Sunday 20 October 2024 at 5pm

MURIWAI ~ In Partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand

Ariana Tikao (Kāi Tahu) ~ Vocals & Taonga Puoro
Bob Bickerton ~ Taonga Puoro & Celtic Harp

Long-time collaborators, the pair have now developed a major work which journeys through time and place starting with a Kāi Tahu creation story relating to water, through to the arrival of people in Te Waipounamu the South Island, our impact on the environment, and imagined consequences of our actions.

Ariana is a composer and performer of waiata in te reo Māori and English, as well as being an exponent of taonga puoro. She received the Jillian Friedlander Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Laureate Award in 2010 from the New Zealand Arts Foundation.

Bob Bickerton, a performer of both traditional Irish music and taonga puoro, has recorded with Richard Nunns, Aroha Yates-Smith and many others. In 2015, he was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to music.