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175 East

175 East, one of New Zealand’s foremost contemporary music ensembles, presents concerts of cutting-edge music. Since its inception in 1996, the ensemble has performed over 215 pieces,...

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Scilla Askew

Scilla Askew is an arts administrator and singer. She studied at Otago University, taking her first singing lessons with Honor McKellar, and graduating with degrees in Music and English. Further...

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Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

In 1980, 19 musicians of the Auckland Symphonia founded a new orchestra that has now achieved regional icon status as the Auckland Philharmonia. Resident in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest...

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Penny Axtens (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Penelope Axtens completed an Honours degree in Composition at the University of Auckland, and completed studying a Masters degree at Victoria University of Wellington in 1999. She won the inaugural...

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Andrew Baldwin

Andrew Baldwin was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and graduated with a First-class Honours degree in Composition from the New Zealand School of Music under the tutelage of Michael Norris, John...

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Eric Biddington (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Eric Biddington was born in Timaru in October 1953. He received his schooling in Timaru and Christchurch. On leaving school he started work as a labourer and combined this with study at the...

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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,...

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Helen Bowater (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Helen Bowater graduated BMus (Hons) in music history and ethnomusicology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1982. She later studied composition with Jack Body and electroacoustic music with...

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Philip Brownlee (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)

Philip Brownlee is a composer and sonic artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. He composes for both instrumental and acousmatic media, and many recent works are concerned with the transference of...

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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...

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