Over the coming weeks, SOUNZ will be curating a series of digital concerts from our existing content, featuring cornerstone repertoire alongside unfamiliar treasures just waiting to be discovered.
Keep an eye on our social media platforms where we will post about the latest available concert. You can access previous concerts by clicking any of the links below.
Sit back, relax, and let’s #keepthemusicgoing.
Programme | Hōtaka Entries for the 2021 NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa are due on 22 February 2021. Here are three more pieces from recent sessions to inspire you over the summer. Natalie Hunt: Only to the Highest Mountain...
Programme | Hōtaka Part 3 of our series exploring past winners and nominees of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha. Leonie Holmes: Aquae Sulis (2014 nominee) Leonie writes: “The worship of the Celtic Goddess Sulis and the Roman Goddess Minerva gave rise to...
Programme | Hōtaka Part 2 of our series exploring past winners and nominees of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha. Salina Fisher: Tōrino, echoes on pūtōrino improvisations by Rob Thorne (Winner 2017). Salina writes: “Discovering the music of Taonga Pūoro...
Programme | Hōtaka This week we explore past winners and nominees of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award | Te Tohu Auaha. Chaos of Delight III (Winner 1998) Composer Eve de Castro-Robinson continues her Chaos of Delight series inspired by New Zealand Birdsong with a...
Programme | Hōtaka SOUNZ celebrates Te Wiki o te Reo Māori and Mahuru Māori with a special concert featuring some of New Zealand’s most prolific Māori composers. Enjoy this special concert of new and more well-known waiata, in te reo Māori. SOUNZ celebrates keeping...
Programme | Hōtaka This week’s SOUNZ Concert features diverse quartets for various lineups by New Zealand composers, from the expressionism of Watson and Bowater, to the meditative stillness of Lardelli. ANTHONY WATSON: Three Bagatelles Performed by Ben Hoadley...
Programme | Hōtaka In John Rimmer’s ‘Composition 4’ for flute and electronic sounds, string and percussive timbres accompany flute writing that evokes the Japanese shakuhachi. In ‘Immersion’, Annea Lockwood explores her love of the effect of two tones that are close...
Programme | Hōtaka Helen Bowater’s ‘Gigue, a Pataphor’ was commissioned by Stephen De Pledge as part of the ‘New Zealand Partita’ project, pairing movements from Bach’s A minor Partita with new pieces. This piece can be described as a pataphor: that which occurs when...
Programme | Hōtaka Michael Norris’s Claro (meaning ‘light’ or ‘clear’) begins with a transparent texture of percussion, piano and harp. The orchestra catches resonances from this pointillistic texture which begin to interact and play off one another as the music...
Programme | Hōtaka Guest curator: Eve de Castro-Robinson Founded in 1978 by John Rimmer, the Karlheinz Company is New Zealand’s oldest contemporary music ensemble, based at the School of Music, University of Auckland. John Elmsly was director from the mid-90s until...
