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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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James Webster

Tainui, Te Arawa

James Webster is of Tainui and Te Arawa (Māori) and European descent and is well known as a talented Māori arts practitioner, working wit...

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Ruby Solly

Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha

Ruby Solly is a Kai Tahu musician, taonga puoro practitioner, music therapist and writer living in Wellington. She has playe...

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Tipene Harmer

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahu

Tipene Harmer, is one of Aotearoa’s leading Hip Hop Artists of Ngāti Kahungunu descent from Te matau a Maui-Hawke...

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Bob Bickerton

Bob has worked in the New Zealand music industry for over 45 years as a manager, trustee, recording and live sound engineer, educator, performer and composer...

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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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Phil Boniface

Phil Boniface is a New Zealand/Canadian bassist, composer and educator.

Growing up in New Zealand his journey in music started at age 12 with piano, follo...

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Michael Norris

Michael Norris (b. 1973) is a Wellington-based composer, software programmer and music theorist. He holds composition degrees from Victoria University of Wel...

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VOICES New Zealand

Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, with Music Director Dr Karen Grylls, made its début at the 1998 New Zealand International Arts Festival and later that year...

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Dylan Lardelli

Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tūhoe

Born in Wellington New Zealand, Dylan holds degrees in Guitar performance, and Composition from Victoria University Wellington. He...