Music News - SOUNZ Contemporary Award winner 2005
13 September 2005 - 0 Comments
Composer Ross Harris was congratulated for opening up ‘a whole new world of tuba sound!’ when he was announced as the winner of the 2005 SOUNZ Contemporary Award for his Labyrinth, for tuba and orchestra.
The award and trophy were announced and presented by Arts Minister, the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark at the APRA Awards held in Auckland on Monday 12th October. Labyrinth was the first of twelve works commissioned by the NZSO pairing a New Zealand composer with one of their principal players. It was premiered by the orchestra in October 2004 with tuba principal Andrew Jarvis as soloist.
“Members of the selection jury were particularly impressed with the piece’s ‘unrelenting energy and ongoing momentum, as if controlling a volcano’,” reports Scilla Askew, executive director of SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music. “They felt that Ross had pulled off an amazing feat in overcome the difficulties in balancing the solo and orchestral brass energies.”
Ross has had a strong connection to the SOUNZ Contemporary Awards over their eight year history. He previously won the award in 2000 for his piece To the Memory of I.S. Totska for soprano and chamber ensemble, was also a finalist in 2004 and given a special commendation in 2003.
The other finalists this year were Gu Ta by Jeroen Speak, for percussion, and Kenneth Young’s Symphony No. 2, also commissioned by the NZSO.
The annual SOUNZ Contemporary Award is the major prize celebrating creative excellence by a New Zealand composer. It is a collaborative project between APRA, the Australasian Performing Right Association, and SOUNZ, the Centre for New Zealand Music.
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