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Seth Haapu

Te Atihaunui-ā-Pāpārangi, Tahitian

Seth Haapu is a modern-classic image of South Pacific identity who writes, produces, and sings. Yet, he has hardly purs...

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Peter Adams

Peter Adams is an Emeritus Professor in the Music Department of Otago University and a well-known conductor. Peter was educated in Dunedin, completing a Mus....

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Roy Tankersley

Roy Tankersley is a music graduate of Victoria University and completed postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music. He has been involved in music ...

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Sebastian Black

Sebastian Black is an NZ / British musician, born in 1996 in Colchester, UK. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the University of Oxford, before stu...

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Paul Dyne

Paul Dyne is one of New Zealand's most experienced and highly regarded jazz musicians and teachers.

Music was a big part of Paul's life from an early stag...

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Adrien de Croy

Adrien de Croy was born in 1968 in Wellington, and grew up in Hamilton and later Cambridge. He graduated with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Auckl...

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Linda Dallimore

Linda Dallimore is an emerging composer hailing from Auckland, New Zealand. Her works explore texture, colour, and often draw inspiration from the environmen...

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Julian Kirgan Báez

Julian is an emerging composer and multi-instrumentalist from Wellington who has enjoyed a diverse freelance career over the last decade as a trombonist span...

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Peter Hobbs

Peter Hobbs is a composer, musician and producer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He creates evocative soundtracks for feature films, documentaries, experient...

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David Chisholm

Auckland-based David Chisholm is internationally recognized as a composer defined by diverse and hybrid collaboration and a curator and producer of vision an...

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Adrian Tangaroa Wagner

Te Whānau ā Apanui, Te Ātiawa, Te Ati Haunui ā Pāpārangi (Whanganui), Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Apa, Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko O Te Ika, Ngāti Kahungunu

Adria...

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Robert Wiremu

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tuwharetoa

As an occasional composer, Robert has been relatively prolific in output. A student of the late Jack Body, ...

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Nicholas Denton Protsack

An ongoing aspiration of BMI Award-winning composer and cellist, Nicholas Denton Protsack, is to seek new connections between music and the natural world. Ca...

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James Instone

James Instone is a Music educator, composer, performer and conductor who is passionate about Music education, new music and the musical cultures of South Eas...

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Chris Artley

Originally from England, Chris Artley studied Music at University of Bristol (1981–84) with composer Derek Bourgeois. He has spent 30 years teaching music in...

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Takerei Komene

Ngāpuhi

Takerei Komene (They/Them) is a composer, singer, instrumentalist, actor and conductor from Auckland. They are currently completing a Bachelor of ...

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Grace Shaw

Grace Shaw is a postgraduate student studying performance, composition and research at the University of Otago. Growing up in the farmlands of South Canterbu...

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Tama Waipara

Ngāti Ruapani, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou

Opotiki-raised Tama Waipara was studying performance clarinet at New York’s Manhattan School of Music when a fre...

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Edwin Carr

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, in August 1926, Edwin James Nairn Carr studied music at Otago and Auckland Universities from 1944 to 1947, then travelled to L...

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Adam Whiskin

Adam is a Wellington-based musician. He has been composing since he was around 10, and has found a deep passion in it that has been growing ever since. He co...

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Benjamin Sneyd-Utting

Benjamin Sneyd-Utting is a Wellington-based composer and cellist. He began composing early, with an entry in a collection of New Zealand works—[Take Flight...

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Henry Meng

Henry Meng is a New Zealand composer and pianist based in Auckland. As a composer, he was winner of the 2023 edition of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s ...

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Vernon Griffiths

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

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Linda Heart Filimoehala

Linda's musical odyssey began in Auckland, where she quickly emerged as a rising star. At the age of 19, she clinched her first open-age championship in the ...

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David Atai

David Atai hails from the Cook Islands. As a producer, composer, and audio engineer, he has become a beacon of creativity, seamlessly blending his cultural r...