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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...

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...

Jonathan Besser

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

Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

The Central Band of the RNZAF was formed in May 1935 and made its public debut on 12 May 1937, leading a procession through Wellington marking...

Sir Dean Goffin

Sir Dean Goffin was born in Wellington and educated both in Christchurch Technical College and Napier Boys High School. From the Salvation Army family, Sir Dean became bandmaster of the Wellington...

Alex Lindsay

Alex Lindsay M.B.E. was born in Invercargill in 1919 and died suddenly in 1974. He was one of New Zealand’s most famous musicians; a gifted violinist and founder of the Alex Lindsay String...

John McAlpine

The pianist John McAlpine was born in Rawene, New Zealand in 1947. He studied Music at Victoria University of Wellington from 1969 to 1972 where his piano teachers were Diny Schramm and Barry...

Janetta McStay

A New Zealand concert pianist making her professional life in New Zealand playing with some of the world’s greatest artists, a professor at Auckland University exacting precision,...

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NZSO, founded in 1946, is the country’s leading professional orchestra. It has an establishment of 90...

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Since 1923 an amateur orchestra, the Hobart Orchestral Society, had provided concerts for Hobart patrons. In the 1930s the ABC Tasmanian Studio...