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SOUNZ Community Commission

The SOUNZ Community Commission is sponsored by an anonymous donor and administered by SOUNZ. The commission encourages community groups (amateur musicians) to work closely with a professional composer.  

Each year, usually in April /May, proposals are accepted from either community groups or composers for musical projects that will see them working in a creative partnership. The successful proposal is to be completed by the following May with a performance of the resultant collaboration either having taken place or planned by then.

Click here for more information , including a list of previous SOUNZ Community Commissions with links to the works and composers.

SOUNZ is now calling for submissions for the 2008 SOUNZ Community Commission. Click here for more information .  

 

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For the 2004 SOUNZ Community Commission, Rachel Clement worked with the Central Otago Regional Choir and Orchestra to create Taking Off, an Anthem for the inaugural Festival of Colour in Wanaka in May, 2005.Words for the anthem were by Poet Laureate Brian Turner.

 

 

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The 2005 SOUNZ Community Commission saw composer Ross Carey working with the Homai Campus for Blind and Vision Impaired Students Choral Course. The result, Come Together, was transcribed into a braille score and performed at the end of their annual Music Course in July 2006.   

 

 

 

 

Robin Toan and the Manukau City Symphony Orchestra worked together for the 2006 SOUNZ Community Commission. The resultant Fanfare for Manukau was premiered by the orchestra in their December concert in 2007, conducted by Uwe Grodd, and involved the players in some rather non-traditional music making: vocalisations for example.  

 

  

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 The 2007 SOUNZ Community Commission saw the Hutt Valley Concert Orchestra and composer Claire Cowan working together to create a piece to celebrate the orchestra's 50th Anniversary. Recipe for Disaster was a highly theatrical work in which a divided orchestra was simultaneously led by two duelling conductors: an extended musical metaphor on 'too many cooks spoil the broth'!. In the premiere performance the current musical director Brent Stewart and his immediate predecessor Stuart Douglas were the competing conductors, each keeping time with a wooden spoon.
 
 

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