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Martin Lodge (composer)
New Zealand composer (1954–2024) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Martin Victor Lodge (3 December 1954 – 18 December 2024) was a New Zealand composer and Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Waikato.
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Lodge was born in Tauranga on 3 December 1954.[1] He studied English and German at the University of Waikato graduating with an MA in English literature.[2] He went on to do an MMus in composition at Victoria University of Wellington under Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar[1] followed by a PhD in composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.[2]
After spending 13 years as a freelance composer, while doing a variety of other jobs, he was the Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago in 1990 and 1991.[1][2][3] In 1993 he was the Composer in Residence at the Auckland Philharmonia.[3] He took up a position at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Waikato in 1995 where he founded the music department and was instrumental in creating a performing arts venue, the Dr John Gallagher Concert Chamber.[1][2][4] He was responsible for archiving the works of music historian and writer John Mansfield Thomson at the university.[1]
He initiated the study of Māori music for the Bachelor of Music degree and commissioned a set of traditional Māori instruments, taonga pūoro, for the university.[1][4] He composed several works using taonga pūoro: Toru (2003) which was dedicated to Hirini Melbourne, Hau (2005) and Oiche ghealai (moonlit night) (2009).[5][6][7]
Lodge was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2022, and died in Hamilton on 18 December 2024, at the age of 70.[8][9]
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Selected works
Publications
- Lodge, M. (2003). John Mansfield Thomson: Selected Writings. Steele Roberts Ltd.
- Lodge, M., & Ulenberg, P. (2007). History in the making: The John Mansfield Thomson Archive at the University of Waikato. Canzona, 28(49), 96–97.
Compositions
- Mozart Brief-Ly I and II (1991) – for two clarinets, two bassett horns and SATB soloists, commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- WAM! - Reminiscences of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1991) – orchestral fantasy on Mozart themes, commissioned by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra
- Symphony No. 1 (Flowers of the Sea) (1994)
- Hinterland (1997) – for orchestra
- Epitaph for Douglas Lilburn (2001) – for solo cello
- Toru (2003) – for taonga pūoro, cello and clarinet
- Hau (2005) – for cello and taonga pūoro
- Farewell for David Farquhar (2007) – for two cellos
- Pastorale (2008) – for string quartet
- Oiche ghealai (moonlit night) (2009) – for taonga pūoro and flute
- Voces naturae - I: Locus iste (2010) – for mixed ensemble, live video and live sonic electronics
- Aria with Commentary (2011) – for two cellos
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