Sub Navigation
Search People
Search for people or organisations by typing a word or phrase in the box below or by selecting one or more categories from the list on the side
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...
Add to wishlistTony 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...
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 ,...
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...
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...
Christopher Blake (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
Christopher Blake’s compositions encompass a wide variety of music. He has undertaken commissions for all the major music organisations in New Zealand including the Auckland Philharmonia...
Don Blume
Don Blume was born in 1925. When at school he was taught piano and theory, and won a prize for composition. After leaving school he studied the violin for about three years, and later resumed his...
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,...
Jillian Bray
Jillian Bray (b. 1939)
It is primarily as a writer of hymn tunes that Jillian is known. Of about fifty published hymns, most are to texts by Shirley Murray, who is among the foremost writers...
