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Ihlara McIndoe

Ephemeral Bounds, NYO 2021

We caught up with Ihlara McIndoe, NZSO NYO Composer in Residence 2021, to talk about her new work Ephemeral Bounds, which will be performed by the NZSO Natio...

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Two SOUNZ composers win Waiata Māori Music Awards

On Friday the 13th, Club Hastings buzzed with energy as some of New Zealand’s leading Māori composers, performers and musicians gathered for the 2019 Nationa...

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Māori Music Month

Featuring Pere Wihongi

Ko Pere Te Ruru o Te Ramana Wihongi aka Pere WihongiNō Te Rarawa, Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti WaiPere is an award-winning composer based in Wellington who or...

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Liisa McMillan

Her Career Thus Far

SOUNZ would like to congratulate Liisa McMillan on her new appointment as the RNZ Concert Manager. Liisa has been with RNZ for many years and has been a grea...

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Meet composer Tom Jensen

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Tom Jensen.

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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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Meet composer

Alastair White

 Please tell us about yourself and what you do.My recent work concerns the research project ‘Contingency Dialectics,’ an attempt to develop a contemporary le...

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Meet composer

William Philipson

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I compose and edit music for film, television, and theatre productions.My two passions are music and filmmaking...

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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...

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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 ...