- Eden Mulholland
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/arts-festival-dunedin/colour-creativity
see INNZ and stuff
- Ilhara McIndoe
- Chris Gendall
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/chris-gendall
https://sounz.org.nz/contributors/1239
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE52185008
INNZ
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.280524
- Alex Taylor
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.280753
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE26914387
articles in Canzona
INNZ
- Karlo Margetic
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.280756
INNZ
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.762888
- Chris Watson
https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.281153
https://natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1fro764/INNZ7117827280002837
publication - see article on Stroma
- Janet Roddick
INNZ
Christopher Thomas Gendall (born 1980) is a New Zealand composer and lecturer in composition at the University of Auckland.
Early life and education
editBorn in 1980 in Hamilton Gendall studied composition at Victoria University in Wellington.[1][2] Gendall studied under Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky at Cornell University and was awarded his PhD in 2010 with his thesis entitled New Musical Rhythm: Toward a Reductive Analytical Method for Music since 1900.[3][2]
Career
editIn 2009 Gendall, along with Gillian Whitehead, Ross Harris, John Psathas and Eve de Castro Robinson, was one of the composers chosen by SOUNZ (Centre for New Zealand Music) to compose for SOUNZtender an online auction in which anyone could put up a tender for a composer's work.[4][5] Gendall's composition Suite for String Orchestra was written while he was Composer in Residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta.[6]
In 2010 he was appointed as the Creative New Zealand/Jack C Richards Composer in Residence at the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University.[7][8] The Vector Wellington Orchestra (now Orchestra Wellington) appointed Gendall as their Composer in Residence for 2011.[7][9] His Triple Concerto for the orchesta and the NZTrio was performed in 2012.[10]
Gendall was Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago in 2016 and 2017.[11][12][13] During the residency he composed Talking Earth for brass band.[14]
In 2020 on the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth he received a commission from the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and composed Disquiet for piano trio based on Beethoven's piano trio Op. 70 no. 2.[15][16]
Gendall has participated in a number of international festivals and conferences including the Wellesley Composers’ Conference, the Aspen Music Festival, the Britten-Pears Contemporary Composition programme, the Royaumont Voix Nouvelles Composition Course, and the Aldeburgh Festival and his works have been performed by orchestras and ensembles in New Zealand and elsewhere.[2][11]
Gendall has also worked for RNZ as an assistant producer for the Upbeat programme.[7] In 2018 he was president of the Composers Association of New Zealand.[17] He has also been a mentor for the NZSO National Youth Orchestra Composer in Residence in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2024, and for the NZSO Todd Young Composer Award in 2017.[18]
Awards and honours
editGendall won two awards in 2005 and 2006: a New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Todd Young Composer Award and an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award.[7]
In 2008 he won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award at the APRA New Zealand awards for Wax Lyrical.[11]
Selected works
edit- Visionnaire (2003) – for vocal soloists, SATB choir and piano
- Bop (2003) – for solo trombone and chamber ensemble
- Hand to hand (2005) – for percussion ensemble of six players
- Agitato (2007) – for chamber orchestra
- Gung-ho (2007)
- Wax lyrical (2008) – for chamber ensemble
- Suite for string orchestra (2009)
- Gravitas (2011) – for orchestra
- Three details (2012) – for guitar, pre-recorded electronics and 4-8 sustaining instruments
- Triple concerto (2012) – for violin, cello, piano and orchestra
- Incident: an opera in one act (2014)
- The charm offensive (2014) – for soprano and orchestra
- Choruses: for shō, recorder and koto (2015)
- Violin concerto (2016)
- Talking earth (2017)
- Siteswap (2019) – for solo horn
- Disquiet (2020) – for piano trio
- Crazing (2021) – for violin and percussion
References
edit- ^ "Gendall, Chris, 1980-". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ a b c "Chris Gendall - SOUNZ". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Gendall, Christopher Thomas (2010). New Musical Rhythm: Toward a Reductive Analytical Method for Music since 1900. PhD Thesis. Cornell University.
- ^ Biss, Rod (16 May 2009). "Sonata for you". New Zealand Listener: 47.
- ^ "SOUNZtender: the Concert - SOUNZ". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Suite for String Quartet - SOUNZ". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Chris Gendall – 2011 Vector Wellington Orchestra Composer in Residence". New Zealand Opera News: 19. December 2011.
- ^ "Chris Gendall". RNZ. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Chris Gendall named Wellington orchestra's composer in residence". Scoop. 16 September 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Triple Concerto - SOUNZ". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ a b c "Chris GENDALL: Wax Lyrical". RNZ. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Art fellows announced". Otago Daily Times. 14 September 2016. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ Fox, Rebecca (26 January 2017). "Leaving notes for others". Otago Daily Times. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Talking Earth - SOUNZ". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Celebrating the symphonies that changed the world". Express: 12. March 2020 – via NDHA.
- ^ "Disquiet - SOUNZ". sounz.org.nz. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "Music Feature: Chris Gendall, NZ Composers Association". RNZ. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
- ^ "Chris Gendall". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
External links
edit- Chris Gendall's website
- Chris Gendall profile. Audio recording in Alexander Turnbull Library, 2016