The secret life of bird calls
Documentaries
Audio: 18:14
RNZ National — 2010
About the documentary
Robin Nathan looks at the relationship between bird calls and music. She talks to bird experts, and me about incorporating bird sounds in my music.
Recording Collections
Search for recordings of my music — including online recordings, CDs, DVDs and documentaries — and find out how to access or buy them.
Moon, Tides and Shoreline
Music on CD
Selected works on CD to accompany the book of the same name
Produced by Wayne Laird of Atoll CDs for Steele Roberts with help from RNZ Concert — published in 2010
Performers
Aroha Yates-Smith (kaikaranga), Ingrid Culliford (flute), Alexa Still (flute), Ben Hoadley (bassoon), Ashley Brown (cello), Richard Nunns (taonga pūoro), Janet Roddick (soprano), Emma Sayers (piano), Stephen de Pledge (piano), Greg O’Brien (voice) and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Young.
Works
… the improbable ordered dance …
Get the CD
This CD comes with Noel Sanders’ biography of me called Moon, Tides and Shoreline.
Tūmanako: journey through an unknown landscape
Music video
Video: 9:03
Diedre Irons (piano)
About the recording
Recorded by SOUNZ and RNZ Concert at the SOUNZtender concert at the Ilott Concert Chamber, Wellington on 30 May 2010.
About the work
Chamber Music lll
Music on CD
Chamber music by New Zealand composers, Volume 11 in the series, The Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music
Waiteata WTA011 — released in 2010
Performers
These 8 works are performed by leading New Zealand and international performers. Bright Silence is performed by violinist Joseph Lin.
Work
Get the CD
Buy the CD from the Waiteata Music Press website.
Hineteiwaiwa
Music audio
Audio: 18:45
RNZ Concert — recorded in 2009
About the recording
This performance of Hineteiwaiwa is given by Stroma with Aroha Yates-Smith (voice) and Richard Nunns (taonga pūoro) conducted by Hamish McKeich. It was recorded on 17 May 2019 during a concert at the Ilott Theatre in Wellington.
About the work
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Gillian Whitehead: Beijing 2009
Interviews and talk
Audio: 11:39
RNZ Concert — October 2009
About the interview
Eva Radich, host of RNZ Concert’s Upbeat programme interviewed me about the forthcoming trip to Beijing, China of a large group of 27 New Zealand artists and musicians who attended World Music Days at Beijing Conservatory and which focused on Māori and Polynesian arts. The event was curated by Jack Body.