The NZSO-SOUNZ Readings was a collaborative project which aimed to increase the performance of orchestral music by New Zealand composers. SOUNZ and the NZSO generally held the Readings twice a year in Wellington. Between 1998 and 2011, 100 works by 52 New Zealand composers were included in the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings project, about a third of which have now received further performance or been released on CD.

This form of the NZSO-SOUNZ Readings was changed during 2010 and 2011, becoming the NZSO-SOUNZ-RNZC Recordings. You can read more about the Recordings here.

2011

Stephan Prock: Cages in the Wind
Rod Biss: Waiata Aroha
Ross Harris: Concertino for Piano and Strings
Chris Adams: Anastasis

2010

John Rimmer: Symphony (1968)
Patrick Shepherd: lithosphere - symphony no.1
Leonie Holmes: Ancient Rhythms
John Elmsly: Fantasia: Wild Rhymes of Spring
Michael Williams: Convergence - Triple Concerto

2009

Chris Adams: Fonterra's Mad(rigal)
Noel Sanders: Shirty
Kit Powell: Te Ika A Maui
Tom McLeod: CUT TO: MUSIC
Ross Harris: The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village
Jeremy Mayall: Electric Bass Concerto
Claire Cowan: legend of the trojan bird
Jack Body: Palaran: Poems of Love and War
John Rimmer: Lahar
Karlo Margetić: Xylophone Concerto

2008

Robin Toan: Witch Scarers
Ryan Youens: Rakaia
Clare Maclean: Panah
Jack Body: Meditations on Michelangelo
Simon Eastwood: Aurum
John Elmsly: Metamorphosis
Hermione Johnson: Parallax
Mike Nock: Sketches
Michael Williams: In Saecula Saeculorum
David Hamilton: Caveat Emptor

2007

Anthony Ritchie: Organ Overture
Anthony Young: The Farewell
Johnathan Besser: No Riff
Bruce Crossman: Pacific Dancing
Juliet Palmer: Swerve
Ross Harris: Moanapouri
Jeff Lin: Zen in a Modern Japanese Garden
Gillian Whitehead & Jack Speirs: Symphony: The Islands
Anthony Ritchie: Diary of a Madman: Dedication to Shostakovich

2006

Anthony Young: Bonfire
Dorothy Ker: The Third Dream
Alison Grant: Our Dried Voices
Helen Bowater: Urwachst
Leonie Holmes: Frond
John Psathas: Seikilos
Claire Cowan: Here at this quiet limit of the world
Michael Norris: From the Lonely Margins of the Sea
Chris Watson: Aufsatz
Stephan Prock: Garden Varieties: Four Dance Vignettes
Michael Vinten: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra

2005

David Farquhar: Beyond...
Chris Watson: Pivotal Orbits
Jeremy Mayall: Symphony No.1
Kit Powell: Rothko Variations
Patrick Shepherd: Sinfonietta
Nigel Keay: Diversions 1, 2 & 3
Dorothy Buchanan: Confluence
Samuel Holloway: Fault
Maria Grenfell: River Mountain Sky

2004

Leonie Holmes: Frond
Christopher Marshall: Te Rerenga
Ross Harris: As though there were no God
Christopher Blake: Night Journey to Pawarenga

2003

Anthony Young: Arrival in Opoutere
Dorothy Ker: The Third Dream
Brigid Ursula Bisley: Illumination
Dylan Lardelli: From Grey
Nigel Keay: Diversions 1, 2 & 3
Ross Harris: Orchestral excerpts from opera 'Rasputin'
Fritha Jameson: A Fan of Nelson Fare
Jonathan Besser: The 12
Helen Bowater: River of Ocean
Chris Watson: Aufsatz

2002

Chris Watson: Aufsatz
Michael Norris: From the Lonely Margins of the Sea
Philip Brownlee: Landforms
Nigel Keay: serenade pour cordes / Serenade for Strings
Christopher Marshall: The Song of Gaia

2001

Bruce Crossman: Sound Rituals
John Charles: The Quiet Earth
Christopher Blake: Angel at Ahipara
Ross Harris: Music for Jonny
Christopher Blake: The Furnace of Pihanga
Bryony Jagger: A New Day Dawns
John Psathas: Seikilos
John Rimmer: Symphony (1968)
Michael Williams: Synaesthesia
Nigel Keay: Symphony in Five Movements
John Elmsly: Of Secrets, Echoes...
Maria Grenfell: Fanfare for a City
Leonie Holmes: Solstice

1998

Dorothy Ker: Darkness and Light
Penny Axtens: Part the First
John Elmsly: Triple Concerto (or Ritual Echoes)
David Farquhar: Harlequin Overture
Ross Harris: The Hills of Time
Anthony Ritchie: Theme and Variations: The Search
David Hamilton: Elysian Fields
Juliet Palmer: Parted Tongues