Tips, guides, and knowledge

Selected chamber music with double reed instruments

This list contains a selection of chamber music including double reed instruments: oboe, cor anglais, oboe d'amore, bassoon.Most works have online score and ...

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The anatomy of a commission

NZTrio recently gave the world premiere of Reuben de Lautour’s An Auscultation of Water. Richard Betts examines how we got here. 

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NZTrio: Tectonic Echoes I

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NZTrio’s Tectonic series features intense and intimate inspection of the fundamental forces that shape environments and communities: Aotearoa’s fraught relat...

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Meet Composer

Andrew Portman

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Andrew Portman.Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I’m a born and bred Auck...

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Tabea Squire

on Variations

December marks the release of three films of works by Te Whanganui a Tara-based composer, Tabea Squire, which were filmed in three consecutive months in 2022...

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Meet composer

Xu Tang

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I was born in Beijing, where I received my early education, including music theory and piano. I moved to New Ze...

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Keeping the tradition

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Chamber Music New Zealand made its first commission in 1959, a trio for violin, cello and piano from Edwin Carr. CMNZ has commissioned another 87 pieces sinc...

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Bassoon repertoire showcase

This list contains a selection of New Zealand works for bassoon, including solos, concertos and chamber music with prominent bassoon parts.Most works have on...

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Composer Spaces | Leonie Holmes

In our Composer Spaces series, we ask composers to share a bit about their working environment and to give us a brief insight into their process. This week w...

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Kōrero

SOUNZ Virtual Concert

I always enjoy watching a performance where the musicians are engaging on multiple levels- both with the other musicians in their ensembles, and with the mus...

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Tectonic Echoes II

SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Tectonic Echoes II opens with a dialogue between Māori and European traditions, firstly in Whitehead’s (NZ) evocative response to Horomona Horo’s taonga pūor...

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Dance

SOUNZ Virtual Concert

These four works feature dances and dance forms. Leonie Holmes’s ‘Dance of the Wintersmith’ is inspired by Terry Pratchett’s book of the same name in which a...

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Meet composer

Erin Fagan

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Erin Fagan.Please tell us about yourself and what you do.My vocation and training is ...

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Meet composer

Michaela Cornelius

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Michaela Cornelius.Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I am a whimsical com...

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Glen Downie

Rivet

We caught up with composer Glen Downie do talk about his new trio Rivet, part of Chamber Music New Zealand's Fantasy and Romance tour, with flautist Melanie ...

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Repertoire Ideas for Taonga Puoro and Western Instruments

This list contains a selection of works available for taonga puoro and western instruments.Most works have online score and audio samples. Those marked with ...

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Seascapes

SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Being an island nation, there is no shortage of New Zealand music inspired by the sea, in all its moods. Gareth Farr’s ‘Te Tai-O-Rehua’ is a dark-hued portra...

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Light

SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Ross Harris's luminous 'There may Be Light' begins this programme of works inspired by ideas of light and light phenomena. Glen Downie's 'Light Speckled Drop...

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Meet composer

Dale Vail

Please tell us about yourself and what you do. I am a Trombonist and Composer. I am currently working with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as the Trombone Fell...

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Meet composer

Nicholas Denton Protsack

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Nicholas Denton Protsack.Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I work primari...

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Meet Composer Joshua Taylor

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Joshua Taylor.

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Kirsten Strom at Etchings Festival

Composer Kirsten Strom has recently been accepted into the Master's Degree programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has just returned from the ...

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Eve de Castro-Robinson

the willing air

How did the willing air come into being? I’d been mulling over the piece for months, making false starts and often finding it intractable, then during a visi...

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Meet composer

Reuben Rameka

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I am a New Zealand Māori composer, conductor and teacher based in Auckland, and I am primarily of Ngāpuhi and T...

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Dalvanius Prime

Māori Music Month Feature

Dalvanius Prime - Singer, songwriter, entertainer, producer, director and cultural guardian, cherished and remembered for his life, lived with a passion for ...

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Alex Taylor

On What Grounds

Alex Taylor's On What Grounds for violin, cello and theorbo will be premiered on 15 April in Whangārei as part of Chamber Music New Zealand's Les Voisins tou...

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Meet composer

Rosa Elliott

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I'm a composer currently studying at the University of Auckland. I grew up in Christchurch and had the good for...

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Meet composer Mary Celeste

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Mary Celeste.Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I started learning piano a...

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Words

These three pieces use found sounds and the spoken word. Jack Bewley splices together parliamentary proceedings in a rhythmic ‘trio’ with oboe and marimba. G...

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Meet composer

Camryn Nel

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Camryn Nel.

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Jeroen Speak

SOUNZ Contemporary Award finalist

Jeroen Speak is nominated for the 2017 Award for the second time with Serendipity Fields, for violin, cello, piano and guzheng.

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Contraptions

SOUNZ Virtual Concert

Maria Grenfell's contrapuntal 'Clockwerk' kicks off this programme inspired by construction, robots, and unusual musical instruments. Jason Long expertly mel...

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Jazz in the Cracks

Part 2

This is Part 2, read Part 1 here.New residencies and concert series sprang up all throughout Aotearoa during the pandemic. Saxophonist Jimmy Rainey, who was ...

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Call of the Huia

interview with Michael Vinten

Composer and conductor Michael Vinten has researched and compiled a new collection of pre-1950 New Zealand art song, with support from the Lilburn Trust and ...

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Meet composer

Grant Hughson

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.My professional focus has always been split between music and computers. I was classically trained on piano and...

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Echoes of Erewhon

Pastoralism, Technology, and New Zealand Music

By Callum BlackmoreIn his oft-quoted 1946 lecture, “In Search of Tradition”, Douglas Lilburn, the so-called “grandfather” of New Zealand music, turned to New...

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Meet Composer

Jessie Leov

Please tell us about yourself and what you doI am a composer and musician, originally from sunny Nelson, currently based in Waikato. My background in the art...

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ISCM & ACL Festivals

Interview with Glenda Keam

We caught up with composer Glenda Keam, current President of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), who is undertaking the mammoth task of ...

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Composer experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic from around the globe

Many composers from Aotearoa New Zealand live abroad, and we’re checking in to ask how the COVID-19 Pandemic is affecting them in their country of residence....