18/01/2022

Jerome Kavanagh Is Victoria Uni’s Composer-In-Residence 2022

Taonga pūoro artist and practitioner Jerome Kavanagh (Mokai Patea, Maniapoto, Kahungunu, Irish: Caomhanach) has been announced ...

READ MORE >

30/06/2021

Maianginui: Orchestrating The Breath Of Birds

Taonga pūoro are a range of musical instruments and other sound making devices indigenous to Aotearoa New Zealand. Back ...

READ MORE >

05/06/2019

Salina Fisher Is Victoria University’s 2019 Composer-in-Residence

Award-winning composer and violinist Salina Fisher will be the Composer-in-Residence for 2019 at Victoria University of Wellington’s ...

READ MORE >

19/03/2018

Salina Fisher: Championing Classical Creativity

Last year Salina Fisher became the youngest ever composer to win the SOUNZ Contemporary Award, at the 2016 APRA Silver Scroll ...

READ MORE >

29/09/2017

2017 APRA Silver Scroll Awards Winners

With two of the five finalists – Nadia Reid (Richard) and Aldous Harding (Horizon) – hailing from that part of the world, ...

READ MORE >

25/08/2017

All Finalists Of The 2017 Silver Scrolls

The finalists for the 2017 Silver Scrolls, Maioha Award for contemporary Māori songwriting, the Contemporary Award, as well ...

READ MORE >

10/08/2017

Grayson Gilmour: At One With The Other

Grayson Gilmour is getting older. I say that not to be disrespectful, but because there’s something about his new album, ...

READ MORE >

15/02/2017

Rob Thorne Announced As Composer-In-Residence

Taonga pūoro specialist Rob Thorne is Victoria University of Wellington’s Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music's next ...

READ MORE >

03/10/2016

Silver Scrolls 2016

Hosted by an enthusiastic John Campbell at Auckland's Vector Arena, the Silver Scrolls 2016 proved both collegial and contentious. Well-judged ...

READ MORE >