Music News - Finalists Announced For Maioha, Sounz, Film And Series
08 September 2016 - 0 Comments
Some of the finest talent
New Zealand has to offer has been shortlisted for four prestigious awards to be
presented at the 2016
APRA Silver Scroll Awards.
The APRA Maioha Award, the SOUNZ Contemporary Award, the APRA Best Original
Music in a Feature Film Award and APRA Best Original Music in a Series Award will all be presented at an awards ceremony at Vector Arena in Auckland on
Thursday, September 29.
APRA MAIOHA AWARD
The APRA Maioha Award recognises exceptional waiata featuring te reo Māori. Rob Ruha is a finalist
for the award with his song Kariri,
a powerful and stirring waiata that retells historical accounts of the battle
of Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) and Te Ranga.
IHI has
also been short-listed for Mana
Whenua co-written by
Thomas Rawiri and
Mokoia Huata. The song echoes the proverb ‘Toi Tu te Whenua,
whatungarongaro te Tangata’ or ‘For without land there would be no people’. It
serves as a poignant reminder of the need to protect our natural environment.
Kirsten Te Rito
is the third finalist with her waiata Tamaiti
Ngaro, co-written with James
Illingworth and Joseph
Te Rito. Tamaiti Ngaro is an atmospheric, slow-building
anthem tinged with touches of electronica.
SOUNZ CONTEMPORARY
AWARD
The SOUNZ Contemporary Award celebrates excellence in contemporary composition.
The finalists for the award this year includes Kenneth Young, whose illustrious career
in New Zealand music spans four decades, for his composition Piano Trio.
Prodigious Wellington composer and violinist Salina Fisher is also nominated for Rainphase and Chris Cree Brown, an
Associate Professor at the School of Music at the University of Canterbury,
makes the short-list for Viola
Concerto.
APRA BEST ORIGINAL
MUSIC IN A FEATURE FILM AWARD
A host of well-known names in Kiwi music are up for the APRA Best Original Music in a Feature
Film Award.
Three members of the Wellington-based indie-pop band The Phoenix Foundation (Samuel Scott, Lukasz Buda and Conrad Wedde) are
nominated for their work on Taika Waititi’s box office smash, Hunt For The Wilderpeople.
Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper and Tama Waipara also
make the shortlist for Mahana (The Patriarch), directed by Lee Tamahori and starring
Temuera Morrison.
Tom McLeod rounds
off the finalists with The
Art of Recovery, which tracks the devastation of Christchurch
in the 2011 earthquake to the city’s regeneration.
APRA BEST ORIGINAL
MUSIC IN A SERIES AWARD
The APRA Best Original
Music in a Series Award will also be presented on the night. In
the running for the prestigious award are Karl Stevens for 800 Words, Age Pryor for Jiwi’s Machines and Tami & Jay Neilson for The Brokenwood Mysteries.
“In 2016 music is being consumed more than ever before and in a wider and
increasing number of ways. We are proud to celebrate music in all its forms -
in te reo Maori, in our concert halls and on our televisions and cinema
screens. Each has its own world and each is exemplified in our finalists’
excellent work,” says Anthony Healey, Head of NZ Operations for APRA AMCOS.
FULL
LIST OF FINALISTS – 2016:
2016 APRA SILVER SCROLL
AWARD
Lydia Cole – Dream – Lydia Cole
The Phoenix Foundation – Give Up Your Dreams – Samuel Scott, Lukasz Buda,
Conrad Wedde, William Ricketts, Thomas Callwood, Christopher O’Connor (Native Tongue Music Publishing)
Thomas Oliver – If I Move To Mars – Thomas Oliver (Mushroom Music Pty Ltd)
Street Chant – Pedestrian Support League – Emily Littler, Billie Rogers, Alex
Brown, Christopher Varnham (Arch Hill Music Publishing / Native Tongue Music
Publishing)
Tami Neilson – The First Man – Tami Neilson, Jay Neilson
APRA MAIOHA AWARD
Rob Ruha feat. Tiki Taane – Kariri – Rob Ruha
IHI – Mana Whenua – Thomas Rawiri, Mokoia Huata (Woodcut Productions / Waatea Music)
Kirsten Te Rito – Tamaiti Ngaro – Kirsten Te Rito, James Illingworth, Joseph
Te Rito
SOUNZ CONTEMPORARY AWARD
Piano Trip – Kenneth Young
Rainphase – Salina Fisher
Viola Concerto – Chris Cree Brown
APRA BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
IN A FEATURE FILM AWARD
Hunt For The Wilderpeople – Samuel Scott, Lukasz Buda, Conrad Wedde (Native Tongue Music Publishing)
Mahana (The Patriarch) – Mahuia Bridgeman-Cooper, Tama Waipara
The Art Of Recovery – Tom McLeod
APRA BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
IN A SERIES AWARD
800 Words – Karl Steven (Native Tongue Music Publishing)
Jiwi’s Machines – Age Pryor
The Brokenwood Mysteries – Tami Neilson, Jay Neilson
All awards will be
presented at the 51st annual APRA Silver Scroll Awards at Vector
Arena on Thursday 29thSeptember. This year the awards will be MC’d by RNZ Checkpoint host John Campbell and
televised live thanks to a partnership between APRA AMCOS and RNZ.
It is the first time in the 51-year history of the awards that the event will
be broadcast free-to-air by RNZ
on Freeview Channel 50.
There will also be a live video stream of the ceremony on RNZ’s newly updated
website http://www.radionz.co.nz/music
As a part of the celebrations, APRA
will also be inducting a songwriter/s into the New Zealand Music Hall of
Fame.
The awards are proudly supported by Panhead
Custom Ales.
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