2022 New Zealand

Aug 23, 2022 – Aug 31, 2022
Auckland & Christchurch, New Zealand

Photo: Glenda Keam

Festival info

Start: Aug 23, 2022

End: Aug 31, 2022

Locations: Auckland & Christchurch, New Zealand

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Description

Te Rōpū Kaitito Puoro o Aotearoa//The Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ) proudly hosted the postponed ISCM World New Music Days in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Ōtautahi Christchurch in August 2022. The festival included concerts by professional and informal ensembles and collaborations, taonga puoro practitioners, and soloists. Concurrently, with the latter part of the ISCM WNMDs, CANZ hosted an Asian Composers League (ACL) festival. The music featured throughout this double festival included new and innovative works from across the international membership of the ISCM and ACL, alongside a rich and varied array of recent music from Aotearoa.

From Contemporaneous Reports

“The ISCM was created a few years after the end of the First World War in an attempt to bring the fractured world together through music, yet in the beginning that world consisted just of countries in Europe plus the United States. As time went on, the ISCM eventually brought in members from South America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa, but 2022 marked only the second time in its history that the festival took place in the Southern Hemisphere. … Although it had to be somewhat scaled down from what had originally been planned for 2020, the 2022 ISCM World New Music Days, which took place concurrently with a festival of the Asian Composers League, was a major undertaking.”

–Frank J. Oteri, “Composer Advocacy Journal: On The Road Again,” NewMusicBox (16 September 2022)

“The atmosphere was warm and welcoming as musicians from around world enjoyed seeing each other face to face and celebrating our shared love for our artform. For those of us who have been hunkered down in Aotearoa for the last two and a half years it was a reminder the rest of the world is still out there and open for us to explore.”

–Simon Eastwood, “Overcoming Distances,” published on the ISCM Website (10 December 2023)

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