The NZ Composer Sessions 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 new NZ orchestral recordings.
The project, which started as NZSO-SOUNZ Readings (1998-2011), aimed to increase the performance of orchestral music by New Zealand composers. RNZ joined the project shortly after its conception. Between 1998-2024 190 works by 91 composers have been included in the project.
Click here to view a list of subsequent performances from the NZ Composer Sessions.
Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa
Ko ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa (NZ Composer Sessions), he kaupapa mahi tahi nā Te Tira Puoro o Aotearoa, RNZ Concert me Toi te Arapūoru. Ko te whāinga, kia puta he hopuranga tuawhiti tonu o ngā titonga tira puoro hou i Aotearoa.
I te tīmatanga, ko te NZSO-SOUNZ Readings (1998-2011) te ingoa o te kaupapa nei. Ko tāna i whai ai, kia maha ake ngā titonga tira puoro a ngā kaitito o Aotearoa e tae atu ana ki te atamira. I roto i aua tau, 190 ngā mahinga a ngā kaitito 91 i hua ake i te kaupapa nei.
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2024
Jack Bewley: Crustacean Lobotomy
Chris Gendall: Wow Signal
Julian Kirgan-Báez: Reflection
Sai Natarajan: A Beacon in the Cosmic Blizzard
Maddy Parkins-Craig: New Mountain
Briar Prastiti: Pegasus
George Smith: Conversations with Death
Louise Webster: While the Dark Tide Rises
2023
Chris Adams: Acanthis: a winged canticle (mvt I)
Jacob Barrett: Countdown to Midnight at Carnaval
Chris Cree Brown: Double Violin Concerto (mvts II and III)
John Elmsly: Canonic Variations
Salina Fisher: Kintsugi
Alissa Long: Domino Effect
Karlo Margetić: In All Directions
2022
Robyn Bryant: Action cue – from Borders & Margins
Josiah Carr: faultlines
David Chisholm: Pierre Boulez a la discotheque
Liam Furey: Taking a line for a walk
Leonie Holmes: Piano Concerto
Julian Kirgan Báez: Atiru (Tone Poem for Orchestra)
Jessie Leov: marble, bark, silver
Keith Moss: Overture for an unwritten opera
Nathaniel Otley: Detritus
2021
Chris Cree Brown: Double Violin Concerto (mvt I)
Linda Dallimore: Here Goes
Simon Eastwood: Quanta
Karlo Margetic: An Axe for the Frozen Sea
Joshua Pearson: When a pale blue dot breathes, a crowd of cacophony begins
Micah Thompson: Song
Louise Webster: Falling brittle on the wing
For the fifth time, another orchestral work is added to the Resound Studio collection:
Penny Axtens’ Part the First will be recorded alongside the selection of new works.
2020
David Mason: Ekimmaras
John Elmsly: Champs de Cloches
Ryan Youens: Munro
Rosa Elliott: What Have You Done to Your Rivers
Michael Vinten: Six Korean Love Poems
Ben Hoadley: Turakirae
In addition, the work Cyprian's Dance by Eve de Castro-Robinson was recorded and added to the Resound Studio collection.
2019
Kit Powell: Four Māui Legends: III. Na Māui te Ahi a te Ao (Patrick Barry, clarinet)
Reuben Jelleyman: Vespro
Tabea Squire: Variations
Alissa Long: The Corner of War
Lucien Johnson: Axum
Kirsten Strom: Ice
Anthony Young: On Hearing the Shining Cuckoo
Brigid Bisley: Glimmer of Blue (Lenny Sakofsky, vibraphone)
In addition, the work Metamorphoses by Barry Vercoe was recorded and added to the Resound Studio collection.
2018
Chris Adams: Otira Gorge
Reuben Jelleyman: Hue Saturation and Brightness
Louisa Nicklin: One
Philip Norman: Fanfare for Dame Silvia Cartwright & And Soon it will be Dawn
Andrew Perkins: Three Spanish Songs
Anthony Ritchie: Albatross in Flight
Patrick Shepherd: Symphony No.1, 'Lithosphere': III
Alex van den Broek: Barbour St. Late Evening
For the second time, two orchestral works are added to the Resound Studio collection: Fanfare for Orchestra by Nigel Keay and Clockwerk by Maria Grenfell.
2017
John Elmsly: Lanternes
Richard Francis : I, Time... from Three Movements for Orchestra: II
Chris Gendall : Incident Tableaux Part One
Natalie Hunt : Only to the Highest Mountain
Philip Norman : When Gravity Fails (Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola)
Patrick Shepherd : Two Seven Two One
Tabea Squire : Ao
Louise Webster : Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: 'In hollowed bone I hear the seas roar' (Yuka Eguchi, violin)
2016
Patrick Shepherd: lithosphere - symphony no.1
Salina Fisher : Rainphase
Brad Jenkins : The Way Out Is Through
Alex Taylor : Bassoon Concerto
James Wade : Te Matua Ngahere
2015
Anthony Ritchie: Underwater Music
Maria Grenfell : Hinemoa
Rod Biss : Four New Zealand Bird Songs
Jeremy Mayall : convoluted
Alex Taylor : Tiaho Mai
John Rimmer : Transcend: Concerto for Orchestra
Chris Watson : ogee
2014
Andrew Perkins: The Radish and the Shoe
Dorothy Ker : The Third Dream
Philip Norman : Earthquake: 22.2.11
Reuben Jelleyman : Solar Wind
Jack Body : Eights on My Teaching
Stephan Prock : Shakespeare Bitters
Chris Gendall : The Charm Offensive
Chris Adams : Symphonics Dances
Kit Powell : I Mate a Māui i a Hine-nui-te-Pō: The Death of Maui
Chris Watson : sings songs self
2013
Karlo Margetić: Bioluminescence
Leonie Holmes : Aquae Sulis
Alex Taylor : feel
John Rimmer : Explorations-Discoveries
John Elmsly : Intoit
Dorothy Ker : a gentle infinity
Anthony Ritchie : Gouache
2012
Louise Webster: Learning to Nudge the Wind
Samuel Holloway : Hauptstimme
Michael Vinten : Sinfonietta
Michael Norris : Volti
Natalie Hunt : Compass
Leonie Holmes : For Young Nick
Kenneth Young : Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra
Andrew Perkins : Waltz-Fantasia
2011
Juliet Palmer: Swerve
Ross Harris : The Hills of Time
Kit Powell : Rothko Variations
David Farquhar : Harlequin Overture
Stephan Prock: Cages for the Wind
Rod Biss: Waiata Aroha
Ross Harris: Concertino for Piano and Strings
Chris Adams: Anastasis
2010
Ryan Youens: Rakaia
John Rimmer : Lahar
Tom McLeod : CUT TO: MUSIC
Gillian Whitehead & Jack Speirs : Symphony: The Islands
Claire Cowan : legend of the trojan bird
John Rimmer: Symphony (1968)
Patrick Shepherd: lithosphere - symphony no.1
Leonie Holmes: Ancient Rhythms
John Elmsly: Fantasia: Wild Rhymes of Spring
Michael Williams: Convergence - Triple Concerto
2009
Chris Adams: Fonterra's Mad(rigal)
Noel Sanders: Shirty
Kit Powell: Te Ika A Maui
Tom McLeod: CUT TO: MUSIC
Ross Harris: The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village
Jeremy Mayall: Electric Bass Concerto
Claire Cowan: legend of the trojan bird
Jack Body: Palaran: Poems of Love and War
John Rimmer: Lahar
Karlo Margetić: Xylophone Concerto
2008
Robin Toan: Witch Scarers
Ryan Youens: Rakaia
Clare Maclean: Panah
Jack Body: Meditations on Michelangelo
Simon Eastwood: Aurum
John Elmsly: Metamorphosis
Hermione Johnson: Parallax
Mike Nock: Sketches
Michael Williams: In Saecula Saeculorum
David Hamilton: Caveat Emptor
2007
Anthony Ritchie: Organ Overture
Anthony Young: The Farewell
Johnathan Besser: No Riff
Bruce Crossman: Pacific Dancing
Juliet Palmer: Swerve
Ross Harris: Moanapouri
Jeff Lin: Zen in a Modern Japanese Garden
Gillian Whitehead & Jack Speirs: Symphony: The Islands
Anthony Ritchie: Diary of a Madman: Dedication to Shostakovich
2006
Anthony Young: Bonfire
Dorothy Ker: The Third Dream
Alison Grant: Our Dried Voices
Helen Bowater: Urwachst
Leonie Holmes: Frond
John Psathas: Seikilos
Claire Cowan: Here at this quiet limit of the world
Michael Norris: From the Lonely Margins of the Sea
Chris Watson: Aufsatz
Stephan Prock: Garden Varieties: Four Dance Vignettes
Michael Vinten: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
2005
David Farquhar: Beyond...
Chris Watson: Pivotal Orbits
Jeremy Mayall: Symphony No.1
Kit Powell: Rothko Variations
Patrick Shepherd: Sinfonietta
Nigel Keay: Diversions 1, 2 & 3
Dorothy Buchanan: Confluence
Samuel Holloway: Fault
Maria Grenfell: River Mountain Sky
2004
Leonie Holmes: Frond
Christopher Marshall: Te Rerenga
Ross Harris: As though there were no God
Christopher Blake: Night Journey to Pawarenga
2003
Anthony Young: Arrival in Opoutere
Dorothy Ker: The Third Dream
Brigid Ursula Bisley: Illumination
Dylan Lardelli: From Grey
Nigel Keay: Diversions 1, 2 & 3
Ross Harris: Orchestral excerpts from opera 'Rasputin'
Fritha Jameson: A Fan of Nelson Fare
Jonathan Besser: The 12
Helen Bowater: River of Ocean
Chris Watson: Aufsatz
2002
Chris Watson: Aufsatz
Michael Norris: From the Lonely Margins of the Sea
Philip Brownlee: Landforms
Nigel Keay: serenade pour cordes / Serenade for Strings
Christopher Marshall: The Song of Gaia
2001
Bruce Crossman: Sound Rituals
John Charles: The Quiet Earth
Christopher Blake: Angel at Ahipara
Ross Harris: Music for Jonny
Christopher Blake: The Furnace of Pihanga
Bryony Jagger: A New Day Dawns
John Psathas: Seikilos
John Rimmer: Symphony (1968)
Michael Williams: Synaesthesia
Nigel Keay: Symphony in Five Movements
John Elmsly: Of Secrets, Echoes...
Maria Grenfell: Fanfare for a City
Leonie Holmes: Solstice