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SOUNZ Jazz Recording Project | Ngā Hopuranga Puoro Tautito a SOUNZ recipient announced.

Michael Costeloe and his group ‘The Mike Costeloe Quintet’ have been selected for the 2022 SOUNZ Jazz Recording Project | Ngā Hopuranga Puoro Tautito a SOUNZ.

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The SOUNZ Podcasts

Episode 11: Discovery of Music

Ese Aumalesulu is a Samoan-born kiwi who owns & manages a recording studio called TeJit Records, as well as a member of The Four Fathers, a band made up ...

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Jennifer Helen McLeod 1941 - 2022

The unique, mercurial, and larger-than-life composer Jenny McLeod died peacefully in Palmerston North hospital on Monday, aged 81.Jenny was deeply special, a...

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The SOUNZ Podcasts

Episode 12: Ross Harris & Klezmer

Ross Harris is an Arts Foundation Laureate, and one of New Zealand’s most highly respected composers. In this podcast, Ross chats with Nick Tipping about his...

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The SOUNZ Podcasts

Episode 13: Te Rōpu El Sistema - Strings for All

El Sistema is a world-famous orchestral music program that started in Venezuela in 1975. Sistema-inspired programs have been active in Aotearoa for over ten ...

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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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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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He Reo Tawhito wins at the 2022 NZ Podcast Awards

SOUNZ is delighted to announce that the SOUNZ podcast series 'He Reo Tawhito: Conversations about Mōteatea' has been awarded a silver and two bronze awards i...

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Meet composer

Johnny Yang

In this series, we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Johnny Yang.Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I am a multi-instrumentalis...

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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...