Eve De Castro-Robinson wins 2007 SOUNZ Contemporary Award

At the APRA Silver Scrolls evening held on Tuesday 18th September in Auckland, These Arms To Hold You won the 2007 SOUNZ Contemporary Award as the best new work of the last 12 months by a New Zealand composer.

“This work had moments of magic,” the jury commented. “The writing is fresh, lively and full of the uninhibited joy of youth while also being adventurous and imaginative.”

The other finalists for the 2007 SOUNZ Contemporary Award were Anthem on the Kaipara for string orchestra by Christopher Blake and The Sleep of Reason… for chamber sextet by Ross Harris.

SOUNZ Online – Urgent Call for Scores

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)