Contributor
Glen Downie
Composer
Biography
Glen Downie is a Wellington based composer who holds a Master of Musical Arts from Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music, where he studied under Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon. Past teachers have included John Psathas, Kenneth Young and Gao Ping. He is currently embarking on a PhD in composition at the University of Cambridge with Jeremy Thurlow on a Cambridge Trust International Scholarship. He has been a finalist in the 2014 NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composers Award, a co-winner of the NZ Trio's inaugural composing competition (2015), and won multiple prizes from the NZSM, including three second placings in the composers competition, the 2015 Jenny McLeod award, and the 2017 Matthew Marshall Prize for guitar composition.
He has had performances by the Intrepid Music Project, Stroma, Te Kōkī Trio, and the SMP Ensemble of which he is co-director. In 2016 he was selected to participate in the Palendriai International Composers Course in Lithuania, and also created a soundtrack (along with Christopher Wratt) for Sonya Lacey's video installation Infinitesimals.
2017 saw the première of his orchestral work ‘Hot Coals’ by the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, which was also selected for the Tactus Young Composers Forum, Belgium, where it was workshopped by the Brussels Philharmonic, alongside a workshop and concert by Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. Recently he has been appointed the 2019 NZSO National Youth Orchetsra Composer in Residence.
Also a keen free improvisor on saxophone, he has played with Jeff Henderson, Christopher Wratt, Pyramid Lake (an improvised quartet with Rob Thorne, Simon Eastwood and Dexter Stanley-Tauvao) and founded the large improvising ensemble Composting Imposters.
Composed (20)
Performances (22)
__James Judd__ | Conductor __New Zealand Youth Choir__ (David Squire Music Director) ___ _...
__Melanie Lançon__ | flute __Bede Hanley__ | oboe __Stephen De Pledge__ | piano ___ _...
__Additional performances:__ [August 1st (Napier)](https://www.sounz.org.nz/events/2792...
__This event is postponed due to the current COVID-19 lockdown.__ ___ __Melanie Lançon__ | flut...
__This event is postponed due to the current COVID-19 lockdown.__ ___ __Melanie Lançon__ | flut...
__Melanie Lançon__ | flute __Bede Hanley__ | oboe __Stephen De Pledge__ | piano ___ _...
__Additional performances:__ [August 1st (Napier)](https://www.sounz.org.nz/events/2792...
__This event is postponed due to the current COVID-19 lockdown.__ ___ __Melanie Lançon__ | fl...
__This event is postponed due to the current COVID-19 lockdown.__ ___ __Melanie Lançon__ | flut...
__This event is postponed due to the current COVID-19 lockdown.__ ___ __Melanie Lançon__ | flut...
__This event is postponed due to the current COVID-19 lockdown.__ ___ __Melanie Lançon__ | flut...
Join us for the world premiere of Cepheid III for solo percussion, written by Pōneke based compos...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...
The Ghost Trio explore the cultural diversity of the piano trio canon, including works by Ludwig ...