Jack Body
Associate Professor of Composition
(On leave Trimester 2 2007)
Jack Body teaches composition, instrumentation and ethnomusicology. He also
contributes to studies in NZ music.
He has lectured at Victoria University since 1980. Prior to that (1976-77)
he was a guest lecturer at the Akademic Musik Indonesia in Yogyakarta.
As a composer Jack Body has written works in most musical genres including
ensemble, vocal, orchestral and electronic music, as well as film, music-theatre
and installations. Significant premieres include his opera Alley, which
was produced during the NZ International Festival in 1998. He was a featured composer
at the 'Other Minds Festival' of New Music in San Francisco in March 2003, and
at the NZ International Festival in March 2004.
Current research projects include a large music-theatre work, Songs and
Dances of Death and Desire, inspired by the New Zealand icon, trans-sexual
Carmen Rupe. Jack Body’s ethnomusicological work includes producing a two-volume
set of double CDs of instrumental music of the Yunnan minorities of South China,
a collaboration with Zhang Xingrong of the Yunnan Art Institute and Helen Rees
(UCLA).
Jack Body was awarded an ONZSM for his services to music, to education and
to photography, and in 2004 was honoured by the Arts Foundation of NZ as a
laureate.
Jack Body is the editor of Waiteata Music Press.
Contact details
Room: 105, Ken Scott House
Phone: +64 4 463-5853
Email: jack.body@vuw.ac.nz
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