International Akaroa Music Festival - Cellissimo

Featuring all the cellists of the Akaroa Summer School with Edith Salzmann, Svetlana Bogosavljevic, Josephine Vains and Ramón Jaffé, performing music by:

Gioachino Rossini
Luigi Boccherini
Franz Schubert
Marin Marais
Antonio Vivaldi and more

Come and join us for the 16th International Akaroa Music Festival in wonderful Akaroa. For the 2023 edition, we have created an exciting programme, featuring NZ’s most accomplished musicians as well as fabulous international guest artists.

Cellist Ramon Jaffe and pianist Michael Endres will be back this year, amazing clarinettist David Griffiths is joining us for the first time, and cellists Josephine Vains, Svetlana Bogosavljevic and Edith Salzmann can't wait for another edition of the Cellissimo series on Wednesday the 18 January.

We'll bring stellar young talented from NZ and Australia along, our young musicians will start the lunchtime concerts on Saturday the 14th. The evening concerts feature well known works such as Tchaikovsky's piano trio and 'Souvenir de Florence' sextet, Beethoven's trio for clarinet, piano and cello, Bach by Candlelight is back and much more.