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22 March 2026
Ballard, Sarah: Āśā-bandha - Hannah Darroch (flute), Andrew Crooks (piano) (Private 2020)
De Castro-Robinson, Eve: These arms to hold you - Lyrica Choir of Kelburn School, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Young Nicola Edgecombe (director) (ATOLL ACD 141)
Hoadley, Ben: Midsummer Night's Music - Peter Scholes (clarinet), Robert Ashworth (viola), Sarah Watkins (piano) (RNZ)
Kernis, Aaron Jay: Concerto with Echoes - Auckland Philharmonia/Nathaniel Griffiths (RNZ)
Keam, Glenda: Mind Springs - Xenia Pestova (piano) (RNZ)
Reich, Steve: Music for 18 Musicians - Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman (dir)/Brad Lubman (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907 608)
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Musical Snapshots
5 Jun 2020Listen to musical snapshots by three well-travelled New Zealand composers - Gareth Farr, Natalie Hunt and Douglas Lilburn. Read more Video
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Composer performs in tropical forest in...Dunedin?
15 May 2020Jeremy Mayall's multi-sensory project, Flutter, took place in a tropical forest populated by thousands of butterflies all contained in Dunedin's CBD. Listen and watch here! Read more Video
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Video game music: from 8-bit soundtracks to winning scores
18 Mar 2020Pianist Benyamin Nuss and violinist Shauno Isomura are on a mission to bridge the gap between classical music and video game music. Read more Video, Audio
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Norris commission evokes Cook's arrival in NZ
14 Mar 2020Michael Norris talks about how and why his new NZSO commission Mātauranga (Rerenga) for taonga pūoro, live electronics and orchestra, evokes James Cook's first encounters with Māori. Read more Audio
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NZ pianist captures the sound of radioactive elements
7 Mar 2020The new album Atomic Legacies by Ireland-based, New Zealand pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett is all about radioactive elements and is performed on the recently developed otherworldly-sounding Magnetic… Read more Video
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Roomful of Teeth perform 'a ritual opera of death made for the living'
29 Feb 2020Brad Wells, artistic director of Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth talks about the visionary, otherworldly production Kopernikus playing at the 2020 NZ Festival of the Arts. Read more Audio
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Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Triple Clarinet Concerto
22 Feb 2020Eve de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Triple Clarinet Concerto. Ellen Deverall, Richard Haynes, Andrew Uren (clarinets), Christchurch Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Northey. Read more Video, Audio
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A keyboard that shoots lightning? - John Psathas talks about CubaSonic
15 Feb 2020Coming up
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Annea Lockwood Composer Portrait Introduction - Peter Scholes, Eve de Castro-Robinson
8 Feb 2020Peter Scholes and Eve de Castro-Robinson speak at the beginning of Auckland Chamber Orchestra's Composer Portrait concert dedicated to the music of Annea Lockwood in Raye Freedman Arts Centre, 11… Read more Audio
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Child's scribbles inspire Tabea Squire's orchestral work
1 Feb 2020Someone very young colouring over the lines in a colouring-in book was the inspiration for Tabea Squire's orchestral work Colour Lines. Read more
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Salina Fisher's dream-like re-acquaintance with the Kāpiti Coast
25 Jan 2020Wellington composer, Salina Fisher's Coastlines reflects on her re-acquaintance with the expansive Kāpiti Coast, following months of constant stimulation in New York City. Read more
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Dorothy Buchanan - pioneering New Zealand composer
11 Jan 2020New Zealand composer Dorothy Quita Buchanan pioneered the Composers-in-Schools scheme in the 1970s, and has been an active violinist, pianist, teacher and publisher throughout her career. Read more Video, Audio
