Biography
Composer, conductor, author, speaker, educator and publisher Philip Norman has been presenting work to New Zealand audiences for forty-five years. His output of over 250 compositions ranges from orchestral, chamber music and opera (A Christmas Carol), through secular and sacred choral and vocal works, to musicals with playwright Roger Hall (including Love Off the Shelf and Footrot Flats – still New Zealand’s best selling musical), and ballets for the Royal New Ballet such as the highly successful Peter Pan. His music has been performed in many countries, by organisations as diverse as The Vienna Boys Choir, The Kemerovo Philharmonic Orchestra (Siberia), The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough UK directed by playwright Alan Ayckbourn, and The West Australian Ballet, Perth.
Recent compositions include Echoes of an Exhibition commissioned by the Sadler Jones Trust for the 25th anniversary of the Risingholme Orchestra, Christchurch 2017; and It’s Love Isn’t It? for solo classical guitar and reciter(s) commissioned by guitarist Matthew Marshall with funding from Creative New Zealand and the New Zealand Guitar Foundation, setting love poems by Alistair Te Ariki and Meg Campbell.
Philip is a past president of the Composers Association of New Zealand, a founder trustee of Christchurch’s The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts (opened in August 2016), the immediate past chairman of the Christchurch City Choir, and music director of the Risingholme Orchestra. He holds a PhD in musicology and is the award-winning author of Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music as well as the compiler and publisher of John Ritchie at Ninety: a festschrift. He was the inaugural Lilburn research fellow at the Alexander Turnbull Library in 2013 and is the 2017-2018 Creative New Zealand-Micahel King Writing Fellow completing writing a history of composition in New Zealand. Philip was a recipient artist of a grant from Adrienne, Lady Stewart as a result of her 2009 Arts Foundation Award for Patronage. He was invested as a Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) ‘for services to music and music theatre’ in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. He was the recipient of the 2017/2018 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship and is currently writing a history of composition in New Zealand.
For further information visit [his website](www.philipnormancomposer.com) or the Arts Foundation website. For samples of his music visit https://soundcloud.com/philip-norman-composer
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