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2024 International Alfred Hill Festival
* Online *
November 2024
(9am-3pm NZ Time + Repeat 12 hours later at 9pm-3am)
Festival
Patron
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DONALD MAURICE, Emeritus Professor at Victoria University, Wellington, has performed internationally for five decades as a viola soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. Donald has been a major figure at 20 International Viola Congresses. His discography spans 20 CDs and two films and his live performance of Boris Pigovat’s “Holocaust Requiem” with Orchestra Wellington received critical acclaim here and in Europe and North America. With the Dominion Quartet he recorded on Naxos all 17 string quartets by Alfred Hill. In 2014 he was awarded MNZM for Services to Music. 

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LUIS SAGLIE is an international composer with regular performances and projects in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. Saglie is the recipient of international prizes and awards and acts as curator and adjudicator for international music festivals and competitions. He received formal studies as a composer, conductor and pianist at UCLA as well as Music and Arts University and Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. With over twelve years experience as a University Professor in different countries, Saglie has held positions as Head of Composition Department and Music Director/Conductor. Currently, he teaches at the University of Sydney in Australia.

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