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Happy birthday to Gillian Whitehead
Composer Gillian Whitehead celebrates her 75th birthday this weekend. To congratulate, we have put together a page featuring Gillian’s works and an interview with her by Charlotte Wilson. Take a look at a selection of concert videos and listen to audio recordings we have available on our website.

Gillian Whitehead

Did you know we have 138 works by Gillian Whitehead available on SOUNZ online, most of which have a score available for purchase?

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Screen Composers Workshop at SOUNZ
We recently collaborated with the Screen Composers Guild of New Zealand for a workshop held in Wellington. Internationally recognised and award winning composer Andrew Hagen delivered a practical workshop, looking at the fundamentals of promoting and running a composing business. 

Marshall Smith, Chairperson of SCGNZ, said, “The Screen Composers Guild is thrilled to be working closely with SOUNZ - it seems like a natural partnership and one we hope to build on over the coming years. We have a whole range of other workshops and events coming up which should be of interest to all composers.”

The workshop was filmed by SOUNZ and will be available as an online resource on our website soon.
 
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Kate Mead

SOUNZ Board of Trustees
SOUNZ Trustees recently farewelled long standing Trustee Kate Mead after more than fifteen years. Elizabeth Kerr, Chair of the Board, said, “Kate Mead has made an outstanding contribution to the SOUNZ Board over the years she has been a Trustee. Her strategic sense, her deep knowledge of the music and broadcasting sectors in New Zealand and her ability to articulate a case for New Zealand music have been invaluable to us and she will be greatly missed.” 

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NZ music abroad
Last month, the BBC Singers, conducted by Tecwyn Evans, performed a concert of Australian and NZ choral music. The concert repertoire featured NZ composers Leonie Holmes, David Griffiths and Jenny McLeod, as suggested by NZ tenor, Christopher Bowen, who has sung with the BBC Singers since 2003. SOUNZ asked Chris how the concert came about...
Chris Bowen
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SOUNZ Jazz Award
This year for the first time, as part of the National Youth Jazz Competition, SOUNZ presented a trophy for the Best Performance of a New Zealand Composition. Congratulations to Western Springs College, who received the trophy at Tauranga National Jazz Festival.

Also congratulations to Phil Broadhurst, winner of the Tui Award for Best Jazz Album for Panacea and Callum Allardice for winning the APRA Best Jazz Composition for Sons of Thunder.

And talking of jazz… the Welllingon Jazz Festival takes place again 8-12 June, with full programme announced on 27 April.

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Stills from ‘Big Nose’ and Body Music (1988).

The Alexander Turnbull Library has recently written about their efforts to preserve the field videotapes from Jack Body’s 1980s trip to China. 

The documentary, which records Jack’s encounters with everyday music-making in the Sichuan and Guizhou provinces of southern China, can be viewed in full here.
 
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Composer opportunities
SOUNZ Community Commission
You have just over a week to get your application in for this SOUNZ project, aimed at composers and community groups. Closing date: 29 April

APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund
Also closing this month, applications for commissioning and presentation of art music compositions for Australian and NZ composers.
Closing date: 30 April

NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composers Award
Annual opportunity for young NZ composers to have their work recorded by the NZSO over a residency.
Closing date: 2 May

SOUNZ Brass Composition Prize
New composition prize presented in association with the Brass Band Association of New Zealand and CANZ for works for solo brass instrument. Closing date: 2 May

Composer opportunities

Music teachers
New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing (NEWZATS) bi-annual conference takes place in New Plymouth in July. Open to all interested in vocal arts, the organisation encourages the use of new NZ music in teaching repertoires.

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NZ Music premieres
NZSO presents the premiere of Christopher Blake’s Symphony, 
Voices, drawing on the voices and imagery of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
6 May, Wellington
7 May, Auckland

Ensō String Quartet

Alex Taylor was commissioned by CMNZ to write two miniatures for the Ensō String Quartet tour: a coincidence of surfaces I and a coincidence of surfaces II. The two works have been written to stand alone or they can be performed simultaneously by an octet with one movement performed over the top of the other.

Wellington audiences will experience both options, with the Aroha String Quartet performing a coincidence of surfaces II as part of the pre-concert talk, Ensō String Quartet performing a coincidence of surfaces I as part of the concert, followed by the two quartets performing the octet version. See more here...
Touring 12-27 May
 
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Browse featured items added to our collection, highlighting additions ranging from CDs and scores to books and media on demand.

New to SOUNZ page features all recent resources added to our collection and which are available for purchase.

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Are you a composer, musician or event organiser involved in presenting NZ music? Tell us about your events featuring NZ music by emailing marketing@sounz.org.nz
 
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