Held between Friday and yesterday, the music festival, in its second year, brought together 12 professional musicians and 12 emerging young musicians from throughout New Zealand, performing with about 80 musicians from the Queenstown-Lakes area.
Executive director Anne Rodda said it was a "really remarkable" weekend.
"This was an exercise of determination, grit and washing our hands and we’ve pulled it off, in the middle of a pandemic.
"It’s a really layered event, so everything from people who have been learning an instrument for the first year, all the way up to absolute world-class professionals that are down sharing the music in Queenstown.
"I need a couple of days to reflect to really understand the potency of it, it was really moving."
Two particular highlights for Ms Rodda were a performance by two Queenstown Japanese women, in traditional dress, who sang Pokarekare Ana on Sunday afternoon, and the young artists’ chamber concert on Sunday evening.
"... it was just a really powerful performance, it was gorgeous."
Ms Rodda had "a good feeling" about it becoming permanent.
"It evolved quite a lot between last year and this year and it will continue to evolve and I’m quite confident that we’ll see it in some kind of form," she said.
