Title/Creator: Composing for screen and stage - a workshop series with composer Poulima Salima
Artform: Music composing for stage and screen
Timeframe: 2024 dates TBC
Location: Māngere Arts Centre Nga Tohu O Uenuku
Following the success of launching this Workshop Series in early 2023, Poulima Salima is offering the series again in 2024. Workshop topics include, the fundementals of music composition, understanding the software used in professional notation and preservation of Pasifika languages, stories and history in the text and word setting of a score. This time around the series will include a live showcase of Poulima’s compostions performed by highly trained musicians.
Poulima wishes to share his insights, experience and creative work as New Zealand’s leading Pasifika Composer for stage and screen productions. His highly inspiring series of workshops equips participants of all ages and stages of their music career and involves audience participation.
Feedback received from the workshop held this year:
”I really like how you showed us where the music journey started. I will also keep you tips in mind for my own music writing” - Nalisa.
Poulima Salima Mamea hails from the villages of Safotu, Faletagaloa Safune, Savai’i, and Faleasi’u, Upolu, Samoa. He has composed numerous scores for theatre, film, musicals, art exhibitions, choreographed dance, animated games and opera. In 2005, he graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) specialising in Composition, and his dissertation was based on Wagner’s epic The Ring of Nibelung. In 2011, Poulima was music composer for New Zealand’s first professional Pacific musical The Factory. For the 2014 Australia tour, The Arts Centre Gold Coast was quoted thus: “a soundtrack written by Poulima Salima of the most heartfelt music to come from across the Tasman”. The Factory was a headlining show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland and 2019 saw the sold-out premiere of Alofagia: Le Opera which he composed and conducted including the music for string orchestra, band and songs for Sol3 Mio. Along with five other New Zealand composers, Poulima has been commissioned to compose a piano piece “Perspectives” for Juilliard School Doctorate graduate (New York) and world renowned concert pianist Professor Henry Doe Wong. Poulima is mentored by renowned maestro Gary Daverne ONZM.
