On 3 May, Peter gave the pre-concert talk for the New Zealand String Quartet’s performance of Beethoven’s first two Razumovsky Quartets. The very next night he gave the first of four pre-concert talks for the NZSO’s concerts with Andrew Grams and Lynn Harrell (soloist in the Elgar Cello Concerto).

Peter comments, “It felt like old times to be on tour with the NZSO and to be able to hear such a superb interpretation of Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 several times. I was delighted that doing these talks meant that I was in Auckland for my old friend, Vicki Jones’s last concert in the NZSO. She has made such an outstanding contribution over 33 years.”