NZ Premieres Features 6 New NZ Works

NZ Premieres Features Six New Works From NZ Composers

NZ Premieres Concert
Saturday 4 April, 8.00pm, Auckland Town Hall, THE EDGE®

Six new music works by six New Zealand composers written especially for six emerging opera artists will be premiered at a special Auckland Philharmonia Concert on Saturday night.

NZ Premieres Concert at Auckland Town Hall, THE EDGE®, on Saturday 4 April marks the end of a year-long collaboration between APO Education and The NZ Opera Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artists programme.

During the year each composer has worked with an Opera Emerging Artist to create a work for solo singer and full orchestra.

Dunedin’s Anthony Ritchie sets Hone Tuwhare’s poem Rain for baritone Matthew Landreth, while University of Auckland Music graduate Jeff Lin has chosen a contemporary version of Chinese Li Yu’s Exile from the Native Land, reflecting on the journey of people away from their birth country and features baritone Michael Gray.

Prolific choral composer David Hamilton commentates on the Mt Erebus disaster with text Breaking the Quiet by Bill Sewell and baritone Hadleigh Adams.

Young Matthew Crawford set poet Karlo Mila’s A Place to Stand for soprano and orchestra, with text in Maori and English and featuring Barbara Graham, while former APO composer-in-residence Anthony Young tackles an interesting text where a mother is trying to explain to her blind baby “what is light?”. Angle of Reflection uses text by Leanna Brodie and features soprano and 2009 Lexus Song Quest finalist Julia Booth.

Finally, after 22 years arranging other people’s music, Penny Dodd had the chance to start a piece completely from scratch herself, adapting the classic Soliloquy from Medea by Euripedes and working with soprano Barbara Paterson.

The APO’s NZ Premieres Concert is part of STAMP at THE EDGE® and is on Saturday 4 April at 8.00pm at Auckland Town Hall, THE EDGE®. Tickets $20* from THE EDGE® Ticketing 0800 BUY TICKETS or www.buytickets.co.nz. For more information visit www.apo.co.nz

*Booking fees will apply

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