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ClaireCowan

  • Composer
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Since graduating with honours in composition from Auckland University in 2006,  Claire Cowan has made waves with her sounds. Working in a range of genres for both stage and screen, Cowan was awarded a Silver Scroll in 2017 for her work on Hillary, a miniseries about iconic mountaineer Edmund Hillary. Cowan has also composed for telefeature Runaway Millionaires (2019) — which won Best Original Score at the 2020 NZ Television Awards — and two seasons each of TV thriller One Lane Bridge (2020) and drama Under The Vines. In 2021, she was named Te Kaipuoro Inamata Toa/ Best Classical Artist at the APRA AMCOS Awards.

Screenography

Vivie
2024 Composer Short film
Jean Cocteau
2024 Composer Film
Angelo
2023 Composer Short film
Under the Vines
2021 - 2024 Composer Series
NZSO Storytime
2021 Composer Series

Awards

2024 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate

2023 New Zealand Television Awards/Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Original Score: for Under The Vines, season 2

“In music and art I admire simplicity, emotion and originality.”

Claire Cowan
Claire Cowan | NZ On Screen