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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 ...

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2024 NZ Composer Sessions

Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitoko o Aotearoa

2024 NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitoko o Aotearoain association with the NZSO, RNZ Concert and SOUNZSOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music...

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Solo Piano Works by NZ Women Composers

A selection of works for solo piano by women composers from Aotearoa New Zealand

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2024 AWE Emerging Composer announced

Ahead of the 1 June ticket release for At the World’s Edge Festival 2024 (AWE), SOUNZ is thrilled to announce that Estella Wallace has been selected as the 2...

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On Music, Relationships, and Making Music Spaces Safer for Everyone

Part I: The musicality of relationships and the relationality of music

All musical activity is relational. Whether we’re listening, singing, playing an instrument, organising a concert, engineering a recording, or composing a pi...

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On Music, Relationships, and Making Music Spaces Safer for Everyone

Part II: Being together musically for good

Take a moment and think back on the lifetime of musical experiences you’ve had, in any role of listening, perceiving, or producing sound. As your thoughts fl...