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A comprehensive listing of performances of music by John Psathas.
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January 01, 2020 12:00 — December 31, 2021 12:00 · various

NZ Composer Sessions 2021 | APPLY NOW

Opportunity

The applications are now open for the NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa 2021, closing on 22 February 2021.

The NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa is a collaboration between the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.

The aim is to create high-quality NZ orchestral recordings and to promote the works to a range of orchestras and broadcasters.

Following the concert and the final editing process, the recordings will be available as audio on SOUNZ’s and RNZ Concert’s websites.

The 2021 recordings will take place over four days (28 Sep – 1 Oct) at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.

Download more information and the application form here.

Download the NZSO Score and Parts Preparation Guidelines here.

This key SOUNZ project, delivered in partnership with the NZSO and RNZ Concert, was established in 1998 and was rebranded as NZ Composer Sessions in 2016. It produces new recordings of orchestral music for public broadcast and online streaming.     Read more about the past recordings on SOUNZ online, where you can also find links to previous recordings and background information about composers whose works have been selected for the project.

The applications are now open for the NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa 2021, closing on 22 February 2021.

The NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa is a collaboration between the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.

The aim is to create high-quality NZ orchestral recordings and to promote the works to a range of orchestras and broadcasters.

Following the concert and the final editing process, the recordings will be available as audio on SOUNZ’s and RNZ Concert’s websites.

The 2021 recordings will take place over four days (28 Sep – 1 Oct) at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.

Download more information and the application form here.

Download the NZSO Score and Parts Preparation Guidelines here.

This key SOUNZ project, delivered in partnership with the NZSO and RNZ Concert, was established in 1998 and was rebranded as NZ Composer Sessions in 2016. It produces new recordings of orchestral music for public broadcast and online streaming.     Read more about the past recordings on SOUNZ online, where you can also find links to previous recordings and background information about composers whose works have been selected for the project.

The applications are now open for the NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa 2021, closing on 22 February 2021.

The NZ Composer Sessions | Ngā Huihuinga Hāpai i ngā Kaitito o Aotearoa is a collaboration between the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.

The aim is to create high-quality NZ orchestral recordings and to promote the works to a range of orchestras and broadcasters.

Following the concert and the final editing process, the recordings will be available as audio on SOUNZ’s and RNZ Concert’s websites.

The 2021 recordings will take place over four days (28 Sep – 1 Oct) at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington.

Download more information and the application form here.

Download the NZSO Score and Parts Preparation Guidelines here.

This key SOUNZ project, delivered in partnership with the NZSO and RNZ Concert, was established in 1998 and was rebranded as NZ Composer Sessions in 2016. It produces new recordings of orchestral music for public broadcast and online streaming.     Read more about the past recordings on SOUNZ online, where you can also find links to previous recordings and background information about composers whose works have been selected for the project.

October 19, 2020 09:00 — February 22, 2021 09:00

Australian and New Zealand Viola Society | 2021 Composition Competition

Opportunity

"Once you become a viola-player, one of your most important duties is to strive to enlarge the library of solo viola music"

— Lionel Tertis —

Writing new music for viola?

After three previous successful Viola Composition Competitions run by ANZVS, another one will be held in Winter 2021.

There is now a new category in the competition this year: compositions will be accepted for viola plus voice or viola plus one other instrument, for the first time.

Click here for the entry form and Conditions of Entry.

For further enquiries about the competition or the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society, contact secretary@anzvs.com.

"Once you become a viola-player, one of your most important duties is to strive to enlarge the library of solo viola music"

— Lionel Tertis —

Writing new music for viola?

After three previous successful Viola Composition Competitions run by ANZVS, another one will be held in Winter 2021.

There is now a new category in the competition this year: compositions will be accepted for viola plus voice or viola plus one other instrument, for the first time.

Click here for the entry form and Conditions of Entry.

For further enquiries about the competition or the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society, contact secretary@anzvs.com.

"Once you become a viola-player, one of your most important duties is to strive to enlarge the library of solo viola music"

— Lionel Tertis —

Writing new music for viola?

After three previous successful Viola Composition Competitions run by ANZVS, another one will be held in Winter 2021.

There is now a new category in the competition this year: compositions will be accepted for viola plus voice or viola plus one other instrument, for the first time.

Click here for the entry form and Conditions of Entry.

For further enquiries about the competition or the Australian and New Zealand Viola Society, contact secretary@anzvs.com.

October 27, 2020 09:00 — May 01, 2021 17:00

Daniel Beban | Daily Deaths – Tracing the Global Pandemic in Sound

Concert

Daily Deaths is a new musical work by Daniel Beban that literally allows audiences to experience the unfolding days, weeks and months of the Covid19 pandemic in sound.

The piece directly translates Covid19 statistics from different countries into a musical score performed by a large ensemble of 18 musicians. Different country’s daily death rates are translated into musical notes – the higher the death rate the higher in pitch the musical note… trumpets play Iran, double basses play China, flutes play Brazil, cellos play India and so on. Because the pandemic is an ongoing situation, the piece is continually growing.

Featuring an 18 piece ensemble of woodwinds, brass and strings, the concert will take place in the awe-inspiring acoustics of Futuna Chapel, an icon of New Zealand avant garde architecture.

Chapel open for viewing at 2pm, concert starts 2:30pm.

The 18-piece ensemble features Gerard Crewdson and Dan Yeabsley (tuba), Nell Thomas and Rachelle Eastwood (flute), Aiko Sato and Gareth Thompson (trombone), Jake Baxendale and Glen Downie (alto sax), Bridget Kelly and Blair Latham (bass clarinet), James Guilford-Smith and Stephen Roche (trumpet), Tristan Carter and Chris Prosser (violin), Charlie Davenport and Erika Grant (cello), Patrick Bleakley and Isaac Smith (double bass).

Daily Deaths is a new musical work by Daniel Beban that literally allows audiences to experience the unfolding days, weeks and months of the Covid19 pandemic in sound.

The piece directly translates Covid19 statistics from different countries into a musical score performed by a large ensemble of 18 musicians. Different country’s daily death rates are translated into musical notes – the higher the death rate the higher in pitch the musical note… trumpets play Iran, double basses play China, flutes play Brazil, cellos play India and so on. Because the pandemic is an ongoing situation, the piece is continually growing.

Featuring an 18 piece ensemble of woodwinds, brass and strings, the concert will take place in the awe-inspiring acoustics of Futuna Chapel, an icon of New Zealand avant garde architecture.

Chapel open for viewing at 2pm, concert starts 2:30pm.

The 18-piece ensemble features Gerard Crewdson and Dan Yeabsley (tuba), Nell Thomas and Rachelle Eastwood (flute), Aiko Sato and Gareth Thompson (trombone), Jake Baxendale and Glen Downie (alto sax), Bridget Kelly and Blair Latham (bass clarinet), James Guilford-Smith and Stephen Roche (trumpet), Tristan Carter and Chris Prosser (violin), Charlie Davenport and Erika Grant (cello), Patrick Bleakley and Isaac Smith (double bass).

Daily Deaths is a new musical work by Daniel Beban that literally allows audiences to experience the unfolding days, weeks and months of the Covid19 pandemic in sound.

The piece directly translates Covid19 statistics from different countries into a musical score performed by a large ensemble of 18 musicians. Different country’s daily death rates are translated into musical notes – the higher the death rate the higher in pitch the musical note… trumpets play Iran, double basses play China, flutes play Brazil, cellos play India and so on. Because the pandemic is an ongoing situation, the piece is continually growing.

Featuring an 18 piece ensemble of woodwinds, brass and strings, the concert will take place in the awe-inspiring acoustics of Futuna Chapel, an icon of New Zealand avant garde architecture.

Chapel open for viewing at 2pm, concert starts 2:30pm.

The 18-piece ensemble features Gerard Crewdson and Dan Yeabsley (tuba), Nell Thomas and Rachelle Eastwood (flute), Aiko Sato and Gareth Thompson (trombone), Jake Baxendale and Glen Downie (alto sax), Bridget Kelly and Blair Latham (bass clarinet), James Guilford-Smith and Stephen Roche (trumpet), Tristan Carter and Chris Prosser (violin), Charlie Davenport and Erika Grant (cello), Patrick Bleakley and Isaac Smith (double bass).

December 05, 2020 14:00 — December 05, 2020 16:00 · Futuna Chapel, Wellington

Constellations | NZTrio in Gisborne

Concert

Beethoven | Piano Trio No. 1
Saariaho | Light and Matter
Margetić | Lightbox
Korngold | Piano Trio

As the date of Beethoven’s 250th birthday approaches, we open this concert where it all began: his seminal Opus 1 No 1. Then our focus fans out to the Finnish-German-French influence in Kaija Saariaho’s spectral masterpiece Light and Matter. Staying in the brightest light, we experience the delightful return of the prizewinning Lightbox by New Zealander Karlo Margetić. The light then projects onto the silver screen in the Piano Trio by Erich Korngold, a work that bears all the hallmarks of his Austro-Hungarian upbringing, WW2-era immigration into America and film-music career.

Full downloadable programme notes here

Additional performances:

Thursday, 10 December — Mairangi Arts Centre, Auckland
Friday, 11 December — Auckland Town Hall

Beethoven | Piano Trio No. 1
Saariaho | Light and Matter
Margetić | Lightbox
Korngold | Piano Trio

As the date of Beethoven’s 250th birthday approaches, we open this concert where it all began: his seminal Opus 1 No 1. Then our focus fans out to the Finnish-German-French influence in Kaija Saariaho’s spectral masterpiece Light and Matter. Staying in the brightest light, we experience the delightful return of the prizewinning Lightbox by New Zealander Karlo Margetić. The light then projects onto the silver screen in the Piano Trio by Erich Korngold, a work that bears all the hallmarks of his Austro-Hungarian upbringing, WW2-era immigration into America and film-music career.

Full downloadable programme notes here

Additional performances:

Thursday, 10 December — Mairangi Arts Centre, Auckland
Friday, 11 December — Auckland Town Hall

Beethoven | Piano Trio No. 1
Saariaho | Light and Matter
Margetić | Lightbox
Korngold | Piano Trio

As the date of Beethoven’s 250th birthday approaches, we open this concert where it all began: his seminal Opus 1 No 1. Then our focus fans out to the Finnish-German-French influence in Kaija Saariaho’s spectral masterpiece Light and Matter. Staying in the brightest light, we experience the delightful return of the prizewinning Lightbox by New Zealander Karlo Margetić. The light then projects onto the silver screen in the Piano Trio by Erich Korngold, a work that bears all the hallmarks of his Austro-Hungarian upbringing, WW2-era immigration into America and film-music career.

Full downloadable programme notes here

Additional performances:

Thursday, 10 December — Mairangi Arts Centre, Auckland
Friday, 11 December — Auckland Town Hall

December 08, 2020 19:00 — December 08, 2020 21:00 · Tiromoana Estate, Gisborne

Woodwind at the Pah, with Camille Wells and friends

Concert

Oboist Camille Wells leads her APO colleagues and much-loved pianist Sarah Watkins in a selection of chamber works guaranteed to charm and delight.

The programme opens with a short but powerful world première by Ben Hoadley. Commissioned by Camille Wells and her student Shaiq Ahmad Noori in Afghanistan, Invocation is inspired by a mournful Afghan love song.

In Four Personalities, American composer Alyssa Morris brilliantly and playfully creates musical depictions of personality types we all recognise. Which of your friends does each short movement bring to mind?

Corigliano composed The Food of Love to celebrate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of his dear friends Michèle and Larry Corash. The Food of Love is a duet for oboe and cello which depicts the sweetness and strife of a marriage.

Relax into the gorgeous, tender melodies of Madeleine Dring’s Trio for Flute, Oboe, and Piano. Dring composed the Trio for Flute, Oboe, and Piano (1968) for her husband Roger Lord, an oboist who played with the London Symphony Orchestra. Described as “somewhat of a monk and somewhat of a rascal”, Francis Poulenc wrote his cheeky, colourful Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano in 1926. The work features a lyrical second movement which Poulenc described as “sweet and melancholic”, and ends with a joyful rondo that will send you home fizzing.