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Murray Biggs

Composer

Murray Biggs was born in Timaru in 1954 and educated at Tawa College, Victoria University of Wellington (BMus, 1976), Auckland Secondary Teachers College, Be...

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Jack Speirs

Composer, Performer

Jack William Malcolm Speirs was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1939. He was educated at Edinburgh University from 1959 to 1963 where he studied composition ...

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Ronald Tremain

Composer

Ronald Tremain was born in Feilding, New Zealand in 1923. He had a distinguished career as a composer and teacher. Initially studying piano, he gained Trinit...

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Noel Sanders

Composer

Noel Sanders was born in Auckland in 1948. He studied English Literature at Auckland University and linguistics at Harvard in the 1970s. He has recently reti...

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Stephan Schulz

Composer

Stephan Schulz was born in Berlin, where he spent six years in primary school. He studied recorder from the age of five and violin from the age of ten. In 19...

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William Thomas

Composer

William (Edwin Somerset) Thomas was born in Oxford, England. He graduated from Oxford University with a doctorate in 1893. He held several posts in England, ...

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Vera Beauchamp

Composer

Vera Beauchamp (Vera Bell) was the older sister of Katherine Mansfield. In 1903 she, along with younger sisters Charlotte and Katherine and the rest of the f...

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Arnold Trowell

Composer

A friendship between Arnold Trowell and Katherine Mansfield forms the extent of what little is usually known about Arnold Trowell today, however this was not...

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James Phillpot

Composer

Born in Wales, J. (James) H. (Henry) Phillpot came to New Zealand in 1884 and held the position of organist and choir master at several churches in Auckland,...

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Moses Hamilton Hodges

Composer

African American baritone Hamilton Hodges was born in the United States and travelled with his wife Jean or Jennie, a fellow singer, to New Zealand in 1892 a...

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Callum Blackmore

Composer

Callum Blackmore is a graduate student in historical musicology at Columbia University in the City of New York studying French opera in the long eighteenth c...

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John Ritchie

Composer

John Ritchie was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1921. He graduated in music at the Otago University and trained as a teacher at Dunedin Teachers' Colleg...

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Alina Abraham

Jazz Composer, Composer

Alina Abraham is an independent researcher, piano teacher and a musician from New Zealand with an interest in the texture of the pitched sound—the 'harmonic ...

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Alex van den Broek

Composer

Alex has a Masters with Distinction in Composition from the University of Canterbury and a Diploma in Jazz from CPIT Jazz School, majoring in Composition and...

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Emma Carlé

Composer

Emma Carlé is classically trained in violin and piano and studied composition with John Psathas, Jack Body, John Young and Ross Harris at Victoria University...

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Graham Parsons

Composer

Graham Parsons studied music composition under Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar at Victoria University and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Germany. He ta...

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Opus Orchestra

Performing Organisation

Opus is the professional city orchestra for the Bay of Plenty. Founded in 1991, Opus continues to offer outstanding orchestral experiences to audiences acros...

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Helen Caskie

Composer

Helen Caskie was born in 1930 in Wanganui, New Zealand and educated at the Wanganui Girl's College, Canterbury University College and Otago University, follo...

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Tim Bowman

Composer

Tim Bowman was born in the UK in 1958 and migrated with his family to New Zealand in early childhood. He played in a number of bands groups, including The Bl...

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Mark Baynes

Composer, Jazz Composer

Mark Baynes is a jazz pianist with a contemporary leaning. His doctoral research has provided an analytical lexicon that can be used to understand music in t...

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Alexander Boulton

Composer, Jazz Composer

Alexander 'Honey' Boulton is a jazz guitarist, banjo player and composer residing in Pōneke, Aotearoa. Through exploration of different musical styles and tr...

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Alexa Still

Performer

Alexa is known internationally for her many recordings on the Koch International Classics label. She has been described as: “impeccable in technique and tast...

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Matthew Beardsworth

Composer, Arranger, Performer

Matthew Beardsworth (b. 1999) is a young composer, arranger, and songwriter living on the North Shore of Auckland. He currently freelances in addition to stu...

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Sonya Ishimnikova

Composer

Sonya Ishimnikova is a New Zealand sonic artist, electronic musician and composer. Her works include acousmatic, electroacoustic, installations, film scoring...

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Fergus Byett

Composer

Originally hailing from the shores of Lake Taupō, Fergus Byett is a pianist and composer based in Hamilton, where he moved in 2019 to study a BMus majoring i...

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