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Album release: Shortland Street

Original Score Highlights 2023

Scheduled for release on the 15th of March 2024, the album 'Shortland Street - Original Score Highlights 2023' celebrates the role of original music behind t...

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Compose Aotearoa!

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Enter your submission here.Compose Aotearoa! is a national initiative to stimulate the creation of new and diverse New Zealand music for choirs. Designed as ...

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Finding agency in the [classical] arts

The first instalment of a three part series by Leah Thomas

The sky above Te Moana-o-Raukawa was a gentle blue when I was carried away from the shrinking shoreline of home. The sparkling notes of “What Dreams May Come...

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Finding agency in the [classical] arts - Arjuna Oakes

The second instalment of a three part series by Leah Thomas

Far from home: Catching up with Arjuna Oakes Arjuna Oakes is a New Zealand-born, London-based singer/songwriter, pianist, composer and producer. Arjuna is a ...

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Finding agency in the [classical] arts - Jimmy Rainey & JY Lee

The third instalment of a three part series by Leah Thomas

Creating for the Community: Chatting to JY and Jimmy In April 2021, I inherited the Pōneke Classical Sessions project which brought classical music to a bar ...

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2024 SOUNZ Contemporary Award

Te Tohu Auaha

Entries are now open for the 2024 SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha. The purpose of the award is to recognize and reward creativity, excellence and in...

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2024 SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra

Winner announced

2024 SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra | Te Tono Mahinga a SOUNZ mā te Rāngi Puoro me te Rāngi Puoro Taiohi a Sistema – winner annou...

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New Chief Executive | Tumu Whakarae for SOUNZ

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Hannah Darroch as their new Chief Executive | Tumu Whakarae.“We are thrille...

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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 ...

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Orchestral Repertoire ideas

This suggested repertoire list aims to give people a starting point to discovering New Zealand orchestral music that they might enjoy hearing, performing or ...