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Salina Fisher and Jerome Kavanagh

on Papatūānuku

SOUNZ caught up with Salina Fisher and Jerome Kavanagh, co-creators of Papatūānuku, a work for taonga pūoro and orchestra premiered in August 2023 by Jerome ...

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Plan 9

SOUNZ Contemporary Award Finalists 2021

Plan 9 are finalists for the SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha 2021 with their album The Bewilderness.Tell us about The Bewilderness. How and why did ...

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New Chief Executive | Tumu Whakarae for SOUNZ

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Hannah Darroch as their new Chief Executive | Tumu Whakarae.“We are thrille...

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Meet the Board

Anthony Healey

In our Meet the Board series we invite you to sit down and learn more about each SOUNZ board member. Today we introduce Board member  | Te Poari Kaitiaki Ant...

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Jake Baxendale & Jasmine Lovell-Smith

on their new album 'Sanctuary'

SOUNZ talked with Jake Baxendale & Jasmine Lovell-Smith on their new album 'Sanctuary.' The new Jazz album will be released on Saturday 12th June at the ...

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Ariana Tikao and Philip Brownlee

SOUNZ Contemporary Award Finalist 2022

Ariana Tikao and Philip Brownlee are finalists for the 2022 SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha for the work ‘Manaaki’ for taonga puoro and string quart...

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AWE EMERGING COMPOSER COMPETITION AND MENTORSHIP

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DOWNLOAD THE RULESAWE is seeking a young New Zealand composer to receive personalised composition mentoring to write a string chamber work to be performed du...

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Meet the Composer

Tom Knowles

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Tom Knowles Please tell us about yourself and what you do.Im an all ages multi instru...

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Inspiring Journeys Through Music

with Rei

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Meet composer

Karl Steven

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I've been interested in music and sound for as long as I can remember. My mother says that when she was pregnan...