Isaac Stone - Voices NZ Associate Conductor

In conjunction with UC Arts, Empress Theatre Collective presented Free Radicals, a musical response to the often unsung achievements of women in science and technology as part of WORD Christchurch 2018. It paid tribute to Evelyn Boyd Granville, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Hildegard of Bingen, Maria Sybilla Merian, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Hedy Lamarr, Beatrice Tinsley & Rangituatahi Te Kanawa. Co-creators: Naomi Ferguson & Erin Harrington Contributing Composers & Performers: Rosa Elliott Naomi Ferguson Erin Harrington Glenda Keam Misfit Mod The Swan Sisters Ariana Tikao Sheree Waitoa Additional Performers: Jennine Bailey Zara Ballara Charisa Chen Yumeka Hildreth Gemma Syme Grace Thixton Renata van der Wal Director: Erin Harrington Producer: Naomi Ferguson Operator/videographer: Stephen Compton Stage Manager: Fiona Bennetts This work was premiered 29.08.18 in the UC Arts Recital Room in the Arts Centre of Christchurch, New Zealand. All individual works remain property of and copyright to the individuals who created them. All rights reserved. Supported by: UC Foundation

Commissioned by the New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir. Lyrics and karanga by Hinekoia Tomlinson. Directed by Sue Densem Soloist - Lesieli Katoa

Performed by the New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir and conducted by Sue Densem.

Performed by Jenny Wollerman (soprano) and Jian Liu (piano).

ROSA ELLIOTT: What Have You Done to Your Rivers? Rosa Elliott’s ‘What Have You Done to Your Rivers?’ sets the poetry of Cantabrian writers Blanche Baughan and Ursula Bethell, to highlight the, “pollution of the New Zealand landscape, in particular the rivers of Canterbury, and dwell on the grievous consequences of this neglect.” Rosa writes, “The first song, ‘What is the River?,’ uses excerpts from Blanche Baughan’s ‘A Bush Section’ in which she marvels at the ‘running river’ and calls others to listen closely to its stirring. The second is taken from Ursula Bethell’s By the River Ashley, basking in the music of the Waimakariri as the “ripples and silence sing together.” The work ends with Bethell’s sobering turn as the once sweet voice of nature begins to lament and probe its listeners: “what have you done to your rivers?” The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with conductor Hamish McKeich is joined by soprano Jenny Wollerman and baritone Robert Tucker in this SOUNZ Film captured at the 2020 NZ Composer Sessions. Audio recorded by RNZ Concert. Film funded by NZ On Air. -- Further information about the composer biographies associated with these films can be discovered at https://www.sounz.org.nz/ Explore our extensive catalogue of scores, CDs, books and resource library at https://www.sounz.org.nz/info-for/sounz-collection-library Connect with #SOUNZ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SOUNZnz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SOUNZnz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sounz_nz/ #nzmusic #classicalmusic

The Big Sing 2022 National Finale - Session Two Recorded with thanks to JX Live and RNZ Concert

winner of SOUNZ Composition Competition 2015 Bel Canto Burnside High School Conductor Susan Densem The Big Sing 2015 Gala Concert