Duo Tapas - Wellington guitar and violin duo

St Andrews lunchtime concert

crescen3 — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:15:01 +0000

St Andrews on the terrace, Wellington. Lunchtime concert. Admission free.

Peter Mechan

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:35:57 +0000

The Vivaldi d minor sonata… brought out lovely tones from the violinist, Rupa Maitra, and sensitive, perfectly judged partnering lines from guitarist Owen Moriarty.

Jefferson Chapple

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:35:11 +0000

The difference here was a vigorous and dynamic delivery from both soloists that utterly matched the origins and cultures of Transylvania.

Elizabeth Bouman

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:34:35 +0000

Together they perform as Duo Tapas and their music gives one renewed appreciation of the beauty of melody and purity of tone

Lindis Taylor

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:34:00 +0000

All very striking and an excellent way to end a very agreeable recital by excellent skilled musicians

Lindis Taylor

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:33:26 +0000

The whole recital proved a delight, thanks to composers who knew their business and players who absolutely knew theirs.

Lindis Taylor

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:32:53 +0000

….with rhapsodic cadenzas which came to be a fine show-piece for the lovely musicality of the violinist and fleet-fingered guitarist.

Peter Mechan

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:32:13 +0000

The musicians recreated the piece’s pent-up excitement with verve and enjoyment

April 2013

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:25:08 +0000

Some exciting news: Ian Krouse, composer of the exquisitely beautiful Da Chara and Air, will be writing a new piece for Duo Tapas later this year! We hope to include it in our second CD.

Also, please check out the updated ‘Coming events’ page for our 2013. We’ll be adding our Arts on Tour July schedule to this as soon as the dates and venues have been finalised.

And please do visit our website again in a few weeks time when the wonderful team at Crescendo will have updated our photo gallery (thanks to multi-talented Wellington photographer, Debbie Rawson) and added sound bites from our CD, Da Chara.

December 2012

crescen3 — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:24:47 +0000

Please come to our Christmas concert in Futuna Chapel in Karori on December 23rd. We will be playing some of our favourite repertoire as well as beautiful arrangements of Christmas carols. See the coming evens page for details.

We are planning to record another CD at the end of 2013 including more duos by Imamovic, as well as Bartok, Vivaldi and Lilburn! If there is any of our repertoire that you have heard in concert that you would like to see included, please email us using the contact form. We would love to hear your suggestions!