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Susan Frykberg

I'm a sound artist and composer of electroacoustic, instrument and vocal music and chant. I like to try different approaches to sound and composition and so ...

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David Grahame Taylor

Described as having a “radiant and ear-catching quality worth many further listens” (Straits Times, 2012), David Grahame Taylor has enjoyed numerous commissi...

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Eric Biddington

Eric Biddington was born in Timaru in October 1953. He received his schooling in Timaru and Christchurch. On leaving school he started work as a labourer and...

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Hamilton Dickson

Hamilton Dickson (1906–1980) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, where early in his musical career he became involved with theatre performances. As a cell...

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Michael Jamieson

Michael comes from Taranaki, New Zealand. He studied at Victoria University and Massey University, Wellington (later the NZ School of Music), and as a recipi...

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John Emeleus

John Emeleus was born in Northern Ireland, receiving his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music, London where he majored in composition, also studyi...

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Dorothy Freed

Dorothy Freed was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in February 1919. She was educated in Melbourne, returning to New Zealand in 1936 where she was employed in s...

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Maria Grenfell

Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia in 1969 and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating with a Master of Music degree from the University of Canterbu...

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Justine Cormack

As a freelance violinist Justine performs as soloist, chamber musician, guest-concertmaster and orchestral violinist. As a Creative Performance Coach, Justin...

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Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is a community orchestra based in South Auckland. The orchestra presents four varied concerts annually to patrons from a...

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Opus Orchestra

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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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is Aotearoa's national orchestra.

One of the world’s oldest national symphony orchestras, they have charmed audiences w...

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Andrew Powdrell

Raised in the small farming community of Wairoa, Andrew spent four years at Wanganui Collegiate, where he studied piano under the late Sonja Wilson. In 1989 ...

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Graham Parsons

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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Chris Watson

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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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Farquhar Wilkinson

Farquhar Wilkinson received his early musical education in Dunedin, where he played for a time in the 4YA orchestra of the then New Zealand Broadcasting Serv...

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Hamish McKeich

New Zealand-born conductor Hamish McKeich has forged an impressive international conducting career on the world-stage. His partnership with the New Zealand S...

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Ivan Zagni

Ivan Zagni is a New Zealand-based musician and composer who has been a member of bands such as Jody Grind, Big Sideways and Avant Garage, and has recorded al...

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Wayne Laird

Wayne Laird (ONZM) is a composer, producer and Waikato University Research Associate. In 1997 he founded the independent record label Atoll Records, where he...

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Ben Hoadley

Ben Hoadley holds degrees in bassoon performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. He received a Master of ...

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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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Carolyn Mills

Harpist Carolyn Mills has been described by critics as a musician of “great sensitivity and technical accomplishment” and “intense expressiveness.” She studi...

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Chris Cree Brown

Chris Cree Brown is currently a freelance Composer and Sonic Artist. In 2018, he retired from his position as Associate Professor at the School of Music, Un...

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Rod Skipp

Rod Skipp is a cellist, conductor, composer, arranger and educator. Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Rod studied cello and composition at the Universit...

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Bruce Crossman

Bruce Crossman’s sound world embraces Asian traditional musics, free form improvisation and European influenced interval-colour sonority towards a personal P...