Cadence is a woman of many talents: she's a poet, composer, mezzo-soprano, piano teacher and a RNZ Concert presenter and she's only 21.
Cadence's book picks:
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
How to be dead in a year of Snakes by Chris Tse
Cadence's music picks:
Mon coeur souvre a ta voix (from Saint-Saens's opera Samson and Delilah) by Elina Garanca
Nausicaa by Sarah Kirkland Snider, sung by Emily D'Angelo.
Leaving the City by Joanna Newsom
Double Mother by Cadence Chung, words by Jackson McCarthy.