Latest News

Subscribe to our RSS feeds

20 May 2013

Taonga pūoro artist featured in new documentary

Taonga pūoro artist Dr Richard Nunns is the subject of a new documentary feature film produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker and Victoria University academic Dr Paul Wolffram.

Filed under: Alumni | Ethnomusicology | Publications and Recordings
18 May 2013

Sonic Artists exhibit in Parliamentary Gallery

A group of six sonic artists, all current or recent graduates from Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music, have opened an exhibition of sound installations called Low Noise in the parliamentary gallery in Bowen House, Wellington.

Filed under: Alumni | Composition | Events | Research | Student
09 May 2013

String players show ANZAC spirit

Eight students and recent graduates from Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music are answering a call for support from our ANZAC cousins by helping out in a nine-day festival in Canberra.

Filed under: Alumni | Classical Performance | International Connections | Staff | Student
09 May 2013

NZSO and NZSM

Concerts from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra this month in Wellington and Auckland will feature myriad connections with NZSM through the composer, soloists, performers AND presenters involved.

Filed under: Classical Performance | Composition | Events | Friends and Colleagues | Staff | Student
05 May 2013

Simon Says: Alumnus Update

Simon Eastwood has been back in town for a few months now after graduating with an MMus in Composition with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Filed under: Alumni | Composition | International Connections
02 May 2013

NZSM premieres Verdi opera

With swashbuckling bravado, Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) is marking the 200th anniversary of Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birth by presenting a full-scale, four performance New Zealand premiere season of Il Corsaro this July, at the Opera House in Wellington.

Filed under: Classical Performance | Events | Student
01 May 2013

Samoan Jazz for International Jazz Day

Tuesday 30 April was International Jazz Day and Opeloge Ah Sam, Pasifika Music Coordinator at NZSM, celebrated by sending a recording of his new composition Tupulaga Samoa to be broadcast at a special event in Auckland.

Filed under: Ethnomusicology | Friends and Colleagues | International Connections | Jazz | Staff | Student
29 Apr 2013

Quadrivium take up international offer

The Quadrivium String Quartet, newly formed by graduate and current students of Te Koki New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, has been invited to attend international summer schools and festivals in Canada and Australia in the coming months.

Filed under: Alumni | Classical Performance | International Connections | Student
23 Apr 2013

Accolades for 'Len Lye' animated imnprovisers

While the weather did not fully cooperate, the Lye in the Square event was still thoroughly enjoyed by an appreciative throng of around 400 people on the evening of Saturday 13 April.

Filed under: Events | Friends and Colleagues | Jazz | Student
22 Apr 2013

Review: NZSM Orchestra – Pathétique

A review of the NZSM Orchestra's first 2013 concert featuring Britten's Suite on English Folksongs, Mihaud's Viola Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony No. 6 – for Middle C from Peter Mechen.

Filed under: Classical Performance | Reviews | Staff | Student