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James Cullen

James Cullen is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist composer who works in many sonic landscapes to deliver compelling and passionate musical storytelling....

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Johnny Yang

Johnny (he/him) is a Chinese-Kiwi Australian composer and producer, currently studying Composition for Creative Industries at the Sydney Conservatorium. His ...

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Sonya Ishimnikova

Sonya Ishimnikova is a New Zealand sonic artist, electronic musician and composer. Her works include acousmatic, electroacoustic, installations, film scoring...

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Tatiana Riabinkina

Tatiana Riabinkina started composing when she was a child. She grew up in Yekaterinburg, Russia, and later moved to Moscow to study music more seriously. In ...

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Jayan Bhikha

Jayan completed a Bachelor of Music with Honours majoring in composition at the University of Auckland in 2016. He started learning music at an early age on ...

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Nigel Gavin

Nigel Gavin has been a guitarist and composer for over three decades and has taught both for two decades. He was a founder of Gitbox Rebellion, NZ's own Guit...

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Sally Bodkin-Allen

Sally Bodkin-Allen is the Research Manager at the Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) in Invercargill where she also teaches on the Bachelor of Contempora...

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Riki Pirihi

Riki Gooch Pirihi (Ngāti Wai/Ngāti Māhanga Hourua/Patuharakeke) is a freelance multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, academic and sound artist, based in...

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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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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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Lachlan McKenzie

Lachlan studied composition under Anthony Ritchie at the University of Otago. He completed his MusB (Hons) in 2002 and was awarded a Lilburn Trust Student Co...

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Alan Wells

Alan Richard Wells was born in Havelock, Pelorus Sound in 1948 and educated by correspondence school (1954-64). Subsequently he studied part-time at the Chri...

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Michaela Cornelius (Mika)

Michaela Cornelius, or Mikatte Music, is an Auckland-based composer and sound designer. They completed their BMus Honours at the University of Auckland, spec...

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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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Philip Brownlee

Te Atiawa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa Rangatira

Philip Brownlee (b. 1971) is a composer and sound artist, based in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2008 he recei...

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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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Campbell Ross

Campbell Ross is a guitarist, composer and teacher who lives in Brisbane, Australia. He developed a passion for the guitar at an early age and almost immedia...

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Salvador Brown

Salvador Brown is an Aotearoa-born Samoan/Tuvaluan, Gaelic Norseman. He is a child of the Pacific Sisters and the heir apparent to the SaVĀge K’lub. Growing ...

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Fendall Hill

Fendall is a New Zealand Australian based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. He has played cornet since he was 7 years old, and taught by his fath...

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James Webster

Tainui, Te Arawa

James Webster is of Tainui and Te Arawa (Māori) and European descent and is well known as a talented Māori arts practitioner, working wit...

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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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Peter Willis

Peter Willis is an Auckland-based composer and pianist who graduated with a BMus (majoring in composition) from the University of Auckland School of Music i...

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Fergus Fry

Fergus Fry is a composer of instrumental, live electronics, and fixed media works that seek to challenge and explore existing stylistic and genre divisions. ...

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Micah Thompson

Micah Thompson is a young New Zealand composer with a distinctive artistic voice, and ear for sonority. Currently the 2020 Composer in residence for Australi...

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Anna Cannon

Anna Grace Cannon is an Invercargill-born teacher, musician and composer. Anna teaches a variety of instruments, composition and theory full time at her stu...