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Jack Body (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
Jack Body (born in 1944) studied at Auckland University (1963-67). With a QEII Arts Council grant he attended the Ferien Kurse fur Neue Musik,...
Dorothy Buchanan (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 1945) grew up one of six sisters in a musical family in Christchurch. Following an education in catholic schools she graduated MusB (Hons) in composition from...
John Cousins (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
John Cousins was born in 1943 in Wellington. He received training as a musician, graduating with an honours degree in music from the University of Canterbury in 1965. In 1967 he was appointed to...
Lyell Cresswell (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
Lyell Cresswell was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 13 October 1944. He studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht. After some teaching at Glasgow University he joined Chapter Arts...
Philip Dadson (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
Phil Dadson is a sound and intermedia artist with an interdisciplinary practice including solo performances and exhibitions, building experimental instruments and sonic objects, video/sound...
William Dart
Composer, broadcaster, writer, editor, critic and teacher, William Dart was born in Auckland on 24 June 1947. He was educated at Whakatane High School 1960-4, and University of Auckland 1965-73,...
David Farquhar (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
David Farquhar was born in Cambridge, New Zealand in 1928 but spent most of his early years in Fiji. He was educated in New Zealand and began his university studies in Christchurch before...
Dorothea Franchi
Dorothea Franchi (1921-2003) had distinguished professional careers as both harpist and composer. She studied at the Royal College of Music where, in 1950, she won the Lionel Tertis Prize for her...
Dorothy Freed (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
Dorothy Freed was born in Dunedin New Zealand in February 1919. She was educated in Melbourne, returning to New Zealand in 1936 where she was employed in secretarial and media work before marrying...
Peter Godfrey (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
A farmer’s son from the Fen district of England. A musical mother with ambitions that I should become a chorister in King’s College Chapel Choir. So that was when it started- 1931- the...
