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Brent Parker

Brent Parker was a New Zealand-born composer and pianist who lived in Ireland for more than 40 years. He taught at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in...

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Andrew Sewell

New Zealand conductor, Andrew Sewell, is currently in his twentieth season as Music Director of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. From 2000-2010, he was musi...

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Sai Natarajan

Sai Natarajan is a freelance composer and independent music producer based in New Zealand. Despite playing the piano since the age of six, the idea of tellin...

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Warwick Blair

In the late 1980s, composer Warwick Blair was already being described as one of New Zealand’s most original musical thinkers (NZ Herald) and the enfant terri...

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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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Matthew Marshall

Described as “…a performer of virtuosic ability and one of the new generation of recitalists and gifted players from around the world” Matthew Marshall is ...

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John Hopkins

John Hopkins OBE, conductor and administrator, was born in Yorkshire, UK. He moved to New Zealand in 1957 and to Australia in 1963. He conducted the Auckland...

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Mette Leroy

Mette Leroy, flutist, completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Auckland in August 2007. In her performance and thesis research she specialised...

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Gareth Farr

Gareth Farr (b.1968) began his studies in composition and percussion performance at the University of Auckland. The experience of hearing a visiting gamelan ...

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Eve de Castro-Robinson

Eve de Castro-Robinson has been commissioned and performed by a wide variety of performers, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Sympho...

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Jonathan Besser

Composer/Pianist Jonathan Besser was born in New York City in 1949, and studied composition in New York at the Mannes College of Music with David Loeb. Resid...

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Helen Bowater

Helen Bowater graduated BMus(Hons) in music history and ethnomusicology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1982. She later studied composition with Ja...

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Lucy Mulgan

Lucy Mulgan (b. 1971) is a composer and bass player from Aotearoa New Zealand who works in a variety of musical styles.

Her compositions range from sweep...

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Jennifer Moss

Jennifer Moss is a children’s entertainer with many years of experience, on stage and screen. Originally a highly qualified and experienced classical artist,...

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Rocielli Fernando

Rocielli Fernando is a composer, singer, and keyboardist from Auckland who has graduated with her Honours degree (with First Class Honours) in Composition at...

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David Woodcock

Originally from Wales, David studied music at University in Bangor, Wales, with composer William Mathias, then trombone at the Welsh College of Music and the...

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Andrew Uren

Andrew Uren is a keen performer of all styles and genres of music and dedicates himself tirelessly to promoting the bass clarinet and New Zealand music. He ...

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Jodi Chen

Jodi is a music educator, composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, accompanist, flutist and soprano. Born in Taiwan in 1980, Jodi immigrated to Auckland, New ...

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Patrick Shepherd

Patrick Shepherd has called New Zealand home since moving here from England in 1991. He is an accomplished composer, conductor, performer and teacher, and he...

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Nelson Symphony Orchestra

The Nelson Symphony Orchestra is a regional orchestra of dedicated musicians aiming to produce high quality orchestral concerts.

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Matthew Thomas Soong

Matt grew up in New Zealand where he studied classical piano and arranging. At high school he composed the music for three musicals productions along with a ...

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Amelia Lee

Amelia Winifred Lelièvre–Lee was born in Napier and became a well-known teacher, composer and performer in the Hawkes Bay. At 22, while living in Auckland, s...

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Robert Horne

Robert Adam Horne was born in Launceston, Tasmania. He and his first wife, Lydia, were married before both were legally able to do so, both being 18 although...

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Jack Body

Jack Body (1944–2015) studied at Auckland University, in Cologne and at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht. During 1976–77 he was a guest lecturer at the Aka...

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Martin Lodge

Martin Lodge’s music is imbued with the sounds of nature, traditional Maori instrumental sounds and chant, rock music, and computers, as well as the Western ...