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Leonie Holmes

Composer

Born: 1962

Biography

Leonie Holmes is an Auckland based composer, writing for orchestra, chamber, choral, vocal and solo instrument. Recent works have been commissioned and/or performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, BBC singers, ensemble paladino, Aventa Ensemble Canada, Zephyr Wind Quintet, NZ Trio, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Toronto Children’s Choir, Auckland Chamber Orchestra, Estrella Quartet and Jade String Quartet. Her orchestral music has been released on the Atoll CD “Solstice”, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei, and a compilation of chamber music appears on the CD “…when expectation ends”, featuring NZ Trio, Zephyr, Estrella, Strata Quartet and other solo artists. Leonie is currently Senior Lecturer in Composition and Music studies at the School of Music, University of Auckland.

Stemming from her work as Composer-in-Schools in the 1990s, she is also interested in music education and in developing a musical language that will engage and challenge non-professional players. She has written many works for school and community groups and is active as a speaker, adjudicator and teacher at all levels and age groups within the New Zealand music community.

Leonie has been Composer-in-Residence at the Nelson School of Music 1986, Composer-in-Schools 1989, Composer-in-Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia 1997, and Composer-in-Residence with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra in 2005. She was awarded the CANZ Trust Fund for Compositional Development in 1991, a Certificate for Contribution to Music in the Auckland Region from the NZSO and Symphony Friends in 1993, and the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Composition, University of Otago in 2001. Leonie was a member of the Composers Committee, Centre for New Zealand Music (SOUNZ) 1996-1997, co-ordinator of the Nelson Composers Workshop 2001-2002, and is a member of the Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ).

2018 saw Leonie nominated as a finalist for the SOUNZ Contemporary Award. For Just a Little Moment was commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and premiered by the orchestra during a COVID-19 lockdown in November 2020.Holmes's Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra who performed its first public premiere in October 2023.


Composed (63)

...when expectation ends

for piano trio


A Tedious Brief Scene: Bottom's Dance

for two pianos (eight hands), 6m


Ancient Rhythms

for orchestra, 6m


Aquae Sulis

for winds, strings, harp and percussion, 15m


Blues Piece

for two treble instruments and piano, 1m


Chorale

for brass sextet, 5m


Colloquium

for two flutes and guitar, 6m


Convergence Te Pūtahitanga

for piano and taonga puoro, 5m 10s


Dance of the Wintersmith

for violin and piano, 10m 30s


Elegy

for orchestra, 5m


Facets

for SATB choir, piano, violin, optional electronic keyboard and percussion, 10m


Fanfare for Manukau

for orchestra, 3m 10s


Fantasia

for piano


Fantasia II

for piano, 5m


Flowing

for two treble instruments and piano, 1m


Flute Quartet

for four flutes, 6m


For just a little moment...

for orchestra, 9m


For Young Nick

for orchestra, 5m 30s


Fragment II

for string quartet, 7m


Frond

for orchestra, 9m


Hodie Christus Natus Est

for SATB choir, four female soloists and two bongo players, 5m


In the Lair of the Cave Weta

for school orchestra, 6m


Invocation

for SATB choir and piano, 5m


is there anybody in there?

for flute, bass clarinet and glockenspiel, 30s


is there anybody in there?

for flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon and piano


Land Pictures

for women's choir and harp


Manukau Suite

for orchestra


Mirour

for viola and piano, 9m


Murmuration

for violin trio, 6m


Nocturne for Piano

for piano, 2m


Nonette

for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and string quartet, 8m


Nothing

for unison choir with keyboard and piano, 2m


Piano Concerto

for solo piano and orchestra, 20m


Prelude for Strings

for string orchestra, 6m


Recitative II

for viola and percussion, 5m


Ritual

for wind quintet, 8m


River Stories

for orchestra and narrator


Scenes

for youth orchestra, 20m


Seconds

for string orchestra


Shades of grey

for piano


Shell Song Cycle

for soprano and piano


Shell Song Cycle

for alto (or baritone) and piano, 8m


Silver Whispers

for SATB choir, flute, two pianists and three percussionists, 21m


Solstice

for orchestra, 15m


Starting Point

for orchestra, 3m


Tango Mangle

for orchestra, 5m 30s


The Estuary

for SSA choir and piano, 5m


The Fourth Station

for cello, 4m


The Journey

for SATB choir (with female soloist) and orchestra, 15m


The Wanderer

for SSA choir and piano, 4m


This Watershed Time

for male vocal sextet and chamber choir


Through Coiled Stillness

for SATB choir, rainstick and finger cymbals, 4m


Time Rustling

for solo piano


Where the Tui Sings Three Notes

for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chamber choir, SATB choir, piano, organ and two percussionists, 7m


Whim

for orchestra


Whirlpool

for solo piano, 1m 34s


Wild Light

for voice and piano, 4m 39s


Wētāmorphosis

for orchestra, 5m



Performances (6)

New Zealand Double Reed Society Competition Finals

A Feast of NZ Music for Double Reed Ensemble, featuring the Final of the NZDRS Composition Compet...


The Karlheinz Company: Suffrage 125 Celebration Concert

The University of Auckland School of Music contemporary ensemble The Karlheinz Company celebrates...


Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra | Poetry & Passion

__Giordano Bellincampi__ | Conductor __Michael Endres__ | Piano __Leonie Holmes__ | _For...


Christchurch Symphony Orchestra | Triumph Over Tragedy

__Stephen De Pledge__ | piano __Benjamin Northey__ | conductor ___ __Programme:__ ...


Auckland Philhamonia Orchestra | Beethoven's Violin

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi Violin Clara-Jumi Kang Leonie Holmes For just a little moment... ...


Christchurch Symphony Orchestra | Beethoven's 5th

Umberto Clerici Conductor Stephen De Pledge Piano Brahms Academic Festival Overture Leonie H...