Classical music in the heart of the Southern Alps
Queenstown Lakes | 5 - 18 October 2024
Full programme, artist and event details to be announced 1 May 2024
Classical music in the heart of the Southern Alps
Queenstown Lakes | 5 - 18 October 2024
Full programme, artist and event details to be announced 1 May 2024
Announcing AWE 2024
Composer in Residence
Eve de Castro-Robinson
We are thrilled that Eve will join us as this year’s AWE Composer in Residence. A senior composer within Aotearoa’s arts landscape whose music is undeniably quirky and fun, a broad range of Eve’s chamber works will be built into the 2024 festival programme alongside two new AWE Commissions.
Her strong educational history means she brings a wealth of mentoring knowledge to support the Emerging Composer, to lead a composition workshop for local students and to present fascinating talks through the festival.
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One of Aotearoa’s foremost composers, Eve is commissioned and performed by a wide variety of musicians both in NZ and internationally. She retired in 2019 as Associate Professor in Composition from The University of Auckland and now works as freelance composer, consultant, curator and writer.
She has many works on CD including solo albums with Rattle and Atoll and 2018 saw her win Best Classical Artist at the NZ Music Awards for her Album The Gristle of Knuckles. She has twice won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award and the Philip Neill Prize and there have been five portrait concerts of her music, including by NZ Festival of the Arts, and the Auckland Chamber Orchestra. She is also Co-Chair | Toihau Tuarua of the board of SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, was co-founder of CadeNZa, director of Karlheinz Company, and co-director of hear/say. She has held residencies at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, the Banff Centre, and Brisons Veor, UK.Discover more about Eve and her music on the SOUNZ Centre for NZ Music website.
Supported by the SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, with funding from the Tarling Trust
Applications now open
AWE 2024 Emerging Artist Programmes
AWE 2024 Emerging Musician Pathway
Delivered through a multi-year programme tailored to each individual, the AWE Emerging Artist Mentoring Pathway aims to grow exceptional young New Zealand musicians through their early careers, guiding and supporting these talented individuals to become the compelling artists they aspire to be.
AWE 2024 Emerging Composer Mentorship
With New Zealand music woven into the very seams of the AWE Festival, each year a young NZ composer is selected to receive personalised mentoring to write a new work for premiere within the festival.
AWE+ in the community
Our community threads into the very fabric of the AWE Festival. Everyone deserves the chance to experience classical music in Aotearoa, to be woven into the adventure and to experience the most intimate moments of music for themselves.
Through AWE+, a range of free curated performances and events are open to the public, showcasing local and international talent so that one and all can hear the story chamber music has to tell.
AWE+ 2024 events to be announced 1 May 2024.
What is Chamber Music?
Offering a new level of intimacy to live performance, chamber music is an interaction between individual voices. Written specifically for small groups of musicians, chamber music is designed to be performed, heard, and experienced in a close-knit, intimate setting, with the audience just as much a shared and active part of the experience as the musicians themselves.
