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Leonie Holmes
Leonie Joyce Holmes (born 1962) is a New Zealand composer and lecturer at the University of Auckland with an interest in music education. Early life and educationHolmes was born in Auckland in 1962.[1][2] She began learning piano at age six and attended Pakuranga College. She studied at the University of Auckland from 1981 to 1985, graduating with MMus in composition.[2] Her teachers were Douglas Mews, John Rimmer and John Elmsly.[2] She played the violin in the Auckland Youth Orchestra.[2] CareerIn 1983–1985 Holmes attended the Nelson Young Composers' Workshops and was its first composer-in-residence in 1986.[2] In 1989 she took up a position of Composer-in-Schools working in several Auckland schools.[2][3] She has been Composer-in-Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia in 1997 and with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra in 2005.[3] In 2001 she received the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Composition from the University of Otago. Holmes has an interest in music education and has written for schools and community groups.[3] She writes for orchestras, chamber groups, choirs, solo voice and instruments, and her works have been performed internationally.[3] Holmes has written a number of works on commission.[3] For Just a Little Moment was commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and premiered by the orchestra during a COVID-19 lockdown in November 2020.[4] Holmes's Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra who performed its first public premiere in October 2023. It had been recorded earlier by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.[5][6] As at 2021 she is a senior lecturer in composition at the University of Auckland.[7] Selected works
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