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SOUNZ Community Commission
Last month we announced the winning project for this year’s SOUNZ Community Commission: composer Julian Raphael and community group ACTIVE will create a song cycle/performance work exploring what it means to be a young person with intellectual disabilities.
Julien Raphael is a community musician, music educator, composer and performer from Wellington. “I am really delighted that this application has been successful and I appreciate the support from the other community organisations (Arts Access Aotearoa, Barbarian Productions and Chamber Music New Zealand) in backing the proposal.”
Read more about the project and Julian here.
We also announced the winner of the inaugural SOUNZ Brass Composition Prize: David Woodcock with Elegy for cornet and piano.
This new composition prize is presented together with the Brass Band Association of New Zealand and CANZ. The winning piece will be performed at the National Brass Band Championships in Napier in July, and a recording along with scores and parts, will be available on SOUNZ’s website later in the year.
In addition to the winning composition, two other works were highly commended: Meditasi by Ross Carey and Song for Aylan by David Chaulk.
Andrew McMillan, who won the Saxcess entrance music competition, in celebration of their 25th year, with his work Consequence of Incensequence.
Congratulations to...
Celeste Oram, 2017 NZSO National Youth Orchestra Composer in Residence. The NZSO are now accepting applications for a second 2017 NZSO National Youth Orchestra Composer-in-Residence position, more details here.
Samuel Holloway, the only NZ composer among recipients of the 2016 APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund grants.
CNZ Music scholarships 2016 recipients: Warwick Blair, David Taylor and Jake Baxendale.
Composer Opportunities
NZ Composer Sessions 2017
Closing 4 July
SOUNZ is calling for orchestral scores from SOUNZ composers (max two/composer). The adjudication panel will recommend a selection of works that reflects the diversity of musical styles/voices in NZ composition, with a collective duration of up to 60 minutes. The 2017 recordings will take place in Wellington in February.
NZ Musicological Society Annual Conference 2016
Deadline 29 July
The NZ Musicological Society welcomes submissions around this year's theme Contemporary and Future Paths in Music Performance, Composition and Analysis, along with papers on other musicology, ethnomusicology, performance and composition-related topics.
Screen Composers Workshop
SOUNZ collaborated with the Screen Composers Guild of New Zealand (SCGNZ) in a joint workshop held in Wellington in April.
Approaching the Market, delivered by composer Andrew Hagen, looked at the fundamentals of promoting and running a composing business. During his presentation, both experienced and up-and-coming composers were taken through a whole range of ways of marketing and promoting themselves to the music industry.
For those who missed it, a video of the workshop is now available on our website.
NZ jazz catalogue
In the past few years, SOUNZ has extended its collection policy to include New Zealand jazz. SOUNZ’s jazz cataloguing project started in 2013 with the help of composer and jazz pianist John Key.
The project aimed to enhance our jazz collection by registering composers and collecting their works. The work was funded by APRA AMCOS NZ and has lead to a broader and more comprehensive on-line archive providing a rich selection of quality jazz sheet music, now available on our website.
Browse here for works, which are available as a free download or $1 each.
New from Resound
In 2015, SOUNZ facilitated a project to record and promote NZ orchestral works suitable for school and community orchestras. You can now view the recordings of In The Lair Of The Cave Weta and Tango Mangle by Leonie Holmes
performed by the Westlake Symphony Orchestra, conducted by music director David Squire.
NZ Music for Woodwind, an annual concert curated by Ben Hoadley, had its eighth instalment in March this year. The concert featured works by Ken Wilson, John Elmsly, Douglas Lilburn, Natalie Hunt, Ben Hoadley and Jeremy Mayall.
Each year, the Resound Project delivers new high quality studio recordings of New Zealand works considered to be of artistic merit but for which broadcast-standard recordings do not exist. In 2014, Resound Studio Recordings
were made of works by
Peter Adams, Robert Burch, Helen Caskie, Ross Harris, Chloe Moon and Gary Wilby.
NZ youth celebrates NZ music
This year’s The Big Sing and NZCT Chamber Music Contest
District Rounds are currently taking place around the country. Read more about the contests here.
In addition, CMNZ presents Open Stage - a community partnership between CMNZ and SOUNZ. This pre-concert event offers NZCT Contest Award Winners the opportunity to perform as a ‘warm up act’ to Suyeon Kang and Stephen de Pledge concerts.
In addition to the youth events in NZ, young New Zealand musicians are taking our music abroad on various tours around the globe. At the end of June, the NZ Youth Choir heads to Europe for its 2016 European Landmark Tour and The Aotea Youth Symphony will travel to France in July to perform in Arras coinciding with the 100th anniversary commemorations of WWI.
Support SOUNZ
Have you thought about becoming a Friend of SOUNZ? As a Friend your membership payment and donations will help us champion NZ music.
You can make a donation anytime by online banking:
Centre for New Zealand Music Trust
38-9010-0874327-00
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