Martin Lodge

Martin Victor Lodge (3 December 1954 – 18 December 2024) was a New Zealand composer and Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Waikato.

Life and career Lodge was born in Tauranga on 3 December 1954. He studied English and German at the University of Waikato graduating with an MA in English literature. He went on to do an MMus in composition at Victoria University of Wellington under Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar In 1993 he was the Composer in Residence at the Auckland Philharmonia. He was responsible for archiving the works of music historian and writer John Mansfield Thomson at the university.

Lodge was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2022, and died in Hamilton on 18 December 2024, at the age of 70.

Selected works Publications Lodge, M. (2003). John Mansfield Thomson: Selected Writings. Steele Roberts Ltd. Lodge, M., & Ulenberg, P. (2007). History in the making: The John Mansfield Thomson Archive at the University of Waikato. Canzona, 28(49), 96–97.

Compositions Mozart Brief-Ly I and II (1991) – for two clarinets, two bassett horns and SATB soloists, commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra WAM! - Reminiscences of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1991) – orchestral fantasy on Mozart themes, commissioned by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra Symphony No. 1 (Flowers of the Sea) (1994) Hinterland (1997) – for orchestra Epitaph for Douglas Lilburn (2001) – for solo cello Toru (2003) – for taonga pūoro, cello and clarinet Hau (2005) – for cello and taonga pūoro Farewell for David Farquhar (2007) – for two cellos Pastorale (2008) – for string quartet Oiche ghealai (moonlit night) (2009) – for taonga pūoro and flute Voces naturae - I: Locus iste (2010) – for mixed ensemble, live video and live sonic electronics Aria with Commentary (2011) – for two cellos