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Community project for the Virtuoso Strings Orchestra chosen as the 2022/23 SOUNZ Community Commission.

The winning project for this year’s SOUNZ Community Commission Commission | Te Tono Mahinga ā-Hapori a SOUNZ will see composer Sarah Ballard work alongside V...

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Reuben Jelleyman wins the 2022 SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha with Catalogue.

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music is delighted to announce that Auckland based composer Reuben Jelleyman has won the 2022 SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu...

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Tama Waipara, SOUNZ Co-Chair | Toihau Matarua, awarded Kiwibank Local Hero in Te Tairāwhiti region

Hurō hurō, kia whakanuia tō tātau Toihau Matarau a Tama Waipara.SOUNZ Co-Chair | Toihau Matarua Tama Waipara has been awarded the 2023 Kiwibank Local Hero aw...

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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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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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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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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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Tūtira Mai Cyclone Gabrielle Relief Concert

The Tūtira Mai Cyclone Gabrielle Relief Concert was held yesterday, 19th March, at Pipitea Marae in Wellington, and was supported by many of the Wellington, ...

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NZ Composer Sessions

Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitoko o Aotearoa

In association with the NZSO, RNZ Concert, SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music is proud to announce the selection for the latest 2023 NZ Composer Sessions. Se...