Purangi Rd
Cooks Beach, RD. 1
Whitianga

(07) 866-5690
morcom@xtra.co.nz

In 2008 there will be a concert on March 9 at 2p.m. at Cooks Beach where I have a lovely piano, a magnificent view, and room for about 50 people. This will be followed shortly afterwards by a concert in Coromandel sponsored by the Coromandel Music Society.

Tickets for the Cooks Beach house concert are $15 sold at door. Phone reservations are essential owing to limited seating. Tel. (07) 866 5690

The program includes works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bartok, and French composers Satie, Ravel, Faure and Debussy

Hours:

2pm Sunday

Directions:

To find our house, (coming from Tairua), turn left at the T- junction at Dalmeny corner,  just past the Whenuakite School, and follow the signs to Cooks Beach. 

The entrance to our house in situated on a sharp bend,  on the left hand side of the road   - it's a steep metal driveway, and our place is the second house up the driveway. 

A sign is usually placed at the road entrance to assist those who are unsure of their whereabouts!

There is assistance with parking.

Biography:

Diana Morcom  - pianist and teacher.  Started at the age of 6 with Mary Nathan in Auckland.  Won many competitions and prizes and at the age of 20 was awarded a NZ Government bursary for overseas study in England with Frederick Jackson at the Royal Academy, and in Vienna with Frau Professor Viola Thern at the Vienna Conservatorium.   On her return to NZ, played with various orchestras, gave solo recitals , broadcasts and chamber music concerts, besides teaching and touring. In the early sixties, Diana, in collaboration with Robert Issell, violin, presented the first concert that TVNZ broadcast in N.Z.  
In 1963, married a sheep farmer, Toby Morcom and moved to Whitianga, where the next few years were spent raising a family of three children.  Music took a back seat for for several years, but gradually returned to playing several concerts a year, both solo and in the field of chamber music and accompanying.

The Whitianga Music Society was formed some years ago by a local musician, Fay Leins, who died a couple of years ago.  Since then I have taken it over, and we present about 3 or 4 concerts a year of various types of music.  For example, last year we had  Catherine McKay, a well-known pianist from Wellington, Ronald Woodcock, an Australian violinist, and Shane Cammel who delighted his audience with a guitar concert.  We aim to bring music of a high standard to people who would normally find it too difficult, or too expensive to get to the main centres to listen to recitals. We also like to encourage young people who would otherwise not have the opportunity to hear classical music.