Robin Toan
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Robin Toan is one of New Zealand’s leading young composers. She has had multiple works performed in Oceania, Asia, Europe and America by leading ensembles and soloists. She has received awards in composition competitions both in New Zealand and internationally. At 24, she has already been a resident composer on two occasions, received a number of commissions and has been the recipient two high profile scholarships.
She graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition and performance clarinet in 2004. In 2005 she achieved first class honours in composition at the University of Auckland studying under John Elmsly and Eve de Castro-Robinson. She has recently completed her Master of Music degree under the supervision of John Psathas at the New Zealand School of Music.
In 2007 Robin traveled to Europe to further her studies in composition with the support of the Edwin Carr Foundation Scholarship and the inaugural New Zealand Australasian Performing Rights Association Professional Development Award. She had tuition from Nicola LeFanu, Roger Marsh, Dieter Mack and Dorothy Ker. With the assistance of the NZ / France Friendship Fund Robin traveled to Paris to attend rehearsals and the premiere concert of a new work, Dans la Nuit, for string orchestra, performed by Orchestre 2021 under the direction of Elizabeth Askren in December 2006.
[edit] Works
- Fanfare for Manukau for Orchestra (2007)
- Tutukaka for violin and piano (2007)
- Le Marteau du Destin for mixed chamber ensemble (2003-6)
- Dans la Nuit for string orchestra (2006)
- La Sagrada Família for orchestra (2006)
- Turista di Venezia for orchestra (2006)
- Games for solo cello (2006)
- Barcelona Postcards for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2005)
- Tü-mata-uenga for orchestra (2005)
- Violaceous for solo violin (2004)
