Eden Mulholland

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Eden Mulholland (born 1979) is a New Zealand composer, musician and dancer. He was a founder of the band Motocade and composes for dance and the World of Wearable Art show.

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Early life and education

Mulholland was born in 1979. [1] He grew up in Christchurch and attended Shirley Boys' High School. [2] He came from a musical household: his father was in a band, his mother played the piano, all of the five children played and sang and he later played in bands with his older brothers Will and Jol. [3] [4] As a child he learnt ballet, studying with Russell Kerr and then completing a performing arts degree at Unitec where he graduated in 1998. [3] [4]

Career

In his career as a dancer Mulholland worked with choreographers Ann Dewey and Sean Durham, and dance companies Touch Compass and Black Grace. [3] [4] [5]

In 2003, when he spent time in London, Mulholland began to compose electronic music and decided to concentrate on music composition. [4] [6] On returning to New Zealand he founded the indie–rock band Motocade with his brother Will. [6] He also played in the indie band the Mots with another brother Jol. [3] [7]

As a composer of dance music Mulholland has worked with the companies Atamira Dance Company and Okareka Dance led by Taiaroa Royal and Taane Mete. [4] Choreographers Michael Parmenter, Sarah Foster-Sproull and Malia Johnston have commissioned him to write works [5] [3] [4] and he has composed three ballet scores for Foster-Sproull including To Hold and Autumn Ball. [5] [8] His album Music for Dance includes sounds tracks from Johnston's dance works. [4] He composed the score of Meremere (2016) a dance piece performed by wheelchair dancer Rodney Bell and directed by Malia Johnston. [9] [10] In 2018, he collaborated with Johnston and video artist Rowan Pierce to create Rushes a combination of live music and dance and video art performed in multiple spaces. [11] [12]

Mulholland composed the music for the opening ceremony of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup held in New Zealand and Australia. [13] From 2022 to 2024, he has been the composer and music director for the World of Wearable Art show in Wellington. [5] [14] [15]

Mulholland currently lives in Brisbane. [5]

Awards and honours

Mulholland has won two awards at the Wellington Theatre Awards: in 2018 he won the Sound Designer of the Year for Meremere and Rushes, [16] and in 2019 he won the Constance Scott Kirkcaldie Award for Outstanding Composer of Music for the dance work Orchids. [17]

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  6. 1 2 3 "Musician hard to pigeonhole". Dominion Post. 20 February 2010 – via Proquest.
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  11. ↑ Whyte, Raewyn (14 January 2017). "Dance review: Rushes". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  12. ↑ Ford, Monique (2 March 2018). "Arts Fest: Rushes not bound by a single genre". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  13. 1 2 Es, Roberto (11 December 2023). "Eden Mulholland music & mischief". New Zealand Woman's Day– via Press Reader.
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