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Te Marama Pūoru Waiata Māori - Māori Music Month
Did you know August is the inaugural Māori Music Month? This new celebration, which was launched at the end of July, will include a roadshow of events and workshops in New Zealand and Australia.
To celebrate we have collated a selection of Resound films of works with Māori themes and/or using taonga pūoro instruments.
The Screen Composers Guild of NZ in association with SOUNZ, are organising another workshop to support NZ screen composers. This time we offer an opportunity to attend a Composer Q&A with John Psathas on Tuesday 4 October. See our website for more information.
Resound project delivers high quality films of NZ music in concert. This year alone, Chris Watson, Resound Project Manager, has attended and filmed over 50 performances of NZ music.
We are now releasing a series of large-scale works from 2015 and 2016. The series started this week with Ross Harris’s Brass Poppies. You can also watch an interview with Ross introducing the work.
A new work will be released through our Facebook page on Mondays over the next few weeks.
More from Resound
We recently released a video of No Man’s Land, a genre-defying project by John Psathas. On the same page you can watch John Psathas describing the challenges of bringing the project from idea to fruition.
NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composers Award
Congratulations to Louisa Nicklin, Daniel Sun, Josiah Carr, Jay Greenberg, Brandon Skelton, Evangelina Telfar and Eleanore Chen. These young composers will attend the annual workshops in Wellington in November/ December. The event is celebrating its 12th anniversary this year.
NZ music premieres
Jade String Quartet presents Jade at the Pah. Included in the programme is a premiere of a new work by Karlo Margetić, Ricercar.
Guzheng soloist Xia Jing accompanies the NZTrio
in Gao Ping’s world premiere of his new work Feng Zheng (Kite) dedicated to his friend, the late Jack Body.
Three other new commissions by New Zealand composers Dylan Lardelli, Jeroen Speak and Dorothy Ker have also been created for this unique instrumental combination of piano, cello, violin and guzheng.
Read more here.
Once more congratulations to the winners of NZ music prizes at the NZCT Chamber Music Contest
Below the winners of the National Best Performance of a New Zealand Work Apollo Trio: Thomas Prince, Tessa Dalgety-Evans and Stella Lu. They won with Gareth Farr’s Mondo Rondo.
The winner of Senior Original Composition Liam Furey and the Junior Original Composition winner Yoonseo Shin, with composer John Elmsly, who presented the awards on behalf of SOUNZ and CANZ.
Photos by Andi Crown Photography, courtesy of Chamber Music New Zealand.
Don’t forget to take a look at the featured items added to the SOUNZ collection, with some exciting new CDs that are now available for purchase.
Or browse the catalogue for something else.
Have you thought about becoming a Friend of SOUNZ? Your membership payment and donations will help us champion NZ music.
Make a donation by internet banking:
Centre for New Zealand Music Trust
38-9010-0874327-00 (ref: your name and 'donation')