This was the Club's first visit to this beautiful Village. An excellent turnout of our members and enthusiastic residents enjoyed a great day of music on their superb Yamaha grand piano. Our President, Gordon Sutherland, also brought along his Korg Pa5X Arranger Keyboard to add an orchestral dimension to the entertainment. The Management made us most welcome, and we had full use of their PA system in the expansive lounge area. All in all, a very successful day sharing our music/musicians with the residents.
The Photos:
Claude Moffat playing the Yamaha grand piano
Patrick McMillan playing the Yamaha grand piano
John Mercer on debut playing the Yamaha grand piano. Well done, John!
Murray McLachlan on debut playing the Yamaha grand piano. Well done also, Murray!
Gordon Sutherland playing his Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard, with orchestrations and vocals to boot!
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:
Our guest artist, Takashi [Taka] Iida playing his
Yamaha Electone Stagea Portable Keyboard
Warren Levick playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano
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
