Natalia Mann

Mann started her professional music career in her late teens as a harpist including with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.^[3] Mann creates soundscapes and improvisations, and also plays jazz and classical music.^[5][6]

For ten years Mann lived in Melbourne, Australia. She co-founded the group Samoan trio Sunga,^[4] the Brown Roots Pacific Arts Collective, and the avant-garde group Shima.^[7] She lived in Istanbul for six years^[8] and in 2017 was based in Cairns, Australia.^[9] She has played jazz in Macedonia.^[4]

Mann has played harp with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra.^[3][4]

She recorded on Unified Gecko – Gecko Kebab a collaboration between Australian musicians and the Turkish group Gece.^[7]

Her abstract and conceptual music collaborators include Richard Nunns, Ros Bandt, David Long, Erdem Helvacioglu and ethnomusicologist Robert Reigle.^[10][4]

She has made a documentary Illuminations on Consciousness about 'synaesthesia and collective consciousness in relation to art and nature'.^[10] In 2014 she exhibited lightscores^{[clarification needed]} for resonance music^{[clarification needed]} called Musique Concrète in Wellington.^[10]

In 2011 Mann and percussionist Izzet Kizil released an album Pasif.ist with Rattle Records.^[7][8][11] Other artists on the album are: Sercan Halili, Abdullah Shakar, Dine Doneff, Richard Nunns, Lucien Johnson, Riki Gooch, Serdar Pazarcıoglu, Deniz Gungur, and Naomi Jean O’Sullivan who was co-writer on the track "Time").^[12][13] It reached number four on the New Zealand album charts in its second week.^[7]

Mann often plays harp for Bic Runga.^[14] In 2011 Mann was the opening act for Bic Runga's Acoustic Church Tour of New Zealand.^[7]

Mann collaborated with Neil Ieremia and Black Grace in 2011.^[4][10]

In 2017 the album Utterance was released with compositions created by Mann, David Long and Richard Nunns. The music is described as "improvised soundscapes" and was recorded in 2013.^[15][6] It was the last recording made by Richard Nunns before retirement due to his struggle with Parkinson's disease.^[6]

• 2013 – Iosefa Enari Memorial Award, Arts Pasfika Awards, Creative New Zealand^[3]