William Evans Senior Lecturer in Violin
MusB(Hons) (Otago) Postgraduate Diploma RCM(UK)
Joined the staff in 2008
Tel +64 3 479 8382
Email tessa.petersen@otago.ac.nz
Tessa has a broad career as a performer both internationally (mostly in the UK and USA) and within New Zealand: soloist, recitalist (piano/violin duo), chamber and orchestral musician, and Concertmaster. She has commissioned, recorded and premièred many new works by New Zealand composers involving violin, as well as recording soundtracks required for film and contemporary bands. She features on recordings for the Ode and Rattle CD labels in New Zealand.
Tessa’s students have gone onto further study and performance/teaching internationally (Malaysia, Sydney, Spain, UK), as well as teaching and working in orchestras, chamber ensembles and bands in New Zealand.
Teaching
- MUSI 140 Performance Studies 1
- MUSI 141 Performance 1
- MUSI 240 Performance Studies 2
- MUSI 241 Performance 2
- MUSI 340 Performance Studies 3
- MUSI 341 Performance 3
- MUSI 442 Repertoire Studies
- MUSI 441 Performance 4
Postgraduate student supervision
- Master of Arts (MA) in performance violin
- Co-supervisor for Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
Musical and community activities
- Concertmaster of the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra
- Guest Concertmaster of the St Matthews Chamber Orchestra, Auckland
- National Examiner for New Zealand Music Examinations Board (NZMEB)
- Past examiner for the National Concerto Competition and Chamber Music NZ Chamber music competition
Creative output
- Première Performances of Gallipolli To the Somme by Anthony Ritchie in Dunedin, Oxford and London, UK.
- Release: The Mozart Fellowship
- Brighter Than Blue by Matthew Marshall
- Father & Son: Music by John and Anthony Ritchie
- March 2021: Première of Entrances for solo violin and fixed media by Jeremy Mayall (Winner of Best Music in the Dunedin Fringe Festival)
Publications
Petersen, T. (violin), & du Plessis, H. (cello) (2022, 6 March). Exhibition Quartet: Music from Aotearoa, works for string quartet by Peter Adams, Leonie Holmes & Anthony Ritchie and for violin and piano by Gillian Whitehead, Hanover Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Petersen, T. (concertmaster, first violin) (2022, 20, 21 August). St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra: Pianismo Alla Grieg, works by Tremain, Gounod, Farquhar and Grieg, Warkworth Town Hall, St Matthew-in-the-city, Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand. [Performance].
Petersen, T. (violin), & du Plessis, H. (cello) (2022, 20 October). Dunedin Arts Festival: Olveston at Six: Campfire to music room hearth, works by Antonin Dvorak, Olveston Historic Home, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Petersen, T. (violin) (2021, 27 March). Our footsteps are all entrances, at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, for solo violin and fixed media based upon works from the poetry collection Homing in by Cilla McQueen, Te Korokoro o te Tūi, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Petersen, T. (solo violin) (2020, 15 March). St. Matthew's Chamber Ochestra, performing works by Lilburn, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Dvořák, St-Matthews-in-the-City, Auckland, New Zealand. [Performance].
Petersen, T. (violin), & du Plessis, H. (cello) (2022, 6 March). Exhibition Quartet: Music from Aotearoa, works for string quartet by Peter Adams, Leonie Holmes & Anthony Ritchie and for violin and piano by Gillian Whitehead, Hanover Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (concertmaster, first violin) (2022, 20, 21 August). St Matthew's Chamber Orchestra: Pianismo Alla Grieg, works by Tremain, Gounod, Farquhar and Grieg, Warkworth Town Hall, St Matthew-in-the-city, Warkworth, Auckland, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), & du Plessis, H. (cello) (2022, 20 October). Dunedin Arts Festival: Olveston at Six: Campfire to music room hearth, works by Antonin Dvorak, Olveston Historic Home, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin) (2021, 27 March). Our footsteps are all entrances, at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, for solo violin and fixed media based upon works from the poetry collection Homing in by Cilla McQueen, Te Korokoro o te Tūi, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (solo violin) (2020, 15 March). St. Matthew's Chamber Ochestra, performing works by Lilburn, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Dvořák, St-Matthews-in-the-City, Auckland, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), du Plessis, H. (cello), & Young, K. (producer) (2020). Brighter than blue by Matthew Marshall. Auckland, New Zealand: Rattle Records. [Film/Digital Recording/CD-Rom].
Film/Video/CD Rom
Petersen, T. (concertmaster, soloist (violin), first violin), & du Plessis, H. (soloist (cello)) (2019, 20, 21 July). Dunedin Symphony Orchestra: Strings to their bows [Matinee Series], works by Bach, Vaughn Williams, Saint-Saëns, and Schubert, King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (concertmaster, first violin) (2018, 13 June). Southbank Sinfonia: Gallipoli to the Somme, with the Parliament Choir, and the City Choir Dunedin, works by Vaughan Williams, Montgomery, and Ritchie, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (guest concertmaster, violin) (2018, 2 June). Remembrance: A Concert, with the City Choir Dunedin (New Zealand), the Parliament Choir, and Southbank Sinfonia, works by Vaughan Williams, Holmès, Ravel, and Ritchie, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, UK. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T., & Van Buskirk, J. (2012). Release: The Mozart Fellowship by La Belle Alliance [CD-ROM]. Auckland, New Zealand: Ode Records. [Film/Digital Recording/CD-Rom].
Film/Video/CD Rom
Petersen, T. (violin), & van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2011, 29-30 July). La Belle Alliance: Legacy of Liszt, Mohawk Trail Concerts 42nd Summer Festival, Federated Church, Charlemont, Massachusetts.
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), & Du Plessis, H. (cello) (2011, 2 April). Double Virtuosity!: Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Southern Sinfonia, Dunedin Town Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), & van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2011, 9 April). La Belle Alliance: Works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Ritchie, Pruden, Ma Sicong & Kreisler, Tauranga Musica Concert Series, Otumoetai College, Bellevue, New Zealand.
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), Du Plessis, H. (cello), & Dennis, T. (piano) (2011, 25 May). Department of Music Showcase Series: TriOtago plays Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915) & Piano Trio in G (1880), Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Performance
Idrus, F. (flute), Petersen, T. (violin), Van Buskirk, J. (piano), Buchanan, D. (engineer), Adams, P. (clarinet), Ellis, R. (conductor, editing, mixing), & Petersen, A. (cello) (2012). Promise & Promiscuity: A new musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton. Dunedin, New Zealand: Albany Street Studios, University of Otago. [Film/Digital Recording/CD-Rom].
Film/Video/CD Rom
Petersen, T. (violin), & van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2011, 10 April). La Belle Alliance: Works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Ritchie, Ma Sicong & Kreisler, presented by the South Waikato Music Society, The Plaza, Putaruru, New Zealand.
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), Du Plessis, H. (cello), & van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2010, 28 May). Alexa Still and Friends Chamber Music Recital: Works by Mozart, Martinu and Ibert, St Matthews Church, Hastings, New Zealand.
Performance
Ritchie, A. (conductor), Petersen, T. (violin), & Adams, P. (clarinet) (2010, 25 August). Department of Music Showcase Series: The Soldier's Tale, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Performance
Dennis, T. (piano), Petersen, T. (violin), & Du Plessis, H. (cello) (2010, 28 November). TriOtago: Inaugural Concert, playing Beethoven and Brahms, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Performance
Petersen, T. (orchestra director) (2008, 1 October). Department of Music Showcase Series: Works for String Orchestra, Solo Piano and Solo Cello, with performance students, Marama Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), Walton, M. (clarinet, saxophone), & Van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2015, 2 May). Menagerie South, presented by Waimakariri Community Arts Council and Chamber Music New Zealand, Chamber Gallery, Rangiora, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Neale, E. (performer), Petersen, T. (violin), & Dennis, T. (piano) (2015, 8 May). Salutes to Seven Poets by Douglas Lilburn, at the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Mayall, J. (composer, electronics), Petersen, T. (violin), Egenes, J. (pedal steel), & Burns, R. (bass) (2014, 29 November). Flutter (world première), presented by the University of Otago Mozart Fellow and the Otago Museum, Otago Museum Tropical Forest, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Ryan, R. (soprano), Petersen, T. (violin), & Van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2014, 13 July). Nelson Winter Music Festival: La Belle Alliance: Traditional & Contemporary Music (13 July), in association with Chamber Music New Zealand, Old St John's Church, Nelson, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), & van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2013, 23 June). La Belle Alliance Recital, presented by Tauranga Musica, Exhibition Hall, Baycourt, Tauranga, New Zealand. [Performance].
Performance
Petersen, T. (violin), & Van Buskirk, J. (piano) (2012, 13 September). Concert du Quintette “Ensemble des Antipodes”: Works by Schubert, Ritchie, Marshall & Pruden, with Mark Oremland (viola), Lloyd Williams (double bass) and Andrea Mundy (cello), à la Résidence 9, rue Léonard de Vinci, Paris, France. [Performance].
Performance
Halba, H. (co-director, researcher, deviser), Roberts, M. (designer (stage, light, sound), deviser, researcher, producer), Hutchinson, D. (physicist, deviser), Kalogeropoulou, S. (choreographer, deviser), & Petersen, T. (musician, deviser) (2019, 26-30 March). Fission, an afterburner production, Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Performance].
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