Music News - Winners Announced For the 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Awards
30 September 2016 - 0 Comments
Wellington
singer-songwriter and internationally acclaimed musician Thomas Oliver has won
the 2016 APRA Silver
Scroll Award with his captivating love song If I Move To Mars.
Thomas Oliver accepted the prestigious award at a ceremony held at Vector Arena in Auckland
tonight. The accolade acknowledges excellence in songwriting and has in the
past been awarded to some of the most recognisable names and songs in New
Zealand music, from the Swingers' Counting The Beat and Bic Runga’s Drive to Scribe and P-Money’s Not Many and Lorde and Joel Little’s Royals.
A sweet and simple, yet compelling, love song, Thomas Oliver says, “On the surface, it's
a light-hearted song about taking someone to Mars and lying in the dirt,
drinking Cognac and listening to records. But at its core, it's a love song and
I meant every word."
“It’s a wonderful thing to recognise talented and hardworking songwriters like
Thomas” says Anthony
Healey, Head of NZ Operations for APRA AMCOS. “The acclaim of
your peers is special, it’s the highest praise and in this case a well-deserved
accolade.”
Critically acclaimed musician and songwriter Sean James Donnelly (SJD) was the musical
director of tonight’s 51st APRA Silver Scrolls ceremony, which saw a host of other Kiwi
songwriters collect awards.
The incomparable Rob
Ruha took the esteemed APRA
Maioha Award, recognising exceptional waiata featuring te reo
Māori, for his stirring battle anthem Kariri.
The East Coast singer-songwriter is now a two-time recipient of the award.
Wellington composer and violinist, Salina
Fisher, won the SOUNZ
Contemporary Award for her exquisite composition Rainphase, inspired
by the beauty and chaos of rain in the capital.
The APRA Best Original
Music in a Feature Film Award was won by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper and Tama Waipara for their work on the Lee
Tamahori-directed movie Mahana.
One-time Supergroove frontman and well-known composer of music for film and television, Karl Steven, received
the APRA Best Original
Music in a Series Award for the drama 800 Words.
Rounding off the evening was the induction of Moana Maniapoto into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. As
one of the most recognisable and important voices in Aotearoa, Moana Maniapoto was
honoured for the significant impact she has had on the New Zealand life and
culture through her music.
The event was supported by RNZ and hosted by RNZ’s John Campbell and
proudly supported by Panhead
Custom Ales.
The winner of all
awards were:
APRA Silver Scroll
Award: Thomas Oliver – If I Move to Mars
APRA Maioha Award: Rob Ruha – Kariri
SOUNZ Contemporary
Award: Salina Fisher – Rainphase
APRA Best Original Music
in a Feature Film Award: Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper & Tama Waipara – Mahana
APRA Best Original Music
in a Series Award: Karl Steven – 800 Words
Hall of Fame: Moana Maniapoto
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