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Godfrey de Grut

Godfrey de Grut currently lectures for the University of Auckland's Popular Music degree in the areas of composition, music theory and piano studies, but he ...

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Ivan Clayden

Ivan Clayden is a Composer and Performer based in Wellington. He graduated from New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī with a Bachelor of Music in Composition...

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Barbara Phare

Barbara Wilcox was born in Dulwich, London and emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1963, settling in Papakura. She stated playing the piano at age 5 ...

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Karl Steven

Karl Steven is a New Zealand/Swedish composer writing primarily for film and television. His work has received multiple awards, including Best Original Music...

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Rob Thorne

Ngāti Tumutumu

Composer, Performer, Improvisor, Collaborator, Anthropologist, Specialist New Zealand Māori composer, performer, improvisor, collaborator,...

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Komako Silver

Ngāti Pakahi, Ngā Puhi

Komako Silver is a filmmaker and taonga pūoro artist based in Waikato who integrates her spirituality-based upbringing with her mu...

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Juliet Woller

Juliet Woller is HOD Music at New Plymouth Girls' High School. She gained a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Otago under the tutelage ...

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Ihlara McIndoe

Ihlara McIndoe is a composer and musicologist from Ōtepoti Dunedin, currently based in Montreal, Canada. Her work has been performed and recorded in Aotearoa...

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Horomona Horo

Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Taranaki

Composer and taonga pūoro practitioner, Horomona Horo has fused traditional Maori instruments, taonga pūoro, with a diverse...

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Philip Dadson

Phil Dadson is a sound and intermedia artist with an interdisciplinary practice including solo performances and exhibitions, building experimental instrument...

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Antonia Barnett-McIntosh

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh is a composer, performer, sound artist and freelance curator with an interest in working across disciplines, particularly with speec...

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Gareth Farr

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

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John Charles

John Charles was best-known in New Zealand as one of the country’s first composers to make his mark on film, thanks to his varied and distinctive scores for ...

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Nick Granville

Wellington-based jazz musician, Nick Granville works with a diverse range of sounds and styles. He is capable of playing everything from jazz to rock, pop, f...

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Michael Bell

Michael Bell is a resident organist, composer and music teacher at King’s School, Remuera, Auckland. He studied organ and harpsichord with John Wells at the ...

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Hamilton Dickson

Hamilton Dickson (1906–1980) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, where early in his musical career he became involved with theatre performances. As a cell...

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Alfred Hill

Alfred Hill (1869-1960) was New Zealand's first fully professional composer and a leading figure in Australian music from the early years of this century. Wi...

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Alan Heathcote White

Whanganui-born composer Alan Heathcote White was educated at Wellington College where he began composing. He claimed descent from Carl Maria von Weber. He be...

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Henry Charles Luscombe

H. (Henry) C. (Charles) Luscombe was born in Auckland. He was runner-up to Douglas Lilburn in the first Philip Neill Memorial Prize (1944), and the winner th...

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Greg Crayford

Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Tūwharetoa HOD Music, Rongotai College

Greg has over thirty years professional experience ...

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Jessie Leov

Jessie Leov (MMus) is an award-winning composer, songwriter and musician, based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Active in the industry for over a decade, Jessie’s pract...

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Poulima Salima

Owner and director of SALIMA MUSIC LTD, established in 2010. I am a professional Composer, Educator and Director of Music. In 2005, I graduated with a Bachel...

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Lin Zheng

Lin Zheng is a composer and zheng performer, who is a Ph.D. candidate in Music at the University of Auckland, under the supervision of Associate Professor Le...

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Jordan Stevenson

Jordan Stevenson is a composer, orchestrator, and musician from New Zealand. Coming from the contemporary music scene as an experienced drummer, Jordan studi...

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Kevin Clark

Pianist, trumpet player, composer and educator Kevin Clark has been leading various groups in Wellington for over fifty years and has covered a lot of ground...

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Salina Fisher

Salina Fisher (b.1993) is an award-winning New Zealand composer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Her highly evocative music often draws on her Japane...

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Ivan Zagni

Ivan Zagni is a New Zealand-based musician and composer who has been a member of bands such as Jody Grind, Big Sideways and Avant Garage, and has recorded al...

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Lucy Pollock

Lucy Pollock's compositional work ranges from contemporary classical to electronic and popular music genres.

Originally from Ōtepoti but now based in Te ...

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Rosemary Russell

Rosemary Russell grew up in a musical vicarage family, primarily singing hymns. At eight years old, she was exposed to the choral music of the Auckland Cathe...

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Pere Wihongi

Te Rarawa, Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti Wai

Pere Te Ruru o Te Ramana Wihongi, commonly known as Pere Wihongi, is an award-winning composer who originally c...

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Rosie Langabeer

Hailed by the New York Times for her ability to time bend, Rosie Langabeer is a rare combination of musical intelligence and practice along with irreverence ...

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Briar Prastiti

Briar Prastiti (b. 1992) is a composer and vocalist of New Zealand and Greek Cypriot descent. She hails from from Tauranga, New Zealand and is currently base...

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Josiah Carr

Josiah is a composer, conductor and performer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has just finished his masters degree in composition studying with Leonie Hol...

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Luka Reardon

Luka Reardon is a Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist, composer, oboist and recorder player originally from Te Waipapa Diamond Harbour in Banks Peninsula. Her...

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Rod Biss

Rod Biss gained his Bachelor of Music at Victoria University College in the days of Frederick Page and Douglas Lilburn. This was followed by further study at...

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Mallory Elmo

Mallory Elmo is a composer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She is devoted to noise, her friends, God, the sky, and Pierre Boulez. Xyr compositional work starte...

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David Woodcock

Originally from Wales, David studied music at University in Bangor, Wales, with composer William Mathias, then trombone at the Welsh College of Music and the...

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Hanzhong Kang

Hanzhong Kang is a distinguished Composer, Music Educator and Guitarist, and a member of the Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ), making significant ...

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Amelia Lee

Amelia Winifred Lelièvre–Lee was born in Napier and became a well-known teacher, composer and performer in the Hawkes Bay. At 22, while living in Auckland, s...

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Nathaniel Otley

Nathaniel Otley is a composer, violinist and conductor based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin. He completed his MusB(Hons) at Otago University in 2019 studying violin wit...

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James Gardner

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-k...

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Joel Cooper

Ngāi Tahu

Joel Cooper is a Wellington-based composer, producer, musician with a passion for scoring music to visual media including film and TV.

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Richard Fuchs

Richard Fuchs was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, the eldest son of a well established German Jewish family. Although he trained as an architect, he was a gifte...

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Owen Jensen

Owen Jensen studied music at Auckland University under William Thomas but left before completing his degree. He’d initially studied engineering but a passion...

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Arthur Fieldhouse

Professor Arthur Fieldhouse became one of the most important figures in school music teaching, and was an early advocate for Music Therapy. Along with his wi...

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Nathanael Dejong

Nathanael is a classically trained violinist and pianist who developed an interest in music composition during his early teens. He studied privately with Sir...

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Christopher Prosser

Photo credit: Stephen A'Court

Chris Prosser is a violinist-composer who writes music primarily to perform and record himself, as a solo artist and i...

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Ariana Tikao

Kāi Tahu

Ariana is a singer, composer, leading player of taonga puoro (Māori instruments) and New Zealand Arts Laureate. She writes waiata exploring the...

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal

Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāpuhi

Dr Charles Royal (Te Ahukaramū) is an independent composer, teacher, researcher and cultural leade...

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Andrew Perkins

Dr Andrew Perkins was born in Warkworth, New Zealand. He attended Auckland University from 1980 till 1985, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Music (1...