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Congratulations!
Young New Zealand musicians and composers have been celebrating NZ music with various national competitions taking place in June and July. SOUNZ wishes to congratulate all winners of NZ music prizes!
Winner of the National award for the best performance of a New Zealand work:
Apollo Trio with Gareth Farr's Mondo Rondo
Winners of the National original composition award:
Senior winner
Liam Furey: Piano Trio No. 1 in G minor
Junior winner
Yoonseo Shin: Through the Woods
Both awards are presented in association with SOUNZ and CANZ. Read more and see awards in all districts here...
The winner of this year's SOUNZ/NZCF Choral Composition Competition is Megan Younger with Dover Beach. Adjudicator Leonie Holmes was very impressed with the high standard of the competition. Read more here...
The winner of the biennial Junior Wallace National Piano Competition is Christine Xiao, who performed Jenny McLeod's
Tone Clock Piece I.
More about this year’s competition here...
Open Stage
Throughout June and July, Open Stage, a community partnership between CMNZ and SOUNZ took NZCT Chamber Music Contest participants ‘on tour’ with Suyeon Kang and Stephen de Pledge. Contest groups played as a warm-up to the main act in seven locations around country. See more here…
SOUNZ is happy to announce that Brendan Smyth has become a member of its Board of Trustees.
Brendan recently retired from his role as NZ Music Manager at NZ On Air, where he worked since the agency was set up in 1989. Read more about the appointment here...
Due to unexpected family circumstances Diana Marsh, Executive Director will be working part time for the next 3-6 months.
Roger Smith has been appointed as Acting Operations and Project Manager during this period to assist with the management of SOUNZ.
We recently heard about the death of composer Ian McDonald (1937-2016), who passed away in June.
He was a founding member of the Composers’ Association of New Zealand (CANZ) and was the Mozart Fellow at Otago University in 1978 and 1979.
Listen to a Resound recording of Moment for Violin and Piano, on RNZ Concert. The work was written during his time as a Mozart Fellow.
New Zealand National Brass Band Championship took place in Napier last week. David Woodcock, winner of the inaugural SOUNZ Brass Composition Prize with Elegy, had his winning work performed at the event along with the highly commended Meditasi by Ross Carey and Song for Aylan by David Chaulk. Visit the BBANZ website to see the full championship results...
Resound films
Our Resound project, funded by NZ On Air
and delivered in partnership with RNZ Concert, delivers high quality films of NZ music in concert. This year alone Resound Project Manager Chris Watson has filmed nearly 50 performances of NZ music, which will be published at different times throughout the year. You can access recently released Resound concert videos on our website and Facebook page.
Emma Sayers' first solo recital in many years took place in June. She presented a programme of works paying tribute to recently departed giants of the NZ music scene. Visit our Facebook page to view Connections, Dedications pt.1 and
Connections, Dedications pt.2
In 2014, Anthony Ritchie's Fourth Symphony was premiered by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the latest addition to a symphonic repertoire that spans two decades. Alongside the Resound film of this premiere, we have collated audio recordings of all Ritchie's earlier symphonies as they have recently become available for listening online through Resound.
As part of CMNZ Composer Connections series in 2015, three young composers, Claire Cowan, Karlo Margetić
and Alex Taylor, devised a programme for performance by the NZTrio. You can watch the three concerts on our Facebook page:
Alex Taylor: burlesques mécaniques
Karlo Margetić: Lightbox
Claire Cowan: Ultra Violet
Hello teachers!
Did you know SOUNZ offers a diverse collection of quality NZ music resources available on our website? You can access scores, audio, video and read about latest news at SOUNZ online.
We have just put together a selection of works for children's choirs – check it out here…
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You can make a donation anytime by online banking:
Centre for New Zealand Music Trust
38-9010-0874327-00
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