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Ranea Aperahama

Ngāti Tūwharetoa; Muriwhenua; Mōrehu

Hailing from Rātana Pā, Ranea is a passionate performer who is adept on a variety of musical instruments including tr...

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John Cousins

John Cousins was born in 1943 in Wellington. He received training as a musician, graduating with an honors degree in music from the University of Canterbury ...

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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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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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Gerald Ginther

Christchurch born Gerald Ginther studied music at the University of Canterbury and the University of Auckland. He studied composition with John Cousins and G...

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Elaine Dobson

Elaine Rowena Dobson was born in Loughborough, England in 1945. She studied at Newcastle Conservatorium of Music and Teachers' College from 1963-66, where sh...

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Grant Hughson

Grant has been composing electronic music for the last fifteen years as a serious hobby, but the last two years in particular have seen the word 'hobby' disa...

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Maurice Faulknor

Maurice Faulknor was born in Wellington in 1930 within the sound of the bells of St. Peter's Anglican Church on Willis St. Educated at St. Marks Church Schoo...

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Matthew Leese

Dr. Matthew W. Leese is a conductor, baritone, stage director and educator based in Keene, New Hampshire. A master of versatility, Leese received his Bachelo...

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Megan Younger

Megan Younger is a young New Zealand Composer. She found her love for composing whilst studying at Nelson College for Girls where she graduated in 2016. Mega...

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Pepe Becker

Pepe Becker began her musical life in Nelson, singing in the Cathedral Choir, taking lead roles in school musical productions and playing oboe in local orche...

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Mina Ripia

Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahungunu

Mina Ripia is based in Titahi Bay, Porirua and was one of the original Moa Hunters. She is the key composer for acapella group...

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Awerangi Thompson

Ngati Porou, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngā Tahu.

Whitireia School of Music graduate Awerangi...

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Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake was born in Christchurch in 1949. He studied engineering and music at the University of Canterbury and composition at the University of Sou...

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Barry Vercoe

Barry Lloyd Vercoe, born Wellington 1937 and educated in Auckland, won Otago’s Philip Neill Memorial Prize for his composition 'A Program Suite' while a stu...

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Boris Golovin

Boris Golovin is a New Zealand composer and poet with Russian background.

He studied journalism at the Moscow State University and since that time became ...

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Chen (Tony) Lin

Chinese New Zealand pianist Tony Chen Lin regularly performs in New Zealand, Asia and Europe, notably at the Semaine Internationale Piano & Musique de Ch...

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Margaret Wegener

Margaret Wegener was born in North-west London in 1920 and began composing as a child, continuing composition into her late 80s. After studying at Maria Grey...

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Gretchen La Roche

Gretchen La Roche is the Chief Executive Officer of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, where she also held the position of Principal Clarinet for nine year...

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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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Andrew Stopps

Andrew Stopps has taught for over 25 years in Australia, UK and New Zealand. His teaching experience ranges from a woodwind instrumental teacher and band dir...

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Tony Baker

Born in Newcastle, NSW, Australia on 2 March 1939, Anthony William (Tony) Baker was educated at Auckland's Monte Cecilia (1946-51) and Sacred Heart (1952-57)...

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Tom Dennison

Born of a musical family, Tom Dennison started out playing electric bass but found his calling when at age 16 he became tall enough to tackle the double bass...

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Theo Hnat

Theo Hnat is a choral and piano composer whose music is characterised by lush, emotionally evocative melodies, inspired by the lyricism of Romantic era poetr...

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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...