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	John Psathas \| Laureate Artist 2003
		John Psathas is not only one of New Zealand's most frequently performed, but also one of the finest amongst the younger generation of composers in this country.
		John's Piano Concerto, commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, (for solo piano, percussion, harp and strings), was premiered at concerts throughout New Zealand by Stephen Gosling with the NZSO under James Judd.
		His music included a number of fanfares and processionals to accompany the arrival of the IOC President, the lighting of the Olympic cauldron and preceded the Olympic oaths, and he was responsible for the soundtrack to the entire flame sequence of the ceremony.
	www.artsfoundation.org.nz /johnpsathas.html (682 words)

	John Psathas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Psathas (born 1966) is a New Zealand composer.
		Psathas studied further with composer Jacqueline Fontyn in Belgium before returning to New Zealand, where he has since lectured in music at Victoria University and continued to fulfil a busy schedule of commissions.
		According to his publisher Promethean Editions, a new work by John Psathas is an individual, unique entity, and his music is like that of no-one else.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Psathas (877 words)

	Creative New Zealand: our work: international (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Psathas, who was engaged in 2003 to compose and arrange music for the Games, commuted several times between Wellington and Athens to work on the music and supervise the rehearsal process.
		John Psathas also arranged the National Anthem of Greece, the Olympic Hymn, and music by Shostakovich, Debussy and the foremost living Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis to accompany other parts of the ceremony.
		John Psathas, whose work has been supported by Creative New Zealand over the years, is a leading figure amongst the younger generation of New Zealand composers.
	www.creativenz.govt.nz /our-work/international/psathas.html (252 words)

	John Psathas at AllExperts
		John Psathas (born 1966) is a New Zealand composer.
		Psathas studied further with composer Jacqueline Fontyn in Belgium before returning to New Zealand, where he has since lectured in music at Victoria University and continued to fulfil a busy schedule of commissions.
		His 'sound' is difficult to define – the harmony and improvisational feel of jazz, the compelling rhythmic drive and excitement of rock music and the sustained repetitive textures of minimalism are apparent as influences, yet they combine and intermingle with something else more intangible.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/john_psathas.htm (927 words)

	Composer
		John Psathas is one of New Zealand's most frequently performed composers.
		A retrospective concert of Psathas' chamber music was given in the 2000 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, culminating with the premiere of the specially commissioned Piano Quintet.
		In 2003 a new CD of chamber works, 'Fragments' was released to critical acclaim and John Psathas has been awarded one of five Artist Laureate Awards which carry a cash prize of $40,000 supported by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.
	www.sounz.org.nz /composer.php?search_for=works&search_by=com.composer_id&keyword_text=P192&keyword_type=match&selected_works=true (627 words)

	John Psathas - Olympics Composer from New Zealand
		John Psathas is New Zealand's most frequently performed composer, his work being played in dozens of countries every year.
		John Psathas may be best known for being chosen from more than 600 international composers to write and arrange 13 pieces of music for the Athens Olympics, including the official fanfares and ceremonial music during the opening and closing ceremonies.
		Psathas has written extensively for Evelyn Glennie, who, in her New York debut devoted nearly half her programme to Psathas pieces, and he is also writing for acclaimed percussionists the SAFRI DUO.
	www.rattle.co.nz /art_psathas.htm (465 words)

	John Psathas grew up in a small town called Taumaranui but then moved to Napier
		John Psathas left high at a young age to study piano and composition at Victoria University in Wellington.
		John Pasthas is known for his very lively and energetic style of music.
		John Psathas is still composing music today and is still up to a very good standard, he now rites music for the New Zealand Symphony and many other international orchestras.
	www.angelfire.com /mac2/escort/jp.htm (167 words)

	John Psathas - Olympics Composer from New Zealand
		At 38, John Psathas is New Zealand's most frequently performed composer, his work being played in dozens of countries every year.
		John Psathas was chosen from more than 600 international composers to write and arrange 13 pieces of music for the Athens Olympics, including the official fanfares and ceremonial music during the opening and closing ceremonies.
		Psathas has written extensively for Evelyn Glennie, who, in her New York debut devoted nearly half her programme to Psathas pieces, and he is also writing for acclaimed percussionists the SAFRI DUO.
	rattle.co.nz /art_psathas.htm (417 words)

	NZ Musician
		John was commissioned to write and arrange the music used in the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2004 Athens Olympics.
		John was born in Wellington, the son of Greek immigrants.
		John cheerfully describes his earlier works as "ultra-caffeinated, fast, full of notes, and murder on performers", but as he has matured as a composer, his works have gained far greater range, depth and power.
	nzmusician.co.nz /index.php/ps_pagename/printversion/pi_articleid/524 (1180 words)

	John Psathas - View From Olympus
		Psathas has written extensively for Evelyn Glennie, who, in her New York debut devoted nearly half her programme to his work, as he is also for acclaimed percussionists The Safri Duo.
		John Psathas grew up in Taumarunui and Napier, left school early to study composition and piano at Victoria University in Wellington, then studied further in Belgium before returning to New Zealand where he has lectured at Victoria University's School of Music since he was 27.
		John Psathas considers View From Olympus as his most commited and compelling work to date.
	viewfromolympus.com /johnpsathas.htm (633 words)

	John Psathas - News
		Psathas has won the prize with his work View from Olympus, premiered at the Royal Gala concert of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in July this year.
		Psathas' Greek heritage comes through strongly in View from Olympus, a double concerto for piano, percussion and orchestra, which was written in Greece - at his family house perched on a cliff looking down the Aegean and up at Mount Olympus.
		John Psathas is no stranger to overseas premieres and performances of his music.
	www.johnpsathas.com /pages/news2002.html (1742 words)

	John Psathas - News
		Further program emphases were new music from Austria and South Tyrol, compositions for percussion with the ensemble The Next Step and soloist Evelyn Glennie, an exhibition and compositions from various periods of Arnold Schönberg's work to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death.
		Pictured (L-R) are John Psathas, Emanuel Psathas, Robert Pammer, Norbert Rabanser, Evelyn Glennie and Gunnar Fras.
		Psathas, who is travelling to Innsbruck to attend part of the Festival says "it’s often the way that composers today don’t get a chance to hear their music performed after the initial premiere.
	www.johnpsathas.com /pages/news2001.html (571 words)

	Rattle News - From Athens to Aotearoa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John, who also teaches at the Victoria School of Music, was chosen from more than 600 international composers to write and arrange 13 pieces of music for the Athens Olympics, including the official fanfares and ceremonial music during the opening ceremony.
		However John Psathas' personal artistic vision was first realized comprehensively in his debut album Rhythm Spike, also picked as NZ Classical Album of the Year.
		John believes his achievement proves there are no limits in pursuing major global endeavours while being based in New Zealand, a sentiment which echoes the increasing growth of New Zealand cultural exports in recent years - particularly music.
	rattle.co.nz /news.htm (888 words)

	John Pule \| Laureate Artist 2004
		John Pule’s many solo exhibitions are in essence narratives of history and place, as are his novels and poetry.
		What is perhaps most remarkable about John’s paintings – that really has no precedent in Polynesian art or in modern western terms – is their fusion of cosmology, cartography, biography and corporeality.
		Peter Simpson, for example, has observed “that in his fiction he adopts techniques which are loosely but suggestively analogous to his paintings… that his work in whatever medium contributes to a multiple but unified project: it is his impassioned vocation to record his family stories”.
	www.artsfoundation.org.nz /johnpule.html (305 words)

	John Psathas - View From Olympus
		John Psathas’ music has been performed by percussion superstar Evelyn Glennie, 11 time Grammy winner Michael Brecker, Sinfonia Dell’Emilia-Romagna ‘Toscanini’, the Halle, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, New Juilliard Ensemble and Double Edge.
		John Psathas is best known as the composer of the key opening music for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
		John Psathas is New Zealand's most frequently performed composer.
	www.viewfromolympus.com /johnpsathas.htm (633 words)

	Rattle News - From Athens to Aotearoa
		John Psathas has been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in the 2005 New Zealand Royal New Year Honours list, in recognition of his services to music.
		John, who also teaches at the Victoria School of Music, was chosen from more than 600 international composers to write and arrange 13 pieces of music for the Athens Olympics, including the official fanfares and ceremonial music during the opening ceremony.
		John believes his achievement proves there are no limits in pursuing major global endeavours while being based in New Zealand, a sentiment which echoes the increasing growth of New Zealand cultural exports in recent years - particularly music.
	www.rattle.co.nz /new_archive.htm (900 words)

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		On the program for the concert are four works: the Trio in G Major, by Claude Debussy, John Psathas’s "Three Island Songs," Victoria Kelly’s "Piece for violin, cello and piano," and the Piano Trio in E minor, op.
		Of the works by the two New Zealanders Psathas and Kelly, Watkins says: "John and Victoria are two of New Zealand’s most prominent composers right now, and we’re very excited to be performing these works on tour.
		John’s piece is highly energetic, within an almost ‘gamelan’ sound world, while Victoria’s has a quiet, lyrical intensity.
	www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/entertain/readarticle.cgi?article=614 (176 words)

	Jack Body - John Psathas - Dan Poynton - Hirini Melbourne [NH]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If you are intrigued and wish to purchase any of these albums, the best way at the moment is via the website (www.rattle.co.nz) although they should be directly available in the UK and Europe in the near future.
		John Psathas is a young New Zealand composer of Greek extraction whose musical star is definitely in the ascendent.
		I hear echoes of both Bartok and John Cage in the various movements but, as usual, Body is very much his own man, and the delicately scored final section is quite exquisite.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Sept02/rattle.htm (2770 words)

	New Zealand School of Music
		The Piano Concerto (for solo piano, percussion, harp and strings), commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, was played throughout New Zealand in April 2004 by Juilliard graduate Stephen Gosling with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under James Judd.
		The principal highlight of 2004 was the exposure Psathas received as the composer of the ceremonial music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
		Psathas is currently recording a CD featuring View From Olympus, the Saxophone Concerto, and the Piano Concerto.
	www.nzsm.ac.nz /people/staff/john-psathas.aspx (304 words)

	Owhiro / Music by Gareth Farr and John Psathas - Full Review
		But Lilburn would be more concerned with the idea that a composer expresses her or his unique experience of life, influenced by a particular time and place, rather than seeks to emulate an established or emerging style to be understood or gain acceptability.
		Psathas talks about his music's energetic character as coming from his involvement with jazz and from his Greek music roots, which he disarmingly describes as "warm-blooded and libido-connected".
		A deeply imbued quality in Psathas' music is a sense of the ineffable, of awe with the size of spaces, physical and spiritual, as in pieces on the new CD such as Motet, Waiting for the Aeroplane, and Abhisheka.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /petermec/nz_music/psathas_full.html (1935 words)

	Digital Conversations - New Zealand composer John Psathas
		John Psathas is a celebrated New Zealand composer of high-energy percussion music and larger-scale concert works.
		John received international exposure as the composer for the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
		John will share his own process of writing and in turn encourages students to ask him questions about performance and composition.
	www.digitalconversations.org.nz /digital_chats/john-psathas2006_e.php (277 words)

	Jack Body - John Psathas - Dan Poynton - Hirini Melbourne [NH]: Classical CD Reviews- Sept 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If you are intrigued and wish to purchase any of these albums, the best way at the moment is via the website (www.rattle.co.nz) although they should be directly available in the UK and Europe in the near future.
		John Psathas is a young New Zealand composer of Greek extraction whose musical star is definitely in the ascendent.
		I hear echoes of both Bartok and John Cage in the various movements but, as usual, Body is very much his own man, and the delicately scored final section is quite exquisite.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classRev/2002/Sept02/rattle.htm (2776 words)

	Independent Music New Zealand
		IMNZ would like to congratulate John Psathas and his associates Rattle Records, Trust Records and Promethean Editions for Psathas’ outstanding achievement in being selected to compose the opening music for the 2004 Olympic Games currently being held in Athens.
		On August 14 Psathas’ composition was broadcast to an audience of around 3 billion people, probably the largest audience a New Zealand musician has ever had.
		Psathas’ debut album ‘Rhythm Spike’ (Rattle) won the Classical Album of the Year award at the 2000 New Zealand Music Awards.
	www.indies.co.nz /NewsAugust2004.html (892 words)

	News \| Victoria University of Wellington
		Mr Psathas, who teaches composition, orchestration and musicianship at the School of Music, was chosen from more than 600 international composers to write and arrange 13 pieces of music for the Athens Olympics, including the official fanfares and ceremonial music used at the opening ceremony.
		Mr Psathas says winning the commission was an ‘incredible honour.’ “It’s the biggest scale event that I’m ever likely to work on, with a potential audience of three billion people.
		Mr Psathas is grateful to the University for the support he received while he was composing the Olympic pieces.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /home/about_victoria/news_article.asp?ArticleID=1042147565 (847 words)

	John Psathas
		John Psathas (b.1966) is one of New Zealand’s most frequently performed composers.
		John is currently working on a large-scale work for the Orpheus Choir of Wellington (with poet Robert Sullivan), to be performed later in 2002, a concerto for the Italian saxophonist Federico Mondelci, to be premiered in Milan in early 2003, and a Piano Concerto for Michael Houstoun and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
		Like an injection of adrenalin direct to the heart of New Zealand classical music comes this new album of chamber music by John Psathas, featuring Jeremy Fitzsimons (percussion), Stephen Gosling (piano) and the New Zealand String Quartet.
	www.trustcds.com /pages/artists/Psathas.html (281 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Psathas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Michael Brecker (born March 29, 1949) in Philadelphia, PA is an American jazz musician.
		Psathas grew up in Taumaranui and then Napier.
		In 2004, Psathas achieved the largest audience for New Zealand composed music when billions heard his fanfares and other music at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympiad.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Psathas (972 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Media / NEWZEDGE : Arts: Music: www.nzedge.com
		NZ composer John Psathas and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa provided some of the high points at Manchester's eclectic "Pulse Festival." The concert was the climax to a six month exploration of Commonwealth arts entitled "Spirit of Friendship," which merged classical, jazz and world music.
		NZ composer John Psathas provided much of the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens Games, including the climactic moment when the Olympic flame was lit.
		Born in NZ to Greek parents, Psathas was not chosen for his heritage but for his ability, which Games organisers discovered on hearing the fanfare he wrote for the opening of Te Papa in 1997.
	www.nzedge.co.nz /media/archives/archv-arts-music.html (5761 words)

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