Finalists for the 2013 SOUNZ Contemporary Award Announced

12/09/2013

For Immediate Release

Finalists for the 2013 SOUNZ Contemporary Award Announced

SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music and APRA are proud to announce the finalists for the 2013 SOUNZ Contemporary Award, which recognises excellence in New Zealand composition: Lightbox for piano trio composed by Karlo Margetic. Karlo holds degrees in composition and clarinet from the New Zealand School of Music, and has previously received a number of prestigious awards recognising young composers. He currently lives in Wellington and performs with Orchestra Wellington.

TIMEDANCE music for two violins, cello and piano composed by Michael Norris as live accompaniment for a dance film. Michael has composition degrees from both Victoria University of Wellington and London City University. He won the Douglas Lilburn Prize in 2003, a nationwide competition for orchestral composers and currently lectures in composition at the New Zealand School of Music.

Triple Concerto for piano trio and orchestra composed by Chris Gendall. Chris is a fourth time nominee, and received the SOUNZ Contemporary award in 2008 for his work ‘Wax Lyrical’. His works have been performed in New Zealand, Europe, Japan, and the United States.

“SOUNZ is thrilled that APRA provides this opportunity to recognise recent New Zealand compositions and highlight their outstanding levels of creativity and inspiration.” Says Julie Sperring, SOUNZ Executive Director. “The judges had a very hard time choosing this year. The number and quality of entries was extremely high – and the award covers a diverse range of work from solo, chamber, ensemble, choral, opera, orchestral, electro-acoustic to multi-discipline and more.” The SOUNZ Contemporary Award will be presented at the Silver Scroll Awards - an evening dedicated to recognising and celebrating the talent and original works of our nation’s songwriters and composers.

More information on these finalists and previous winners is online at sounz.org.nz.

2013 APRA Silver Scroll Awards will be held at Vector Arena in Auckland on Tuesday 15th October.

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