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Reimagining Mozart – Dunedin and Wanaka
Robert Wiremu (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Porou) commemorates the tragedy of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 by reimagining Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, which was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1791. Wiremu has imagined that one of the passengers may have had a state-of-the-art Walkman containing a recording of the Requiem. At the moment […]
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MEET OUR CANZ COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE!
Meet Fergus – the 2024 Composer in Residence at Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand! Originally from Taupō, Fergus Byett moved to Hamilton in 2019 to study Classical Performance (Piano) at the University of Waikato. With the support of a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship, he completed his undergraduate studies under Katherine Austin, and in 2023 he completed […]
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At the end of 2021 we launched a brand new Christmas collection of New Zealand Choral Music. In the midst of the pandemic, six New Zealand composers (five are represented here) were commissioned by Voices New Zealand and Artistic Director, Karen Grylls, to reimagine familiar Christmas tunes.
The new works set old tunes, some with the atmosphere of centuries old traditions and some with the stories and traditions from New Zealand.
You can read more of Artistic Director Karen Grylls thoughts here
