As part of an ongoing series on New Zealand music, Flute Focus would like to offer the opportunity for New Zealand composers to present their talents to the world.

We envisage the following process:

· New Zealand composers would write a piece of no more than 2 A4 pages of music, submitted as a pdf file.

· The piece should be of about grade 5-6 standard.

· Style and genre left up to the composer, with any form of flute as a possible instrument.

· The piece will be loaded on the Flute Focus website, originally for a month as a ‘Featured Composition’, and then accessible through a list of compositions.

· The piece will be available for performers to download and use (with copyright retained by the composer), and where relevant usual performance royalties would apply (via APRA).

· The composer would also submit a page of background info and brief biographical notes.

If you would like to take up this opportunity then please click here to go to the submit Content form at www.flutefocus.com

All SOUNZ represented composers are also encouraged to lodge their compositions with SOUNZ – Centre for New Zealand Music.

We also suggest composers consider joining The Composers Association of New Zealand, CANZ, a group of some 135 composers and supportive organizations whose aim is to represent New Zealand’s composition community on matters of national and international importance. Visit: www.canz.co.nz for more information.

Mary O’Brien is a flute teacher based on the North Shore in Auckland, New Zealand. She plays 2nd flute and piccolo with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra and is a past president of the Auckland Flute Society and the New Zealand Flute Society. She is the Editor in chief and the driving force behind Flute Focus.