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2009 Todd Young Composer announced
27 August 2009
The NZSO Todd Young Composers Award is the NZSO’s education programme’s flagship composition project. Taking place annually, the award gives young New Zealand composers the opportunity to have an original work written for full orchestra rehearsed and recorded by the full force of the NZSO. This year we received a record breaking 32 entries. Of these, 12 works were selected by the adjudication panel of noted composer Ross Harris, conductor Hamish McKeich and principal NZSO percussionist Lenny Sakofsky to be workshopped and recorded.
After an exciting 2 days of workshops, rehearsals and recording sessions, the panel made the decision to present the award to Natalie Hunt for her work Rain II. Natalie was also the 2009 National Youth Orchestra composer-in-residence, for which her work Only to the Highest Mountain was included in the NYO 50th Anniversary concert tour to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The orchestra’s choice award, which was based on feedback from members of the orchestra, was awarded Robbie Ellis for his work Feral, followed closely by Natalie Hunt and Tabea Squire’s piece Vee Dub and the Little Tiger go wandering
All of the pieces recoded as part of the 2009 NZSO Todd Young Composers Award will be broadcast as part of a Radio New Zealand’s Young New Zealand programming in October.
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