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Philip Brownlee

Born: 1971 Website  

Biography

Te Atiawa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa Rangatira

Philip Brownlee (b. 1971) is a composer and sound artist, based in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2008 he received the degree of PhD in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington. This was based on research into the structural role of timbre, through his own compositional practice with instrumental and electroacoustic resources. Between 1999 and 2003 he was a member of Amalgam, a collective which presented a series of cross-disciplinary performance pieces in Wellington. These performances incorporated predetermined musical materials with free improvisation, and elements of theatre, dance and video art. Their 2000 production Meatworks was voted Best Music Show in that year’s Wellington Fringe Festival.

As a composer of concert music, he has worked with many of New Zealand’s leading contemporary music performers, including Stroma, 175 East, Bridget Douglas, Richard Nunns, Robert Ibell, Johnny Chang, and Dylan Lardelli. He was a finalist for the SOUNZ Contemporary Award 2001 for his work Sinew/Synapse for solo cello. His works have also been performed at a number of international festivals. In October 2009 he attended the World Music Days festival at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, as part of a delegation of Māori and Pacific musicians and scholars. In that festival he presented He rimu pae noa, a work for taonga pūoro and ensemble, with Richard Nunns and Horomona Horo, and an ensemble of the Conservatory’s students.


Photo credit: Isobel Brownlee


Composed (39)

As if to catch the fleeting tail of time

for guitar and ensemble, 16m


Canzona per sonare: Degraded Echoes

for recorder and string quartet, 6m


Cat, Dog, Pie

electroacoustic, 8m


Circuit Diagram

for violin and/or cello, 30s


Circuit Diagram

for cello, 30s


Circuit Diagram

for violin, 30s


Collaborative Improvisation

for sampelong and recorders, 7m


Debris Flow

for three violas, 5m


Ex machina

electroacoustic, 11m 13s


Galatea

for clarinet, violin and cello, 11m 30s


Gracious numbers decayed

for oboe, clarinet and bassoon, 10m


Harakeke

for flute, 8m


He rimu pae noa

for taonga pūoro and ensemble, 9m


Improbable Mechanism

for recorder quartet, 5m


Ko te tātai whetū

for voice, taonga pūoro and orchestra, 18m 30s


Ko te tātai whetū (chamber version)

for voice, taonga puoro and chamber ensemble, 15m 30s


Landforms

for large ensemble, 18m


Manaaki

for taonga puoro and string quartet, 10m


Mists and Voices

electroacoustic, 11m


Night Countdown

for soprano voice (with glockenspiel) and bass recorder


Pariwhero

for violin and piano, 4m 30s


Phyllis Remembers

chamber opera, 11m


Raroa Overture

for junior orchestra


Sinew/Synapse

for cello, 10m


Sparks Among the Geysers

for chamber ensemble, 16m


Stolen Time

for recorder and dulcian


Strata

for double bass


Synonta

for piano, 6m


Te Hau o Tāwhirimātea

for flute and taonga pūoro, 11m


Tendril and Nebula

for chamber ensemble, 14m


The Habits of Leaves

for solo bassoon, 6m


The Hedgehog's Dilemma

for clarinet quartet, 1m


The length of a breath

for contrabass recorder


The quietest name of the wind

for chamber ensemble, 8m


The stars like years

for clarinet quartet, 16m


Trio for clarinets

for clarinet trio, 6m


Water Sketch with Tui

for violin and piano, 7m


Written on the Wind, and Running Water

for string quartet, 11m



Performances (2)

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CANCELLED: Grand Finale | Adam Festival 2022

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