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New SOUNZ Director encourages engagement
Monday, 1 February 2010, 4:22 pm | SOUNZ
‘Engagement’ is one of the key objectives that Julie Sperring has as she takes up the role of Executive Director of SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music. Listening to and performing the music created by Kiwi composers is such a relevant cultural ... More >>
Fancy a game of musical volleyball?
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 2:58 pm | SOUNZ
Or ever wondered what birds convening on telephone wires might sound like if you read them like sheet music? More >>
Moves at the top for SOUNZ
Friday, 30 October 2009, 4:51 pm | SOUNZ
Some significant leadership and governance changes are taking place at SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music. Executive Director Scilla Askew will depart her post at this national arts organisation in February 2010. Elizabeth Kerr will join the ... More >>
Making Trans-Tasman Music
Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 9:21 am | SOUNZ
Composition of a new Trans-Tasman work has begun this week as NZTrio and Australian Stuart Greenbaum work together in Auckland. More >>
Ross Harris a four-time winner
Friday, 18 September 2009, 10:29 am | SOUNZ
One of the awards presented in Christchurch last night as part of the APRA-hosted Silver Scroll event was the SOUNZ Contemporary Award, the most prestigious annual prize for New Zealand composers. In an outstanding achievement, Ross Harris has won ... More >>
Finalists Selected For SOUNZ Contemporary Award
Friday, 21 August 2009, 12:44 pm | SOUNZ
The three finalists selected for the 2009 SOUNZ Contemporary Award include a multi-media work written in response to the 1970’s Cambodian genocide, a symphony inspired by the imagery of painter Marc Chagall, and a piano concerto which at one point requires ... More >>
Support for NZ composers buoyant despite recession
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 5:19 pm | SOUNZ
“We are delighted that, despite the prevailing economic gloom, New Zealand music lovers are excited about this opportunity to bid for their own special piece from one of our leading composers” said Lloyd Williams, Chair of the Board of SOUNZ, ... More >>
SOUNZ Community Commission celebrates 10 years
Monday, 18 May 2009, 12:25 pm | SOUNZ
In 2009 SOUNZ will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the SOUNZ Community Commission. This project, funded by a generous and committed anonymous donor, has proved an effective way to bring together amateur musicians and professional composers to create new ... More >>
SOUNZtender hits right note for music lovers
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 10:49 am | SOUNZ
“Five great composers, five new works! We are delighted to be able to offer SOUNZtender, a unique project that allows music lovers to tender for their own special piece of music created by one of New Zealand’s leading composers,” says Lloyd Williams, ... More >>
SOUNZ Contemporary Award 2008
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 3:58 pm | SOUNZ
Wax Lyrical, a work written by young New Zealand composer Chris Gendall for an octet of flute, clarinet, harp, piano, and string quartet, has won the 2008 SOUNZ Contemporary Award, the most prestigious annual award for ‘contemporary classical’ composition ... More >>
NZ Music Month Ideal Time For Inspiration
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 12:28 am | SOUNZ
"New Zealand Music Month is an ideal time for community groups to gain inspiration to become involved in a musical project over the next year," says Scilla Askew, Executive Director of SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music. ”Each year, around ... More >>
Ken Young Trans-Tasman composer
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 10:27 am | SOUNZ
Kenneth Young, composer and conductor, has been awarded the Trans-Tasman Composer Exchange and is currently enjoying Hobart’s hospitality as he works with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. More >>
SOUNZ sails in a new direction
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 11:34 am | SOUNZ
In one of New Zealand’s iconic pieces of music, Landfall in Unknown Seas, composer Douglas Lilburn provided a setting for words by Allen Curnow. The opening lines describe the pioneering spirit that brought our forebears to Aotearoa: “Simply by sailing ... More >>
Sounz Takes Roadshow on City Tour
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 11:12 am | SOUNZ
SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music will be taking a Roadshow to Auckland, Hamilton, Dunedin and Christchurch in the first two weeks of October. (It is hoped that the presentation will be taken to other centres will be visited later in the year or ... More >>
SOUNZ Contemporary Award Winner 2007
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 9:52 am | SOUNZ
In May this year These Arms to Hold You by Eve de Castro-Robinson brought a children’s choir and New Zealand’s national orchestra together in a 100th birthday celebration. Last night [Ed:On Tuesday night], at the APRA Silver Scrolls evening, it won the ... More >>
Technology Overcomes Tyranny Of Distance
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 9:43 am | SOUNZ
The latest communication technologies will help to overcome the tyranny of distance as composer Claire Cowan and the Hutt Valley Concert Orchestra collaborate over the next few months in the 2007 SOUNZ Community Commission. More >>
Triple Distinction for Finalists
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 11:52 am | SOUNZ
Each of the three works selected as finalists for the 2007 SOUNZ Contemporary Award have a particular claim to fame. One was composed by a top civil servant, another has already been enjoyed by thousands of New Zealanders and the third has been penned ... More >>
IAMIC Delegates To Experience NZ Culture
Friday, 15 June 2007, 3:26 pm | SOUNZ
More than 25 delegates from Music Information Centres around the world will be among those enjoying the host of concerts and activities surrounding the celebration of Matariki in the capital this week. More >>
12th session of NZSO-SOUNZ Readings
Thursday, 26 April 2007, 11:55 am | SOUNZ
An opportunity to hear an orchestral work begun by one composer and finished by another is one interesting and poignant feature of the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings to be held in Wellington next week as Music Month 2007 gets underway. More >>
Kiwi composers in UK
Monday, 20 November 2006, 12:10 am | SOUNZ
A strong Kiwi contingent is representing New Zealand this week at the United Kingdom’s largest festival specifically dedicated to contemporary and experimental music. More >>
