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- Eden Mulholland
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/arts-festival-dunedin/colour-creativity
see INNZ and stuff
- Ilhara McIndoe
INNZ
- Alex Taylor
articles in Canzona
INNZ
- Karlo Margetic
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.280756
INNZ
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.762888
- Chris Watson
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.281153
https://natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1fro764/INNZ7117827280002837
publication - see article on Stroma
- Janet Roddick
INNZ
Alexander Lawther Taylor (born 1988) is a New Zealand composer, poet and writer.
Early life and education
Taylor was born in 1988[1] and attended Westlake Boys High School.[2] At the University of Auckland he studied music and English.[2] In 2011 he received an MMus(Composition) with a folio of compositions for viola and orchestra, piano, clarinet and ensembles.[3] He was supervised by Eve de Castro-Robinson and John Elmsly.[4]
Career
Taylor sings and plays several instruments: piano, violin and saxophone.[5] He has composed songs and specialises in setting words to music.[5] He also composes for orchestras and choirs. In New Zealand the NZSO and ensemble 175 East have performed his music.[5]
In 2012 the National Youth Orchestra premiered his work feel commissioned when he was the orchestra's Composer-in-Residence.[6] It features viola and cor anglais solos.[6] The third movement of the work is [inner] which was his winning entry in the NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composers Award in 2011.[4][6]
In 2016 he attended the new-music/avant garde festival in Darmstadt where he presented a show The Unauthorised History of New Zealand Music with New Zealand composer Celeste Oram.[5]
Awards and honours
In 2012 he won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award at the APRA New Zealand awards for [inner].[7] He was the youngest person to receive the award.[2] He won the Composers Association of New Zealand Trust Fund Award in 2013.[7] In 2016 Taylor was the recipient of an Arts Foundation New Generation Awards.[5][7]
Selected works
- [inner] a mini viola concerto
References
- ^ "Taylor, Alex, 1988-". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ a b c Tan, Rosabel (14 August 2013). "The Grit, The Colour: An Interview with Alex Taylor". Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ Taylor, Alexander Lawther (2011). "Composition folio". auckland.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Alex Taylor". NZ Opera News: 17. January–March 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Edgington, Anna (November 2016). "2016 New Generation Awards". Applause from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. 22: 14–15 – via NDHA.
- ^ a b c "Milestone performance features musical youth of New Zealand". NZ Opera News: 4. July–August 2012.
- ^ a b c "Alex Taylor - SOUNZ". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 6 November 2024.