​UPDATE: Due to the current travel pause on the New Zealand and Australia travel bubble, pianist Laurence Matheson is no longer able to perform with the Argyle Trio during their New Zealand tour. Fortunately, eminent New Zealand pianist Michael Houston is set to join the Argyle Trio tour in Matheson’s place.

SHOW TIME & PROGRAMME CHANGE DUE TO COVID19 ALERT LEVEL 2:  Due to the current limit of 50 people within in one defined space, the Argyle Trio ft Wilma Smith will now put on two performances on 20 September, one at 5.00pm and the second at 7.30pm.  Both shows will be 1 hour long with no interval.  Please note the programme for each show is different, the programme outline is below.

5pm Programme 1:
Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 1
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor

7.30pm Programme 2:
Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
Beethoven Piano Trio Op. 97 “Archduke”

Wilma Smith (AUS), with Matthias Balzat (NZ), Laurence Matheson (AUS). Since Wilma Smith, celebrated Kiwi violinist, left New Zealand she has annually brought together different groups of musical friends she thinks might create exciting chemistry and they design programmes full of variety and appeal, from premières to revered masterpieces and undiscovered gems from every musical era.

Wilma Smith, formerly Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the NZSO, was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She studied in Auckland then at Boston’s New England Conservatory before becoming the first violinist of the Lydian String Quartet, winners of the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music.

Invited to return home to form the New Zealand String Quartet, Wilma was the first violinist of the group for five years before the NZSO appointed her Concertmaster. She now teaches violin at Melbourne and Monash Universities.