16 Dec 2025

2024 NZ Composer Sesssions

From Music Alive, 3:48 pm on 16 December 2025
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, 2024 NZ Composer Sessions Photo: Chris Watson, SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music

2024 New Zealand Composer Sessions
Robert Orr (oboe), David Bremner (trombone), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Hamish McKeich

The NZ Composer Sessions is a collaboration between the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, RNZ Concert and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music. 

The project, which started as NZSO-SOUNZ Readings (1998-2011), aimed to increase the performance of orchestral music by New Zealand composers. RNZ joined the project shortly after its conception. Between 1998-2024 190 works by 91 composers have been included in the project.

Visit SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music to view all years

Briar Prastiti: Pegasus

Chris Gendall: Wow Signal

Maddy Parkins-Craig: New Mountain

Sai Natarajan: A Beacon in the Cosmic Blizzard

Jack Bewley: Crustacean Lobotomy

Julian Kirgan Báez: Reflection

George Smith: Conversations with Death

Louise Webster: while the dark tide rises

 

Audio by David Houston for RNZ Concert. Filmed by Chris Watson for SOUNZ. Film funded by NZ On Air.