VINCENT ASPEY AGAIN ON TOUR

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 52, 5 July 1935, Page 14

VINCENT ASPEY AGAIN ON TOUR

Engaged For National Stations’ Broadcasts

ME. VINCENT ASPEY, the prominent ° New Zealand violinist. who once before toured the national stations under engagement to the Broadcasting Board, has just been re-engaged to go. on tour again for* a month, beginning on: July’.6, Mr. Aspey had his first lesson on the violin when he was only nine years of. age and had 14 months’ tuition underMr. McLaughlin, now residing in‘ Hamilton, after which he continued his . training with an uncle at Huntly. He} played before the Governor-General ant. | Lady Jellicoe at the age of 12, and a year later be had passed all his exam--inations with honours. In 1924 Vincent Aspey was the lead: ing violinist at the ‘Fuller-Hayward ° theatre in Devonport, and while viol--inist at.the Auckland Majestic Theatre — in 1925 he. won the gold medal for open solo at the Auckland competitions. His first .radio broadcast was in 1926, when he played at.a special transmis- — sion for. the benefit of the Duke and Duchess’ of York, who were trout-fishing at Taupo, In 1928 he left for Sydney to study at the Conservatorium, acting on the advice of Zimbalist and: Heifetz. Studying the violin under Gerald Waleum , and chamber musie under Alfred Hill, distinction was soon gained in both subjects, and he was winner of the chanpionship solo at the Radio Histeddfod. -From then unti] 1981, when he arrived back -in Auckland to start "his concert and other chamber musie work, he was_ leader of the 2FC and 2BL orchestras, His best stage work.was done when: be was with the Mareo Symphony Orchestra, when he did the Mendelssohn Concerto and the Lalo Symphony. Vincent Aspey, who uses a very fine "Joseph- Galiaus" violin, is now leader of the 1YA. orchestra. ,