Dylan Lardelli (born 1979) is a New Zealand composer and guitarist. He is of Māori Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tūhoe descent.
Dylan Lardelli | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar |
| Website | http://www.dylanlardelli.com |
Early life
Lardelli was born in Wellington in 1979 of Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tūhoe descent.[1][2] He attended school in Hawkes Bay, starting to learn the guitar in the 5th form (Year 11 in the New Zealand school system).[3]
He enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington to study guitar and composition, where his lecturers were John Psathas, Ross Harris and Jack Body.[3] He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in guitar and, in 2003, a Masters in composition.[4]
Career
Lardelli won first prize in the 2003 Asian Composers League Young Composers Competition for his work Four fragments.[4][5] In 2003–2004 he was composer in residence with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, a position he shared with Anthony Young.[4][5] He received the Composers Association of New Zealand Trust Fund award in 2005.[3]
Lardelli has studied in Europe and his works have been performed internationally. He received a Creative New Zealand Edwin Carr Scholarship in 2006 which he used to study with Stefano Bellon in Venice.[6] He worked with de:Dieter Mack at the Lübeck Musikhochschule in Germany from 2009 to 2010.[6] His music has been performed at the Gaudeamus music week in Amsterdam, the Darmstadt New Music Festival and in Europe, Asia, North American and Australia.[2][6][7]
In 2017 he received funding from the APRA AMCOS Arts Music Fund to compose a work for the German ensemble Musikfabrik to tour Germany, New Zealand and Japan.[8][9]
Lardelli was the University of Otago's Mozart Fellow for two years in 2018 and 2019.[10][11][12]
Selected works
- Four fragments: chamber ensemble (2002)
- Three colours: for orchestra (2002)
- To my winter: for solo oboe (2002)
- From grey : introduction and movement for string orchestra and harp (2002)
- First ice (Lachrymae) : prelude and movement for solo guitar (2002)
- Eidolon : solo cello (2003)
- Reign : a “landscape prelude” for piano (2005)
- Duo for oboe and guitar (2005)
- Revenir. II : for saxophone quartet (2005)
- Tumbu : for solo clarinet and orchestra (2005)
- Frederick Street fragment : for children's chamber orchestra (2007)
- Pan awakes : for orchestral wind & brass (2009)
- Arrangements : for saxophone quartet (2011)
- Duo for oboe and guitar (2011)
- Mobiles : for flute, violin, clarinet, cello and piano (2011)
- Hiki-iro : for solo koto (2012)
- Refining metals : for piccolo/bass flute, soprano saxophone and percussion (2012)
- One body : for clarinet quartet (2013)
- Between strings : for violin, cello, guzheng, piano (2013)
- Mapping, an inlay : for string quartet (2015)
- Conditions of forgetting : for tenor recorder, electric guitar, percussion, violin, cello and double bass (2016)
- Walking : for Electone (2018)
- Carrying : for flute, and bass recorder (2018)
- Holding : for shō, oboe, recorder, violin and koto (2018)