SOUNZ Contemporary Award

The SOUNZ Contemporary Award is a project of both APRA, Australasian Performing Right Association, and SOUNZ.
Entry forms are published with the mid-year issue of APRAP New Zealand, the APRA publication or they are available from SOUNZ.

Composers who are members of APRA are annually invited to enter up to two works which have been premiered in the previous year. The Centre for NZ Music convenes a jury to judge the entries on creative and artistic criteria including compositional excellence and inspiration. The works can be for solo, chamber, ensemble, choral, orchestral, electro-acoustic or any combination of these.

The award, consisting of a trophy and $3000 cash prize, is presented each year at the APRA Silver Scroll awards ceremony. The trophy for the SOUNZ Contemporary Award (photo at left) has been designed and made by Auckland sculptor Sarah Smuts Kennedy and depicts a bronze fern frond mounted on a shaped oak and ebony base.

Click here for more information, including a list and links to past finalists and winners of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award.

SOUNZ is now accepting submissions for the 2008 SOUNZ Contemporary Award.
More information here .

	^{SOUNZ Contemporary Award finalists include:} ^{from left:} ^{in 2000, Lyell Cresswell (Of Whirlwind Underground); Ross Harris (To the Memory of I.S.Totzka); and Anthony Ritchie (Symphony No. 2 - The Widening Gyre).} ^{from left:} ^{in 2002, John Rimmer (Europa); John Psathas (View from Olympus); and Chris Cree Brown (Memories Apart).} ^{Gillian Whitehead is one of two composers who have won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award three times: in 1999 (Outrageous Fortune); 2001 (the improbable ordered dance); and 2003 (Alice).}


	^{The other is Ross Harris: 2000 (To the Memory of I.S.Totzka); 2005 (Labyrinth for Tuba and Orchestra) ; 2006 (Symphony No. 2). He was also a finalist in 2004 (At the Edge of Silence) and 2007 (The Sleep of Reason...) and received a special commendation in 2003 (Chaconne). At left, Ross recieves the 2005 SOUNZ Contemporary Award from the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage (and PM) the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark.}
	^{(left) Anthony Healey (Manager of NZ Operations for APRA) with the 2007 fina}^{lists: Eve de Castro Robinson (These Arms to Hold You); Chris Blake (Anthem on the Kaipara) and Ross Harris (The Sleep of Reason...)}
	^{(left) Composer Victoria Kelly has been responsible for one of the most keenly anticipated 'treats' of the Silver Scrolls evening: the rescoring of nominated works and winners for other groups to 'cover'.} ^{For example, in 2006 Hamish McKeich (bassoon) Nathan Haines (sax) et al, reinterpreted Ross Harris' Symphony No. 2;} ^{and in 2007 the unique Wellington-based Birzurkus, led by Rosie Langabeer, presented an idiosyncratic take on Eve De Castro Robinson's These Arms to Hold You.} _{[Lower photos courtesy APRA and TOPIC]}

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