Chrome
The Wellington-based ensemble CHROME (Penelope Evison, flute; Douglas Mews, harpsichord & Euan Murdoch, cello) is perhaps New Zealand's most versatile early music group, with its repertoire ranging from the Baroque through the Rococo and Classical eras to the Romantic. It comprises a group of professional musicians, some of whom have a distinguished international career behind them. Most of its members have worked extensively with mainstream early music ensembles and orchestras in Europe, establishing careers as concert, radio and recording soloists both in New Zealand and aboard.
CHROME (Gk. khroma=colour) aims to refresh the colours of early music, allowing it to speak with its own voice on period instruments.
Since forming in 1995, CHROME has given a number of successful concerts around New Zealand, with recent performances in the 1999 Wellington Festival of Early Music, they 1998 Sunday Classics concert series promoting New Zealand performers, the 1997 New Zealand Chamber Music Festival, the 1997 Christchurch Arts Festival, the 1997 Nelson Winter Festival and the Wellington and Hutt Valley Chamber Music societies in their 1997 and 1998 Sunday Concerts series. CHROME is toured in July 1999 for Chamber Music New Zealand and performed in this year's New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington.

Penelope Evison has specialised in early flutes in Europe for 19 years. Trained with Pierre Sechet in Paris, as well as Frans Bruggen and Barthold Kuijken, she is experienced in chamber music, orchestral and operatic productions, touring Europe as a soloist and as member of La Chapelle Royale, Les Arts Florissants and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Radio soloist in France, Germany, Finland and Sweden, among her recordings are the world premiere of W. F. Bach's complete flute duets (Stil), Swedish flute sonatas (Proprius) and Bach's B minor suite (Bis). She has taught widely in France and Scandinavia, with lectureships at Helsinki Sibelius Academy and Lapland Music Institute (1988-1995), has tutored at all the major NZ universities. Guest of the NZ Flute Convention in 1992 and 1997, Penelope is a featured artist with Concert FM.

Douglas Mews graduated from Auckland University in 1979 with a Masters degree in organ and harpsichord performance, having studied with the late Anthony Jennings. He then continued his harpsichord studies with Bob van Asperen at the Royal Conservatory in Holland. In 1993 he returned to Holland to study fortepiano and to give organ recitals in Hamburg, Lubeck, Travemunde and Amsterdam. Active as soloist and accompanist on the organ and harpsichord with ensembles Baroque Players, Chrome, Extempore, the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Tudor Consort, the Bach Choir, Douglas records for Concert FM and tours frequently for Chamber Music New Zealand. He is in demand as accompanist for radio broadcasts and in concert with visiting soloists. He is keyboard specialist at Victoria University's School of Music, and organist and choir master at St Teresa's Catholic Church in Karori, Wellington.

Euan Murdoch is one of New Zealand's leading exponents of baroque and classical cello, playing with the Baroque Players and keyboard performers Douglas Mews and the late Anthony Jennings.
He is in demand in Australasia both as a cello performer and teacher. After gaining a performance degree in 1979 at Otago University, he studied in the USA, Canada and England with Amaryllis Fleming, Eric Wilson and Diewke Davidov, as well as attending courses with Steven Isserlis, Anner Bylsma, Ralph Kirshbaum and Joan Dickson.
Currently lecturer in string studies at Victoria University of Wellington and member of the Victoria Trio, he broadcasts with Concert FM and is well known as a chamber musician, appearing at the 1994 International Festival of the Arts and NZ Chamber Music Festival with the NZ String Quartet.