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Pieta Hextall

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

About Me

Pieta Hextall (b. 1986) is a Wellington based composer who has just graduated from the New Zealand School of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Composition. She is currently in the honours programme at the music school, studying composition with Michael Norris and John Psathas. Upcoming projects include commissions for an Auckland based Clarinet Duo, and the Yamaha School of Music.[LOVEMYFLASH]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/2/2007
Band Members: Music written by me, Pieta. Performed or workshopped by various artists including: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Christchurch Youth Orchestra, New Zealand String Quartet, Auckland University New Music Ensemble, Capital Brass, Gao Ping, Andrew Uren, Leroy Mette, Anne Loeser, Hayden Sinclair, Lauren Williamson, Amanda Slater, Ben Morrison, Hannah Darroch, Jiwon Lee, Karlo Margetic, Barry Cockcroft.......
Influences: Everything I hear. But particularly: Penderecki, Xenakis, Hindemith, Berio, Pierre Boulez, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, Philip Glass, John Adams, Michael Torke, Francaix, Anton von Webern, Gubadulina, Witold Lutoslawski, Dmitri Shostakovich, Poulenc, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Mahler, Erik Larsson, Mlihaud, Janacek, György Ligeti, Murail, Arvo Pärt, Toru Takemitsu, Steve Reich, Smetana, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lamonte Young, Terry Riley, Bela Bartók, Claude Debussy, Sergei Prokefiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Edgard Varese, Alban Berg, Olivier Messiaen
Sounds Like: no-one and everyone?
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Radio NZ Concert - Broadcast - Sunday 3 August 2008

Sunday 3 August 20088:00 Young NZIn day one of a two-day workshop, six composers under the age of 25 have their works performed by the New Zealand SO and talk about those works with Radio New Zealand'...
Posted by Pieta Hextall on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:41:00 PST

Concert FM - Saturday 22 March 2008

3:00 Saturday ConcertTwo programmes from the 2006 New Zealand Young Composer Awards, in which Rebecca Blundell talks with the composers about their works(1) ANDREW BALDWIN: A Prelude for Spring Op 5; ...
Posted by Pieta Hextall on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:00:00 PST

Wellington's Young and Emerging Composers

By Alan Wells | 24 Sep, 2007Karlo Margetic is young, and he is emerging - fast. Already this Bosnian-born composition student at the New Zealand School of Music is young composer-in-residence with the...
Posted by Pieta Hextall on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:02:00 PST

NZSO Young Composer Awards 2007 - Broadcast

Wednesday 6 February 200812:00 2007 NZSO Young Composer AwardsEleven composers under the age of 25 have their works performed bythe New Zealand SO and talk about those works with Radio New Zealand'sRe...
Posted by Pieta Hextall on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:57:00 PST