Violinist Annabelle McLenaghen performs a solo in the under-12 category.
Pianist Janneke Gunther performs a solo in the under-12 category.
Pianist Liliana Choi performs a solo in the under-12 category.
Violinist Nalini Yang performs a solo in the under-12 category, accompanied by pianist Ozan Biner-McGrath.
Pianist Tiffany Mei performs a solo in the under-12 category.
Violinist Alistair McLeod performs a solo in the under-12 category, accompanied by pianist John Van Buskirk.
Violinist Toni Steenkamp performs a Baroque (music from 1600-1750) solo in the under-12 category.
Hahn Minh Pham plays violin in the Class 306 Baroque Solo - any instrument - under 12 years section.
Cellist Robert Eyers performs a solo in the under-12 category.
Musicians from around the South Island converged on Dunedin during the weekend for the Dunedin Performing Arts Competitions Society’s (DPACS) 2024 Instrumental Festival at the Otago Boys’ High School auditorium.
The competitions were judged by Roger Brown (formerly of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) and Sanaz Rezai (formerly of California State University (Fullerton).
About 80 musicians, aged 6 to university age, performed about 200 musical items on instruments including piano, violin, viola, cello, flute, trumpet, clarinet, oboe, trombone, guitar and even a church organ.
Otago Daily Times photographer Linda Robertson captured some of the musicians in action on Saturday.
