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Robbie Ellis

Robbie Ellis is a composer, music director, broadcaster, comedy songmaker, and other.

Born on Auckland’s North Shore, he studied Composition at the Univer...

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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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David Grace

Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga

Born in Whanganui, David comes from a musical family (his father Hugh Grace Snr is also a very...

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Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett is an actor, musical director and voice artist and has appeared in over a hundred productions throughout New Zealand, Australia and Britain. He ...

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Troy Kingi

Troy (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) is an actor and an multi-award-winning, multi-genre musician originally from Rotorua and Te Kaha. A small-tow...

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Maisey Rika

Ngāti Awa, Tūhoe, Te Arawa and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui

Maisey Rika’s Biography Last Updated: 2/09/2022, 11:10 am Discipline: Music Awards: Arts Foundat...

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Gunter Herbig

Gunter Herbig was born in Brazil and grew up in Portugal and Germany. Influenced by such different cultures and aesthetic languages, Gunter has developed a h...

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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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Phil Broadhurst

Phil was one of New Zealand’s leading jazz artists. A pianist, composer and educator, he became the first jazz musician to be awarded the MNZM for services t...

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David Dell

David Raymond Dell, composer, publisher, archivist, historian and minister of religion, was born in 1959 in Wellington. He was educated at Fraser Crescent Sc...

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Rob Ruha

'Ko Rob Ruha tētahi o ngā tino kai-waiata, kaitito waiata hoki tēnei whakareanga Māori. He tamaiti nā te ao kapa haka i whāngai ki te waiata me te Māoritanga...

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Aroha Yates-Smith

He uri tēnei nō ngā iwi i heke mai ai i runga i ngā waka o Te Arawa, o Tainui, o Takitimu, o Horouta, o Mataatua me ngā iwi hoki i take mai nei i te whenua n...

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Te Taite Cooper

Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Ati Awa

Te Taite Cooper was born in Hastings and was educated at PakiPaki and Poukawa Primary Schools outside Hastings, and Hato Paora...

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Dave Flynn

Celebrated by the New York Times for the “power and grittiness” of his music, composer, conductor and guitarist Dave Flynn is a musician of international re...

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Anton Killin

Anton Killin studied musical composition, sonic art, music theory, and ethnomusicology at the New Zealand School of Music, Wellington. Anton’s MMus thesis an...

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Roimata Kereama

Ko Tainui te waka

Ko Ruahine te maunga

Ko Rangitīkei te awa

Ko Ngāti Raukawa te au ki te tonga te iwi

Ko Ngāti Manomano, Ngāti Parewahawaha, Ngāt...

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Victoria Kelly

Victoria Kelly is an award-winning composer based in Aotearoa New Zealand and formerly the Director of NZ Member Services at APRA AMCOS. She works across a s...

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Hermione Johnson

Hermione Johnson is a pianist and composer from Auckland, New Zealand. Her performances center largely on extended and prepared piano techniques, focusing on...

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Luka Venter

Luka Venter (they/them) is an award-winning composer and conductor from Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, currently based in London, where they are training ...

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Yvette Audain

Yvette Audain is a prolific freelance composing musician who has lived and worked in Auckland, Wellington and Melbourne. Her music has been performed through...

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Piliopo Nelson-Retzlaff

Piliopo Nelson-Retzlaff was born Joyce Rosabel Nelson on Christmas Day, 25 December 1912; passed away 13 January 1987.

She loved music and always owned ...

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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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David Farquhar

David Farquhar was born in Cambridge, New Zealand in 1928 but spent most of his early years in Fiji. He was educated in New Zealand and began his university...

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Jillian Bray

Jillian Bray was known primarily as a writer of hymn tunes. Of about fifty published hymns, most are set to texts by Shirley Murray, who is among the foremos...

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Cheryl Camm

I’m a composer currently living in Northumberland with strong links to New Zealand where lots of my music is performed, and Yorkshire, where lots of my works...