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Ihlara McIndoe
Ihlara Jayne McIndoe (born 1997) is a New Zealand composer. Early life and education McIndoe was born in 1997. Growing up she learnt the piano and played in school orchestras and sang in choirs. She attended St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin and the University of Otago where she graduated with a BA (Hons), a BMus and LLB. She studied composition with Anthony Ritchie, Peter Adams, Dylan Llardelli, Chris Gendall and Graeme Downes. Career In 2018, McIndoe led the Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institution delegation to the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. McIndoe visited Antarctica in 2020 as an Inspiring Explorer with the Antarctic Heritage Trust. Using sounds she recorded there as inspiration she composed five pieces: ''On Satin Waters,'' ''Wavering Horizon,'' ''On Whistling Sands,'' ''Ushuaia Sketches'' and ''Ephemeral Boundaries''. All five works were performed in ''A Musical Journey to Antarctica'' a live-streamed concert in Christchurch in 2022. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Hilda's Collegiate School
Saint Hilda's Collegiate School is a secondary school for girls in Dunedin, New Zealand. History Founded as an Anglican school in 1896 by the first bishop of Dunedin, Bishop Samuel Nevill and staffed by the Sisters of the Church. The sisters withdrew from the school in the 1930s. St Hilda's is the only school of the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin. It is integrated into the New Zealand state school system. It has a roll of approximately 450 girls with around one third of the school being boarders from both around New Zealand and overseas. The school is named after Saint Hilda, a 7th-century English abbess remembered for the influential role she played in the Synod of Whitby. Saint Hilda is considered one of the patron saints of learning and culture, including poetry. Occupying a site bounded by Cobden Street, Heriot Row and Royal Terrace, the original buildings have been demolished and the site redeveloped from the mid 20th century. Some of the new buildings were designed by Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church (Manhattan), Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York (state), New York and the fifth-First university in the United States, oldest in the United States. Columbia was established as a Colonial colleges, colonial college by royal charter under George II of Great Britain. It was renamed Columbia College (New York), Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolution, and in 1787 was placed under Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, a private board of trustees headed by former students Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In 1896, the campus was moved to its current location in Morningside Heights and renamed Columbia University. Columbia is organized into twenty schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century New Zealand Classical Composers
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