Soprano Judy Bellingham, flautist Fiona Pickering and pianist and organist Donald Cullington play From Bach to Gershwin: A Medley of Musical Delights in Queenstown's Anglican church.
Bellingham, William Evans Senior Lecturer in Voice at the University of Otago, trained in Christchurch with Mary Adams-Taylor and Joan Davies, in Australia with Dame Joan Hammond and Antonio Moretti-Pananti, and in England with Otakar Kraus. She has sung many operatic roles and has appeared as soloist with all the major choirs and orchestras in New Zealand, and made concert tours of South America, the Baltic states, Portugal and Spain.
A flute player since the age of 10, Pickering was later taught by Kay McKnight, flute tutor at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. She plays flute and piccolo for the Southern Sinfonia and the Otago Symphonic Band and can often be found in the orchestra pit when musicals are staged in Dunedin.
She also plays as part of flute duo Absoflutely, and with keyboard player Paul Wheeler under the name Tonica.
Cullington became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1962 and his half-century as a pianist, organist, choir-trainer and teacher included four years as director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, and 28 years in Northern Ireland as initiator, developer and, for some of those years, head of the University of Ulster's Music Department.
The Rt Rev Dr David Coles said the church's historic organ "needs some major restoration and we are grateful that three outstanding musicians are giving their services without any fee for this project".
From Bach to Gershwin: A Medley of Musical Delights begins tomorrow at 7.30pm. Tickets cost $20 per adult and $10 for students, at the door.
