Dame Gillian Whitehead
Interviews and talk
Audio: 24:07
RNZ National — October 2016
About the interview
Bryan Crump, host of Nights on RNZ National interviewed me about Iris Dreaming after I returned from the premiere in England.
Recording Collections
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Iris dreaming
Music video
Video: 41:19
Joanne Roughton-Arnold (soprano) and Ensemble Octandre, conducted by Jon Hargreaves
About the recording
Filmed during the premiere season of the opera at the Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre, London on 23 and 24 August 2016.
About the work
Poroporoaki
Music video
Video: 8:52
New Zealand String Quartet
About the recording
Recorded as part of SOUNZ’s Resound Project at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington on 1 September 2016.
About the work
Gillian Whitehead
Interviews and talk
Audio: 16:03
RNZ Concert — March 2016
About the interview
British composer, Peter Maxwell-Davies, who I studied with and who became a close friend died in March 2016. Eva Radich, host of RNZ Concert’s programme Upbeat, interviewed me about my memories of him and his work.
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Carol Brown and Gillian Whitehead: Pah
Interviews and talk
Audio: 19:44
RNZ Concert — March 2015
About the interview
Eva Radich, host of RNZ Concert’s Upbeat programme, interviewed choreographer Carol Brown and me about our collaboration to create Pah, also known as Out of the window, breath, bone, feather.
About the work
Out of the window, breath, bone, feather
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MHIVC Commissions: Gillian Whitehead – Bright Silence
Interviews and talk
Audio: 15:13
RNZ Concert — June 2015
About the interview
Amber Read interviewed me for a series about the New Zealand works that every competitor in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition must play. My work, Bright silence, was the first to be commissioned.