18/01/2022
Taonga pūoro artist and practitioner Jerome Kavanagh (Mokai Patea, Maniapoto, Kahungunu, Irish: Caomhanach) has been announced ...
READ MORE >30/06/2021
Taonga pūoro are a range of musical instruments and other sound making devices indigenous to Aotearoa New Zealand. Back ...
READ MORE >05/06/2019
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
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
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
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 is getting older. I say that not to be disrespectful, but because there’s something about his new album, ...
READ MORE >15/02/2017
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
Hosted by an enthusiastic John Campbell at Auckland's Vector Arena, the Silver Scrolls 2016 proved both collegial and contentious. Well-judged ...
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