Press - Interviews - Awards
Press
"New Zealander Rosa Elliott’s Those Others 2015 is a fine composition with delicate piano accompaniment." Otago Daily Times' reviews a New Zealand Youth Choir concert. Read here.
"The unusual combination of vocal effects, occasional distinct words, the melodic attractiveness, Stephens’ excellent violin contribution offered lively variety... I was won over by the unusual character of this trio of songs, their confident, surprisingly grounded feeling. I think they have a life." Lindis Taylor reviewing Songs for Sisters (O Bird, Out of Reach, Ojála) performed by Supertonic. Read here.
In Feminea Forma "moves between beauty and chaos, and draws the range of ideas and feelings evoked by the diverse parts of the concert together into one piece." Booksellers NZ review WORD Christchurch 2018: Free Radicals. Read here.
"The album takes its name from Rosa Elliott’s Landfall, the composer describing “celestial soundscape to earthly landing”. This spacious music, influenced by the meditative tintinnabula works of Arvo Pärt, provides the album’s still centre". Fivelines review Justin DeHart's album of NZ percusssion music, Landfall. Read here.
"A great performance which the choir seemed to enjoy. Great, yet difficult choral writing which paired well with the piano played by Rachel Song. Next was Light, a world premiere commissioned by Luminata Voices for this specific concert...Luminata were able to get inside the score and really do the piece justice - a thrilling performance." Review of Out of Reach and Light at Luminata Voices' concert Let Her Voice Shine. Read here.
"Rosa Elliott, who has been a dream to work with, created music inspired by Mary Ann Evans, who famously wrote Middlemarch under her male pseudonym George Eliot," Stone said. Stuff interviews Supertonic director Isaac Stone. Read here.
"This trio confirms her tendency towards peaceful and contemplative expression, creating a rather tranquil mood. But the music is grounded in realism." Tony Ryan reviews a painting of three in Les Bon Vivants. Read here.
Interviews
RNZ interview Rosa Elliott and Isaac Stone about Supertonic's female-composer focused concert, and the three new commissions by Rosa Elliott. Listen here
RNZ interview Rosa Elliott and Jenny Wollerman about the 21 x 21: beneath the trees project. Listen here
Rosa Elliott discusses the experience of workshopping her winning composition, Seas Unexplored, with Voices New Zealand. Listen here
Awards
2022 - Winner of the University of Auckland Douglas Lilburn Composition Prize for Small Holes in the Silence
​​​​​​2022 - Finalist of the NZ Trio Composition Competition for Small Holes in the Silence ​
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2021 - Winner of the NZCF Compose! Aotearoa Under-25 category and Composer-in-residence position
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2021 - Awarded Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Rising Star Composer-in-residence position
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2020 - Selected for the NZSO NZ Composer Sessions for What Have You Done to Your River?
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2020 - Winner of the University of Auckland Douglas Lilburn Composition Prize for Songs of Suffragettes
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2018 - Winner of the University of Canterbury Douglas Lilburn Composition Prize for What Have You Done to Your Rivers?’
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2017 - Winner of the University of Canterbury Douglas Lilburn Composition Prize for Landfall
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2017 - Finalist of the NZ Trio Composition Competition for Voices of the Air
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2016 - Runner-Up for the University of Canterbury Douglas Lilburn Composition Prize for Seabird
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2015 - Winner of the SOUNZ Big Sing Composition Competition for Requiem