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Deborah Wai Kapohe

Composer, Māori Composer, Performer

Biography

Te Ātihaunui - ā - Papārangi

Worldwide, few professional opera singers can claim so diverse a repertoire of talents as Deborah Wai Kapohe, M.Mus(Distinction), BA and LRSM. Recognised as New Zealand's most promising soprano (the Dominion 2002), Deborah is also highly regarded as a contemporary singer, singer/songwriter and guitarist.

Born in Southland, she has performed in operas, musicals, contemporary Maori music, arts festivals, proms, concerts, recitals, self accompanied guitar and voice recitals and special events throughout New Zealand and Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom, China and South Africa.

Her Premiere Opera performances include Outrageous Fortune by New Zealand composer Gillian Whitehead; Wide Sargasso Sea and Gauguin for Chamber Made in Australia; and Grandma's Shoes, a joint production between Opera Australia and Theatre of Image in Sydney, January 2000.

Special events involving New Zealand Music include singing for the Duke of Edinburgh World Fellows at St James Palace with a programme of music by Dorothy Buchanan and Douglas Lilburn, for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, National Anthems at Jade Stadium including pre match performances of music by Gareth Farr and performing for Royalty at Huka Lodge, Taupo, featuring a new arrangement by Dorothy Buchanan of Peace Song. She has written and performed her own song for Waitangi Day with the Southern Sinfonia in Dunedin, toured New Zealand with Arts on Tour New Zealand playing her own music and since 1998 she has released three CDs as a singer songwriter in the alternative folk genre on her label Ring Trout CDs.

Since 2004 Deborah has began to broaden her interest in contemporary music by developing her interest in the internet and studying law with an interest in the area of music and the internet. One of the results of this is that Deborah is co-creator and sponsor of the annual Pacific Songwriting Competition which has presented a total of $65,000 to songwriters, with entries received from around the globe. This competition is open to all genres and involves the use of the internet as a means of gathering songwriters together, awarding money to aid composers and songwriters writing and also exploiting the internet as an ever increasing area in which to expose audiences to original music.


Composed (50)

I Am Afraid

Alternatve Folk, 3m 37s


American Clone

Alternative Folk, 3m 45s


At the Cafe

Alternative Folk, 4m 5s


Australian Soldier

Alternative Folk, 5m 30s


Because You Defy Convention

Alternative Folk, 3m 56s


Crystal to Moonlight

Acoustic, 2m 20s


Cyrus's Gift and Forgotten easily

Alternative Folk, 12m 27s


Daniel

Acoustic, 3m 32s


Death

Alternative Folk, 3m 53s


Do You Ever Live a Day?

Acoustic, 3m 28s


Elusive

Acoustic, 2m 21s


Even On a Cold Day

Alternative Folk, Acoustic, 4m 5s


Garden Flax

Alternative Folk, 4m 18s


Girl Down

Alternative folk, Country, 4m 3s


Hard to Breathe

Alternative Folk, 3m 40s


Haunt Me

Folk Pop, 2m 49s


Heartbeat

Taonga Puoro, Folk, 4m 49s


Hine, e Hine

Te Reo Māori, Acoustic, 4m 23s


I Dream Amongst Ferns

Alternative Folk,, 2m 27s


I Wait For You

Acoustic, 3m 41s


I Was Sprung

Alternative Folk, 2m 31s


I'm Obsessed

Alternative Folk, 3m 23s


If It Was Mine to Give

Alternative Folk, 3m 21s


If There Ever Was a Time

Alternative Folk, 3m 3s


In Your Collection

Folk Pop, 4m 13s


Kia Hora te Marino

for voice and piano arr. Glenda Keam, 3m 10s


Lessons

Pop, 2m 59s


Life in the Queue

Alternative Folk, 3m 24s


Movie

Alternative Folk, 2m 41s


Nomads

Pop, 2m 46s


Numb

Taonga Puoro, voice, 4m 9s


Numb

Pop, 4m 3s


NZ Rain

Acoustic, 3m 32s


Piece of You

for vocals, guitar, taonga puroro, percussion and double bass, 8m 20s


Rain Down On Me

Alternative Folk, 4m 36s


Red Dust

Alternative Folk, 3m 15s


River Will Carry Me

Taonga Puoro, Pop, Jazz, 4m 50s


Run

Pop, Jazz, 7m 15s


Sage in the Tree

Alternative Folk, 4m 30s


Sage in The Tree

for voice and piano, 4m 11s


Snowslide

Taonga Puoro, Alternative Folk, 4m 15s


Tarakihi

Te Reo Māori, World Music, Latin, 1m 57s


Thin Air

Alternative Folk, 5m 23s


Too Late

Pop, Folk, 3m 24s


Trust

Alternative Folk, 4m 53s


Waiting to Catch a Poem

Acoustic, 4m 19s


Whispering Softly

Acoustic, 3m 30s


You're my Paradise

Alternative Folk, 3m 39s


Young Girl

Acoustic, 3m 27s



Commissioned (2)

Peace Song

for soprano and cello, 3m


Thin Air

5m 4s