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Minors in Composition, Music Technology, Performance or Popular Music Studies are available for most BMus students, and students in some other Bachelor degrees.
Feel like doing something practical and ear-opening in 2021? Choose to study either Māori music performance or Javanese gamelan, with no audition required.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the audio recording for NZSM’s 2020 opera project, filmed in our Adam Concert Room last year.
The 2021 Lilburn Trust NZSM Composers Competition was a celebration of a year of creative endeavour in the Composition Programme at the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī. The programme demonstrated the diversity and breadth of activity: finalists ranged from a work for solo erhu, to game audio, to a work performed on repurposed discarded electronics, to a large ensemble of winds, strings and percussion.
NZSM’s production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld hit its straps last weekend in the ACR. Sadly, we couldn’t have an audience because of COVID-19 alert level 2 restrictions, but we are ever hopeful of inviting our loyal whanau back when we return to alert level 1.
NZSM voice students had a successful weekend of competitions recently
