So excited to be selected as a composer in the 2021 NZ Composer Sessions! I can’t wait to work with the NZSO to hear this new work come alive.
"I am absolutely delighted to be the inaugural recipient of the Chamber Music New Zealand Commissioning Prize, and I can’t wait to work with Ensemble Gô! Marimba and violin are an exciting, vibrant and unusual sonic combination of instruments which I look forward to exploring, as part of what promises to be a fascinating programme of music. This opportunity comes at a pivotal juncture in my career, as I’m about to graduate from Yale with a Master of Musical Arts in composition. It’s wonderful to have the chance to connect with local musicians and audiences around New Zealand.”
The New Music for Orchestra concert is always a highlight of the year at Yale. Five of us composers are super happy to have new works premiering, including my Here Goes… - check it out!
The premiere of my brass quintet Trumpiting in Sprague Hall, Yale School of Music, as part of the New Music New Haven concert series
An absolute pleasure arranging Christmas In Summer by Suzy Cato and Itty Beats for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to perform in their annual APO 4 Kids Christmas concerts.
August 2018: Grateful to hear this piece for orchestra again, after it’s first workshop at Aspen Music Festival last year.
August 2018: It was an honour to hear Tigilau Ness singing with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Sistema Aotearoa on my arrangement of a traditional Niuean song!
Linda's work Personified River: Whanganui being rehearsed by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival 2017
Linda was one of ten participant composers at the Aspen Music Festival where she composed works for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble and one of the Aspen Festival orchestras.
Recent press on the women composers attending the Aspen Music Festival can be read here and here.
Rehearsal for the Douglas Lilburn Prize Concert in November 2017. Second Equal Prize Winner.
Awarded a University of Auckland Blue Award in Arts - November 2017.
February 2016
Guest Principal Flutist with Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio de Castellón, España
Tune in soon to the Albany Symphony (NY, USA) American Music Festival and check out a new work of mine being read by the orchestra as part of the festival concert series!
It has been amazing working with Ensemble Klangrauschen on a new work for alto flute and viola. They are such supportive musical collaborators! We’ve been exploring string and flute multiphonics to create a contemporary chorale.
I loved writing a short piece for the LA-based piano duo HOCKET’s wonderful #What2020SoundsLike project - a series of miniature commissions, giving composers a platform to voice their responses to the pandemic.
Linda & Gretchen Albrecht at the orchestra premiere
Aotearoa - Cloud Orchestra Premiere
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra premieres Linda's new work Aotearoa - Cloud at Auckland's Town Hall on 27th April 2017, inspired by Gretchen Albrecht's painting with the same title.
An interview with the New Zealand Herald can be read here, and the concert review here.
Video of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's performance of Aotearoa - Cloud can be viewed here.
Concert series by the wonderful Robert Fleitz featuring the premiere of Cavea for Harpsichord in December 2017.
Honorable Mention in Symphony Number One's 2017 Call for scores!
Nice-Matin newspaper article on resident artists exhibition in Vallauris, France
Artist in residence at A.I.R Vallauris, France during May - June 2016, to complete the Piano Trio Série Antibes. The piece was premiered during VIPA Festival in Valencia, Spain, by the B3:Brouwer Trio.
April 2016
Principal Flutist with the Valencia Film Orchestra, featuring music from Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible and more...
Participant composer in SICPP at the New England Conservatory. Linda's work Anthropogenic Weather (for Violin, Loop Station and Piano) will be premiered in the festival concert on Sat, June 25th 2016.