Maioha Award finalists Tuari Brothers, MOHI, and Jordyn with a Why. Photos / Supplied
Maioha Award finalists Tuari Brothers, MOHI, and Jordyn with a Why. Photos / Supplied
While the New Zealand recording industry struggles to stage the annual Aotearoa Music Awards as it suffers an ongoing identity and sponsorship crisis, the long-running APRA [Australasian Performing Right Association] Silver Scroll prizes for songwriters and composers is going full steam ahead and has announced its first round offinalists.
The five nominees for the Silver Scroll for song of the year will be named on September 1. But the NZ membership of APRA and its judges have named this year’s contenders for the prizes in te reo songwriting, contemporary classical composition and soundtrack work.
The finalists in those categories are:
Maioha Award/Tohu Maioha
E tama, written by Hamiora Tuari, Ani Piki Tuari, Tame Tuari, Tatana Tuari, and Matt Sadgrove, and performed by Tuari Brothers.
Me Pēhea Rā, written by Mohi Allen, Hēmi Kelly, Amy Boroevich, and Noema Te Hau III, and performed by MOHI.
Raumati, written by Jordyn Rapana, translated by Te Kuru Dewes, and performed by Jordyn with a Why.
Mycelium, by Nathaniel Otley, for bass flute, trumpet, percussion, electric guitar, keyboard, violin, cello, and contrabass.
No ro hunu ake, by Joshua Pearson, for choral ensemble.
Requiem, by Victoria Kelly, based on poetry by Bill Manhire, Sam Hunt, Ian Wedde, Chloe Honum and James K Baxter – for soprano, tenor, choir and orchestra.
Best Original Music in a Series Award/Tohu Paerangi
Tom McLeod for Blood, Sex and Royalty.
Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper for The Gone.
Claire Cowan for Under the Vines.
Tom McLeod, Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper and Claire Cowan. Photos / Supplied
