About SOUNZ

SOUNZ is a music information centre whose purpose is to promote the music of New Zealand composers.

SOUNZ achieves this through services and projects which:

• ensure that a comprehensive collection of information and music resources is maintained, developed and made available for loan and purchase.
• encourage the performance, publication, recording and broadcast of New Zealand music, nationally and internationally.

The Centre was established in 1991 and is a not-for-profit charitable trust whose Trustees serve in an honorary capacity.  (Charities Commission Registration No. CC22488)

SOUNZ is a member of IAMIC , the International Association of Music Information Centres, and the International Music Council of Unesco. 

SOUNZ Board of Trustees

Elizabeth Kerr (chair)		Vicki Allpress Hill		Anthony Healey		David Hutton
Kate Mead		Clare Somerville		Gillian Whitehead		Eve de Castro-Robinson, Chair of the Composers' Advisory Panel

SOUNZ Staff

Julie Sperring, Executive Director		Claire Macfarlane, Business Administrator		Hayden Sinclair, Library and Promotions Coordinator		Chris Watson, Resound Project Coordinator

Our Funders

The Centre for New Zealand Music is funded by Creative New Zealand (Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa), APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) and also through PPNZ (Phonographic Performances New Zealand) Ltd.  The Centre received a generous grant from the Lilburn Trust in support of its 2009-2011 Strategic Plan.  SOUNZ is also being funded by NZonAir for the Resound project , which will enable the Radio New Zealand Composer Archive to be prepared and licensed for dissemination.

Click here for a page of useful Links in the New Zealand Music community.