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REI

Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Huia

Callum Rei McDougall (Rei) is a multi talented musician from Wellington. His music seamlessly bridges multiple genres, in partic...

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Moana Maniapoto

Ngāti Tuwharetoa

Moana Maniapoto is a Māori composer and singer who has taken her often politically conscious Māori music festivals across the world. Her...

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Denis Smalley

Denis Smalley is a composer specialising in electroacoustic music. He was born in New Zealand in 1946, and completed music degrees at the University of Cante...

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Timothy Barraclough

Timothy J. Barraclough is an electronic musician and music technologist. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Sociology and Sonic Arts compositio...

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Rhian Sheehan

Rhian Sheehan is an award-winning music producer and screen composer from Wellington, New Zealand, known for his unique fusion of emotive instrumental atmosp...

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Carol Jones

Carol Elizabeth Jones was born in Hamilton on the 18th April 1932 and began her musical education as a child on piano, later taking up violin and vocal perfo...

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Reuben de Lautour

Reuben de Lautour is a composer and pianist, and writes about music technologies and listening practices. He is Senior Lecturer and Head of Composition at th...

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William Harsono

William Harsono was born in Taiwan in 1980, and started his musical training at age 4. He immigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1996. After two years ...

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Andrew McMillan

Improviser, composer, and sound artist.

A dedicated improviser on saxophone and laptop computer, drew has also worked in composition and sound design.

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Alan Brown

Alan Brown is an established jazz pianist in New Zealand, from having led a highly successful jazz-funk band in the 90’s – Blue Train (1996 Jazz Album of the...

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Darren Pickering

Darren is a Jazz Pianist/Composer/Educator, Keyboard Session Musician, and Modular Synthesist based in Christchurch NZ. His current projects include ‘Darren ...

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Grace Ashworth-Lawson

Grace Ashworth-Lawson (b.2000) is a Wellington-born composer, artist, and filmmaker. Spellbound by the spirit of screen, Grace has pursued all elements of fi...

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Flo Wilson

Flo Wilson (they/ she) is a composer, performer and artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland, Aotearoa/ New Zealand. Their creative work spans choral-base...

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Nathaniel Otley

Nathaniel Otley is a composer, violinist and conductor based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin. He completed his MusB(Hons) at Otago University in 2019 studying violin wit...

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Clive Aucott

Clive Aucott was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England and brought up in the countryside near Rothley and Mountsorrel. He studied Harmony and Counter...

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Julius Mari Magpantay

Julius Mari Magpantay is a Filipino-born Auckland-based composer. He has always been a lover of music and developed a strong interest in composition at Glenf...

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Adam Whiskin

Adam is a Wellington-based musician. He has been composing since he was around 10, and has found a deep passion in it that has been growing ever since. He co...

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Tom Jensen

Starting in the electronic and band worlds, Tom has always had an interest in classical music – attempting to transcribe Bach's The Art of the Fugue by ear...

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James (Jim) Langabeer

There was always music and music-making in Jim Langabeer’s childhood. His mother played piano and young aunt Marion was a very talented pianist and piano-acc...

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Oliver Francis Huang-Hsu

Oliver Francis Huang-Hsu was born in Tsingtau, China, and immigrated to New Zealand at the age of fifteen. He graduated with a Masters degree in Composition ...

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Christopher Prosser

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Chris Prosser is a violinist-composer who writes music primarily to perform and record himself, as a solo artist and i...

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Alan Cruise-Johnston

Alan Cruise-Johnston is one of a multitude of part-time musicians who spent their working life playing, adapting, studying, re-writing, transposing the work ...

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Noel Meek

“Meek’s composition is about alliances.” – Su Ballard, author of Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetic.

Noel Meek is a Pākehā musician...

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John Drummond

John Drummond has been composing opera since his teens, fitting it in as best he can with the other demands of his University career as a music educator, ope...

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Rod Biss

Rod Biss gained his Bachelor of Music at Victoria University College in the days of Frederick Page and Douglas Lilburn. This was followed by further study at...