Eve de Castro-Robinson has been commissioned and performed by a wide variety of performers, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia, with whom she was Composer-in-Residence in 1991, Chamber Music New Zealand, the New Zealand String Quartet, NZ Trio, New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, the Nash Ensemble of London and many soloists including Alexander Ivashkin, Jane Manning, Nicholas Isherwood and Stephen De Pledge. Her output ranges from large orchestral to vocal, chamber and electroacoustic works which are performed in NZ and internationally.
In 1986 Pierre Boulez conducted her Interpolations for orchestra in open rehearsal in Wellington. Her Triple Clarinet Concerto was the 1992 NZ entry in the International Rostrum of Composers, Paris and she is twice winner of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award (for Chaos of Delight III in 1998 and These arms to hold you in 2007) and a finalist in 2006. She is also twice winner of the Philip Neill Memorial Prize in Music from the University of Otago. She was the first person to graduate DMus in Composition from the University of Auckland in 1991.
In 2004 she was awarded a 'de Castro-Robinson Portrait' concert in the NZ International Festival of the Arts in Wellington. 2006 saw a special 50th birthday concert mounted in her honour by the Karlheinz Company, University of Auckland and in 2009 the Auckland Chamber Orchestra staged a de Castro-Robinson portrait concert A Resonance of Emerald.
Her large-scale commission for the NZSO The glittering hosts of heaven, was premiered in June 2013. In 2015 Host was commissioned for the Auckland Chamber Choir, and No.3 was commissioned as part of Stroma?s Nine Echoes project. 2016 saw the premiere of the sea-eye flashes by the Aotea Flute Quartet, as well as quiet at her window commissioned by Aventa Ensemble.
a chaos of delight (ACD9806)
breathe (ACD111)
Fanfares for a new Millennium (ACD100)
Flight (ACD709)
other echoes (ACD300)
Releasing the Angel (ACD141)
Ritual Auras (ACD842)
Steep Steps (ACD212)
Tui (ACD313)
