Trio D'iry

The next programme in the Globe Sunday Matinee series is by a trio of flute, violin and piano. The Trio d’Iry has been formed out of the Baroque Tach Trio which performed in last year’s series. The three musicians, Ingrid Culliford, Yuri Park and Roy Tankersley, have chosen for this concert to present a complete change of style into a program of salon music – music that is easy on the ear and suitable for relaxing to on a winter’s afternoon.

Amongst the composers represented are Nino Rota, best known for his scores for the Godfather and for Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. His playful trio, written in the late 1950s is a prime example of his ability to write music that is immediately engaging.
Cesar Cui is not a name known to many concert- goers. He was by profession an officer of the Imperial Russian Army, but he discovered his heart was with music and became one of Five Russian composers including Borodin. Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, who in the 1860s banded together to create a truly national Russian school of music. .
Benjamin Godard was a French composer whose musical style was similar in many respect to that of Mendelssohn and Schumann, and his Three Pieces for flute are amongst the most frequently played of his music. Another French composer to be heard in the programme is Jacques Ibert whose colourful music is represented by a piece suggesting the essence of first France and then Spain.
Sir Edward Elgar’s ever popular pair of pieces Chanson de Nuit and Chanson de Matin complete the program of musical bonbons.

Yuri Park is an experienced violin performer who graduated from the Sookmyung Women's University with a Bachelor of Music (in Violin Performance) with Soo-Chul Lee in Seoul in 1996. Yuri moved to Palmerston North from South Korea in 2000, and then to Auckland with her family in 2011, where she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Music in Performance at The University of Auckland. Last year, she moved back to Palmerston North and played as the soloist of the spring concert in Manawatu Sinfonia.

Ingrid Culliford spent many years studying and working in London as a free-lance flautist where she worked with several known orchestras and chamber ensembles. After teaching at Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music Junior department, Ingrid returned to New Zealand in 1994. Since then, she has continued to perform widely. She has worked as a casual extra with the NZSO and is a recording artist for Radio NZ. For a number of years she was tutor in flute at both Waikato University and the NZ School of Music in Wellington. She was also Co-Head of Music at Nga Tawa School and a Senior Examiner for the International Baccalureate as well as an examiner for the NZ Music Examinations Board. In August 2015 she was recipient of the Chamber Music NZ Marie Vandevart Award for outstanding service in fostering a love of chamber music and was appointed as a Member of the NZ Order of Merit (MNZM) in the 2019 New Years Honours list, for services to Music and Education.

Roy Tankersley is a music graduate of Victoria University and completed Post Graduate Studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London. He has been involved in music education at Secondary and Tertiary levels for 40 years, performs on organ and harpsichord and has directed various choirs including 10 years with the Wellington Bach Choir and 14 years with the Whanganui Schola Sacra Choir and Youth Chorus. Since 2003 Roy has worked as a free lance performer, teacher and adjudicator and organ consultant based in Palmerston North. He is Chairman of the Manawatu/Whanganui region of NZ Choral Federation, a Fellow of the NZ Association of Organists and an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music. He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in New Year Honours 2011.

Admission is by donation, recommended from $5