Medieval European music and Contemporary NZ works for unaccompanied voices; including works by John Psathas, Helen Bowater, Jason Kaminski, Ivan Patterson, Pepe Becker, Mark Smythe & Carol Shortis (premiere performance of new work: “Tangi”).

8pm, Sunday 27th May 2007, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Molesworth St.

Admission: $25, $15. Bookings: tel. 973 6607 or email: pepe.bv@paradise.net.nz

175 East perform Phil Dadson’s Peace Rites and The Sleep of Reason… by Ross Harris as well as Lacrimae by Lyell Cresswell and James Gardner’s Throat Clearing

plus music by Aaron Cassidy, Morton Feldman, Michael
Finnissy, and Wolfgang Rihm with guest performers Richard Haynes (clarinet and soprano sax) and Mark Knoop (piano)

Tickets (door sales only)
$20 ($10 concs)

175 East perform Phil Dadson’s Peace Rites and The Sleep of Reason… by Ross Harris as well as Lacrimae by Lyell Cresswell and James Gardner’s Throat Clearing

plus music by Aaron Cassidy, Morton Feldman, Michael
Finnissy, and Wolfgang Rihm with guest performers Richard Haynes (clarinet and soprano sax) and Mark Knoop (piano)

Tickets (door sales only)
$20 ($10 concs)

Thursday 10th May, 12.10 - 1pm: Auckland Philharmonia are staging a Young Achievers’ Concert at the Auckland City Library (level 2, Wananga). As it is New Zealand Music Month, outstanding 16-year-old clarinetist Ryan Cha will be performing a New Zealand work: Yvette Audain’s Hold Fast (1999) for unaccompanied clarinet. This will be the first time a performer other than the composer herself has presented this work. Would love to see you there!

Applications are now invited for the Nelson Composers Workshop 2007. Please click here for more information and the application form.

In this concert, Mette Leroy will give the world première performance of en abyme by Samuel Holloway as well as a new work for solo flute by John Elmsly, while clarinetist Anna McGregor will play Berio’s challenging Sequenza IX. The concert also includes new works by graduate students Jeff Lin and Robbie Ellis.

The Karlheinz Company is one of New Zealand’s leading ensembles presenting stimulating and entertaining concerts of new compositions.

Dear CANZ members,

You will by now be aware of the Centre for New Zealand Music’s SOUNZ Online project, an important new initiative that will greatly improve the manner in which the Centre promotes the works of New Zealand composers, chiefly through the implementation of a new website.  As well as drawing together for the first time the roles of composers, performers, venues, music publishers and recording companies, the new website will feature dynamic content such as samples of scores in pdf format and mp3 audio samples,
photographs and video.  Such materials will far better describe to website visitors the nature of composers’ works and should lead to greater performance and commissioning opportunities.

As the Centre’s partner in the SOUNZ Online project, CANZ urges those of its members who are represented at SOUNZ and who haven’t yet done so to act now to provide the Centre with materials such as scores in pdf format, programme notes and signed permissions and licences.  The Centre has important targets to meet with its funders, most pressingly at the end of April. Your help at this time is of vital importance to the success of the project, so please urgently set aside some time to prepare and send your materials to Lachlan, at lachlan@sounz.org.nz.

Best wishes,

Glenda Keam,
President (CANZ)

This is an opportunity for young musicians to create an original piece of music for brass band and receive advice from prominent composers and performers. If you’re the right age for the National Youth Band and you’re a New Zealander you are eligible!

Entry details:
• Submit an original work for brass band suitable for performance by a youth band.
• The piece can be any length (up to approximately 5 minutes), and in any style.
• Entrants must be aged under 23 at the date of entry.
• Deadline for entries: 1 July 2007.
• Send full score and parts to: Norman Goffin Memorial Prize, Pelorus Trust Wellington Brass Band, PO Box 3194, Wellington

Finalists will be selected by David Bremner (principal trombone, NZSO/Musical Director of the National Secondary Schools Brass Band), Aaron Lloydd (composer and conductor), and principal players of the Pelorus Trust Wellington Youth Brass Band. All finalists’ music will be
rehearsed and recorded by the Pelorus Trust Wellington Youth Brass Band - New Zealand’s champion youth band – at a workshop in August. The workshop will be open to the public.

A judging panel of prominent New Zealand musicians will award prizes. In addition to first prize, the winning composer’s work will be performed in concert by the National Secondary Schools Brass Band.

The name of Norman Goffin is well known in brass bands both in New Zealand and throughout the world. As well as enjoying a remarkable career as a performer and conductor, Norm was both a composer and someone who worked tirelessly with young players. This competition has been created in his memory, with the aim of encouraging and supporting young composers in New Zealand, and of building contemporary repertoire for youth bands.

In conjunction with the competition a number of Norm’s unpublished works will be edited by Aaron Lloydd and made available to bands worldwide.

All entries must be received before 1 July 2007. Finalists will be announced at the New Zealand Brass Band Championships 4-8 July 2007.

Enquiries: aaronlloydd@clear.net.nz

An interesting speech from Peter Maxwell Davies on the state of music education in Britain.

Stroma’s upcoming concert on 5 May, St Andrews on Tce at 6pm, will feature the world premiere of Michael Norris’s Icons and Artifice, a new work for bass clarinet duo, ensemble and live electronics. The guest soloists are the Duo Stump-Linshalm from Vienna, whose recently released CD with Kairos has been garnering much international praise.