South Waikato Music Society presents Jun Bouterey-Ishido

“[Jun Bouterey-Ishido] plays like he's been on this planet 50 years” – Australian pianist Ian Munro
21-year-old pianist Jun Bouterey-Ishido will return to New Zealand in July and August for an extensive Chamber Music New Zealand tour.

The tour takes place in twelve centres, and includes a performance in Putaruru on Saturday 30 July. Jun will also travel to Whanganui, Lower Hutt, Gisborne, Taihape, Whakatane, Te Awamutu, Blenheim, Motueka, Waimakariri, Gore, and Wanaka.

At the age of eighteen, Jun won top prize at the 2008 Kerikeri International Piano Competition, competing with many others from around the world. The competition’s adjudicator Ian Munro commented that Jun “plays like he's been on this planet 50 years”.

Born in Christchurch in 1990, Jun began learning piano at the age of five under the tutelage of Veronica Van der Knaap and then Diedre Irons. He completed his Bachelor of Music with Honours in piano at Canterbury University in 2008, studying under Péter Nagy, Gao Ping, and Judith Clark and is currently continuing his studies with Péter Nagy in the Masters Programme at the Hochschule für Musik, Stuttgart, whilst also receiving lessons from Rita Wagner and Kirill Gerstein. His overseas studies are supported by grants from the Anne Reid Memorial Trust (2008, 2010) and Kiwi Music Scholarships (2009, 2010).

Jun has participated in masterclasses in New Zealand with renowned pianists Michael Houstoun and Piers Lane, and overseas at the 49th Académie Internationale d’Eté de Nice (2006), France; and in Switzerland, at the Cours Internationale de Piano (2006 and 2007), Blonay, studying under pianists including Pascal Rogé, Edith Fischer, and Jorge Pepi-Alos. As well as winning first prize at the 2008 Kerikeri International Piano Competition, Jun was awarded the PACANZ (Performing Art Competitions Association of New Zealand) National Young Performer of the Year Award for piano in 2004 and again in 2005 for violin. In 2006 and in 2007 he received the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Arts Excellence Award.

Jun’s varied programme includes the lively bourées and gigues in the first of Bach's six English suites, more French in style than English. Hungarian peasant life is vividly depicted in Bartók's Out of Doors suite, a collection of short character pieces. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin was written in memory of the victims of World War I; despite the sombre subject, the suite is reflective and sometimes light-hearted, with Ravel commenting, “The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence”. The programme concludes with Brahms’s Handel Variations.

This concert is presented by South Waikato Music Society in association with Chamber Music New Zealand. For more information visit www.chambermusic.co.nz

Programme:
JS Bach | Suite No 1 in A BWV 806
Bartók | Out of Doors suite
Ravel | Le Tombeau de Couperin
Brahms | Handel Variations

Event listed by The Plaza Theatre Putaruru

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