Home is where the heart is

Elizabeth Marvelly.

ELIZABETH Marvelly is singing for joy at being home.
The 21 year old songstress joins the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to open her Home Tour, in Wellington next Wednesday night.
Marvelly returns to New Zealand after three years international touring, performing at the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House amongst the highlights.
“I’ve done a bit of touring and it’s so, so good to be back home,” the former Rotorua schoolgirl told Capital Times this week. “I walked the streets of Germany really missing Milo and that good New Zealand vibe.”
Marvelly says Home, her new album with the NZSO, is reflective of her journey overseas and inspired by her homesickness for New Zealand.
”It’s a foray of kiwi pop classics, traditional Maori songs, Gershwin and Caccini. It’s been three years in the making and I was so stoked when the NZSO said they’d do it with me.”
The album has debuted as number six on the album charts. It follows the success of her first album Elizabeth Marvelly, which went to gold and the top ten in 2007.
Wednesday night’s Home Tour concert with the NZSO will deliver an evening of light classical and cross over pop. Marvelly says most of the songs will be from her new album “with one or two others thrown in.”
Many have been arranged by pianist and arranger, Carl Doy, who leads the orchestra and plays piano accompaniment. The programme includes classics like Ave Maria and Gershwin’s Summertime, and reinterpretations of kiwi classics Don’t Dream its Over and Welcome Home.
Elizabeth Marvelly’s Home Tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Michael Fowler Centre, April 13.