Pettman Ensemble
Biography Pettman Ensemble
Pettman Ensemble
is a flexible touring group of musicians from New Zealand and Australia dedicated to performing chamber music from early classical repertoire to the music of today. Its core members are Michael Endres (piano), Uwe Grodd (flute), Curt Thompson (violin) and Edith Salzmann (cello). New Zealand’s and Australia’s most talented young artists join the ensemble periodically to perform music for larger groups at festivals and in concerts.
The Pettman Ensemble has performed extensively in New Zealand, Australia and across Europe and in recent years has toured the UK. Based on preparation time spent at the Pettman National Junior Academy, New Zealand’s most successful music scholarship programme, the quartet gave performances at concert series at St John’s Smith Square in London (which was critically acclaimed by the Thoroughly Good Classical Music blog) and the University of Glasgow, with Opera North in Beverley, for the Royal Over-Seas League in London and appeared on BBC Radio 3’s InTune.
