Title/Creator: Poulima Salima - Professional Pasifika Composer
Artform: Music composition
Timeframe: 2022 - 2023
Location: Māngere Arts Centre Nga Tohu O Uenuku
Poulima will share his creative work as a stage and screen Composer. He will talk about the creative process; ideas, inspiration, music compositions, Director-Composer discussions, orchestrations and getting through writing blocks.
Wednesday 12th July, 10am to 11am.
Thursday 13th July, 10am to 11am.
Saturday 15th July, 10am to 12pm.
Poulima Salima Mamea hails from the villages of Safotu, Faletagaloa Safune, Savai’i, and Faleasi’u, Upolu, Samoa. He has composed numerous scores for theatre, film, musicals, art exhibitions, choreographed dance, animated games and opera. In 2005, he graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) specialising in Composition, and his dissertation was based on Wagner’s epic The Ring of Nibelung. In 2011, Poulima was music composer for New Zealand’s first professional Pacific musical The Factory. For the 2014 Australia tour, The Arts Centre Gold Coast was quoted thus: “a soundtrack written by Poulima Salima of the most heartfelt music to come from across the Tasman”. The Factory was a headlining show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland and 2019 saw the sold-out premiere of Alofagia: Le Opera which he composed and conducted including the music for string orchestra, band and songs for Sol3 Mio. Along with five other New Zealand composers, Poulima has been commissioned to compose a piano piece “Perspectives” for Juilliard School Doctorate graduate (New York) and world renowned concert pianist Professor Henry Doe Wong. Poulima is mentored by renowned maestro Gary Daverne ONZM.
“I was so thrilled when our “call for proposals” attracted the attention of a renowned and award-winning Music professional, Poulima Salima, and together we negotiated a project suitable for Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Arts. I’ll be supporting Poulima to apply to larger funders to achieve the full extent of his project ambitions this year.” Arts Broker, Renee Tanner
