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Leonie Holmes
Born1962
Auckland
NationalityNew Zealand
Occupation(s)Composer, university lecturer

Leonie Joyce Holmes (born 1962) is a New Zealand composer and lecturer at the University of Auckland with an interest in music education.

Early life and education

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Holmes was born in Auckland in 1962.[1][2] She began learning piano at age six and attended Pakuranga College. She studied at the University of Auckland from 1981 to 1985, graduating with MMus in composition.[2] Her teachers were Douglas Mews, John Rimmer and John Elmsly.[2]

She played the violin in the Auckland Youth Orchestra.[2]

Career

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In 1983–1985 Holmes attended the Nelson Young Composers' Workshops and was its first composer-in-residence in 1986.[2] In 1989 she took up a position of Composer-in-Schools working in several Auckland schools.[2][3] She has been Composer-in-Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia in 1997 and with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra in 2005.[3] In 2001 she received the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Composition from the University of Otago.

Holmes has an interest in music education and has written for schools and community groups.[3] She writes for orchestras, chamber groups, choirs, solo voice and instruments, and her works have been performed internationally.[3]

Holmes has written a number of works on commission.[3] For Just a Little Moment was commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and premiered by the orchestra during a COVID-19 lockdown in November 2020.[4] Holmes's Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra who performed its first public premiere in October 2023. It had been recorded earlier by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.[5][6]

As at 2021 she is a senior lecturer in composition at the University of Auckland.[7]

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^ "Holmes, Leonie, 1962-". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  • ^ a b c d e f Thomson, John Mansfield (1990). Biographical dictionary of New Zealand composers. Wellington [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press. pp. 79–80. ISBN 0-86473-095-0. OCLC 22895790.
  • ^ a b c d e "SOUNZ Leonie Holmes". sounz.org.nz. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  • ^ a b "Leonie Holmes: For Just A Little Moment". RNZ. 18 January 2021. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  • ^ "Leonie Holmes and the blessings of procrastination". RNZ. 12 October 2023. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  • ^ "Piano Concerto". www.sounz.org.nz. 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  • ^ "Dr Leonie Holmes - The University of Auckland". www.creative.auckland.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
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