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Composer Spaces

Celeste Oram

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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Easy Tunes for Tamariki

pieces for violin and cello beginners

The Wellington branch of IRMTNZ (New Zealand Institute of Registered Music Teachers) announced a call for scores in late 2021 to address the lack of New Zeal...

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Westlake Symphony Orchestra Recordings

In 2015, SOUNZ facilitated the Westlake Symphony Orchestra Recordings, a project to record and promote New Zealand orchestral works suitable for school and n...

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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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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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A Te Reo Māori Journey

Interview With Our Kaiāwhina Tari

As part of our Māori Language Week celebrations, we sat down with Grace Newman, our fabulous intern-turned-admin-assistant, who worked tirelessly to caption ...

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Artist Spotlight

Louis Baker

Te Marama puoro o Aotearoa is here (New Zealand Music month). This week SOUNZ shines the spotlight on Louis Baker. Nina Lesperance from SOUNZ spoke with Loui...

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Meet composer

Reti Hedley

Please tell us about yourself and what you do.I wear a number of hats including musician, composer, teacher, music producer and father to my 6month old son O...

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Rob Thorne

'Ko Tō Manawa, Ko Tōku: Puritia'

KM: Tell us about your piece.RT: Marc [Taddei] contacted Salina [Fisher] and I and asked if we would do a piece for this year. Salina was finishing her Maste...

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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...