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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 >>
SOUNZ Community Commission
Monday, 20 June 2005, 2:26 pm | SOUNZ
Community groups and professional composers have just over a week to come up with proposals for forming a creative partnership for a specific musical project in 2006. Applications for the 2005 SOUNZ Community Commission close on Thursday 30 June. The ... More >>
Phil Dadson ONZM
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 12:08 am | SOUNZ
Phil Dadson, Intermedia Artist extraordinaire, has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his Services to Art in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Stephen Gibbs talked to him about his extraordinary contributions to extending ... More >>
A slice of Kiwi in California
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 3:59 pm | SOUNZ
This Sunday, 15 May, New Zealand’s diversity in both flora and music will be celebrated in California. More >>
Phil, from scratch
Monday, 9 May 2005, 10:08 am | SOUNZ
Renowned for his creative collaborations in the percussion ensemble From Scratch, Phil Dadson has almost single-handedly carved out a niche for himself in the New Zealand Arts scene. More >>
Tall Poppy From Ngaruawahia
Monday, 9 May 2005, 10:06 am | SOUNZ
Mike Nock was back in New Zealand over the first weekend in April on behalf of Oxfam, to play a concert in Wellington to help raisefunds for the victims of the Dafur humanitarian disaster. [The concert, recorded by Concert FM, will be broadcast later in the year.] ... More >>
SOUNZ: Kiwi music takes off
Monday, 9 May 2005, 10:04 am | SOUNZ
Think 'Composers' and an image of an other-worldly, wild-haired bohemian might well spring to mind. Composing music as a career may seem to be something that belongs to a European past, but in fact, despite uncertain financial returns and often trying ... More >>
Five world premieres mark NZ Music Month
Tuesday, 3 May 2005, 11:22 am | SOUNZ
New Zealand Music Month really kicked off with five world premieres on the first weekend alone! In Wanaka and Wellington audiences were treated to first performances of works by Maria Grenfell, John Psathas, Rachel Clement, Kenneth Young and Hannah ... More >>
SOUNZ Community Commission Recipient Announced
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 12:42 am | SOUNZ
Rachel Clement of Christchurch is the recipient of the 2004 SOUNZ Community Commission. More >>
Sounz Contemporary Award Finalists Announced
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 5:09 pm | SOUNZ
Four composers have been named finalists in the SOUNZ Contemporary Award this year. More >>
Douglas Lilburn Radio Series Released On CD
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 3:17 pm | SOUNZ
The popular radio series ‘Douglas Lilburn: The Landscape of a New Zealand Composer’, about the life and music of New Zealand’s most distinguished composer is now available as a 10-CD boxed set. More >>
Proposals For 2004 SOUNZ Community Commission
Wednesday, 2 June 2004, 10:25 am | SOUNZ
SOUNZ, the Centre for NZ Music is pleased to announce that proposals are being sought for the 2004 SOUNZ Community Commission. More >>
NZ Composers NZ performers NZ Music Month
Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 12:19 am | SOUNZ
Five NZ composers will have their orchestral works read by the NZSO on 3 & 4 May to mark the beginning of NZ music month. More >>
