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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...

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Gareth Farr (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Gareth Farr (b.1968) began his studies in composition and percussion performance at the University of Auckland. The experience of hearing a visiting gamelan orchestra prompted his return to...

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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...

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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...

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Gao Ping (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Composer and pianist Gao Ping was born in the city of Chengdu in the Sichuan Province of China. He grew up at the time when China was undergoing its transformation from a collective to a market...

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James Gardner (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

James Gardner was born in Liverpool, England in 1962, and during the 1980s played keyboards for his group The Umbrella and thereafter for a variety of well-known artists, both live and in the...

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Chris Gendall (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Chris Gendall was born in Hamilton, New Zealand and began to develop as a composer in 1999 whilst studying at Victoria University in Wellington where he completed Masters level study in 2004. He...

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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...

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Maria Grenfell (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia in 1969 and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating with a Master of Music degree from the University of Canterbury. She completed further studies in...

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Vernon Griffiths (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Vernon Griffiths was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, England in 1894. Following war service in France, he graduated from Cambridge University and taught at Downside Schoool, Somerset and St...

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