This year, we explore bounds and bridges, considering the lines that entwine, divide and connect. Join us At the World’s Edge for seven masterful programmes, free events and community performances. This is AWE.
Radiance explores music drawn along the threshold between presence and distance, memory and vastness. From the incomprehensible scale of deep space to the intimacy of nocturnal reflection, musical lines drift, suspend, and hover between what is present and what is remembered, what is near and what lies beyond the reach of human scale.
Programme
Michael Norris Deep Field II for violin and live electronics
Franz Schubert Notturno for violin, cello and piano
Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet No.3 ‘Leaves from an Unwritten Diary’
Johann Sebastian Bach Chorale
Arvo Pärt Summa for string quartet
Caroline Shaw Entr’acte for string quartet
Artists
Benjamin Baker, Justine Cormack, Florian Donderer, Marike Kruup & Monique Lapins - Violin
Matthew Lipman & Julia Joyce - Viola
Tanja Tetzlaff & Matthias Balzat - Cello
David Fung - Piano
AWE+ | Emerging Artist Showcase, 4:45pm - 5:30pm
An AWE+ Free Performance showcasing our 2026 Emerging Artists.
AWE+ | Winterstellar: At the Edge of the Universe, 6:30pm - 7pm
An AWE+ Free Talk from Emeritus Professor Brian J Boyle exploring why Otago is such a special place on the planet for astronomy. Experience the majesty of our night skies, with a little bit of astrophysics and cosmology thrown in.
This talk will take place prior to the evening’s Radiance performance at Te Atamira, Queenstown.
