The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) is a symphony orchestra based in Wellington, New Zealand. The national orchestra of New Zealand, the NZSO is an autonomous crown entity owned by the Government of New Zealand, per the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Act 2004. It is currently based in the Michael Fowler Centre and frequently performs also in the adjacent Wellington Town Hall. It also performs in Auckland and Christchurch and Dunedin. 　　The NZSO has recorded several LPs and many CDs, several with internationally known soloists such as Alessandra Marc and Donald McIntyre. In the last decade it has sold 500,000 CDs. It records at least one CD of New Zealand music each year. It has made a number of recordings on the American Koch label and now (2007) records regularly with Naxos.The latest recordings are two CDs of music by Jean Sibelius[9] and one CD of music by Einojuhani Rautavaara. 　　In 2012, the NZSO collaborated with Booktrack and Salman Rushdie to create music for an enhanced editionofRusdhie's short story In the South . The NZSO recorded part of Howard Shore's score for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, notably the "Mines of Moria" sequence, as well as an alternate version of the cue "The Breaking of the Fellowship". The NZSO also performed and recorded Howard Shore's score for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. 　　The NZSO was nominated for Best Orchestral Performance at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards which took place in Los Angeles in February 2016. 　　A recording of works by Pulitzer Prize-winning Chinese composer Zhou Long and the Symphony ‘Humen 1839’, written in collaboration with compatriot Chen Yi, was in the running for the Award. Singaporean Darrell Ang conducted the recording, which was recorded in Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre in June 2013 and released on the Naxos label in May 2015. The Grammy Award went to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for its recording Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphony No. 10. The other nominees included the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony and The Oregon Symphony. It was the first Grammy nomination for the NZSO.