PLEASE NOTE: Change of address in our PO Box number
Our official postal address is now:

    Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music
    Victoria University of Wellington
    PO Box 600
    Wellington 6140

Other contact details (physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses) remain as before. 

If you like your musical experiences to be varied then the next four days will be marvelous for you: Big Band and Jazz combo, Sonic Arts, gamelan, Chinese guqin, Classical cello and piano. 

Thursday 16 October: from 8:30pm at the Bristol, Cuba Street
Big Band Big Night at the Bristol 3
Big Band jazz from NZSM's three Big Bands directed by Rodger Fox and the Latin Ensemble directed by Lance Philip

Friday 17 October: 12:10pm at the Adam Concert Room
Lunchtime Concert: Mark Donlon and Friends
Head of Jazz Piano Mark Donlon, with Tom Warrington (bass), Cory Champion (drums) and Bryn van Vliet (saxophone) - jazz on the Kelburn Campus

Friday 17 October: noon-4:30pm – Level 2 of the HUB, Victoria University
Sonic Arts and Engineering Showcase
Musical machines and robots that interact with their environment and respond sonically – from NZSM Sonic Arts and Victoria Electronic Engineering students. Interactions required.

Friday 17 October: 7:00pm in the Adam Concert Room
Double Gongs – gamelan concert
Four gamelan ensembles will perform: students of PERF 250; the Indonesian Community Gamelan; Javanese Padhang Moncar Gamelan; and the Balinese gamelan Taniwha Jaya. A light reception will follow the performance.

Saturday 18 October: 6:30pm at the Adam Concert Room
Guqin recital from visiting virtuoso Wu Na, in collaboration with the Confucius Institute at Victoria University – with guest artists Jim Murphy, David Long and Gao Ping.

Sunday 19 October: 5:00pm at the Adam Concert Room
Duo Cecilia - cello and piano
NZSM postgraduates Lucy Gijsbers and Andrew Atkins perform a diverse programme of works for cello and piano – with some help from colleague soprano Esther Leefe. $15/$10 

Our news pages recently have been full of accomplishments and recent successes for staff and students: 

~ Inner Phases by senior lecturer Michael Norris is a finalist in the annual SOUNZ Contemporary Award for outstanding composition;

~ Jazz bassist Umar Zakaria and Jazz drummer Jacob Randall have each achieved world placings in international performance competitions;

~ Dr Brian Diettrich has been asked to assist in the creation of cultural and music resources in the Federated States of Micronesia;

~ Salina Fisher, recently announced as the 2015 NZSO National Youth Orchestra Composer in Residence, has added the first prize in the 2014 Composers Competition to her accomplishments;

~ Classical Voice performers have swept the pool of trophies at the Wellington Regional Singing Competitions;

~ and the ACTIVE Music Research team, based at NZSM has won the MUSICworks Young Researcher competition run by the Australia and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education.

We also note the death at the end of September of one of the elder statesmen of New Zealand music, Professor John Ritchie.

Collaborations between NZSM and the Confucius Institute at Victoria University have resulted in some wonderful occasions in which musicians and academics have shared ideas and cultural perspectives and conventions. 

The virtuoso guqin performer Wu Na is performing this weekend in a special concert (Saturday 18, Adam Concert Room, 6:30pm) but she is also an integral part of a much more elaborate performance on Wednesday 22 October. 

Gao Shan Liu Shui (High Mountain Flowing Water) brings together Wu Na and pianist and composer Gao Ping – each masters in their chosen instruments. These musical contemporaries join forces with Kunqu opera star Dong Fei, visual designer Jon He and acclaimed director Sara Brodie, to bring to life the shared spirit of understanding that is Gao Shan Liu Shui.

Wednesday 22 October, 7:00pm
NZSM Concert Hall, Mt Cook Campus
Block 1, Massey University (through Entrance C) 
Adults $20 / Students (with id) $10
Online tickets through Eventfinder
 

Classes may be (almost) over but there is still plenty of music to enjoy: 

Former Head of Piano Studies Diedre Irons will perform in the St Paul's Cathedral 'Evocations' series at 6:00pm tomorrow night, Friday 17 October.

Helene Pohl has her violin students performing on Sunday 26th,

and that same afternoon our two student harpists Michelle Velvin and Jennifer Newth perform in the Colours at Futuna series. 

The NZSM Woodwind department led by Debbie Rawson have their annual Woodwind Showcase Concert at St Andrew's on The Terrace at 7:30pm on Tuesday 28 October (entry by koha). 

Expressions Piano Trust Prize winner Choong Park will give the consequent performance at the wonderful Upper Hutt venue on Friday 31 October – pieces by CPE Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Ravel, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.

And, as mentioned above, the assessment recitals for our 3rd year and above Jazz and Classical students have been published to the Events pages - more than 60 concerts between 28 October and 14 November. 

Enrolments for Cellophonia IV are now being taken. 

The festival of cellistic performance is in two sections:
   ~ Masterclasses and lessons – 10-12 December 
   ~ Ensemble rehearsal and performance – 12-14 December

Teachers include Cellophonia co-directors Inbal Megiddo, Head of Cello at NZSM, and Andrew Joyce, NZSO Principal Cello along with special guest Ashley Brown, cellist with NZTrio. 

More information for participants can be found on our events pages – pass it on to any cellists you know! 
Registrations for participants can be made through Eventfinder.

If you are a cello auditor rather than an executant, then the final concert on Sunday 14 December might be for you? The wonderful sonority of more than 20 cellos playing together is quite an aural experience!

Cellophonia Finale Concert
Sunday 14 December, 4:00pm
Adam Concert Room, NZSM Kelburn Campus
Adults $10, students $5 – online bookings through Eventfinder

For some of New Zealand's most talented musicians, the only thing that stands in the way of their dreams is the lack of funds to make them real.

By making a lifetime donation or a gift in your will to the New Zealand School of Music, you can help young musicians to fulfil their ambitions.

For further information on how you can provide support for students at Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music, please contact:

Professor Emeritus Barrie Macdonald
Interim NZSM Director
Ph: 04 463 5860
Email: barrie.macdonald@nzsm.ac.nz

or

Victoria University of Wellington Foundation
Ph: 0800 VIC LEGACY (0800 842 534)