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Alex Lindsay String Orchestra

In 1948 violinist Alex Lindsay founded the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra, one of the most important orchestral institutions in this country’s history. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the...

Barry Anderson (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Barry Anderson was born in Stratford, New Zealand. He studied piano, viola,and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1952-1956, and later studied piano with Edwin Fischer and...

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APRA

Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA) is a non-profit service organisation, established in 1926,...

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Auckland Youth Orchestra

The Auckland Youth Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1948 to bridge the gap between secondary school orchestras and adult professional groups. More than 2000 young adults between the ages of 18-24...

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Tony Baker

Born Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 2-3-39. Educated at Monte Cecilia College, Auckland 1946-51 and Sacred Heart College, Auckland 1952-7. Studied clarinet and flute with James Fawcett and...

Susan Beresford

Susan Beresford (Susan Platts Mills) was born in Karori, Wellington in 1935. Her mother, Majorie Fitzherbert Mills, who died when Susan and her three siblings were small children, had been a gifted...

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Jonathan Besser (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Composer/Pianist Jonathan Besser was born in New York City in 1949, and studied composition in New York at the Mannes College of Music and with David Loeb. Resident in New Zealand since 1974 ,...

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Jonathan Besser

Jonathan Besser’s biography is published under his composer profile here

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Gillian Bibby (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Gillian Bibby is one of New Zealand’s foremost piano teachers, a pianist, composer and writer on music. She studied at the University of Otago, then for several years each at the Berlin...

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Rod Biss

Rod Biss grew up in Wellington, from 1951-53 he studied at Victoria University, then moved to London where after further study joined the music publishers, Schott, moving on to Faber Music as...

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