The New Zealand composer talks about her latest work - a piece about whales.
Gillian Whitehead is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and distinguished composers. In a career spanning forty years, she’s experimented with modernism and expressionism. In 1999 she was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit. Since returning to her home country after 14 years abroad, she’s been involved in several improvisational, collaborative works using Maori instruments. Her latest work is a piece about whales, played with indigenous instruments made from whale bone. It is called Puhake Ki Te Rangi or Spouting to the Skies. Candida Beveridge went meet Gillian at a performance of the piece in Wellington played by the New Zealand String Quartet and flautist Richard Nuns.
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