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Meet Composer Jerome Kavanagh

In this series we present our new composers. We are proud to introduce Jerome Kavanagh.

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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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Puoro Ki Te Ao

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Meet Kennedy Kioa Toi Faimanifo

Kennedy Kioa Toi Faimanifo is a digital creative from Takaanini, South Auckland. SOUNZ engaged Kenedy and his team at Manatao Productions to create two pacif...

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Dame Gillian Whitehead at 80

a music of our own

Early in 2020, just before New Zealand locked down in the face of COVID-19, composer Dame Gillian Whitehead wrote a commissioned piece for five viols. She ca...

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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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Gemma Peacocke

on Manta

Gemma Peacocke is the recipient of this year's SOUNZ Commission for Orchestra and Sistema Youth Orchestra. Her new piece Manta premieres this Saturday 7 Octo...

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Call of the Huia

interview with Michael Vinten

Composer and conductor Michael Vinten has researched and compiled a new collection of pre-1950 New Zealand art song, with support from the Lilburn Trust and ...

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Meet composer

Ruby Solly

 Please tell us about yourself and what you do.Kia ora! I'm Ruby Solly, or you might have seen my name as Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly which is my full name. Som...

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Komako Silver

On Puoro Ki te Ao

Earlier in June we released Pūoro Ki te Ao (Puoro to the world), an three part audio-visual journey that combines the healing properties of Tāonga Pūoro with...