Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Club Night for September 2025

 What a great night of musical entertainment. We had visitors from all around Auckland that came especially to listen to our guest artist, Taka Iida, play his Yamaha Electone Stagea Portable two-manual keyboard and pedalboard. What a great performance Taka gave us on his magnificent keyboard - a mixture of very melodic Japanese orchestral ballads and jazz standards. Arrival music was kindly provided by Patrick McMillan on our Clavinova - thank you so much for your beautiful arrangements.

In the second set, after a refreshing coffee break, we were entertained firstly by member and music teacher Wu Liu and two of his students with both solo songs and duets. Wonderful music and very talented youngsters playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809. Next, Linus Treefoot brought along his Korg Havian 30 ensemble piano and entertained us with four songs and vocals - some original compositions and all very musical and fun to listen to! Finally, Warren Levick played the Clavinova using both the styles and in one case splitting the keyboard to play chords on the lower manual and melody on the right-hand manual - keyboard style. Great choice of songs and executed very nicely indeed. Well done, Warren.

The Videos: (to follow)

Linus Treefoot playing his
Korg Havian 30 ensemble piano


Wu Liu and two students giving a mini concert
L to R: Jayden Zhang, Gordon Sutherland, Wu Liu, Orianna Jing



The Photos:

L to R: Jayden Zhang, Gordon Sutherland,
Wu Liu, Orianna Jing.
Jayden and Orianna
played a sole piece and a duet with Wu for us. Delightful.

Linus Treefoot on keys and Len Hancy vocals

Linus Treefoot playing his Korg Havian 30
with added vocals

Arrivals Music provided by Patrick McMillan
on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809


Member and music teacher, Wu Liu
playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Wu Liu duetting with his student

Wu Liu duetting with his student

One of Wu Liu's students playing solo on our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

One of Wu Liu's students playing solo on our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809


Warren Levick playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Our guest artist, Taka Iida, playing his Yamaha Electone Stagea
two-manual portable keyboard and pedalboard