Christine Archer Lockwood & Guy Donaldson

The Globe Sunday Matinee concert on Sunday November 27 features duo pianists Christine Archer Lockwood and Guy Donaldson who have performed together in a number of concerts at the Globe in recent years.

Christine Archer-Lockwood was born and educated in Palmerston North and returned to the city in 2017. Her piano teachers were Beryl Bartlett (PNth) and Judith Clark (Wellington). She gained an Honours degree in Piano Performance at Victoria University of Wellington, post-graduate diplomas in teaching (Wellington) and music therapy (London), and a Masters in Music Therapy from Massey University, Wellington. Christine’s professional life has been as a primary school teacher; a music therapist in special education, early intervention, and private practice; a chamber musician, an accompanist, piano teacher, music director and conductor of choirs and orchestras. She is currently music director of the Renaissance Singers.

Guy Donaldson received his formative piano instruction from Maurice Collier, and then at Canterbury University with Maurice Till. In 1984 he studied in London with Paul Hamburger and Roger Vignoles. Guy was a senior lecturer in music education at Massey until 2004, when he took leave to pursue his passion for performance and music teaching. He is active in the Manawatu as a teacher, adjudicator, piano soloist, accompanist, chamber music player and music coach, and was for 30 years music director of the Renaissance Singers.

Performing on two pianos the pair will present a programme that includes familiar and well-loved pieces. The concert opens with Bach’s own arrangement for two keyboards of the first movement of his Concerto for two violins and orchestra – one of his most popular works.
By way of contrast the pianists then launch into a short fiery piece from New Zealand composer Edwin Carr’s suite The Four Elements.
One of Brahms’ most loved orchestral pieces is his Variations on Haydn’s St Anthony Chorale. Brahms also wrote a version of this for two pianos, which will be heard in this programme.
Shostakovich is generally regarded as a composer of serious and weighty pieces, but in his exciting Concertino for two pianos he introduces material that might have had a place in his film scores and in his circus music.
Finally the duo pianists play a fantasy on some of the best known tunes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess composed for two piano by Percy Grainger. Grainger was a brilliant Australian pianist and composer who visited and performed in Palmerston North in the early years of the twentieth century while touring the country. Grainger was an advocate for new and exciting music, and he brings all his skill to bring out the best in Gershwin’s music.
Admission is by donation recommended from $5.