Concept
The aim of the Trust is to nurture innovative ideas and talent by helping groups and individuals through the steps necessary to bring ideas and skills through the development stages to worthwhile outcomes.
Emphasis in the provision of grants in the areas of musical creativity will always be on encouragement of the new and contribution to the community and musical merit.
Projects should originate from within the Manawatū and Rangitīkei region and show benefit to the region.
Grants can be applied for by anyone resident in, or closely connected to, that region.
Scope
The Music projects that the Trust aims to encourage may include:
- creation and performance of new compositions
- new forms of music
- formation of new musical groups
- bringing together and enhancing different musical groups for specific activities
- workshops and master classes aimed at stimulating new ideas in music and/or a mastery of performance skills
Note: The end result of any project will be a local music performance, or a series of performances as a demonstration of the new skills attained and/or the new music created.
The musical styles supported by the Trust include:
- classical or art music
- jazz
- cultural music
Previous winners
2019
- Manawatunes Barbershop Chorus – to bring a New Zealand barbershop quartet to Palmerston North to run workshops for the chorus and high schools.
- Rodger Fox, The Houstoun-Fox – CD recording project.
2017
- Renaissant Singers (Guy Donaldson) – for a Samuel Arnold world premiere performance.
- Phil Boniface – for ‘Oro’ Concert series.
- Palmerston North Choral Society (Heather Murphy) – to commission work for centennial concert.
- Toi Warbrick – for KONO, song cycle for a new town.
- Manawatū Overtones Chorus (Liz Watts) – for masterclass workshops.
- Manawatū Youth Orchestra Synfonia (Jeff McNeill) – for orchestral wind workshops.
2015
- Manawatū Jazz Club – to hold a series of workshops “Getting into Jazz”.
- Manawatū Youth Orchestra Inc. – for two intensive string workshops with the Aroha Quartet.
- Nick Hunter – to compose an orchestral work to be performed by the Manawatū Sinfonia.
- Renaissance Singers Inc. – for advanced choral training ‘workshops to concert’ project.
- Warren and Virginia Warbrick (Toi Warbrick) – to create a bicultural music performance including themes of mythic, historic and contemporary Manawatū.
2013
- Manawatū Jazz Club – to host a series of workshops on jazz improvisation with NZ School of Music and local jazz tutors.
- Manawatū Overtones Chorus – to hold workshops with four accomplished tutors to develop a four-part singing group.
- Music Alive Rangitīkei – to hold a series of workshops to nurture creative ideas and talents in the Rangitikei community.
- Palmerston North Girls’ High School – to employ Sam Logan, ‘composer in residence’, to stimulate creativity in the school’s music community.