Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Club Night 3rd August 2010

A packed house enjoyed a fantastic evening of music at our Club Rooms. This was the first Club Night with our brand new Yamaha Clavinova CVP-509 and if we thought our CVP-305 was good well this latest technology beastie just blew us away with it's responsiveness and clarity of sound. The first half saw Club members entertain us on the Clavinova with one member, Yvonne Moller, playing her Korg Pa1X. We also had a Japanese visitor play the piano for us with great sensitivity - thank you Mayu Murakami.
The second half was taken over by our guest artist, Roy Steen, who captured our enthusiasm for his lovely touch for about 50 minutes. Roy played his Roland G-800 for the first four pieces to great effect. He then played two pieces on the Clavinova by popular request and then proceeded to wow us with his mastery of the organ when he thrilled us with his superb playing, sounds and choice of songs on the Club's Technics GA3 theatre organ. There was hardly a dry eye in the house by the end of Roy's performance. Thank you Roy for a wonderful evening and also for having visited the Club on several occasions in the last few months to familiarize yourself with the GA3 organ and prepare disks of registrations.
Chris Larking was going to make a cameo appearance to launch our Clavinova but was unfortunately held up with a Corporate gig that extended beyond schedule. The good news though is that the Club still has four pieces or so in credit from Chris for a future evening!

John Beales won the raffle which was a lovely sandwich tray. Thanks as always must go to the Committee members for tirelessly making sure the evening went so well.

And now for the pix… slide the mouse over the photos to see text captions:

                                   

JIm Nicholson setting-up to play the arrival music with some magic being performed by Rob Powell              Alan Dadson showing his great touch on the CVP-509  

  

 New member, Yvonne Moller, playing her lovely Korg Pa1X                     Pianist, Dorothy Waddel, thrilled us with her superb playing. Wonderful orchestration choices. "The Cloisters" had 11 registration changes in it!

 

President of the Organ Society of NZ Inc. Rob Powell giving a masterly performance                 Japanese visitor, Mayu Murakami, played two challenging, straight piano pieces with great feeling and execution

 

                                              Veteran member, John Stent, gave us a demonstration of his mastery of advanced chording with his impromptu performance

 

 

 

Our guest artist, Roy Steen, playing his Roland G-800 to start his performance off. Roy reckons this is his first gig and all that can be said is that the World has been missing a great artist!       Roy Steen gave us an impromptu two pieces on the Clavinova. Lovely Roy!

 

 Roy Steen played for about 30 minutes to finish his performance on the Club's Technics GA3 organ. Roy is more familiar with his Hammond organ and the Yamaha AR100 but boy did he give us a superb exhibition of theatre organ playing with his specially prepared disk of registrations. There were not many dry eyes in the house by the end of Roy's wonderful concert. To cap it all off, he then announced that he is joining the Club - it pays to applaud loudly! Welcome Roy, we are delighted to have you amongst us.

 

Club President, Gordon Sutherland, offering a vote of thanks to Roy on behalf of the members present for his wonderful performance. Roy enjoyed playing for the Club so much that he announced his wish to join immediately!

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