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7.30pm, Thursday 12 February
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Piano Alexander Gavrylyuk

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3
Zemlinsky The Mermaid

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7.30pm, Thursday 26 February
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Piano Andrea Lam

Maria Grenfell Hinemoa
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1
Dvořak Symphony No.8

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7.30pm, Thursday 2 April
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Eivind Aadland
Violin Amalia Hall

Debussy (orch. Busser) Printemps
Michael Norris Violin Concerto ‘Sama’
Faure Masques et bergamasques
Faure Pelléas et Mélisande: Sicilienne
Ravel Boléro

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7.30pm, Thursday 23 April
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Olari Elts
Piano Sylvia Jiang
Trumpet Huw Dann

Brigid Ursula Bisley Illumination
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream (selections)

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7.30pm, Thursday 11 June
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Alan Buribayev
Piano Eva Gevorgyan

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Chopin Piano Concerto No.1
Kalinnikov Symphony No.1

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7.30pm, Saturday 27 June
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Antony Hermus
Violin Gil Shaham

Beethoven Violin Concerto
Prokofiev Cinderella (selections)

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7.30pm, Thursday 30 July
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Violin Benjamin Beilman

Lilburn Drysdale Overture
Nielsen Violin Concerto
Mozart Symphony No.39

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7.30pm, Thursday 13 August
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Elena Schwarz
Cello Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Ligeti Melodien
Elgar Cello Concerto
Sibelius Symphony No.5

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7.30pm, Thursday 3 September
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Nodoka Okisawa
Organ Nicholas Forbes

Guillaume Connesson Cosmic Trilogy
Saint-Saens Symphony No.3  ‘Organ Symphony’

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7.30pm, Thursday 15 October
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens
Piano Sophia Liu
With musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4
Bartok The Wooden Prince (complete ballet)

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7.30pm, Thursday 19 November
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Piano Christian Ihle Hadland

Nielsen Helios Overture
Grieg Piano Concerto
R. Strauss Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Suite

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7.30pm, Thursday 26 November
Auckland Town Hall

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Violin Ning Feng

Wagner Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
Berg Violin Concerto
Mahler Symphony No.1 ‘Titan’

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