Dame Gillian Karawe WhiteheadNgāi Terangi | DNZM, MNZMComposer
Dame Gillian Whitehead is a prolific composer whose steady stream of works include operas, orchestral works, choral pieces, vocal and instrumental chamber compositions, solo works, pieces involving taonga puoro and compositions including improvisation.
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Dame Gillian Whitehead and Noel Sanders talk about their book Moon, Tides, and Shoreline, with Lyn Freeman, Arts on Sunday, Radio NZ National, Sunday, 12 Dec 2010
27 Oct 2011
A group of New Zealand's top musicians, composers and writers will take over London's hottest new venue, Kings Place, in March next year for a week-long festival of New Zealand music, poetry and ideas.
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2008
Arapatiki was commissioned by Creative NZ, this work is part of Stephen de Pledge's Landscape Prelude project. All 12 works in the series were performed for the first time at the NZ International Arts Festival - 27 February 2008.
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2001
Gillian Karawe Whitehead talks to Film Director Gaylene Preston
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21 Dec 2010
'Moon, Tides & Shoreline: Gillian Karawe Whitehead - A life in music', by Noel Sanders is now officially launched and available for purchase.
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2001
William Dart speaks to Gillian Whitehead about five of her different compositions.
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