Lilburn's Music
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LILBURN: Allegro For Strings
27 Aug 2020Performed by the strings of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at the 'Kia Kaha!' concert without audience, Auckland Town Hall, 12 June 2020. Video, Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Wind Quintet
20 Nov 2019Zephyr Wind Quintet. Recorded by RNZ Concert, 6 February 2011 Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Suite for solo viola
20 Nov 2019Donald Maurice (viola). Recorded by RNZ Concert, 30 June 2010 Audio
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LILBURN: Bagatelle No 5
23 Dec 2017LILBURN: Bagatelle No 5 - played by Frank Chen, at the 2017 Wallace National Piano Competition Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Forest
1 Dec 2017New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Young. Recorded by RNZ Concert, 28 May 2003. Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Diversions for String Orchestra
16 Feb 2016NZSO conducted by Georg Tintner. Recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert on 18th October 1977. Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Symphony No 1
6 Jun 1987New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Charles Groves. Broadcast in 1987. Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Symphony No 2
17 Dec 2013New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alex Lindsay; in a recording from 24 April 1974.
Symphony No 2 was composed in 1951, and can be seen as a key work in Douglas Lilburn's development: the… Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Symphony No 3
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Hopkins. Recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert, 31 July 1962. Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: A Birthday Offering
1 Jan 2004Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra (now New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) for its 10th birthday. Performed in 2004 by the NZSO with conductor Kenneth Young. Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Festival Overture
1 Jan 2002Performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marc Taddei Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Drysdale Overture
1 Jan 1993Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia, conducted by Enrique Diemecke. Audio
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Douglas LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas (1972)
1 Jan 1972Performed by the NZBCSO, conducted by John Ritchie, narrator Bruce Mason. Audio
Douglas Lilburn was born in Wanganui in 1915. He moved to Christchurch to study at Canterbury University College, and went on to the Royal College of Music, London. He was tutored in composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams and remained at the College until 1939.
He returned to New Zealand the following year, and worked in Christchurch as a freelance composer and teacher.
In 1947 Douglas Lilburn shifted to Wellington to take up a position at Victoria University, and moved up the ranks to a Professor. In 1966 Lilburn founded the Electronic Music Studio at the University and was its Director until 1979, a year before his retirement.
He was presented with the Composers’ Association of New Zealand (CANZ) Citation for Services to New Zealand Music in 1978. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of New Zealand. Douglas Lilburn, described as “the elder statesman of New Zealand music” and the “grandfather of New Zealand music,” died peacefully at his home in Wellington on 6 June 2001.
Archival recordings supplied by Nga Taonga Sound & Vision.
