Mr. Eric Waters

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 34, 8 March 1929, Page 7

Mr. Eric Waters

Pianist of Auckland . Trio R. ERIC WATERS, the well-known Auckland musician, has joined the staff of 1YA as pianist of the Auckland Trio and Studio Orchestra. He has had considerable experience of all classes of music With orchestral and trio combinations, and also as a solo pianist, and his engagement will undoubtedly be a distinct acquisition to 1YA. When Mr. Waters concluded a New Zealand concert tour ‘with Ger-

trude Johnson, the gifted Australian soprano, at Auckland, he liked the place so much that he decided to remain in the city, and he has entered actively into the musical life of the place. He composed the musical score for "The Abbess of Whitby" for the Auckland Amateur Operatie Society, and assisted in preparing the score for "Tutankhamen." He was pianist to the Auckland Competition Society, and assisted Mr. Maurice Gutteridge in the stage presentation of augmented orfhestral novelties at the Regent Theae.