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Justus is a graduate from the New Zealand School of Music in Music Performance on clarinet.

He started conducting in New Plymouth, with the Taranaki Youth Orchestra. After moving to Wellington, he was conductor of the GateSeven contemporary ensemble and the self-organised AHEM! ensemble.

He regularly conducts with the NIMBY opera company (with whom he conducted the New Zealand premiere of Lyell Cresswell’s Good Angle, Bad Angle, and his own arrangement of the complete The Cunning Little Vixen by Janacek), the SMP ensemble and the Caprice Arts Trust.

In 2007 he premiered Dylan Lardelli’s Sent into Silence with the Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea during the Asia-Pacific Arts Festival 2007. In 2010 he conducted at the CANZ composing workshop in Nelson.

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