2 Dec 2016

Todd Young Composers 2016

From Upbeat, 1:30 pm on 2 December 2016
Todd Young Composers

Todd Young Composers Photo: RNZ Kirsten Johnston

 

The NZSO Todd Young Composer competition has been on this week in Wellington. It’s an opportunity for eight young New Zealand composers to have their work rehearsed and recorded by the NZSO over a two-day residency, and there are prizes for best composition and the orchestra’s choice award.

This year Josiah Carr took both prizes, for a work that portrayed five distinct personality types.

Kirsten Johnstone went backstage to talk to the composers and conductor Kenneth Young about their work .

Todd Young Composers

Todd Young Composers Photo: RNZ Kirsten Johnstone

Music Details:

Song: Strobe (excerpt 2)
Composer: Reuben Jellyman

Song: The Formosa Incident
Composer: Eleanore Chen

Song: flower symphony (excerpt)
Composer: Jay Greenberg

Song: Olas de Baile
Composer: Evangelina Telfar

Song: (ir)rational
Composer: Louisa Nicklin

Song: Day and Night
Composer: Daniel Sun

Song: Five Portraits
Composer: Josiah Carr

All pieces performed by the NZSO and recorded by Graham Kennedy for RNZ Concert