NZTrio - Flourishes

NZTrio are:
Justine Cormack (violin)
Ashley Brown (cello)
Sarah Watkins (piano)

Flourishes is the third album by one of New Zealand’s most accomplished classical groups. Playing with the boundaries of contemporary chamber music, NZTrio brings its much-heralded blend of contrasting works to its new album, which provides a snapshot of the type of programme the group loves to perform live.

NZTrio commissions by Wayan Yudane and Eve de Castro Robinson are very much at home among the masterworks of Mozart and Ravel, and Arvo Pärt’s lovely take on a Mozart Adagio forms what the trio calls a ‘fascinating and unexpected mix’.

Their last album, the critically acclaimed bright tide moving between, was a finalist in the Best Classical Album category of the 2008 NZ Music Awards.

NZTrio recently toured New Zealand and Australia as part of Chamber Music New Zealand's Kaleidoscopes programme, in which they performed two major pieces from Flourishes to great acclaim.

RAT-D019 (2010)