NZTrio
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NZTrio (est. 2002) is a professional piano trio based in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. The current formation of musicians consists of Somi Kim (piano), Amalia Hall (violin) and Ashley Brown (cello, founding member). Former members include pianist Sarah Watkins (2002-2018, founding member) and violinist Justine Cormack (2002-2017, founding member).
NZTrio is an ambassador of contemporary New Zealand music, with over 75 new works commissioned to date (more than 2/3 from NZ composers).[1]
Critical acclaim for the group extends to a Tui for Best Classical Artist[2] at the 2017 Aotearoa Music Awards, two citation awards: the KBB Music/CANZ citation[3] (2012) and the Lilburn Trust Citation[4] (2017) – both for outstanding services to New Zealand Music. Recent CD releases under the Rattle label include Merge (2021), Lightbox (2015), Sway (2016), and Vicissitudes (2016) – a jazz-meets-classical collaboration with the Mike Nock Trio, and a finalist for Best Jazz Album in the 2017 New Zealand Jazz Awards.
NZTrio's collaborations include projects spanning visual arts (Simon Ingram, 2021), contemporary dance (BalletCollective Aotearoa, 2021; New Zealand Dance Co., 2012/13), indie/alternative (Finn Andrews, 2021/2022), taonga puoro (Horomona Horo, 2019), animated film (David Downes, 2009), theatre (Massive, 2013), voice (Simon O'Neill, 2016) as well as cross-cultural musical works with masters of Chinese guzheng and Cambodian traditional instruments.
They have performed extensively throughout New Zealand as well as Australia, Asia, South America, the USA, Europe and Scandinavia, including a tour of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time with UK clarinettist Julian Bliss in (2016/18), and a cross-cultural project to record and extensively tour 9 new piano trios by Chinese composers (2017/18)
References[edit]
- ↑ "SOUNZ NZTrio". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
- ↑ "Aotearoa Music Awards | Award History". Retrieved 2022-02-25.
- ↑ "CANZ Awards | Composers Association of New Zealand". Retrieved 2022-02-25.
- ↑ "Douglas Lilburn » Citations". www.douglaslilburn.org. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
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