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Claude Haydon

Claude Meurisse Haydon was born in Melbourne, Australia, the youngest of three children. His mother was French and his father Australian. He was crippled fro...

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Charmaine Ford

New Zealand-born piano virtuoso and composer Charmaine Ford has accomplished more than most musicians do in a lifetime.

Charmaine was born in 1980 in Taur...

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Craig Utting

Craig Utting was born in Wellington, where he attended Onslow and Tawa Colleges. At Auckland University, he studied Composition with Douglas Mews, John Rimme...

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Gabrielle Blazer

Gabrielle was born in Invercargill. She learned both violin and cello. She played in the Symphonia but her great love was solo playing, Gypsy style at some o...

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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...

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Chris Watson

Ngai te Rangi

The music of Chris Watson (PhD - Victoria, 2007) has enjoyed premieres by orchestras including the Tokyo Philharmonic, the New Zealand Symph...

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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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Paul Booth

Paul studied composition with John Elmsly and John Rimmer at the University of Auckland, graduating in 1996 with a Master of Music (First Class Hons). He dev...

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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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Lucy Mulgan

Lucy Mulgan (b. 1971) is a composer and bass player from Aotearoa New Zealand who works in a variety of musical styles.

Her compositions range from sweep...