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Laureate Award
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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  • NZ musos take over London's Kings Place
  • Moon, Tides and Shoreline: Gillian Whitehead - A life in music
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View performance of Arapatiki;
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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

NZ musos take over London's Kings Place
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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Arapatiki by Gillian Whitehead
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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Ways of Looking and Listening
2001
Gillian Karawe Whitehead talks to Film Director Gaylene Preston
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Moon, Tides and Shoreline: Gillian Whitehead - A life in music
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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The Journey of Matuku Moana
2001
William Dart speaks to Gillian Whitehead about five of her different compositions.
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