2024 Final placings Compose Aotearoa!

Adjudicators were CANZ Artistic Advisor Robert Wiremu, and renowned New Zealand composers Glenda Keam and Chris Artley.

Winner of additional prize and Composer in Residence – Jacob Barrett.

OPEN category 

Winner: $2000

  • Etaoin, by William Philipson

Highly Commended:

  • Pie Jesu, by Opeloge Ah Sam

  • Salvatore Mundi, by Fergus Byett

Commended:

  • Seek Him That Makes the Seven Stars, by Denzel Panama
  • Hutt Valley Lines, by Peter Willis

UNDER 25 years category

Winner: $2000

  • Star Song, by Jacob Barrett.
Highly Commended:
  • Five Aggregates (Pancankandha), by Hanzhong Kang.
Commended:
  • A Mother’s Embrace, by Cameron Monteath
  • Bakunawa – the Serpent and the Seven Moons, by Jedidah Vinzon
  • Hymnus Ante Somnum – Before Sleep, by Madeline Butler
  • Putira, by Georgina Palmer

WAIATA category 

Winner: $2000
  • Tapu Te Ariki Kia Whakapaingia, by Alice Carter
Highly commended:
  • Papatūānuku, by Takerei Komene