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Ivan Zagni

Composer

Born: 1942

Biography

Ivan Zagni is a New Zealand-based musician and composer who has been a member of bands such as Jody Grind, Big Sideways and Avant Garage, and has recorded albums with Aynsley Dunbar, Elton Dean, Don McGlashan and Peter Scholes.

From the mid-1980s Zagni received a succession of orchestral commissions. In 1986 Zagni and Peter Scholes' work together was the subject of the Radio New Zealand Concert programme Music on the Wall. He composed Migration Nos 1 and 2 (1988) for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. In 1989, while he was the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's first composer in residence, a position funded by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, he was commissioned to compose Breath of Hope, which is notable for its references to New Zealand nature. Critic William Dart described Breath of Hope as "a historical and spiritual journey down the Waikato." The Cospatrick Tragedy, commissioned for New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, was recorded at a live concert at the Auckland Town Hall in 1993 by Radio New Zealand, one of many Zagni performances recorded by the national broadcaster.

Zagni's String Quartet No.1 (1992), A View from my Window, was composed in Wellington during his residency with Chamber Music NZ, and premiered by the New Zealand String Quartet. Quartet No.1 was also performed by the Mosaic Quartet in 1995 for Auckland City's Arts Alive programme. Devonport, his third string quartet, was commissioned for the Devonport Arts Festival on Auckland's North Shore, and premiered in 1994 – it was described by Dart as having "a cluster of minor tonalities" at its core. In the mid-1990s he withdrew from public life for a period of recuperation.

In 2003 Zagni was reunited with members of Blam Blam Blam/Big Sideways/Avant Garage to record with Tim Mahon's The Moth on the album Music From A Lightbulb.[17] That year he was also the focus of a Radio New Zealand 'Musical Chairs' documentary.[18] Several compositions were featured in the Auckland Chamber Orchestra's 2005 season, including his clarinet concerto 'The Koeakoea',[19] performed in full for the first time after the 1987 Wellington premiere left out the violins.[20] His graphic scores featured in exhibitions at the Audio Foundation in 2011 and the Gus Fisher Gallery in 2012, both accompanied by low-key performances.

Zagni was Composer in Residence at Glenfield College for six months in 1986. He was inaugural Composer in Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1989–90 and Composer in Residence with Chamber Music New Zealand in 1992. Awards include major grants from QEII Arts Council in 1984, 1988, and 1990.


Composed (67)

3 Blind Mice

Three pieces for piano, 3m 7s


A Childs Game

Eight short pieces for piano, 5m 10s


Beirut

2m 17s


Breath of Hope

for SATB choir and orchestra, 30m


Brian Tries

2m 23s


Broken Pieces

for solo piano, 5m 10s


Cat and Mouse

2m 43s


Catwalk

graphic score for piano


Conquer Conviscate

for solo piano, 8m 10s


Cyclonic Journey

Digital Electronic, 10m


Double Circle

5m 45s


Dreams of Freedom

for oboe and string orchestra, 16m


Ekaroros

6m 40s


Elbow Room

3m 46s


Emotional Diversions Nos. 1, 2 and 3

for solo piano, 7m 30s


Forbidden Island

for solo piano and sound design, 10m 30s


Fragmentation No 1

for solo piano, 3m 20s


Fragmentation No 2

for solo piano, 3m 10s


Fragmentation No 3

for solo piano, 4m 50s


Going to the Movies

graphic score for unspecified one line instrument


Hades Underworld

Digital Electronic, 8m 10s


Images of War

for piano, flute, violin, cello and marimba, 8m 30s


In Stumona Kwae

for voices, recorders and percussion


Ivory Hunters

Sound Design, 7m 20s


Journey to Nowhere

for orchestra, 18m 10s


Lament for Piano and Flute

for flute and piano, 6m


Looking for Higgs Boson

digital electronic, 6m 40s


Madman in a Dismal Landscape

for solo piano, 2m 10s


Masque of the Red Death

for solo piano


Microvariations Nos.1 and 2

for violin and marimba, 5m 30s


Migrating Creatures

digital electronic, 7m


Mind Games

for solo piano, 6m 10s


Moments 84

design structures of sound and movement in graphic images


Monk with Flute Lost in Mountain

digital electronic, 7m


Mountain Streams

for flute, bassoon and marimba, 8m 20s


Myths Fantasies and Conjure

for marimba, piano and string quartet, 8m


Nicaragua

2m 54s


Night in Shanghai

digital electronic, 9m 20s


Nomadic

for solo piano, 4m 10s


Orontea

for piano quintet, 5m 10s


Otahuhu

a series of digital colour prints


Paris ' City Under Siege

digital electronic, 9m


Piano Quintet

for flute, violin, viola, cello and piano, 9m 10s


Piano Trio 20/21

for flute, bassoon and piano, 12m 10s


Portrait LVB

for solo piano, 5m 40s


Sailing to Troy

Digital Electronic, 8m 20s


Saturn's Desolate Landscape

Digital Electronic, 9m 15s


Soul Mountain

for solo piano, 18m 20s


Soul Mountain No. 2

for solo piano, 6m 30s


The Convict

for solo piano, 4m 50s


Time and Silence No. 1

for solo piano, 5m 20s


Time and Silence No. 2

for solo piano, 7m


Time and Silence No. 3

for solo piano, 5m


Time and Silence No. 4

for marimba and piano, 7m


Time and Silence No. 5

for violin and marimba, 4m 30s


Tokyo

Digital Electronic, 7m


Voices from Haumea

Digital Electronic, 10m 40s


Waipoua Landscape

Digital Electronic, 9m


Whangaroa Harbour

for flute and piano, 7m 39s


Wireless Telegraphic

a pen drawing