I'm excited to have been selected for the SOUNZ Community Commission for 2020 to create a new choral work in collaboration with the Nelson Bays Harmony Chorus. This project will see me work with the chorus to compose a piece for SSAA a cappella women's choir, which they will premiere in 2021. …
Music
Working towards guilt-free productivity
Over the past month I've been working on a commission to write the musical score for a new childrens play by a local playwright. This involves composing 14 musical numbers of various lengths, making rehearsal scores, demo tracks and probably some further workshopping down the track. I got the …
Grammys Galore
A few of my absolute favourite musicians have just won Grammys! Time to celebrate! Jacob Collier I've been rather obsessed with this young jazz sensation since a few years ago when my music lecturer showed us one of his youtube videos. JC has since continued to create incredibly innovative …
We came 5TH at the 2016 Sweet Adelines International competition in Vegas!
As a Sweet Adelines member you can be a member of more than one chorus and at the current time I am a member of: Greater Auckland chorus (currently on long term leave as I'm overseas) Christchurch City Chorus (I've been an Out of Town member [OOTM] since Jan 2016) Lions Gate Chorus (I …
ZEAL comes 3rd in Rising Star Contest + 2nd Place in Pan Pacific!
You are now looking at the Under-25 women's barbershop quartet ranked 3rd in the WORLD and 2nd in the Pan Pacific Region!!!! Since competing at the national competition in Wellington in April we have been rehearsing and performing like crazy people to get ourselves up to scratch. With coaching …