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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...
Add to wishlistJonathan 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 ,...
Denis Betro
While still in his teens Denis Betro came to the UK from New Zealand to study music at the Royal College of Music. He supported himself in this endeavour by busking on the streets of London for...
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...
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...
Murray Biggs
Born Timaru 10-3-54. Educated Tawa College, Wellington 1967-72; Victoria University of Wellington 1973-5 (BMus 1976); Auckland Secondary Teachers College 1976; Berklee College of Music, Boston,...
Brigid Ursula Bisley (Fully Represented SOUNZ Composer)
Brigid Ursula Bisley (B.Mus., LTCL, founder of Waitakere City Orchestra) was in born in 1961 in Hamilton. She came from a musical family and...
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...
Warwick Blair
In the late 1980s, having barely begun what is now a 20-year career, Composer Warwick Blair was already being described as “one of New Zealand’s most original musical thinkers”...
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...
