Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra
History
- Member for
- 16 years 5 months
Interests
Mandolin music
Personal Description
Mandolin music can evoke the full range of feelings that people experience. From cheerful dance tunes to sad yearnings for lost love of friends and family, the mandolin expresses the highs and lows of life.
It is the tremolo on the strings that imparts a prolonged note that provides the family of plucked musical instruments its unique sound. Tremolo is a rapid even fluttering of the pick over the strings. With this technique nature can be copied in rippling streams, rustling leaves and the calls of birds as well as the emotions associated with nature. Single notes are plucked from the mandolin to contrast and provide sensations of stronger feelings.
We are the only Mandolin Ensemble in New Zealand and we are 39 years old. We take part in annual camps with the Federation of Australiasian Mandolin Ensembles (FAME)
and toured Germany and Holland in 2006 ending at the Bamberg Mandolin Festival. In 2011 we will host the festival.
Our group presents an annual concert series in Auckland, performs at parks and gardens, in Rest Homes and Residential Homes a smaller group entertains. In fact we play anywhere musical entertainment is needed to add ambience or listening enjoyment.
Contact us for your needs and we will accommodate you.
PH 09 3784779 09 8285301
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In January the orchestra is hosting the international Australasian camp in Auckland with a concer
The Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra will play relaxing music from around the world and from y
Mandolin Magic in Matamata - Come and enjoy music for all the family: from classical baroque thro
Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra invites everyone - to celebrate Christmas with us.
Christmas music - new and old. Sing-along and toe-tapping.
Sunday 30th November 3-5pm
Irish club/ Rocky Nook…
Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra
FEATURING - WIND INSTRUMENTS
SUNDAY 17 August
3.30pm - 5pm.
Ferndale House, 830 New North Rd,
Mt Albert.
$10 entry - Students FREE
Afternoon tea - gold…
Music - "Mandolin Favourites"
2pm-4pm Sunday 28th August 2005
Uxbridge Theatre, 35 Uxbridge St, Howick.
This year Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra will stage favourites chosen for all ages to…