Interview: Singers Madeleine and Anna Pierard
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Classical
Issue 3769 4th Aug 2012
Madeleine and Anna Pierard are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to musicians in the family.
Interview: Dame Evelyn Glennie
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Classical
Issue 3768 28th Jul 2012
Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie was never going to let deafness hold her back.
Interview: Deborah Voigt
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Classical
Issue 3765 7th Jul 2012
Opera star Deborah Voigt’s lauded singing career has been marked by personal heartbreak as well as alcohol and food addictions.
Interview: Dame Malvina Major
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Classical
Issue 3763 23rd Jun 2012
Dame Malvina Major’s indomitable spirit has seen her performing arts foundation through to its 21st anniversary, helping many young stars along the way – and saving singer Teddy Tahu Rhodes from a career in accountancy.
Interview: Organist Olivier Latry
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Classical
Issue 3759 26th May 2012
“No matter how tired I am, I can enter the loft and practise for hours,” says Notre Dame’s titulaire, Olivier Latry, before his tour with the NZSO.
Interview: Jonathan Lemalu
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Classical
Issue 3747 3rd Mar 2012
The love and support of his family, country and Pacific Island community remain an integral part of Jonathan Lemalu’s hectic international career.
Interview: Harry Christophers and the Sixteen
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Classical
Issue 3746 25th Feb 2012
Harry Christophers’s enthusiasm for the “phenomenal ebb and flow, light and shade” of choral music has brought the Sixteen international renown.
No Second Chance by Mark Stephenson review
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Books
Issue 3742 28th Jan 2012
A sensitive and tender debut novel tells the story of a Holocaust refugee in New Zealand.
Recipes for fiction
By Cheryl Pearl Sucher in Books
Issue 3705 14th May 2011
Aimee Bender and Allegra Goodman’s new novels both pivot on the metaphor of food as love.