Dylan Lardelli (born 1979) is a New Zealand composer and guitarist. He is of Māori Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tūhoe descent.
Dylan Lardelli | |
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Genres | Classical |
Occupation(s) | Composer |
Website | http://www.dylanlardelli.com |
Lardelli was born in Wellington in 1979 of Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tūhoe descent.[1][2] He attended school in Hawkes Bay, starting to learn the guitar in the 5th form (Year 11 in the New Zealand school system).[3]
He enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington to study guitar and composition, where his lecturers were John Psathas, Ross Harris and Jack Body.[3] He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in guitar and, in 2003, a Masters in composition.[4]
Lardelli won first prize in the 2003 Asian Composers League Young Composers Competition for his work Four fragments.[4][5] In 2003–2004 he was composer in residence with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, a position he shared with Anthony Young.[4][5] He received the Composers Association of New Zealand Trust Fund award in 2005.[3]
Lardelli has studied in Europe and his works have been performed internationally. He received a Creative New Zealand Edwin Carr Scholarship in 2006 which he used to study with Stefano Bellon in Venice.[6] He worked with de:Dieter Mack at the Lübeck Musikhochschule in Germany from 2009 to 2010.[6] His music has been performed at the Gaudeamus music week in Amsterdam, the Darmstadt New Music Festival and in Europe, Asia, North American and Australia.[2][6][7]
In 2017 he received funding from the APRA AMCOS Arts Music Fund to compose a work for the German ensemble Musikfabrik to tour Germany, New Zealand and Japan.[8][9]
Lardelli was the University of Otago's Mozart Fellow for two years in 2018 and 2019.[10][11][12]