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About Promethean
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Promethean Team
Ross Hendy
Lloyd Morrison & Thomas Liggett
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Promethean Team
Publisher & Managing Director – Ross Hendy
Whilst a composition student at Victoria University of Wellington, Ross earned an income as a freelance music copyist and engraver. Following his graduation, he formed Mallabar Music (later incorporated in 1997), which provides music engraving services to Artaria Editions, the Wellington-based publisher of 18th-Century music. This, combined with his enthusiasm for contemporary music, led naturally to his establishment of Promethean Editions as a publisher of contemporary music. Ross was recently the subject of an hour-long documentary on Concert FM, An Appointment with... Promethean Editions.
He is a trustee of the HRL Morrison Music Trust and executive producer for its classical CD label Trust Records, which promotes the talents of New Zealand performers and composers. Notable recent releases have included STRIKE – New Zealand Percussion Music (awarded “Best Classical Album” in the 2001 RIANZ Awards) and Owhiro, a CD of Gareth Farr’s string quartets performed by the New Zealand String Quartet.
Ross presided over the development and implementation of Artscalendar, the definitive on-line guide to arts events in New Zealand, on behalf of the newly established HRL Morrison Arts Trust.
Ross enjoys going to the movies, the company of eccentric Concert FM programming directors, and Ernest Adams’s classic Raspberry Slice (the consumption of which he is currently trying to reduce).
Music Editor – Thomas Liggett
Thomas first met Ross in 1992 at the Big Piano in the first-year composition lecture room at Victoria University. Employed in 1998 as Promethean Editions' Music Editor, Thomas has overseen the typesetting, editing and proofing of all the music published since then, and he is also responsible for dealing with composers on a day-to-day basis.
Thomas enjoys nothing more than sitting down with a brand new manuscript score, a cup of tea and Kurt Stone’s Music Notation in the Twentieth Century – A Practical Guide. He has worked towards creating a modern, practical and elegant house style of musical notation for Promethean Editions, one which is at once consistent yet flexible enough to cope with the all the various musical languages employed by different composers.
For much of his time, Thomas is involved in typesetting music for Mallabar Music. He also works for the HRL Morrison Music Trust. In 2000, he was executive producer of the CD Parihaka – The Art of Passive Resistance, a Trust Records / City Gallery Wellington co-production.
Outside of working hours, Thomas sings (baritone, not tenor), plays the viola and Irish fiddle, and enjoys the company of cats.
Director - Lloyd Morrison
Lloyd established HRL Morrison & Co in 1988, a merchant bank which specialises in the infrastructure industry (and in supporting the arts). Lloyd's business operates from offices in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. In New Zealand his business is well known for the establisment and running of Infratil.
As a long term supporter of the arts and music in particular, he established the HRL Morrison Music Trust in 1995 to support New Zealand musicians and composers, with a special emphasis on the production and marketing of recordings on the Trust
Records label.
The Trust's first project was the recording of Michael Houstoun's performance of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, which won the Recording Industry Association award in 1995 for classical music. In 1996, the Music Trust embarked on a landmark project to record and produce a double-CD set of music by up-and-coming composer Gareth Farr.
More recently, Lloyd established the HRL Morrison Arts Trust which has launched Artscalendar as a site to co-ordinate promotion of the disparate interests of New Zealand's arts sector.
It was Gareth who introduced Ross Hendy to Lloyd, and shortly after he and Ross jointly formed Promethean Editions Limited. Since then, Lloyd has been actively involved in the growth and development of Promethean Editions, working to promote the company and keeping a watchful eye on publishing standards.
When Lloyd is not buying airports on behalf of Infratil he travels the world actively protesting against the intolerable suffering of musicians and audiences held-up for days on end in performances of Wagner's monstrous Ring Cycle. Wherever one of these productions is to be seen, he will be found, selflessly occupying a seat in order that the more fortunate amongst the music-loving public will not have to.
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