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When Fred met Stravinsky

 From left: Frederick Page, Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar in 1948 at the Cambridge Summer School, Cambridge, New Zealand. Ref: PAColl-7681-3. Alexander ...

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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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Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava appointed as Moana Pacific Musics Specialist | Kaiārahi, Ngā Puoro o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music | Toi te Arapūoru is delighted to announce the appointment of Tau’ili’ili Alpha Maiava as the Moana Pacific Musics Special...

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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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Dame Gillian Whitehead at 80

a music of our own

Early in 2020, just before New Zealand locked down in the face of COVID-19, composer Dame Gillian Whitehead wrote a commissioned piece for five viols. She ca...

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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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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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Luka Venter

on their new chamber opera Lanternfish

Composer Luka Venter had their new chamber opera Lanternfish premiered in London in July as part of the Guildhall School's 'Opera Makers' programme. The oper...

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Call of the Ocean

A look back at the collaborative process

For a period of nine months across 2020 and 2021, composer Jessie Leov and community group Nelson Bays Harmony Chorus worked together to create a new piece f...

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Interview with Ihlara McIndoe

SOUNZ Contemporary Award Finalist

In preparation for the announcement of the winner of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award we spoke to finalist Ihlara McIndoe about her piece Mirror Traps, being a c...