PORTAL
Reuben Jelleyman | Music
Overview
We are raising a commission fund for three leading composers from Aotearoa to create works for international soloist Anna Koch to be performed in early 2024
Austrian clarinettist Anna Koch opens this latest PORTAL, an innovative contemporary music series created and produced by composer Reuben Jelleyman.
As part of her New Austrian Sound of Music solo world tour Connecting the Dots, Koch will collaborate with composer and taonga puoro practitioner Ariana Tikao and composers Dylan Lardelli and Reuben Jelleyman to create new virtuosic works for bass clarinet. The works she creates here she perform at two high profile NZ festivals, before taking them on the final leg of her tour. At the end of the project she will present all the works of her travels in a solo recital series in Vienna.
Our project story begins with a very successful collaboration between Anna and Reuben in Vienna 2019; there was always meant to be a follow-up. Now, with a scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs to travel the world creating and presenting contemporary music with musicians all around the globe, Anna makes her way to Aotearoa.
Our plans developed at the beginning of 2023 and we made three attempts for commission funding from Creative New Zealand and other funding sources. Our applications were 'highly recommended for funding', but ultimately unsuccessful. CNZ has funded very few commissions this year, but we are determined to raise the appropriate funding to support the NZ artists involved in the project.
Taking us beyond the concert hall, PORTAL promises a journey through the physical passageways of Te Uru (Tāmaki Makaurau) and The Arts Centre (Ōtautahi), through a musical gateway. The two shows will be presented for Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki / The Auckland Arts Festival and Off Centre Festival, Otautahi.
The money is needed in order for us to dedicate the time needed to do our art, to obtain the resources to create, to travel to meet and work together, and to pay the rent. The fund is necessary to create a project that properly respects the dedication of the artists to making a special project like this happen.
We would love to invite you to help us make this project a success, backing New Zealand artists to create art and share culture.
PORTAL image credit: Cameron May
Project Updates
PORTALFEST 2019 (some nostalgia)
In 2019 the PORTALS took on their own festival. We did it on a shoe-string budget, but we were able to get through just.
Here's the poster for some nostalgia: such a special line-up, never to be repeated.
Four years later, we are putting something together just as exciting. We are so glad to have you all part of the next adventure! Please share our project on social media or with any friends who you think might be interested in it. Let's go from 50% +> 100%
Project Owner
Reuben Jelleyman
