SOUNZ Centre for NZ Music

SOUNZ champions and promotes the sounds and music of Aotearoa New Zealand

SOUNZ has a constantly growing collection of over 24,000 New Zealand music resources.
We represent the music of around 600 composers from Aotearoa New Zealand in the following areas:

- classical composition
- taonga puoro (traditional Māori instruments)
- works by Māori composers
- electroacoustic music
- jazz composition
- screen composition
- sonic art

Since 2013 SOUNZ has comprehensively documented on film performances of music by New Zealand composers with audio provided by RNZ Concert (SOUNZ's partner organisation).  Concerts and documentary materials are gathered, edited and released by filmmaker, Chris Watson, who independently began this work in 2008.

Further information about the scores, performance histories, programme notes and composer biographies associated with these films can be discovered at https://www.sounz.org.nz.

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