RICHARD DAVY, JACK BODY, DAVID FARQUHAR, ROSS HARRIS, LISSA MERIDAN, MICHAEL NORRIS, GILLIAN WHITEHEAD PASSIO

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NAU MAI HAERE MAI KI TE AHUREI TOI O TĀMAKI MAKAURAU Welcome to the 2017 Auckland Arts Festival

Great artists cause controversy, start revolutions and little by little change the world. Festivals like ours are a catalyst for change creating opportunities for artists to communicate with audiences and audiences to respond to artists’ work. Throughout the Festival you will find small threads that deal with our world today. We hope that the work in the Festival can make you think, laugh, scream a little and perhaps even cry.

Many years ago Jack asked me to present Passio, a unique work that has only ever had one performance before. The right moment to stage it never arose. I was determined for my last Festival that I would honour Jack and all New Zealand composers by presenting this extraordinary work that spans centuries from 1500 to 2006. It was a risk – I hope you think it was a worthwhile risk. My special thanks to Gillian Whitehead, Peter Scholes and Karen Grylls for helping to make this dream possible.

The Festival’s CEO David Inns (my partner and collaborator of many years), our Board and staff, hope you have a fabulous Festival. We hope that you enjoy the beauty and complexity of the art presented and value its importance in our society. Join the revolution.

Carla van Zon, David Inns and the Festival Team

AUCKLAND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA The Auckland Chamber Orchestra is thrilled to be part of the 2017 Auckland Arts Festival and to support the performance of Passio. The ACO was founded by Peter Scholes in 1999. It continues a nine-year tradition begun by the Auckland Sinfonietta and now has eighteen successful seasons to its credit. Delivering entertaining, beautiful, challenging and provocative work is the driving force behind the ACO’s artistic vision. ACO programming explores repertoire from throughout music history and has a big emphasis on the music of the last 100 years. Since its inception the ACO has performed orchestral work, chamber music, opera, silent movies, recorded cds, film scores and children's concerts.

VOICES NEW ZEALAND CHAMBER CHOIR Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, with Music Director Dr Karen Grylls, made its début at the 1998 New Zealand International Arts Festival and later that year won awards at the Tolosa International Choral Competition in Spain. With its distinct New Zealand sound, performing music from Aotearoa and infusing the qualities of its pacific origins into the classic choral repertoire, Voices has established itself as the country’s premier national and professional choir. It is the choir-of-choice for arts festivals and special projects.

Recent Auckland Arts Festival appearances include Ata Reira, A Child of our Time and Requiem for the Fallen. Critically acclaimed recordings include Spirit of the Land, and Voice of the Soul. CREDITS

AUCKLAND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

CONDUCTOR PETER SCHOLES

CHOIR DIRECTOR DR KAREN GRYLLS - VOICES NEW ZEALAND CHAMBER CHOIR

ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR AND VOCAL CONSULTANT ROBERT WIREMU

CHOIR VOICES NEW ZEALAND CHAMBER CHOIR with LACHLAN CRAIG - THE EVANGELIST JOEL AMOSA - CHRISTUS MADELEINE PIERARD - SPIRITUS

COMPOSERS RICHARD DAVY (1467?-1538) JACK BODY DAVID FARQUHAR ROSS HARRIS LISSA MERIDAN MICHAEL NORRIS GILLIAN WHITEHEAD

LIGHTING DESIGN SANDY GUNN

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

GILLIAN WHITEHEAD REMEMBERS

Little is known for certain of the Tudor composer, organist, choirmaster and priest Richard Davy, born over half a millennium ago around 1465, beyond his association with Magdalen College in Oxford around 1483. Amongst his compositions found in the Eton Choirbook, one of the few surviving collections of pre-Reformation choral music, is his Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christe, a setting of the passion according to St Matthew, traditionally associated with Palm Sunday. Davy's Passio, the first setting of a passion by a named composer, was written well over 200 years before the form of the Passion reached its zenith in Bach's setting of the Passion according to St Matthew. The latter was composed in 1727 for four soloists, double choir and double orchestra, with a libretto involving chorales and meditations and commentaries in the form of arias as well as the biblical text which is set as recitative. Davy's Passio is a much simpler elaboration of the gospel text, which is chanted simply by two voices - the evangelist (tenor) and Christ (bass) with the choir taking the various voices of the crowd and apostles. Although the first few choral utterances are missing, and have been reconstructed by musicologists, there is no doubting the strength and drama of Davy's choral music, mostly homophonic with some imitation, and occasionally melismatic and florid, with perhaps some word illustration - the setting of the word 'liberare' (free) and the phrase 'Vere Filius Dei erat iste' (Truly this was the son of God) seem particularly melismatic, while the word 'crucifigatur' (crucify) sets the five syllables simply on just one chord. Jack Body, who died in 2015, was an extraordinary man and musician; a ground-breaking composer, inspirational teacher, internationally respected ethnomusicologist and entrepreneur. One passion of his was exploring the music of other countries - mainly Asian, and in particular Chinese and Indonesian - and basing many of his compositions on aspects of those musics. Another passion was for collaborations; bringing together musicians from diverse ethnic backgrounds, and, with a gift for friendship, building extensive international networks which he generously shared with his students and colleagues. In 1980 he was appointed to the staff at Victoria University of Wellington (later the New Zealand School of Music). A facet of his prolific output is his initiation, over the thirty plus years he worked there, of more than 40 CD projects (ranging from field recordings through music by a wide range of New Zealand composers to his own electro-acoustic works) and the setting up and funding of around 52 composer or performer residencies, mainly from Asia, but also America, New Zealand (mostly expatriates) and Europe. Throughout his life he was drawn to the drama of men or nations in religious or political extremis, from his early Carol to Saint Stephen through works like Sarajevo or 14 Stations for amplified pianist to My name is Mok Bhon and O Cambodia, which both draw on the Pol Pot persecutions. When Jack was drawn to Davy's Passio, which charts the drama of Christ from his betrayal in the garden of Gethsemane to his death following crucifixion, he realised both the quality of the choral writing, and that there was rather too much chanted material for the original Passio to appeal to a modern audience; however, adding 'commentaries' composed for voices, brass, woodwind and percussion could produce a powerful and dramatic experience. Collaboration was a very important process for Jack; in this instance he brought together the skills and talents of six composers associated with the New Zealand School of Music - the four staff composers Ross Harris, Lissa Meridan, Michael Norris and Jack himself, Emeritus Professor David Farquhar, and myself as the current Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards Composer-in-Residence at the New Zealand School of Music. One evening we all went to look at the potential of the Great Hall in Massey University's Museum Building which has an astonishing reverberation period, then sat round and together devised the plan for the performance; the main group of performers would be centrally placed, there would be three additional groups spaced far apart surrounding the performance area and the audience would be free to walk around during the performance to experience the sound from different angles. Jack had divided the score into six tranches and we each chose one, and were free to complete the orchestration however we wished - there were no guidelines, except the request that the transition from one section to another should be discussed by the two composers involved. We also decided that, in the spirit of collaboration, the composers' contributions should not be identified, as the passion should be organic and seemingly through- composed, rather than six disparate attributable compositions. The one performance took place on June 2nd, 2006, with Alistair Carey singing the role of the Evangelist and directing the Tudor Consort, and Owen Clarke conducting the Band of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It was an intensely moving experience for everyone involved, with its combination of Renaissance polyphony and twenty-first century orchestral colour, the audience mostly standing or moving quietly in the half-light. Although the orchestration is the same, this version is slightly different in that it is performed by Voices New Zealand - a choir rather than an ensemble, and an augmented Auckland Chamber Orchestra rather than a wind band, which sets up slightly different problems in the interaction of the two conductors. And it is performed in the Auckland Town Hall, which, although a resonant space, lacks the eight-second delay of the Great Hall; this, however, gives scope for a greater dramatic impact from the choir. for clarinet and Javanese Gamelan. COMPOSERS As the manager of Victoria University’s Gamelan Padhang Moncar, he stimulated the creation of new Richard Davy (1467?-1538) Composer compositions, which were recorded and broadcast. Little is known of the life of the fifteenth century English These included works for gamelan and piano, gamelan Renaissance composer Richard Davy, beyond his birth in and orchestra, gamelan and organ, gamelan and 1465, his studies at Magdalen College Oxford and choral plainsong etc. In 2000, to celebrate 25 years of subsequent employment as choirmaster there around gamelan in New Zealand, he co-organised BEAT, an 1490-2. He may be the priest and musician of the same International Gamelan Festival with over 100 overseas name who lived in Devon and Exeter, but this is mainly participants. conjecture. Davy's extant works - 10 coal and choral pieces, mostly sacred, a couple secular - were published around the turn of the century in the Eton Choirbook, one of only three choir books that survived the Reformation. David Farquhar Composer David Farquhar was born in Jack Body Composer Cambridge, New Zealand in 1928 but Body (1944-2015) studied at Auckland spent most of his early years in Fiji. He University, in Cologne and at the Institute was educated in New Zealand and of Sonology, Utrecht. During 1976-77 he began his university studies in was a guest lecturer at the Akademi Christchurch before completing his Musik Indonesia, Yogyakarta, and from degree at Victoria University in 1980 to 2010 he lectured at the School of Wellington where he studied with Douglas Lilburn. He Music, Victoria University of Wellington, taught briefly at St Peters School, Cambridge, before now the New Zealand School of Music. going to Britain where he completed an MA at His music covers most genres, including solo and Cambridge University, and also studied composition with chamber music, orchestral music, music-theatre, music Benjamin Frankel at the Guildhall School of Music in for dance and film as well as electroacoustic music. He London. also worked in experimental photography and computer On his return to New Zealand he joined the staff of the -controlled sound-image installations, having received Department of Music at Victoria University, and was commissions from several public galleries. A fascination made Professor of Music in 1976, retiring in 1993. He was with the music and cultures of Asia, particularly the Founder-President of the Composers’ Association of Indonesia, was a strong influence. As an New Zealand in 1974 and was awarded their Citation for ethnomusicologist his published recordings include music Services to New Zealand Music in 1984. From 1982 – 1995 from Indonesia and China. One landmark publication he he was a member of the Board of the New Zealand edited was South of the Clouds, field recordings of Prof Composers’ Foundation and is a Trustee of the Centre Zhang Xingrong (Yunnan Art Institute), of instrumental for New Zealand Music. In 2004 he was made a music of the minorities of South West China (Ode Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his Records, 2003). services to music. He has written numerous orchestral, His music has been played and broadcast widely, choral, stage and instrumental works, songs and music nationally and internationally and he has been for children, and has been recognised since the 1950s as commissioned by the New Zealand String Quartet, the being at the forefront of New Zealand composition. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NZTrio and many David Farquhar died in Wellington, New Zealand in other groups, and he has written four works for the Kronos 2007. Quartet. Jack Body’s opera Alley, based on the life of Rewi Alley, was acclaimed at the 1998 NZ International Festival of the Arts. Ross Harris Composer As a musical entrepreneur he had wide experience Arts laureate Harris is one of New including the organisation of a series of Sonic Circuses, 12 Zealand’s leading composers. He has -hour simultaneous multi-venue music marathons written more than two hundred featuring New Zealand music. In 2002 he curated a five- compositions including opera, concert festival of New Zealand music at the Ijsbreker in symphonic music, chamber music, Amsterdam. For 33 years he was the editor of Waiteata klezmer and electronic music. He has Music Press, which publishes scores of New Zealand won the prestigious SOUNZ music, and he edited over twenty CDs of music by New Contemporary Award more times than any other New Zealand composers. Zealand composer. Jack Body specialised in cross-cultural composition, Harris received a QSM in 1985 for his opera Waituhi both in his own music as well as in his teaching. At with libretto by Witi Ihimaera and the CANZ Citation for Victoria University in Wellington he established a Services to New Zealand Music in 1990. His major works residency for traditional musicians to work collaboratively include five string quartets, five symphonies, a violin with composition staff and students. These guests concerto (premiered by Anthony Marwood in 2010) and included, from Indonesia, Agus Supriawan, Dody a cello concerto (premiered by Li-Wei Qin in 2012). Ekagustdiman (both from West Java), Rafiloza bin Rafii His collaborations with poet Vincent O’Sullivan have (Minangkabau), Wayan Yudane (Bali), and, from Kalinga, produced two operas, a symphony, three song cycles north Philippines, Benny Sokkong. These residencies and Requiem for the Fallen (performed at Auckland Arts generated new compositions, recorded for broadcast Festival 2015) and described as “a devastating and CD publication. In his own composition he commentary on the ravages of war… a never-to-be- integrated other musical cultures as in Campur Sari for forgotten experience for all who attended.” Javanese musician and string quartet, and Polish Dances, Lissa Meridan Composer Recent commissions have included the river flows on, Meridan (b.1972) has written and one of the four pieces by Cambodian and New Zealand performed works for a wide range of composers (combining the talents of NZTrio and Tray So - media including orchestra, chamber Cambodian performers of traditional instruments) that groups, gallery installations, music for make up O Cambodia, devised by Jack Body and dance, interactive performances including performed at the 2011 Auckland Arts Festival and toured historic electronic instruments and to Cambodia and China in 2014, Torua, toured soundtracks for film. She has a particular internationally and recorded for DGG by Hilary Hahn as interest in early film, and the relationships that can be part of her Encores project, Shadows cross the water, created between sound and image, in particular with the written for the Stamic (string) Quartet (plus oboe and addition of a live performer. Her recent work includes piano) and performed in December 2014 in Prague’s collaborations with the New Zealand Film Archive, Euroarts Festival and in Berlin in 2016, Pah, a site-specific Airplane Studios, the New Zealand String Quartet, and her dance piece devised in collaboration with Carol Brown new piece for orchestra, ‘This Present Brightness’, is a and performed at the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival and Iris finalist for the NZSO Lilburn Prize 2006, and was recorded Dreaming, a one-woman chamber opera based on the by the NZ Symphony Orchestra in May and subsequently life of Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde), commissioned by broadcast on Radio New Zealand Concert. Current Joanne Roughton-Arnold with a libretto by Fleur Adcock projects include commissioned works for the Viola with a London premiere in the Grimeborn Festival and Congress in Montreal, Festival Synthese in France, and a the 10-piece Octandre Ensemble, and a second version collaborative project between the NZ Film Archive and with NZTrio, first performed in the Adam Chamber Festival CCMIX in Paris to compose and perform soundtracks to a in February. collection of 14 historic French films at the MusiPoesi Gillian was one of the team of three who compiled Festival in Paris 2007. and edited Jack!, celebrating composer Jack Body, with 120 contributions from around the world, which was published by Steele Roberts in May, 2015. Michael Norris Composer MORE INFORMATION: www.gillianwhitehead.co.nz Norris is a Wellington-based composer, software programmer and music theorist. He holds composition degrees from Victoria University of Wellington and City University, London, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Composition at Te Kōkī, New Zealand School of Music. He is recipient of the 2001 Mozart Fellowship and the 2003 Douglas Lilburn Prize, a nationwide competition for orchestral composers. He has participated in composition courses featuring leading composers such as Peter Eötvös, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff and Kaija Saariaho. In 2010, he was commissioned by the SWR (Sudwestdeutsche Rundfunk) to write a new chamber orchestra work, Sgraffito, which was premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010 by the Radio Chamber Orchestra Hilversum, conducted by Peter Eötvös. He is coordinator of the Creative New Zealand/Jack C. Richards Composer-in-Residence at the NZSM, serves on the boards of the Lilburn Residence Trust and Stroma New Music Trust, and is the Editor of Wai-te-ata Music Press.

Dame Gillian Whitehead Composer After graduating from Victoria University of Wellington, and further study in Australia and Britain with Peter Maxwell Davies, Gillian worked as a free-lance composer in Britain before taking a position at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music between 1981-1994. She then returned to New Zealand, working full-time as a composer, and currently divides her time between the Otago Peninsula and Ruakaka, in Northland. Her music, written for orchestral, vocal, operatic, choral, chamber and solo performance, has been widely performed and broadcast in many countries, and released on CD. Recent work often includes the voices of taonga pūoro (traditional Māori instruments) and/or improvisational content. She has held several composer residencies, been honoured as DMNZ, and was an inaugural Laureate of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Joel Amosa CHRISTUS SOLOISTS Samoan Bass-Baritone, Joel Amosa completed his Music Degree and Lachlan Craig THE EVANGELIST Post-Graduate diploma under the Lachlan completed his BMus in tutelage of Isabel Cunningham and Performance Voice at the University Frances Wilson. In 2012, Joel of Auckland studying with Dr. Morag debuted his Operatic career with Atchison, and also winning the Pears two leading Mozartian roles: Count -Britten Scholarship for Singing. He Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro has recently completed his Honours with Opera Otago and Don Alfonso Degree in Choral Conducting and in Cosi fan Tutte with both The Auckland Opera Studio Pedagogy with Dr. Karen Grylls and Opera Hawkes Bay. gaining First Class Honours, as well as In 2014, Joel performed the role of Dr. Bartolo with completing specialist topics singing large collections of Festival Operas debut performance of The Marriage of works by Britten and Schumann, and giving a lecture Figaro, Joel went on to debut the role of Chief Hongi recital on the adolescent male voice. Lachlan studied at Hika in a new opera This Other Eden by New Zealand The Choral Music Institute at Oxford University in July 2015 composer, Anthony Ritchie during the Dunedin Arts under Dr. James Jordan and Dr. James Whitbourn and is Festival and furthermore Joel was the 2nd place getter currently completing a Master’s degree in Performance in the Dame Malvina, Dunedin Aria Competitions for Voice under Dr. Te Oti Rakena. 2014. Lachlan is one of the most versatile tenors in NZ and his In 2015, Joel was a returning artist for Festival Opera postgraduate study centres around the singer and a in Donizetti's The Elixir of Love where he sang and soloist, ensemble musician, teacher, conductor and charmed the audience as the quack Dr. Dulcamara. performer. He is a member of Voices NZ Chamber Choir In 2016, Joel debuted with Wellington based opera and the Freemasons NZ Opera Chorus and is also an company, Days Bay Opera as King Claudio in Handel’s, alumni of the NZ Secondary Students Choir, NZ Youth Aggripina. Joel then performed as a guest artist with Choir and the UoA Chamber Choir. Motone Productions in their Opera in Rarotonga He has performed as a soloist with Auckland University concert series, Joel re-visited The Marriage of Figaro as Opera, Opera Factory, Regional Choral Societies, Youth Count Almaviva with Waikato University, performed as Choirs, and National Choirs throughout NZ. His ensemble the bass soloist in Verdi's Requiem and most recently singing has taken him as far as Singapore, Korea, China, started 2017 as Zuniga in Festival Opera’s production of UK, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Australia. Lachlan Carmen. has also been chosen to participate in several master- Joel has performed the bass roles: Harapha and classes with The Kings Singers, Ian Honeyman, Dana J. Manoah in Handel’s Oratorio Samson, Saul in, Saul with Wilson, Jo-Michael Schiebe, Rodney Eichenberger, Simon Handel's Consort and Quire, bass soloist in Mozart’s Halsey, Tecwyn Evans, Keith Lewis, David Harper, Peter arrangement of Handel’s Messiah, Bach and Steffani Lockwood and Andrew Dalton. mass, Verdi's Requiem with Bach Musica, Haydn's Lachlan holds a full-time studio teaching position as Thereisenmesse, Faures Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah Director of Choirs at Saint Kentigern College. The choral with Napier Civic Choir and Tauranga Civic Choir and programme at the College caters for over 100 singers in Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Southern Sinfonia in five ensembles. His choirs Kentoris and Menasing have Dunedin and most recently Handel’s Messiah with the successfully gained entry to the Big Sing Finale in 2013, 14, Christchurch City Choir and Christchurch Symphony 15 and 16 gaining Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards. Orchestra. Kentoris have toured through South America, produced Joel is an avid member of the Opera Quartet, a CD, performed with the Auckland Philharmonia Operanesia who debuted their performance late 2014 Orchestra and been awarded Best Recital by a Mixed to raise money for NZ Singing School and NZ Opera Voice Choir at The Big Sing. Many of his singing students School tuition. The group perform a wide range of music have gone on to tertiary study in voice, been offered from Classical Music, Arias and Ensembles with places in the NZ Secondary Students Choir, NZ Youth Polynesian Flair from Hallelujah Chorus to Elvis Presley Choir, Voices NZ and won several awards, scholarships and Dean Martin. and titles at the Waiariki Institute of Technology New Joel was awarded the Beatrice Webster, Pursuit of Zealand Aria competition. Excellence Award from the IFAC Handa NZ Singing Lachlan has been an intern for The IFAC Handa NZ School and The Opera Australia Opportunity Award for Singing School, Gondwana National Choral School and 2015. Joel owes a lot of his singing success to Dilworth the NZ Secondary Students Choir – also working as a School. It was there he found a voice and a passion to Vocal Consultant to the choir. He is regularly in demand pursue music to the fullest. as a choral clinician and adjudicator for both choral and singing competitions. Recent solo engagements include Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Monteverdi’s Combattimento, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St Matthew Passion, Mozart’s Requiem. Lachlan’s 2017 engagements include The Evangelist for Jack Body’s Passio in the Auckland Arts Festival collaborating with Voices NZ Chamber Choir and the Auckland Chamber Orchestra as well as tenor soloist for Bach’s Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis with Bach Musica.

Madeleine Pierard Lyric soprano SPIRITUS

Pierard excels in adventurous repertoire, ranging from baroque and bel canto masterpieces to 20th ROBERT CATTO CATTO ROBERT century and contemporary compositions. A native New

PHOTOGRAPH: PHOTOGRAPH: Zealander, she studied at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio, garnering numerous awards including the Lexus Song Quest, Lies Askonas and Royal Overseas League prizes, and was subsequently awarded a coveted place on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She is a New Generation Artist with the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and studies with Yvonne Kenny. For The Royal Opera, Ms Pierard has sung the roles of Contessa di Folleville (Il Viaggio a Reims), Musetta (La Bohème), Lisa (La Sonnambula), Sandmann (Hänsel und Gretel), Sacerdotessa (Aida), Noémie (Cendrillon), Wood Nymph (Rusalka) and Costanza in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata in Hobart, Tasmania. Also for The Royal Opera, she has covered the roles of Violetta, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride) and Leila (Les Pêcheurs de Perles). She featured in the BBC's landmark television series Maestro at the Opera in association with The Royal Opera House, singing the roles of Rosalinde, Donna Anna and Musetta. Ms Pierard is in demand on the concert platform. Recent appearances include Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Poulenc's Stabat Mater with the London Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall, Haydn's Creation with the NZSO, Handel's Messiah and a tour of China with the NZSO, a summer concert with the Symphonique de Bretagne in France and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with Stroma. Ms Pierard sang the role of Pat Nixon in the New Zealand premiere of Nixon in China at the 2016 Auckland Arts Festival and will also sing in Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna at Auckland Arts Festival later this week.

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Peter Scholes Conductor Scholes studied conducting with Juan Matteucci and has conducted all the professional New Zealand Orchestras as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. He was musical director of the Auckland Sinfonietta and is currently musical director of the Auckland Chamber. His specialist instrument is the clarinet which he studied with George Hopkins, Alan Hacker, Thea King and with Ken Wilson at the University of Auckland. He was prize winner in the 1987 International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition held in Rotterdam. He was principal clarinet with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and has been guest artist with the New Zealand String Quartet and with all the professional NZ orchestras. He has composed film scores and had works commissioned by the NZSO, STROMA, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, APO, CadeNZa, CMNZ, the Auckland Wind Quintet, Patrick Power, Gareth Farr and for Radio New Zealand drama productions. His composition Islands II represented New Zealand in the 1993 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. His latest crossover project is with the London Orion Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London for a Decca release of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. He has lectured in clarinet, conducting, chamber music and electronic music at Auckland and Waikato Universities.

Flutes Trumpets Adrianna Lis, Luca Manghi, Eva Ding, Anna Cooper, Stephen Bemelman, Laura Pendergrast, Peter Reid Jenny Seddon-Mori, Christine Kim Flugel Horn Oboes Matt Stenbo Alison Jepson, Alison Dunlop Trombones Clarinets Benjamin Zilber, Grant Sinclair, Mark Close Rowan Meade, Nicola Walton, Yvette Audain, Robin Toan Bass Trombone Tim Sutton, Eb Clarinet Donald Nicholls Tubas Tak Chun Lai, Billy Middleton, Lachlen Grant Bass Clarinet Elsa Holliday Euphonium Riki McDonnell Contrabass Clarinet Andrew Uren Percussion Samuel Girling, Rebecca Celebuski, Rachel Thomas, Bassoons Chris O'Connor, Laurence McFarlane Ben Hoadley Percussion Co-ordinator Saxophones Sam Girling Tomomi Johnston, Mark Storey, Alex Eichelbaum, Matthew Baker, Christiaan Swanepoel Double Bass Evgeny Lanchtchikov French Horns

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Dr Karen Grylls Artistic Director, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir

Dr Grylls is Associate Professor in Conducting and Head of Choral Studies at the University of Auckland and Artistic Director of the Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand Trust, the managing body for the NZ Youth Choir and Voices NZ. Dr Grylls was Music Director of the New Zealand Youth Choir from 1989 to 2011, and Artistic Director of Toronto’s Exultate Chamber Choir from 2011 to 2013. Dr Grylls is much in demand as an adjudicator and a choral clinician worldwide. In 1996 Auckland University honoured her with a Distinguished Teaching Award in Music and in 1999 she became an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for her services to choral music.

Associate Conductor and Vocal Consultant

Robert Wiremu

Chief Executive Arne Herrmann

Sopranos Rachel Alexander, Pepe Becker, Victoria Chammanee, Shone McIntyre-Bull, Jane McKinlay, Fiona Tibbles

Altos Andrea Cochrane, Christine Argyle, Morag Atchison, Grace Neale, Jessica Wells, Thomas Woodfield

Tenors Phillip Collins, Manase Latu, Samuel Madden, Philip Roderick, Brendon Shanks, Jack Timings

Basses James Butler, Timothy Carpenter, Matthew Drake, Nicholas Forbes, Rowan Johnston Isaac Stone

Ata Reira, Auckland Arts Festival 2015. PHOTOGRAPH: AJA LETHERBY

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