The final 175 East concert for 2011 will take place at 8:30pm on 18 November at the Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland.

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175 East's first concerts for 2011 took place in May, with music by Lyell Cresswell, Ross Harris, Brian Ferneyhough, Martin Iddon and James Tenney:


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The ensemble also performed the opening concert of the 30th CANZ Nelson Composers Workshop in Nelson on July 3, with works by New Zealanders Jack Body, Samuel Holloway, Michael Norris, John Rimmer and Chris Watson.

 

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"Forget what you have heard about modern composition/art music being a tuneless music, this is music bursting with life: joyous, demanding, exploratory, perplexing, occasionally irritating and phenomenally generous in its rewards."

Martin Osborne of the Capital Times reviewing 175 East in Wellington 19/08/06

175 East is Auckland's only professional contemporary music ensemble, founded in 1996 by James Gardner.

The group has two main objectives. First, to provide a platform for high quality professional performances of works by young, emerging and established New Zealand composers. Second, to present new and challenging works from overseas to New Zealand audiences.

Excerpts from 175 East's October 2008 concert in Christchurch
175 East have performed works by such internationally renowned composers as Richard Barrett, John Cage, Elliott Carter, James Dillon, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Christopher Fox, Sofia Gubaidulina, Mauricio Kagel, Liza Lim, Olga Neuwirth, Wolfgang Rihm, Kaija Saariaho, Giacinto Scelsi, Christian Wolff, Iannis Xenakis and Frank Zappa.

The ensemble has also commissioned and premièred new works by New Zealand composers such as Helen Bowater, Chris Cree Brown, Phil Brownlee, Rachel Clement, Lyell Cresswell, Phil Dadson, James Gardner, Neville Hall, Ross Harris, Samuel Holloway, Dorothy Ker, Dylan Lardelli, Michael Norris, John Psathas, John Rimmer, Jeroen Speak and Chris Watson.

In 2003, 175 East was awarded the CANZ/KBB Citation for Services to New Zealand Music.

 

For many years 175 East has gratefully received
substantial funding from Creative New Zealand