A century after her death, and on the eve of her birthday, the France–New Zealand Association will celebrate the indomitable life and innovative writing of Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) with an evening of talks, poetry, and music – including a world première – at Reid Hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6, on 12 October 2023 at 7.30 p.m.

PROGRAMME

Presentation : Dunstan Ward, Association France Nouvelle-Zélande - France New Zealand Association

Introduction : Georgia Aussenac, President, Association France Nouvelle-Zélande - France New Zealand Association

Welcome : Her Excellency Caroline Bilkey, New Zealand Ambassador to France Ambassade de Nouvelle-Zelande en France - New Zealand Embassy, Paris

Poèmes et Lectures : 

• Owen Leeming, first Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow, 1970:

  • Ode: ‘KM’ 

  • ‘Remembering Menton’

• Sue Wootton, 2023 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow:

  • Talk: ‘Always a Marvel’ 

  • Reading: Poems by Sue Wootton

Interval

Music :

• Nigel Keay (1955–), Paris-based New Zealand composer:

  • Prelude (2014)

    • Sébastien Hurtaud, cello

    • Isabelle Dutel, piano

• Arnold Trowell (1887–1966), New Zealand-born cellist and composer,

professor of cello at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Royal College of Music:

• SIx pieces for cello with a piano accompaniment, Op. 20, ‘Dedicated to my dear friend Kathleen M. Beauchamp’ (1908):

1. Berceuse

2. Mazurka

3. Serénade

4. Elégie

5. Barcarolle

6. Caprice

• Sébastien Hurtaud, cello

• Isabelle Dutel, piano

• Sonata in E Flat for Viola and Piano, Op. 21 (c. 1922), world première:

Allegro moderato

Andante quasi adagio

Vivace scherzoso

• Nigel Keay, viola

• Isabelle Dutel, piano