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:

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

Coffee Day at Fairview Lifestyle Village

 We always have a great day entertaining the residents (and our members) on Coffee Days at this lovely village. We had an enthusiastic audience of residents and our members that came along to enjoy the day. Plenty of good and varied styles of music in opulent surroundings and excellent cuisine provided by the kitchen staff. It was good that we had three of our members playing that are also residents of the Village as well as a guest appearance of a resident who played the grand piano with a jazz focus.

The Photos:

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Gordon Sutherland playing his Korg Pa5X
arranger keyboard

Resident and Club member Mary Barrett playing her
Korg Pa1000arranger keyboard

Warren Levick playing the
Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Yvonne Moller playing her Korg Pa3X
arranger keyboard

Patrick McMillan playing the
Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Resident and Club member Diane Lyons playing her Korg Pa700
arranger keyboard

Resident Bennie Gunn playing the
Kohler and Campbell grand piano

Resident and Club member Len Hancy singing with backing tracks

Club Night 5th August 2025

 What a great night of music! A good attendance and some terrific music spanning lots of genres and eras. The evening started with arrival music provided by Warren Levick on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano - a good half-hour warm-up session! Thank you, Warren. To start the formal proceedings, Ian Jackson played the Clavinova with some great individual arrangements of classical pop songs like Billy Joel's Piano Man. Great start to the evening, thanks Ian. Next up, Yvonne Moller played her Korg Pa3X arranger workstation with some great beats and the music was really syncopating! Well done, Yvonne. Finally, Patrick McMillan played the Clavinova again with some lovely melodies by the such as Burt Bacharach. Nice playing and superb arrangements, thanks Patrick.

After the Raffle and Refreshments break, our guest artists were Ben Fernandez on the piano, his son, Josh, on sax, clarinet, bass guitar, and cajon - but not all at the same time, and Bosco Fernandez who is Ben's brother now residing in Auckland who played some amazing duets with Ben. As always, a very polished and thoroughly enjoyable concert of popular songs from the last 50 years. Thank you, guys.

The Guest Artists Video:

L:R: Ben Fernandez on piano and accompanied by his son,
Josh on various instruments, and Ben's brother,
Bosco Fernandez on piano

The Photos:

Warren Levick provided the arrival music on our 
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Ian Jackson playing our 
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Yvonne Moller playing her
Korg Pa3X arranger workstation

Patrick McMillan playing our 
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Ben Fernandez playing our 
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Ben Fernandez and brother, Bosco Fernandez,
dueting on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Ben Fernandez and brother, Bosco Fernandez,
dueting on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano
and joined by Ben's son, Josh, on cajon

Josh and Ben Fernandez mixing piano with sax

L to R: Ben Fernandez, Josh Fernandez, and Bosco Fernandez