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Salina Fisher

Composer, Performer

Born: 1993

Biography

Salina Fisher (b.1993) is an award-winning New Zealand composer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Her highly evocative music often draws on her Japanese heritage, as well as a fascination with the natural world. With a background as a violinist, Salina finds lyricism in unusual timbres and extended tonalities, with a sensitivity to detail and gesture. She is particularly interested in collaboration, and has worked closely with practitioners of taonga pūoro, Japanese instruments, ceramics, and film. Her music has been performed worldwide, including at ISCM World Music Days, Melbourne Recital Centre, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and The Kennedy Center.

In 2016 Salina became the youngest ever recipient of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award for her orchestral work Rainphase, written as NZSO National Youth Orchestra Composer-in-Residence. Rainphase has since been performed by a number of major orchestras including National Symphony Orchestra (USA) and Dallas Symphony Orchestra with New Zealand conductor Gemma New. Her string quartet Tōrino – echoes on pūtōrino improvisations by Rob Thorne, commissioned by the New Zealand String Quartet, won the 2017 SOUNZ Contemporary Award and has since been performed by Emily Carr String Quartet and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and published by Wai-te-ata Music Press. Her piano trio Kintsugi, commissioned by NZTrio in 2020, will receive its New York premiere at The Lincoln Center in 2022.

Salina is the recipient of awards from Fulbright, The Arts Foundation (New Generation Award), Creative New Zealand/Edwin Carr Foundation, and Composers Association of New Zealand (Trust Fund Award). Her music has been performed by ensembles/musicians including International Contemporary Ensemble, New Zealand Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony, National Symphony (USA), Dallas Symphony, Albany Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber and Lapland Chamber Orchestras; Stroma, New Zealand String Quartet, NZTrio, Marmen Quartet, Kyo-Shin-An Arts, Emily Carr String Quartet, Lands End Ensemble, Vimadean Duo, Matthew Barley, and Stephen de Pledge. Many of her works have been recorded by RNZ Concert and broadcast internationally, including on BBC Radio 3, NHK FM, and ABC Classic.

Originally from Christchurch, Salina moved to Wellington in 2011 to study composition and violin performance at New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī, Victoria University of Wellington with composers including John Psathas and Michael Norris. Between 2017–2019 she studied in New York with Susan Botti at Manhattan School of Music (MMus), and won the Carl Kanter Prize for orchestral composition. In 2019 she was appointed Composer-in-Residence at New Zealand School of Music, and since 2020 has been a Teaching Fellow in Composition, lecturing in instrumentation, orchestration, and composition.

website: www.salinafisher.com


Composed (26)

Blushing Skies

for orchestra, 5m


Coastlines

for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet, 14m 30s


Dream 6

for alto flute, clarinet, harp, vibraphone and string quartet


Fallen

for SSAA choir, 4m


Hā

for viola and electronics, 6m


If I Could Land

for voice and piano


Kingfisher

for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano, 4m


Kintsugi

for piano trio, 9m 30s


Kintsugi for Orchestra

for orchestra, 8m


Komorebi

for violin and vibraphone


Lumina

for mixed ensemble, 5m


Lune dans les nuages

for clarinet, trumpet, crotales, viola and cello, 4m


Mata-au

for violin, viola and cello, 8m


Mono no aware (物の哀れ)

for cello and piano, 6m


Murmuring Light

for orchestra, 7m 30s


Rainphase

for orchestra, 10m


Reflect

for viola, 7m 30s


Silhouettes

for string quartet


Three Short Pieces

for solo piano, 7m 30s


Toroa

for taonga pūoro and violin, 8m 30s


Tupaia

for orchestra, 8m


Uchi-Soto (内外)

for solo piano, 8m


Unfinished Portrait

for woodwind trio and piano


Ventus

for string quartet, 3m


Yabo

for violin and viola



Performances (4)

Amici Ensemble at St Andrew's on The Terrace

This year, Amici comprises Donald Armstrong and Malavika Gopal (violin), Andrew Thomson (viola), ...


STROMA | Sonic Portraits

An evening of intimate chamber music, with five exciting composers from NZ and overseas, in the b...


SMP Ensemble Presents: Shimmers

SMP Ensemble presents a concert showcasing the wealth of emerging performance-based and compositi...


Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra | In the Elements

Conductor Vincent Hardaker Taonga puoro Jerome Kavanagh Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by ...