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Pepe Becker

Pepe Becker began her musical life in Nelson, singing in the Cathedral Choir, taking lead roles in school musical productions and playing oboe in local orche...

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Mina Ripia

Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahungunu

Mina Ripia is based in Titahi Bay, Porirua and was one of the original Moa Hunters. She is the key composer for acapella group...

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Awerangi Thompson

Ngati Porou, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngā Tahu.

Whitireia School of Music graduate Awerangi...

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Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake was born in Christchurch in 1949. He studied engineering and music at the University of Canterbury and composition at the University of Sou...

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Barry Vercoe

Barry Lloyd Vercoe, born Wellington 1937 and educated in Auckland, won Otago’s Philip Neill Memorial Prize for his composition 'A Program Suite' while a stu...

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Boris Golovin

Boris Golovin is a New Zealand composer and poet with Russian background.

He studied journalism at the Moscow State University and since that time became ...

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Chen (Tony) Lin

Chinese New Zealand pianist Tony Chen Lin regularly performs in New Zealand, Asia and Europe, notably at the Semaine Internationale Piano & Musique de Ch...

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Margaret Wegener

Margaret Wegener was born in North-west London in 1920 and began composing as a child, continuing composition into her late 80s. After studying at Maria Grey...

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Gretchen La Roche

Gretchen La Roche is the Chief Executive Officer of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, where she also held the position of Principal Clarinet for nine year...

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Hamish McKeich

New Zealand-born conductor Hamish McKeich has forged an impressive international conducting career on the world-stage. His partnership with the New Zealand S...