Anthony Ritchie
President, CANZ
Jack Body
Artistic Director
Liesbeth Kok
Festival Director
HOSTED BY THE COMPOSERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND (CANZ)
Location: Wellington, New Zealand | Dates: February 8–16, 2007
With leading New Zealand performers such as the New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra, Tower New Zealand Youth Choir, the New Zealand Trio
and new music ensembles Stroma & 175 East, this 8 day event will
present no less than 20 concerts featuring around 100 compositions from
the Asia Pacific region and beyond. Concerts will be broadcast nationally
and it is planned that the Symphony Orchestra concerts will be recorded
for CD.
The Festival also brings to New Zealand leading exponents on traditional
Asian instruments including, amongst others, the acclaimed Contemporary
Music Ensemble Korea (mixing traditional Korean and Western instruments),
Piris & Mark Eliyahu (Israel) and little known puppetry traditions
from Thailand, Indonesia and elsewhere. New music specialists who have
been invited include experimental vocalist Koichi Magikami (Japan), conductor
Zsolt Nagy (Hungary/ Germany) and percussionist Arnold Marinissen (The
Netherlands).
The Festival incorporates a four-day Conference Tradition/Transformation:
Composition & Ethnomusicology in Asia and the Pacific. This topic
will be highlighted by the keynote speakers: Evan Ziporyn, US performer/
composer (with New York's 'Bang on a Can') and ethnomusicologist (manager
of Gamelan Galak Tika), and Richard Nunns, pioneer researcher and performer
of indigenous Maori instruments. Workshops on composing for traditional
instruments from the Asia Pacific region are integral to the Conference/Festival
programme. The Conference will provide an international forum for composers,
musicologists and ethnomusicoligists to exchange ideas and report on
current research and creative projects.
Both Conference and Festival celebrate traditional and contemporary musical
cultures from concert music through to music-theatre, puppetry and cabaret.
The performances will challenge conventions, entertain and surprise!
PROGRAMME
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