Colin Decio Composer & Pianist

Moved house

17/6/2021

Delighted to now be resident in Kapiti

Two new works for full orchestra

8/3/2021

Parihaka & A Day Trip to White Island/Whakaare

Three new works now available to buy from Sounz

9/12/2020

Piano Sonata No. 1
Sonatina No.3 for Cello and Piano
Lord Have Mercy - for viol consort (6 players)

SOUNZ Brass Composition Prize 2020

29/6/2020

Delighted to have my Barcarolle for Cornet and Piano 'Highly Recommended' in the Sounz Brass Composition Contest 2020 - Video on YouTube

Super Concert

15/10/2018

Huge thanks to Palliser Viols for performing the premiere of my work Lord Have Mercy, which was written specially for them.

Roger the Badger - by Colin Decio & Ingrid Prosser
with sketches by Colin Decio

Roger the Badger is an A3 zine story written specially for younger children.

To order a copy please Contact me.

- $4 each (includes postage for NZ)

Lunchtime Piano Recital

1/8/2018

I enjoyed giving a Piano Recital today, 1st August 2018 in St. Marks Church, Lower Hutt lunchtime concert series.
A programme of Haydn, Rachmaninov, Debussy and Ravel. An audience member requested that I play one of my own piano works as an encore, but none prepared. Will include a composition of mine in the next concert there. Possibly my Sonata No.2 'Spirits of our Age II' inspired by the Hieronimous Bosch painting - 'Christ Carrying the Cross'.

A lovely Bosendorfer

My wife and performance poet, Ingrid Prosser, is in the background. She introduced today's piano pieces and gave them an historic context, which the audience really appreciated.

Winner of the New Zealand Double Reed Society Competiton 2018

27/7/2018

Absolutely delighted to announce that I won both the First Prize and the Audience Award at the New Zealand Double Reed Society Chamber Music Competition July 2018. Simply over the moon!