Applications are now open for the NZSQ | SOUNZ Tarling Trust Composer Commission 2024, closing on 30 September 2024.
The NZSO | SOUNZ Tarling Trust Composer Commission is a collaboration between the New Zealand String Quartet Trust and SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music, with support from the Nicholas Tarling Charitable Trust.
The aim is to give an early-career New Zealand composer the opportunity to compose a work for the NZSQ to be toured within New Zealand.
Rehearsal for the commissioned work will take place between June - October 2025, with the premiere performance, date TBC, in October 2025.
Download more information and the application form here.
This is the first year that this SOUNZ opportunity, delivered in partnership with the NZSQ Trust and the Nicholas Tarling Charitable Trust, has been made available to composers.