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John Psathas Events and Performances
ConcertA comprehensive listing of performances of music by John Psathas.
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A comprehensive listing of performances of music by John Psathas.
Visit https://www.johnpsathas.com/events-and-performances
A comprehensive listing of performances of music by John Psathas.
Visit https://www.johnpsathas.com/events-and-performances
SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra
OpportunitySOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra | Te Tono Mahinga a SOUNZ mā te Rāngai Puoro me te Rāngai Puoro Taiohi a Sistema
A collaboration between SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings – Sistema.
In October 2021 Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings will be performing together at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. This commission is an opportunity for a composer to create a work of 4–5 minutes featuring the combined forces of Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings. The resulting work will need to have separate parts at an appropriate level for Arohanui Strings.
Arohanui Strings is a Sistema-inspired music education programme based in Lower Hutt. The selected composer is expected to work closely with the group throughout the rehearsal process.
Call for proposals
Proposals for the commission from New Zealand composers should be emailed to info@sounz.org.nz by 5pm Monday 25 January 2021. All applications will be forwarded to a panel facilitated by SOUNZ, and the winning proposal will be announced in the week beginning Monday 1 February 2021. Download the project guidelines and submission form here.
The composer will receive a commission fee of $2,000 and this will be split into two payments of $1,000 each – the first of which will be paid upon the awarding of the commission, and the final payment of $1,000 will be paid upon successful completion of the commission and delivery of all scores and parts by the due date. The composer will also receive one return airfare to Wellington from within New Zealand to attend a workshop with Arohanui Strings.
NB. There will be no additional reimbursement for travel and/or accommodation expenses.
Composers are welcome to contact SOUNZ for further information in relation to this project at info@sounz.org.nz.
SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra | Te Tono Mahinga a SOUNZ mā te Rāngai Puoro me te Rāngai Puoro Taiohi a Sistema
A collaboration between SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings – Sistema.
In October 2021 Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings will be performing together at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. This commission is an opportunity for a composer to create a work of 4–5 minutes featuring the combined forces of Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings. The resulting work will need to have separate parts at an appropriate level for Arohanui Strings.
Arohanui Strings is a Sistema-inspired music education programme based in Lower Hutt. The selected composer is expected to work closely with the group throughout the rehearsal process.
Call for proposals
Proposals for the commission from New Zealand composers should be emailed to info@sounz.org.nz by 5pm Monday 25 January 2021. All applications will be forwarded to a panel facilitated by SOUNZ, and the winning proposal will be announced in the week beginning Monday 1 February 2021. Download the project guidelines and submission form here.
The composer will receive a commission fee of $2,000 and this will be split into two payments of $1,000 each – the first of which will be paid upon the awarding of the commission, and the final payment of $1,000 will be paid upon successful completion of the commission and delivery of all scores and parts by the due date. The composer will also receive one return airfare to Wellington from within New Zealand to attend a workshop with Arohanui Strings.
NB. There will be no additional reimbursement for travel and/or accommodation expenses.
Composers are welcome to contact SOUNZ for further information in relation to this project at info@sounz.org.nz.
SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra | Te Tono Mahinga a SOUNZ mā te Rāngai Puoro me te Rāngai Puoro Taiohi a Sistema
A collaboration between SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings – Sistema.
In October 2021 Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings will be performing together at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. This commission is an opportunity for a composer to create a work of 4–5 minutes featuring the combined forces of Orchestra Wellington and Arohanui Strings. The resulting work will need to have separate parts at an appropriate level for Arohanui Strings.
Arohanui Strings is a Sistema-inspired music education programme based in Lower Hutt. The selected composer is expected to work closely with the group throughout the rehearsal process.
Call for proposals
Proposals for the commission from New Zealand composers should be emailed to info@sounz.org.nz by 5pm Monday 25 January 2021. All applications will be forwarded to a panel facilitated by SOUNZ, and the winning proposal will be announced in the week beginning Monday 1 February 2021. Download the project guidelines and submission form here.
The composer will receive a commission fee of $2,000 and this will be split into two payments of $1,000 each – the first of which will be paid upon the awarding of the commission, and the final payment of $1,000 will be paid upon successful completion of the commission and delivery of all scores and parts by the due date. The composer will also receive one return airfare to Wellington from within New Zealand to attend a workshop with Arohanui Strings.
NB. There will be no additional reimbursement for travel and/or accommodation expenses.
Composers are welcome to contact SOUNZ for further information in relation to this project at info@sounz.org.nz.
CMNZ Commissioning Prize
OpportunityChamber Music New Zealand invites entries for the inaugural CMNZ Commissioning Prize.
CMNZ is looking to commission a New Zealand composer who has not been commissioned by CMNZ before to write a new piece to be toured by a group in the 2022 Regional Series. CMNZ will work with the successful composer and the ensembles on the 2022 roster to find a collaboration that is pleasurable and beneficial to all.
Award: An 8-10 minute commission premiered and toured by a group in the CMNZ 2022 Regional Series. The fee will align with CANZ guidelines.
Eligibility: The prize will be awarded to a composer who has not been commissioned by CMNZ before. New Zealand composers, including NZ-born composers now based overseas and composers born overseas now living in Aotearoa will be considered.
Deadline: Sunday 21 February, 2021
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Please share this invitation widely!
If you have any questions please contact Elliot Vaughan — artistic.admin@chambermusic.co.nz.
Chamber Music New Zealand invites entries for the inaugural CMNZ Commissioning Prize.
CMNZ is looking to commission a New Zealand composer who has not been commissioned by CMNZ before to write a new piece to be toured by a group in the 2022 Regional Series. CMNZ will work with the successful composer and the ensembles on the 2022 roster to find a collaboration that is pleasurable and beneficial to all.
Award: An 8-10 minute commission premiered and toured by a group in the CMNZ 2022 Regional Series. The fee will align with CANZ guidelines.
Eligibility: The prize will be awarded to a composer who has not been commissioned by CMNZ before. New Zealand composers, including NZ-born composers now based overseas and composers born overseas now living in Aotearoa will be considered.
Deadline: Sunday 21 February, 2021
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Please share this invitation widely!
If you have any questions please contact Elliot Vaughan — artistic.admin@chambermusic.co.nz.
Chamber Music New Zealand invites entries for the inaugural CMNZ Commissioning Prize.
CMNZ is looking to commission a New Zealand composer who has not been commissioned by CMNZ before to write a new piece to be toured by a group in the 2022 Regional Series. CMNZ will work with the successful composer and the ensembles on the 2022 roster to find a collaboration that is pleasurable and beneficial to all.
Award: An 8-10 minute commission premiered and toured by a group in the CMNZ 2022 Regional Series. The fee will align with CANZ guidelines.
Eligibility: The prize will be awarded to a composer who has not been commissioned by CMNZ before. New Zealand composers, including NZ-born composers now based overseas and composers born overseas now living in Aotearoa will be considered.
Deadline: Sunday 21 February, 2021
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Please share this invitation widely!
If you have any questions please contact Elliot Vaughan — artistic.admin@chambermusic.co.nz.
NZ Composer Sessions 2021 | APPLY NOW
OpportunityThe applications are now open for the NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa 2021, closing on 22 February 2021.
The NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa is a collaboration between the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.
The aim is to create high-quality NZ orchestral recordings and to promote the works to a range of orchestras and broadcasters.
Following the concert and the final editing process, the recordings will be available as audio on SOUNZ’s and RNZ Concert’s websites.
The 2021 recordings will take place over four days (28 Sep – 1 Oct) at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.
Download more information and the application form here.
Download the NZSO Score and Parts Preparation Guidelines here.
This key SOUNZ project, delivered in partnership with the NZSO and RNZ Concert, was established in 1998 and was rebranded as NZ Composer Sessions in 2016. It produces new recordings of orchestral music for public broadcast and online streaming. Read more about the past recordings on SOUNZ online, where you can also find links to previous recordings and background information about composers whose works have been selected for the project.
The applications are now open for the NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa 2021, closing on 22 February 2021.
The NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa is a collaboration between the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.
The aim is to create high-quality NZ orchestral recordings and to promote the works to a range of orchestras and broadcasters.
Following the concert and the final editing process, the recordings will be available as audio on SOUNZ’s and RNZ Concert’s websites.
The 2021 recordings will take place over four days (28 Sep – 1 Oct) at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.
Download more information and the application form here.
Download the NZSO Score and Parts Preparation Guidelines here.
This key SOUNZ project, delivered in partnership with the NZSO and RNZ Concert, was established in 1998 and was rebranded as NZ Composer Sessions in 2016. It produces new recordings of orchestral music for public broadcast and online streaming. Read more about the past recordings on SOUNZ online, where you can also find links to previous recordings and background information about composers whose works have been selected for the project.
The applications are now open for the NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa 2021, closing on 22 February 2021.
The NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa is a collaboration between the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.
The aim is to create high-quality NZ orchestral recordings and to promote the works to a range of orchestras and broadcasters.
Following the concert and the final editing process, the recordings will be available as audio on SOUNZ’s and RNZ Concert’s websites.
The 2021 recordings will take place over four days (28 Sep – 1 Oct) at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.
Download more information and the application form here.
Download the NZSO Score and Parts Preparation Guidelines here.
This key SOUNZ project, delivered in partnership with the NZSO and RNZ Concert, was established in 1998 and was rebranded as NZ Composer Sessions in 2016. It produces new recordings of orchestral music for public broadcast and online streaming. Read more about the past recordings on SOUNZ online, where you can also find links to previous recordings and background information about composers whose works have been selected for the project.
Australian and New Zealand Viola Society | 2021 Composition Competition
Opportunity"Once you become a viola-player, one of your most important duties is to strive to enlarge the library of solo viola music"
— Lionel Tertis —
Writing new music for viola?
After three previous successful Viola Composition Competitions run by ANZVS, another one will be held in Winter 2021.
There is now a new category in the competition this year: compositions will be accepted for viola plus voice or viola plus one other instrument, for the first time.
Click here for the entry form and Conditions of Entry.
For further enquiries about the competition or the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society, contact secretary@anzvs.com.
"Once you become a viola-player, one of your most important duties is to strive to enlarge the library of solo viola music"
— Lionel Tertis —
Writing new music for viola?
After three previous successful Viola Composition Competitions run by ANZVS, another one will be held in Winter 2021.
There is now a new category in the competition this year: compositions will be accepted for viola plus voice or viola plus one other instrument, for the first time.
Click here for the entry form and Conditions of Entry.
For further enquiries about the competition or the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society, contact secretary@anzvs.com.
"Once you become a viola-player, one of your most important duties is to strive to enlarge the library of solo viola music"
— Lionel Tertis —
Writing new music for viola?
After three previous successful Viola Composition Competitions run by ANZVS, another one will be held in Winter 2021.
There is now a new category in the competition this year: compositions will be accepted for viola plus voice or viola plus one other instrument, for the first time.
Click here for the entry form and Conditions of Entry.
For further enquiries about the competition or the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society, contact secretary@anzvs.com.
Marcus Jackson | Slime Inheritance
Exhibition or installationMarcus Jackson is an artist, composer and writer based in Pōneke. He creates work that interrogates the links between physical gesture and sound production, often with uncanny results. In Slime Inheritance he installs a system of valves and pipes into the gallery. At various points in the system, air escapes to activate sound objects, creating a sonified installation.
Marcus Jackson is an artist, composer and writer based in Pōneke. He creates work that interrogates the links between physical gesture and sound production, often with uncanny results. In Slime Inheritance he installs a system of valves and pipes into the gallery. At various points in the system, air escapes to activate sound objects, creating a sonified installation.
Marcus Jackson is an artist, composer and writer based in Pōneke. He creates work that interrogates the links between physical gesture and sound production, often with uncanny results. In Slime Inheritance he installs a system of valves and pipes into the gallery. At various points in the system, air escapes to activate sound objects, creating a sonified installation.
Mansfield – In Her Own Words
ConcertMansfield – In Her Own Words is a concert of selected poems by Katherine Mansfield, set to contemporary music composed by several of our leading songwriters and recording artists including Lawrence Arabia, Julia Deans, The Bats, Mel Parsons, and French for Rabbits.
Twelve tracks by 12 different composers with a multi-band format, on and off for a song each, linked by a curated selection of Katherine Mansfield's letters.
"Her letters show her deadly serious, warm and friendly, cynical and sarcastic, absurd and loving, morbid, though human in conforming to the recipient's wishes and expectations... one has to beware of the casual, jejune, utterances, which are merely thrown off...."
The companion album, Mansfield, is out now.
Mansfield – In Her Own Words is a concert of selected poems by Katherine Mansfield, set to contemporary music composed by several of our leading songwriters and recording artists including Lawrence Arabia, Julia Deans, The Bats, Mel Parsons, and French for Rabbits.
Twelve tracks by 12 different composers with a multi-band format, on and off for a song each, linked by a curated selection of Katherine Mansfield's letters.
"Her letters show her deadly serious, warm and friendly, cynical and sarcastic, absurd and loving, morbid, though human in conforming to the recipient's wishes and expectations... one has to beware of the casual, jejune, utterances, which are merely thrown off...."
The companion album, Mansfield, is out now.
Mansfield – In Her Own Words is a concert of selected poems by Katherine Mansfield, set to contemporary music composed by several of our leading songwriters and recording artists including Lawrence Arabia, Julia Deans, The Bats, Mel Parsons, and French for Rabbits.
Twelve tracks by 12 different composers with a multi-band format, on and off for a song each, linked by a curated selection of Katherine Mansfield's letters.
"Her letters show her deadly serious, warm and friendly, cynical and sarcastic, absurd and loving, morbid, though human in conforming to the recipient's wishes and expectations... one has to beware of the casual, jejune, utterances, which are merely thrown off...."
The companion album, Mansfield, is out now.
Mansfield – In Her Own Words
ConcertMansfield – In Her Own Words is a concert of selected poems by Katherine Mansfield, set to contemporary music composed by several of our leading songwriters and recording artists including Lawrence Arabia, Julia Deans, The Bats, Mel Parsons, and French for Rabbits.
Twelve tracks by 12 different composers with a multi-band format, on and off for a song each, linked by a curated selection of Katherine Mansfield's letters.
"Her letters show her deadly serious, warm and friendly, cynical and sarcastic, absurd and loving, morbid, though human in conforming to the recipient's wishes and expectations... one has to beware of the casual, jejune, utterances, which are merely thrown off...."
The companion album, Mansfield, is out now.
Mansfield – In Her Own Words is a concert of selected poems by Katherine Mansfield, set to contemporary music composed by several of our leading songwriters and recording artists including Lawrence Arabia, Julia Deans, The Bats, Mel Parsons, and French for Rabbits.
Twelve tracks by 12 different composers with a multi-band format, on and off for a song each, linked by a curated selection of Katherine Mansfield's letters.
"Her letters show her deadly serious, warm and friendly, cynical and sarcastic, absurd and loving, morbid, though human in conforming to the recipient's wishes and expectations... one has to beware of the casual, jejune, utterances, which are merely thrown off...."
The companion album, Mansfield, is out now.
Mansfield – In Her Own Words is a concert of selected poems by Katherine Mansfield, set to contemporary music composed by several of our leading songwriters and recording artists including Lawrence Arabia, Julia Deans, The Bats, Mel Parsons, and French for Rabbits.
Twelve tracks by 12 different composers with a multi-band format, on and off for a song each, linked by a curated selection of Katherine Mansfield's letters.
"Her letters show her deadly serious, warm and friendly, cynical and sarcastic, absurd and loving, morbid, though human in conforming to the recipient's wishes and expectations... one has to beware of the casual, jejune, utterances, which are merely thrown off...."
The companion album, Mansfield, is out now.
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