Artists

Caprice Arts Trust - Composer

Carol moved with her family to Wellington from Waiheke Island, specifically to study at the newly-formed New Zealand School of Music.

In 2006 she won the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music for The Riddle of her Flight, and in 2007 her Tangi (sung by Baroque Voices) won joint second prize in the New Zealand School of Music Composers’ Competition.

Her compositional output tends towards choral and vocal music, and she has written and arranged works for a number of ensembles in Wellington, including Baroque Voices, Nota Bene, the Festival Singers, and the Wellington Community Choir.

      Photo by Sunniva Zoete-WestGuitarist & Vocalist

Charlotte Yates is a recording artist based in Wellington, New Zealand where she has released five albums of her own material on Jayrem Records. (Latest release Beggar's Choice was released May 2008). Her first album Queen Charlotte Sounds was released in 1991. The single Red Letter was an APRA Silver Scroll finalist.

Melbourne-based from 1993 to 1996, Charlotte directed the 1993 and 1994 Melbourne Fringe Arts Festivals. She studied Contemporary Music Technology and Composition at La Trobe University, Melbourne during 1995. Recorded in Sydney, Charlotte's second album The Desire and the Contempt won the Singer-Songwriter category at the 1997 Wellington Music Awards.

Violinist

Chris is a violinist-composer living in Wellington. He writes music to perform and record himself and plays solo or in collaboration with others. He holds arts degrees from Canterbury University Christchurch and Middlesex University London. Recently he released a 4CD set of his own violin studies and duos – “Accordatura Violin”. This and other CDs have been broadcast on Concert FM, BBC Radio3 and radio stations in Europe, Canada and Australia with reviews in Cadence NY Magazine, FolkRoots, The Wire. He is a free-lance musician who enjoys teaching and participating in community music making.

Guitarist

After growing up in Hawkes Bay, Chris Hill came to Wellington and completed an Honors Degree in classical guitar in 2001 at Victoria University studying under Bill Bower. In 2004 he traveled to Spain to study flamenco guitar and while he was there he also gave performances in Italy and Portugal.

A member of numerous groups/ensembles, Chris is a creative composer with a keen interest in new music. He currently plays as a classical/flamenco guitarist and all-round versatile studio musician.

Caprice Arts Trust Foundation Artist - Pianist

David Neild graduated from the New Zealand School of Music, where he studied with Richard Mapp. In 2006 he spent a semester at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro on an exchange programme, studying with Dr di Piazza. There he played with lots of doubles bass students and got to know the entire double bass repertoire, which he loves. After graduating David has worked mainly with singers, accompanying in recitals and vocal competitions and in a masterclass taken by Malcom Martineau.

Horn

Dillon is a mathematician who works in matroid theory. His recent work includes a characterization of the excluded minors for near-regularity, and a structural decomposition theorem for the class of binary matroids with no minor isomorphic to the cycle matroid of M(K3,3). From time to time he plays the horn.

Composer, Guitarist

Born in Wellington New Zealand, Dylan Lardelli holds a Bachelors Degree in Guitar Performance and a Masters Degree in Composition (with distinction) from Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand).

Dylan Lardelli has been the recipient of many scholarships and awards including the award of first place with his piece “Four Fragments” in the Asian Composers League Young Composers’ Competition in Tokyo in 2003.   He was also the first recipient of the Edwin Carr foundation scholarship which will enable him to undertake composition studies in Europe.  During 2003 and 2004, Dylan held the position of composer-in-residence with the Auckland Philharmonia.   He also participated in the Acanthes workshop with Peter Eotvos and the Royaumont course with Brian Ferneyhough.

Mezzo-Soprano

Felicity is a graduate of Victoria University and the New Zealand School of Music in Composition, Vocal Performance and, most recently, a Master of Music in Musicology. Over the past two years Felicity has divided her time between New Zealand, France, and Germany, where she has performed in masterclasses and festivals, and undertaken vocal training and musicological research. Next year Felicity hopes to pursue further vocal studies in Germany.

Caprice Arts Trust - Guitarist

Fuminori graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree from the Massey University Conservatorium of Music in Wellington, New Zealand, where he studied with Matthew Marshall and Gunter Herbig.

He has been playing classical guitar since he was eight years old, and was inspired by Bach's works played on the guitar to seriously take up the instrument. Fuminori entered the Conservatorium after being awarded the Beven Cup for 'Musicianship' in the final year of High School, and winning a couple of chamber music competitions in the previous year.

Trombonist

Originally from Invercargill, Grant Sinclair began playing trombone in brass bands from an early age. Around the same time he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from Canterbury University, Grant began casual work with the Christchurch Symphony. At the beginning of 2004, he abandoned engineering in favour of music, and began studying this at Victoria University of Wellington. Grant completed his undergraduate degree in 2007, and is now studying towards Masters under Ian Bousfield and Dudley Bright at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he was awarded the 2008/9 John Solomon Brass Prize.