Puhake ki te rangi
Taonga pūoro and string quartet
Waiteata Music Press Music — 2010 music editions no. 1
About the work
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Buy the score from Waiteata Music Press or SOUNZ.
Publications
Search this list of publications about me and my music. It also includes publications I’ve produced myself or in collaboration with others.
Take Flight
Music from New Zealand for intermediate pianists
Sunrise Music Trust — published in 2010
About the publication
Edited by Gillian Bibby, this collection of piano works by 30 New Zealand composers is suitable for grades 3 to 5. The publication includes 2 CDs with performances of all the works.
About the works
Included are the 5 pieces that make up my work Central landscapes.
Get the publication
Buy or borrow the book and CDs from SOUNZ.
Moon, Tides and Shoreline
Biography by Noel Sanders
Steele Roberts — published in 2010
ISBN: 9781877577048
About the book and author
An accomplished composer and close friend, Noel Sanders was awarded the Mozart Fellowship at Otago University for 2003 and 2004, when, along with various compositions, this biography was written.
It comes with a CD of my works performed by leading New Zealand performers, including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Moon, tides and shoreline — CD
Get the book and CD
Buy or borrow this publication from SOUNZ.
Moon, tides and shoreline — SOUNZ
You can read a chapter from the book on the Australian Music Centre’s website.
Extract from the new Whitehead biography — AMC
Review and interviews
Read William Dart’s review for the New Zealand Herald.
Book review: Moon, Tides and Shoreline
RNZ National and RNZ Concert interviewed Noel and me after the book was launched.
Dame Gillian Whitehead — interview
Jack Body, Dame Gillian Whitehead and Noel Sanders — interview
Sunrise
Music from New Zealand for young pianists
Wellington Piano and Instrumental Group — published in 2008
About the publication
Edited by Gillian Bibby, this collection of piano works by New Zealand composers is suitable for preliminary through to grade 2 pianists. The publication includes a CD with performances of all the works.
About the works
Included are the 3 works that make up Sunrise pieces.
Get the publication
Buy or borrow the book and CD from SOUNZ.
New Zealand Geographic — Sound Barrier
Article about New Zealand composition by Andrew Caldwell
New Zealand Geographic Issue 083 — published in January-February 2007
About this article
Andrew Caldwell wrote this major article as part of a project undertaken in collaboration with SOUNZ to disseminate New Zealand music more widely. The article was accompanied by a free double CD of New Zealand music which included my work, Hineraukatauri.
The article begins with his impressions of a concert that took place during the New Zealand New Music Festival organised by Lyell Cresswell in Edinburgh in 2001 where my work Resurgences was played by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Read the article
New Zealand Geographic have published the article on their website.
The sound barrier — New Zealand Geographic
Works
Dramatic narrative and musical narrativity in Gillian Whitehead’s ‘Hotspur’
Paper by Graham Hair
Southern Voices — published in 2004
About the paper
Dramatic narrative and musical narrativity in Gillian Whitehead’s ‘Hotspur’ is published in Loose canons: papers from the National Festival of Women’s Music held in Canberra in 2001 and edited by Linda Kouvaras, Ruth Lee Martin and Graham Hair.
Read the paper
Loose Canons is out of print but may be borrowed from the Australian Music Centre.
Read a pdf online of Graham Hair’s article.
Dramatic narrative and musical narrativity in Gillian Whitehead’s ‘Hotspur’ — Glasgow University