Cromwell has a large range of sporting and community events that serve both residents and visitors. The following Event Calendar outlines a framework of events, many planned and organised by the Cromwell Promotion Group, and others by private interests. All these, along with normal sporting events/activities, family and community events, provide a host of activities to become involved in.
If you have a special event that will attract people into the Cromwell district, and you consider it appropriate to list on this Event Calendar, then contact the Promotion Group with details as soon as they are confirmed.
For additional information on any of the events listed below please contact Helen Scoles (03 445 0212) or Terry Emmitt ( 03 4450 720 or 0274 849424) or email info@cromwell.org.nz.
Upcoming events in & around Cromwell
29 Jun 2013
2013 Central Otago Chamber Music Series
Emerging piano star Jason Bae, recently awarded the title of Young Steinway Artist by Steinway & Sons in Hamburg, – the first-ever New Zealander so honoured – features as the piano soloist of the series with a performance on Saturday 29 Junealso at the Cromwell Memorial Hall and also at 7.30pm. His programme consists of Beethoven’s Op.10 No.2; Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit; Chopin’s Mazurkas Op.59 and Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No.2 Op.36.
Contact: Peter Mead
04 Aug 2013
2013 Central Otago Chamber Music Series
The Antipodes String Trio, founded by two of New Zealand’s leading young string players Amalia Hall and Nicholas Hancox, perform in the third of the series at the Cromwell Memorial Hall on Sunday afternoon 4 August at 2.30pm. Their programme features the masterworks of Larry Pruden; the contemporary composer Penderecki and Strauss’s Variations of a Bavarian Folk Song. They are joined by Tom McGrath, Teaching Fellow in Piano Accompaniment at Otago University, for Brahms’ epic Piano Quartet in C minor.
Contact: Peter Mead
14 Sep 2013
2013 Central Otago Chamber Music Series
All currently studying in Germanyand all graduates of the University of Canterbury, Emma Yoon (violin), Julianne Song (violin), Lindsay McLay (viola) and Alice Gott, make up the Lazarus String Quartet who, on Saturday 14 September at 7.30pm at a venue yet to be confirmed, brings the Central Otago Chamber Music 2013 to a close. Their programme encompasses Opus 20, the loveliest of the quartets by “the father of the string quartet”Hayden; Beethoven’s cheerful Opus 18 and is rounded off by one of the most intense, romantic and much-loved chamber works ever composed - Brahms’s great Opus 51 No 1.
Contact: Peter Mead
26 Oct 2013 - 28 Oct 2013
Parcell Reunion
Bannockburn School
27 Oct 2013
Cromwell Half Marathon/10km Walk or Run
02 Nov 2013
Cromwell Sportsperson of the Year
Cromwell Sports Club
08 Nov 2013 - 10 Nov 2013
Highlands Motorsport Park
Australian GTS event
09 Nov 2013 - 17 Nov 2013
Thyme Festival, Alexandra
12 Nov 2013
NZ Cup Day, Christcchurch
13 Nov 2013 - 15 Nov 2013
Canterbury A & P Show
30 Nov 2013
Pub-to-Pub Bannockburn Gutbuster
A 75km rollercoaster ride from Garston to Bannockburn. Over 1000m of uphill and downhill.
30 Dec 2013
Bannockburn MTB Classic
» For additional information and download entry form click here
02 Jan 2014
Lake Dunstan Triathlon/Duathlon
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04 Jan 2014 - 04 Jan 2014
Old Cromwell Wine & Food Festival
3pm to 8pm in the upper precinct area of Old Cromwell
A celebration of Cromwell Basin wines accompanied by tasty local food.
Contact: Heather McPherson 027 229 8307
12 Jan 2014
Lake Dunstan Cycle Challenge
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18 Apr 2014 - 20 Apr 2014
Warbirds Over Wanaka
23 Jun 2014
700 Anniversary Battle of Bannockburn
Details to be confirmed