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Aroha String Quartet Recording project, a new collaborative project between SOUNZ, the Aroha String Quartet and Radio New Zealand Concert (RNZ Concert), in association with the Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ) and Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ) will produce 70 minutes of previously unrecorded string quartets by New Zealand composers.

The works selected for recording, broadcast and online streaming were announced live on RNZ Concert Upbeat:
Alex Taylor - refrain, Anthony Ritchie - Whakatipua, Blas Gonzalez - SPASMS, Helen Bowater - This Desperate Edge of Now, Jeroen Speak - Auxetos, Kirsten Strom - purity, Ross Carey - Toccatina (Elegy).
Read more here...

Aroha String Quartet Recording project
 
 

NZ music in the UK

Tecwyn Evans conducted the BBC Philharmonic in a programme including Lilburn’s Symphony No. 2 and Gareth Farr’s Piano Concerto, in a special concert for Anzac Day to commemorate the Gallipoli landings 100 years ago. The concert, recorded just before Easter, will be broadcast over the afternoons of April 27-29, check out the BBC schedule here.

Read Charlotte Wilson's interview with Tecwyn at SOUNZ online...

Tecwyn Evans with BBC Philharmonic
 
 

Ex-pat NZ violinist Benjamin Baker will be playing Gareth Farr's Wakatipu and Lilburn's Sonata 1950 in two upcoming concerts in Oxford 26.4. and London 30.4.

Sings Harry, Bill and Mick at the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London
Tenor Christopher Bowen and pianist Lindy Tennent-Brown present a concert in celebration of New Zealand sound, character and landscape on 30 May. The programme includes Lilburn’s Holiday Piece and Sings Harry and new works by Patrick Shepherd, Arawata Bill, and Lyell
Cresswell
, Old Mick.

Warwick Blair Ensemble will perform at the King’s Place, London, on 4 July.

New Zealand String Quartet returns to the City of London Festival with a programme including Ross Harris' Variation 25 on 8 July.

 
 

Another NZSO premiere is Michael WilliamsSymphony No. 1 Letters from the Front. In the Anzac spirit the NZSO collaborates with the Sydney Symphony to present two world premieres in near-simultaneous concerts. (22 April, Wellington & 23 April, Auckland)

The Southern Symphonia have commissioned a new work from Anthony Ritchie, celebrating the life and work of artist Frances Hodgkins. (26 April, Wanaka)

The Karlheinz Company's From Dylan to Xenakis concert premieres new works Green by John Coulter and Das lied von die Fische by Lyell Cresswell.

 
 

New media on demand at SOUNZ

Rare Earth Concert, featuring:
John Croft: ...du second infini
Dorothy Ker: Rare Earth
Michael Norris: Phospheni
Jeroen Speak: Shadow Aspect

NZTrio in Denmark, featuring:
Claire Cowan: Subtle Dances
Karlo Margetić: Lightbox
Gao Ping: su xie si ti (four sketches)
Alex Taylor: burlesques mécaniques

Ross Harris:
Violin Concerto and Ross introducing the work
Aria and Ross discussing the work

 
 

Low Noise2, a recent exhibition at the Toi Pōneke Arts Centre’s Gallery in Wellington, featuring works by:
Timothy J. Barraclough[sic]k
Blake Johnston: The Lilburn Loops
Paul Mathews: Three Frames
Richard Robertshawe: ASMR Study No. 1: Brain Sparkles
Jason WrightBlack Series - Panels 1-4
Mo H. Zareei: Gradient

Low Noise2
 
 

More NZ music events

 
 
 
 
 
 

And keep an eye on SOUNZ online for more events...

 

You can find information about Lilburn100 events here...

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