SOUNZ news September 2015

2015 SOUNZ Contemporary Award
Ross Harris, Reuben Jelleyman and Chris Watson are the finalists for this year's SOUNZ Contemporary Award. The winner will be announced at the APRA Silver Scrolls event in Auckland this Thursday, 17 September. The selected works represent three generations of New Zealand composers:

   Ross Harris: Piano Quintet, for two violins, viola, cello and piano
   Reuben Jelleyman: Expanse, for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble
   Chris Watson: sing songs self, a single movement piano concerto

You can view an exclusive SOUNZ interview with Ross, Reuben and Chris on SOUNZ online.

SOUNZ-RNZ Concert-NZSO Recordings
The following composers' scores will be rehearsed and performed by the NZSO and recorded by RNZ Concert in February next year:

Alex Taylor: bassoon concerto
Salina Fisher: Rainphase
James Wade: Te Matua Ngahere
Brad Jenkins: The Way Out is Through
Patrick Shepherd: Lithosphere (Movement II)

This key SOUNZ project, in partnership with the NZSO and RNZ Concert, produces new recordings of orchestral music for public broadcast and online streaming. Read more here...

Aroha String Quartet recordings
The first ever Aroha Quartet-RNZ Concert-SOUNZ Recordings will take place in October. A public performance of the selected works takes place in Wellington on 26 October, see Aroha’s website for more details…

This new project between SOUNZ, Aroha String Quartet and RNZ Concert, in association with the CANZ and CMNZ, will produce 70 minutes of previously unrecorded string quartets by New Zealand composers.

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)

Stroma is celebrating Lilburn100
Contemporary chamber music ensemble Stroma has just finished a successful Boosted campaign to raise funds for Nine Echoes concert in celebration of Lilburn's 100th birthday. Stroma has commissioned nine chamber works from NZ composers Eve de Castro-Robinson, Dorothy Ker, John Elmsly, Michael Norris, Louise Webster, Stephen Clothier, Salina Fisher, Glen Downie and Sarah Ballard. #Lilburn100

Each new work will respond to one of Lilburn's Nine Short Pieces for piano. Read more here...

Q&A with Diana Marsh
Our new Executive Director Diana Marsh started at SOUNZ mid July.

Read on for some thoughts she has about music, the organisation and life in general - Q&A with Diana Marsh...

Congratulations to…
Chris Gendall, the 2016 Mozart Fellow at University of Otago.
“I am rapt to be Mozart Fellow next year,” he says. “Uninterrupted time to compose is such a luxury; I hope to be able to do as much as possible! I’ll start by finishing off a new violin concerto and a work for solo percussion.”

Congratulations to intermedia artist Phil Dadson who has been awarded the annual Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award for a ten week residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. During the residency he aims to revisit Sound Stories, created with the support of a 1991 Fulbright New Zealand Award.

New resources
UK based NZ composer Jeroen Speak's new work Eratosthenes' Sieve was premiered by Stroma last month. SOUNZ interviewed Jeroen about the new piece, his ideas about music and his future plans.

The New Zealand International Film Festival took place in July and August. This year, NZ art music was represented by a film about composer and sound artist Phil Dadson: Sonics From Scratch.

Documentary Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema featured a soundtrack by Svenda Ström and Jason Erskine.
You can read a SOUNZ interview with Svenda and Jason on our website.

Selection of future NZ music premieres
NZTrio premieres a new commission by David Hamilton, The Faraday Cage, 16 September at City Gallery Wellington.
New work by Peter Adams will be premiered by Jade at the Pah, 20 September in Auckland.
After Brahms, a new work by Matthew Davidson will be premiered on 29 September in Montreal, Canada.
Premiere of Kenneth Young’s new commission by NZTrio, October 19 at Expressions Upper Hutt.

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