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Laughton Pattrick

Former Head of Music at Wellington College of Education and singing tutor at Toi Whakaari, Laughton Pattrick wrote, arranged and directed music for professio...

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Jenny McLeod

Born in Wellington in 1941, Jenny McLeod grew up in Timaru and Levin. Throughout her childhood and adolescence she was always involved in music, as school pi...

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Jenny Thomas

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John Elmsly

John Elmsly was born in Auckland on 1 July 1952. A childhood which included a dozen or so primary schools in Auckland, Melbourne, Blenheim, and the Hutt Vall...

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Ian McDonald

Ian Donald McDonald was a composer, lecturer and writer. He was born in Wellington in 1937 and educated at St Patricks College. He studied composition at Vi...

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Nick Snowball

Nick Snowball is a composer and performer from Wellington, New Zealand. His work features elements of experimental-theatre, performance art, instrumental com...

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Douglas Mews

Douglas Mews, Wellington City Organist, graduated from Auckland University in 1979 with a Masters degree in organ and harpsichord, having studied with the la...

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Georgina Zellan-Smith

As a concert pianist she did not specialise, but instead enjoyed a wide range of composers/repertoire from Bach onwards, (though occasionally small keyboard ...

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Martin Setchell

Martin Setchell is an international concert organist who believes in promoting entertaining music to a wide audience. From China to Canada, Scotland to Austr...

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Jeffrey Grice

Pianist Jeffrey Grice was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. A student of Janetta McStay and Bryan Sayer at Auckland University (Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor o...

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Jason Post

Jason Post is a composer and sound artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. His main interests and composition techniques stem from spectral music, soundscap...

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James Dunlop

James Dunlop is a freelance composer and sound designer. While he works mainly in theatre, he has also been involved in film, television and dance production...

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Matthew Suttor

New Zealand born composer Matthew Suttor is the Director of the Laurie Beechman Center for Theatrical Sound Design and Music at Yale School of Drama. A Fulbr...

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Ross Harris

Arts laureate, Ross Harris is one of New Zealand’s leading composers. He has written more than two hundred c...

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Richard Haynes

Richard Haynes was born in Brisbane, studied at Griffith University, Australia (Bachelor of Music Advanced Performance) and at the Hochschule der Künste Bern...

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Margaret Medlyn

Known as a singing actor, Margaret Medlyn ONZM is one of Australasia's finest singers, with consistently highly acclaimed performances in opera, oratorio and...

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Rae de Lisle

Rae de Lisle is currently Associate Professor in Piano at the University of Auckland. Following eight years studying and performing in London, Rae spent fift...

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Margaret Lion

Margaret Lion is a New Zealand pianist based in London. She was born and educated in Dunedin, studying piano with Maurice Till at the University of Otago, th...

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Glen Downie

Glen Downie is a Wellington based composer who holds a Master of Musical Arts from Te Kōkī New Zealand School of Music, where he studied under Michael Norris...

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John Chen

New Zealand pianist John Chen launched his career by winning the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, where he also won prizes for his interpretation...

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Claire Scholes

Claire Scholes (nee Nash) is a mezzo-soprano and composer who was born in the Manawatū and is now based in Auckland. As a composer Claire was thrilled to at...

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Alexander Cowdell

Alexander Cowdell was born in Scotland in 1945 but educated in New Zealand, where as a student at Waihi College he first became interested in composition und...

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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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Jeni Little

Jeni Little lives with her partner and two children in Titirangi, Auckland. She has taught music at Epsom Girls Grammar School, and at Green Bay High School ...

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Ross James Carey

Ross James Carey is a composer and pianist. A native of Te Awa Kairangi/Lower Hutt, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Ross completed a PhD in composition from the Unive...

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Fritha Jameson

Currently based in Shenzhen, China, Fritha's musical background can be best described as "eclectic". Early exposure to electronic synthesized sound, classica...