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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 >>
Rainbow Warrior composer visits New Zealand
Monday, 6 November 2006, 9:24 am | SOUNZ
Australian composer Colin Bright arrives in New Zealand today to take up the 2006 Trans-Tasman Composer Exchange which will see him spending time in residence with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. More >>
Triple SOUNZ Contemporary Award Winner Ross Harris
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 9:43 am | SOUNZ
“This work represents a fantastic accomplishment – to take the theme of war and to treat it so sensitively, and yet with such drama. It was an inspired decision to use a soprano soloist to convey the literary elements.” These comments from ... More >>
Symphonic Soloists Stand Out!
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 9:35 am | SOUNZ
Three orchestral works, each featuring a soloist, have been chosen as finalists for the 2006 SOUNZ Contemporary Award. More >>
Sounz Result
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 11:07 am | SOUNZ
Sounz Result Robin Toan will be asking the Manakau City Symphony Orchestra players to do more than blow, bow and strike their instruments as a result of being awarded the 2006 SOUNZ Community Commission. More >>
SOUNZ Community Commission cutoff coming
Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 12:25 am | SOUNZ
Community groups and professional composers have until the end of this month to come up with proposals for forming a creative partnership over the next year. More >>
The Rimutaka Tunnel goes to Montreal
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 10:08 am | SOUNZ
Trains sounds and historic film clips of the construction of the Rimutaka Tunnel will feature in a concert on June 9 at the International Viola Congress in Montreal. More >>
NZ Music in France
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 2:51 pm | SOUNZ
The music of New Zealand composers will feature in Festival Synthese 2006 in Bourges, France, regarded as the world’s most prestigious festival of electroacoustic music. More >>
Annual SOUNZ Community Commission
Friday, 21 April 2006, 11:35 am | SOUNZ
Recorders and gamelan. Improvising teenagers. Choral and orchestral players from Central Otago. Blind and visually impaired students. This list illustrates the diverse range of community groups who have, over the last seven years, enjoyed the thrill ... More >>
Ross Harris Piece Features At Intl. Conf In Sweden
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 9:22 am | SOUNZ
Works by a Pole, a Dane, an Icelander, and two Dutch composers are the other pieces on the programme for a major international music conference in Göteborg [Gottenburg] Sweden. Delegates from more than 60 countries representing Europe, the Americas, ... More >>
Popular music department resource given make-over
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 3:52 pm | SOUNZ
The SOUNZwrite Guides produced through SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music are used in more than 300 high schools and other educational institutions throughout the country. More >>
NZSO-SOUNZ Readings
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 9:56 am | SOUNZ
Those in or visiting Wellington next week will have the opportunity to hear some of the newest works around for orchestra as the ninth session of NZSO-SOUNZ Readings takes place. More >>
2005 Contemporary Award Winner Ross Harris
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 5:10 pm | SOUNZ
Composer Ross Harris was congratulated for opening up ‘a whole new world of tuba sound!’ when he was announced as the winner of the 2005 SOUNZ Contemporary Award for his Labyrinth, for tuba and orchestra. More >>
CCR: Closer Creative Relationships
Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 5:15 pm | SOUNZ
Trans-Tasman artistic relationships are due to enjoy another step forward with the announcement that New Zealand composer James Gardner has been awarded the 2005 Trans - Tasman Composer Exchange. He will work with ELISION, Australia’s premier new music ... More >>
Three out of four ain’t bad!
Friday, 26 August 2005, 1:14 pm | SOUNZ
Alison Grant has continued a remarkably successful run of results for New Zealand composers in the Young Composers Competition at the annual Asian Composer’s League Festival in Thailand. More >>
SOUNZ Community Commission
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 9:32 am | SOUNZ
Meeting the challenges that blind and visually impaired singers face will be a new experience for composer Ross Carey as he undertakes a commission to write a work for the Homai School’s National Music Course Choir. More >>
