Contributor

John Psathas

Ioannis (John) Psathas was born in Wellington New Zealand July 3rd, 1966. His father (Emmanuel Psathas, from Nea Michaniona) and mother (Anastasia Psathas, f...

Contributor

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...

Contributor

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...

Contributor

Ken Wilson

Ken Wilson, clarinetist, composer.

He was born in Auckland in 1924 and began music study [clarinet and piano] at 9 years of age. In 1937, he moved to Cal...

Contributor

Mike Crowl

Mike Crowl is a Dunedin pianist and composer, and is well-known in his home city as an accompanist of singers and instrumentalists. After living most of his ...

Contributor

Justin Clarke

Justin Clarke is a composer, guitarist, producer, arranger and songwriter. He is active in a variety of musical styles drawing from diverse experiences in ja...

Contributor

Dunedin Symphony Orchestra

The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is Dunedin’s only professional orchestra and is funded by Creative New Zealand. The DSO have established a reputation fo...

Contributor

Peau Halapua

Peau Halapua descends from Lapaha and Hihifo in the Kingdom of Tonga; and Pārāwai, Aotearoa. She has performed and worked professionally as a violin player...

Contributor

Brad Jenkins

Brad Jenkins is a composer and musician based in Wellington. In 2012 Brad completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Composition (Instrumental and Vocal) at the New...

Contributor

Michael Smither

My parents bought me a piano when I was eight. I was given lesson by Sister Mary Rose at the local convent. I played The Flight of the Bumblebee at the pri...

Contributor

Clive Cockburn

Clive Cockburn composes for film and television and also hosts his own music writing course teaching arrangement and composition. His career working in the r...

Contributor

Tecwyn Evans

After his studies in New Zealand Tecwyn Evans left on a Fulbright Scholarship to study conducting at the University of Kansas with Brian Priestman and Simon ...

Contributor

John Rimmer

John Rimmer was born in Auckland in 1939 and studied with Ronald Tremain at the University of Auckland. In 1967 he was awarded a Canadian Commonwealth Schola...

Contributor

Louisa Nicklin

The work of composer Louisa Nicklin encompasses both contemporary classical and popular music.

A graduate of Te Koki New Zealand School of Music - having...

Contributor

Orchestra Wellington

ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA

With a rich history as New Zealand’s oldest regional orchestra founded over sixty years ago, Orchestra Wellington’s audience numbers h...

Contributor

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...

Contributor

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, ...

Contributor

Daniel Stabler

Daniel Stabler has been an active professional Double Bassist since 1967. He attended Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan, USA), The Juilliard School, Manhatt...

Contributor

Marc Taddei

Celebrated for his “magnificent contribution as Music Director” by The Press, lauded as “a real interpreter of boldly romantic inclinations” by the Dominion ...

Contributor

Stacey Dixon

Stacey is from Christchurch, and studied the oboe and cor anglais at Victoria University in Wellington, before moving to the UK in 2000. She holds a PGDip in...

Contributor

Gary Daverne

As a composer, Gary has composed music for symphony orchestras, brass and military bands, children’s songs and musicals, Māori Waiata, more than 500 televisi...

Contributor

Peter Scholes

Peter Scholes is a clarinettist, musical director, conductor and composer. Born in Auckland, his specialist instrument is the clarinet which he studied with ...

Contributor

Adrien de Croy

Adrien de Croy was born in 1968 in Wellington, and grew up in Hamilton and later Cambridge. He graduated with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Auckl...

Contributor

William Green

William Green was born in Christchurch and studied piano with Jean MacLachlan, and with Maurice Till at the University of Canterbury, graduating BMus/MA. He ...

Contributor

Tony Ryan

Since returning to New Zealand after several years living in Mombasa (Kenya) and Singapore, Tony Ryan has resumed a very busy music schedule as a composer, c...