Jessie Leov Music

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String quartet ‘threads’ – premiere

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I was lucky enough to have my string quartet piece ‘threads’ performed as part of the final concert of the annual Nelson Composer’s Workshop run by the Composers Association of New Zealand, held at the Nelson Centre of Musical Arts in July this year. It was a super interesting experience getting to see the musicians rehearsing my piece – seeing which bits were tricky and needed tweaking, what came together quickly, and how the piece came across in general when performed live.

I’m looking forward to having my orchestra piece ‘the wilds’ workshopped by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra at the end of November as part of the annual NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composer Awards.

University life…

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Hey everyone!

First of all, here’s a video I recently watched which I thoroughly enjoyed. Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has a project called Atoms for Peace and this is a stripped down version of their song Ingenue. Really love it.

So it’s nearly Week 10 of first semester already! Pretty crazy stuff. Time has been flying along. I am loving my course and learning so much! I can already hear my music evolving and some different sounds coming out in my songs. I’m having heaps of fun with my music friends and my friends who I live with (7th floor for the win). It still blows my mind how incredibly talented my classmates are and it’s so cool I get to jam with them all the time.

Here is one of my latest tracks written for my songwriting class. Hope you enjoying listening x

As much as I love Auckland, I can’t wait to go home to Nelson. HOME. Seriously nowhere is better than home. Holidays here we come! That is after many tests, performances and exams…. :D But overall everything is going amazingly, it’s everything I hoped for and more. Love you guys! Thanks so much for supporting me and my music x

Jessie

Auckland in a week!

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Hey everyone!

In a week I will be in Auckland, living at University Hall (home to over 400 students) and orientation week will be in full swing! I’ve been gradually sorting and packing my things up but the final packup will take place this Friday and Saturday! We’re taking two suitcases plus my keyboard and my guitar. Yikes.

Over the last wee while I’ve had a couple of great gigs – one in town for the Summer Street Beat series run by the council and just last week I played at the restaurant Hangar 58 on Valentines Day! I got a lil photo in the paper for the Street Beat gig which you may have seen. Now my PA system is all packed away in my wardrobe and it probably won’t come out until next summer as I’ll be busy studying up in Auckland! In case anyone’s interested I’ll list the papers I’ll be doing.

Semester 1:

Mus 119: Introduction to Music Technology

Mus 180: Creative Practice in Pop Music 1

Mus 182: Pop Music Performance Skills 1

Mus 184: Pop Music Theory and Aural 1

Semester 2:

Theology 101G: The Bible in Popular Culture (We have to choose two general education papers over the course of the degree, and this one fitted into my timetable and I was interested in it!)

Mus 181: Creative Practice in Pop Music 2

Mus 183: Pop Music Performance Skills 2

Mus 185: Pop Music Theory and Aural 2

So yeah exciting times ahead. :D Will probably do another post after classes have started in early March!

Jess x