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 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
