New Zealand String Quartet

The current formation of musicians consists of Peter Clark (2nd violin) [2] and Gillian Ansell (viola).

The NZSQ performs more than eighty concerts a year in New Zealand and international locations.

Performances include international festivals such as the Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound, Ontario, Music Mountain Summer Chamber Music Festival in Lakeville, Connecticut, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Queensland, and Quartetfest at Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

Other CDs have included works by a number of New Zealand composers and the complete string quartets of Béla Bartók for Atoll Records.

[7] The quartet has also been recorded by CBC in Canada, ABC in Australia, Deutsche Welle (Germany) and Radio New Zealand.