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Club Night 1st September 2026

 A good variety of musical styles from classical to popular were played on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano. It was great to have our member, Wu Liu, bring along three of his students to share their music with us and gain experience playing in front of an audience. We should have had well known keyboardist, Joe Fingers, to be our guest artist but he had to back-out at the last minute due to a bad dose of the flu. One of our senior playing members and a professional musician, Patrick McMillan, stepped into the fray as our guest artist and gave an amazing performance despite having less than 24 hours to put together a programme!

The Videos:

Our Guest Artist, Patrick McMillan gave us a great concert
using the Club's Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 Ensemble Piano

Denise Gunson gave us a mini-concert using the Club's
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 Ensemble Piano

The Photos:

Denise Gunson

Wu Liu

One of Wu Liu's Students

One of Wu Liu's Students

One of Wu Liu's Students duetting with Wu Liu

One of Wu Liu's Students

Claude Moffat

Coffee Day at William Sanders Village

The Club enjoyed their monthly Coffee Day at the lovely Willam Sanders Village in Devonport today. The Club's ethos of taking music to the community is fulfilled by visiting different villages all around Auckland's North Shore each month. The visits are enjoyed by both the residents and Club Members alike with the chance to socialize and share their music being an added bonus.

Senior members Patrick McMillan, Denise Gunson, Warren Levick and Claude Moffat were joined by more recent members John Mercer on the village's Yamaha grand piano and together provided a great day of music.

The Photos:

Our Raffle and Information Desk

Claude Moffat playing the Yamaha Grand Piano

Denise Gunson playing the Yamaha Grand Piano

John Mercer playing the Yamaha Grand Piano

Patrick McMillan playing the Yamaha Grand Piano

Warren Levick playing the Yamaha Grand Piano

Club Night 4th August 2026

 One of our very best evenings of great music. A near full house, were delighted by our artists who all demonstrated their diverse genres of music. We started the evening with a big screen video of one of our members giving a concert at the Club a couple of years ago. The artist was Taka Iida playing his Yamaha Electone two-manual keyboard with pedalboard. Great to watch Taka demonstrate his mastery of the instrument with superb musicianship and lovely choice of songs.

To open the evening, Mary Elvin played some great popular music from the sixty's era on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano. Very nice Mary. Then, Peter Longbottom played some great songs with full orchestrations on his Korg Pa600 arranger keyboard. To finish the first set, Yuko Tani played some great popular songs on our Clavinova and including: Bridge Over Troubled Water; and My Way. Great songs and expertly articulated - well done Yuko!

After the raffle and refreshments break, we were thrilled to have Hana Tani as our special guest artist. Hana is in her third year of music studies at university and whilst classically trained she played a mixture of classical, jazz standards and popular music. So Hana performed pieces from Listz, Chopin, The Sound of Music and ABBA and we were spellbound with wonderful music and magnificent musicianship. Thank you, Hana, for your great concert. We have seen Hana blossom from a 9-year-old to a young lady over the last 11 years or so and such modesty for a world class artist.

The Videos:

Hana Tani giving a concert
as our Special Guest Artist
using our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809
ensemble piano

Mary Elvin playing for us

The Photos:

Hana Tani playing our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809
as our Special Guest Artist

Mary Elvin

Peter Longbottom playing his
Korg Pa600 arranger keyboard

Yuko Tani

Coffee Day at Fairview Lifestyle Village

 It is always a pleasure to hold Coffee Days at Fairview Lifestyle Village in Albany, North Shore, Auckland, NZ. A great day was had by our members and residents alike. We had 11 members play for us using the lovely Kohler and Campbell grand piano as well as a couple of arranger keyboards. Fairview has an excellent kitchen and we certainly enjoyed partaking! A big thank you to member and resident, Diane Lyons, for arranging the booking in conjunction with Warren Levick our Events Manager. It is great to have an excellent PA System to plug the keyboards into as well as the microphones rather than using our portable systems. Thanks to our member and resident, Len Hancy, for setting-up the PA System for us.

The Photos:

Dave Yang playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Denise Gunson playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Diane Lyons playing her
Korg Pa700 arranger keyboard

Dorothy Waddel playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Gordon Sutherland playing his
Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard

 John Holster playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

John Mercer playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Patrick McMillan playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

 Trish Wilson playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Warren Levick playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Yuko Tani playing the Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Club Night 7th July 2026

The evening went well with Warren Levick and Patrick McMillan's inputs to a very appreciative audience. The musicians were all enjoyable in their own way. Linus Treefoot was very entertaining, giving us an overview of his younger days as a student in USA before playing "La Bamba" on his guitar with gusto, including all the trills and necessary embellishments, with a great accompaniment on the Clavinova from his friend Heather Dickson. Heather gave us a treat with her lovely soft-jazz voice singing quietly while she played a beautiful piece of music. Patrick McMillan finished the first set entertainment with a lovely selection of melodies. Warren Levick provided some pre-start entry music on the Clavinova.

Our guest artist, Paul McIssac, held the audience captive, as usual, with his wonderful ability to change great songs we all know, like "Singing in the Rain", "Girl from Ipanema", "Let it Be" and "Danny Boy" to something extraordinary. Paul uses a combination of a KorgPa3X arranger keyboard (to drive the rhythm) with a Kurzweil workstation and additional sounds from software on his laptop played real time through his Kurzweil - particularly attack instruments like guitar and piano.

As the author of his Web Site and MC/President of the Club, I was unable to attend Club Night and so I extend thanks to the additional efforts of the Committee to cover the logistics of set-up etc. A special thanks to member, Diane Lyons, for providing me with a synopsis of the evening activities.

The Photos: 

Our Guest Artist, Paul McIsaac,
played his Korg Pa3X arranger keyboard
simultaneously with his Kurzweil workstation

Graeme Webber played the Clavinova

Linus Treefoot played his
acoustic guitar

Heather Dickson sang and
played the Clavinova

Patrick McMillan played the Clavinova

Coffee Day at Northbridge Village

 What a lovely day of music at this splendid Village. Good support from the residents and some great music by our members. We even had a resident play a song for us on the Village's Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609 "In the Mood" by Shirely.

The Photos:

Ian Jackson playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

Patrick McMillan playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

Resident, Shirley, playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

John Mercer playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

Brian McMurray playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

Denise Gunson playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

Graeme Webber playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

Warren Levick playing the Yamaha Clavinova CVP-609

Gordon Sutherland playing his
Korg Pa5X arranger workstation

The Setup

Club Night 2nd June 2026

 An amazing variety of music played on various instruments to make this a most enjoyable evening. Entry music was played by Warren Levick on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano and most enjoyable too! Our MC for the night was Committee member, Ken Mahy. Ken did a great job to keep the music flowing and interspersed with specific artist related reminiscences together with occasional quick-fire jokes!

Our programme started with Gordon Sutherland playing four songs on his Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard. Lots of bangs and crashes from the rhythms and pads and some great pan flute sounds. Warren Levick played next on our Clavinova with some great melodies. Yvonne Moller played next on her Korg Pa3X with some lively big band songs and sounds. To finish the first set of music, we had a casual guest who played two classical pieces on our Clavinova - Liszt and Bach. Thank you Shunsuke Yoshioka for your wonderful music and musicianship. Shunsuke was celebrating his 21st Birthday on the Night to make the occasion even more memorable! It is always great to hear our state-of-the-art Clavinova digital piano played at this level of expertise - Shunsuke is in his second year at Varsity studying music.

After the raffle and refreshments break, our second set was devoted to our guest artist, Kane Steves. Kane is a long-time professional keyboardist and music teacher. He brought along his trusty Yamaha PSR 9000 arranger keyboard and boy did he make that thing talk! Great music and vocals from composers such as Billy Joel and Elvis Presley. Thank you, Kane, for sharing your great music and musicianship with us.

The Videos:

Shunsuke Yoshioka playing at our Club on our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Warren Levick playing at our Club on our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Yvonne Moller playing her Korg Pa3X
arranger keyboard

Gordon Sutherland playing his Korg Pa5X
arranger keyboard

The Photos:

Our guest artist, Kane Steves playing his
Yamaha PSR9000 arranger keyboard

Our guest artist, Kane Steves playing his
Yamaha PSR9000 arranger keyboard

Gordon Sutherland playing his
Korg Pa5X arranger keyboard

Warren Levick playing our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Yvonne Moller playing her
Korg Pa3X arranger keyboard

Guest, Shunsuke Yoshioka, playing our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano