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Richard Robertshawe

Richard originally hails from the peaceful Hutt Valley, New Zealand. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in composition, in sonic arts. Afterward...

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Craig Sengelow

Craig Sengelow is an award winning Wellington based composer with influences from indie rock, electronic music and western art music. Craig’s experience writ...

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Ron Samsom

Ron is an active performer, composer and researcher in the area of improvised music whose work features on many local and international recordings. Prior to ...

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Marshall Smith

Marshall Smith is a composer and songwriter, MD of music company The Sound Room and Chairperson of the Screen Composers Guild of NZ.

The Sound Room Ltd (e...

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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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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 ...

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Douglas Beilman

A native of Kansas, USA, Douglas Beilman studied with Dorothy Delay and Hyo Kang at the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory of Music. He then c...

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Catherine Bowie

Catherine Bowie arrived in Paris in 1987 to begin studying at the Paris Conservatoire with Michel Debost and Pierre-Yves Artaud. After obtaining two Premier ...

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Arnold Marinissen

Percussionist Arnold Marinissen (1966) shares his time between his country of birth The Netherlands, New Zealand and other places, performing solo repertoire...

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Carolyn Mills

Harpist Carolyn Mills has been described by critics as a musician of “great sensitivity and technical accomplishment” and “intense expressiveness.” She studi...

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Terence Maskell

Terence Maskell, BA DipMus DipTchg, has been the conductor of The Graduate Choir, NZ since its inception. He has been appointed to a music position at King'...

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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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James Tennant

American cellist, James Tennant, came to the staff at Waikato University continuing a long and lively career as a concert cellist, teacher and arts instigat...

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Rachel Thomson

Rachel Thomson was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and grew up in Wellington where she began her piano studies with her mother. She went on to study with Judit...

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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...

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Salvador Brown

Salvador Brown is an Aotearoa-born Samoan/Tuvaluan, Gaelic Norseman. He is a child of the Pacific Sisters and the heir apparent to the SaVĀge K’lub. Growing ...

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Willie Tekatoha

Willie Tekatoha hails from the Polynesian outlier of Mungiki in the Solomon Islands and currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand. With a deep connection to h...

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Vaigalepa Livingstone Efu

Vaigalepa Livingstone Efu hails from Samoa. He has experienced notable success in recent years, reaching a pinnacle in October 2020 when, together with singe...

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Joshua Robertson

Namulau’ulu Taotua Leaoa Joshua Robertson hails from Samoa. Raised in Auckland, he moved to New Plymouth in 2002.

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Dale Vail

When a two year old is taken to a brass band concert, it is unsurprising that his attention is drawn to the longest, slidiest, loudest instrument on the stag...

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Chris Gendall

Chris Gendall’s works have graced the programmes of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, NZTrio, Mark Menzies and the Christchu...

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Colin Decio

Colin Decio (the 'c' is pronounced 'ch' as in 'church' - hence Dech-io) was born in Birmingham, England to an English mother and a Ukrainian father. From 198...

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Liam Furey

Liam Furey discovered their passion for classical music at the age of eleven, and since then, their journey has been nothing short of remarkable. Furey start...

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Saia Tu'itahi

Saia Tu'itahi hails from Tonga. In July 2023 he released the album Fangufangu 'Inasi, inspired by the 'Inasi: First Fruits' exhibitions by the Kava Book Cl...

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Helen Bowater

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

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Mark Menzies

Described in the Los Angeles Times as an ‘extraordinary musician’ and a ‘riveting violinist’, Mark Menzies’ career as a viola and violin virtuoso, chamber mu...

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Reuben de Lautour

Reuben de Lautour is a composer and pianist, and writes about music technologies and listening practices. He is Senior Lecturer and Head of Composition at th...

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Liam Hotter

Liam Hotter is a freelance film and media composer and an independent music producer, based in Wellington New Zealand. His journey with music began when he w...