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Cadence Chung
Cadence Chung is a casual presenter based in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington.
Cadence is a poet, composer, and mezzo-soprano currently studying Classical Voice at the New Zealand School of Music. Her debut poetry book 'anomalia' was published by Tender Press, and her poetry has been published and commissioned widely by Starling, The Spinoff, Landfall, Turbine, Takahē, and others.
She put on her original musical In Blind Faith at BATS Theatre in August 2022, performed her Sapphic lyre compositions at Verb Festival 2022, and composed song cycles to NZ poetry for Cud-Chewing Country, an interdisciplinary concert. She takes her inspiration from dead poets and antique stores.
Cadence Chung joined RNZ Concert as a casual presenter in November 2023.
Photo by Ebony Lamb.
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Search results for Cadence Chung
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The multi-talented Cadence Chung: Retracing the Footsteps of Early Chinese Immigrants
If there’s an aspect of the arts Cadence Chung isn’t involved in, you sense it won’t be long before she tackles it. Encounter is a narrative-led audio walk in Pōneke that follows the stories of early… Audio
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Lilburn Lecture 2024: The music critic - an endangered species in Aotearoa New Zealand? - Elizabeth Kerr
17 Nov 2024Music critic and commentator, Elizabeth Kerr speaks about the role of music critic in the Aotearoa arts ecosystem. She recalls feisty New Zealand music writers from last century, outlines her own… Video, Audio
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Bookmarks with Cadence Chung
Cadence is a woman of many talents: she's a poet, composer, mezzo-soprano, piano teacher and a RNZ Concert presenter. Audio
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Hector meets Hector
6 Jun 2024What if 19th-century composer Hector Berlioz met 21st-century Chinese New Zealander Hector Wong? Poet, composer and playwright Cadence Chung has written a new play, Hector, which imagines just that… Audio
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Chris Tse curates a reading list for Chinese New Year
9 Feb 2024Poet Laureate Chris Tse curates a selection of recent books by Aotearoa’s East and South East Asian writers to mark Lunar New Year.
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Review: Remember Me - Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand
3 Nov 2023Anne Kennedy's new compilation of New Zealand poetry fills a much-needed gap for anyone who's ever needed a poem for a wedding, funeral, or other family occasion, writes Kete Books reviewer Erica…
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Dismay at scale of Victoria University planned cuts
22 Jun 2023Staff and students at Victoria University in Wellington have been shocked at the institution's cost-saving plans, which would involve axing hundreds of positions and getting rid of whole subjects. The… Audio
