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Alexander Ivashkin

As a soloist Alexander Ivashkin performed in more than thirty countries. He was a regular guest at many important music festivals in Europe, the United State...

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Fergus Byett

Originally hailing from the shores of Lake Taupō, Fergus Byett is a pianist and composer based in Hamilton, where he moved in 2019 to study a BMus majoring i...

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Henry Meng

Henry Meng is a New Zealand composer and pianist based in Auckland. As a composer, he was winner of the 2023 edition of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s ...

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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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Michael Joel

Michael is a Wellington-based conductor. He has conducted many of the established musical organisations throughout New Zealand and is equally at home in the ...

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Justus Rozemond

Justus is a graduate from the New Zealand School of Music in Music Performance on (bass-)clarinet.

He started conducting in New Plymouth, with the Taranak...

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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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Adrianna Lis

The Polish/New Zealand principal flutist of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra began her musical training in Poland with Anna Kolarz and Barbara Mazurkiewicz con...

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Nalin Shen

Born in southwest of Sichuan, China, Shen Nalin studied composition at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music with Professor Gao Wei Jie and Yao Yi Rang. During t...

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Christopher Marshall

Christopher Marshall was born in Paris, France of New Zealand parents in 1956 and educated in Australia and New Zealand. A self-taught composer he holds a Ma...

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Pieta Hextall

Pieta Hextall is a Christchurch-based composer and musician. She has recently returned from Melbourne, where she was an active member of the music community ...

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Glenda Keam

Glenda Keam is a composer, music analyst, lecturer, educational leader, new music advocate and festival organiser. She was awarded a PhD in Music by the Univ...

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Leonie Holmes

Leonie Holmes is an Auckland based composer, writing for orchestra, chamber, choral, vocal and solo instrument. Recent works have been commissioned and/or pe...

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Jonathan Mandeno

Jonathan Mandeno is a composer based in Wellington. In 2011 he received his Master of Music degree with first class honours from the University of Auckland. ...

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Rosalind Manowitz (Rainbow Rosalind)

Rainbow Rosalind the Fairy is an award-winning Children’s Singer/Songwriter and Entertainer based in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Her recent successes include th...

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John Barnett

John Maughan Barnett was born in England in 1867. He emigrated to Australia circa 1890 where he was appointed organist, and choirmaster at Hobart Cathedral....

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Dave Lisik

Wellington-based Canadian composer and trumpeter, Dr. David Lisik was Coordinator of Jazz Composition at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University...

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Malcolm Mawhinney

Malcolm Mawhinney is a graduate of the University of Otago, where he gained his Bachelor of Music (Honours) majoring in Performance Viola with Dr Donald Maur...

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Alex Lindsay

Alex Lindsay M.B.E. was born in Invercargill in 1919 and died suddenly in 1974. He was one of New Zealand's most famous musicians; a gifted violinist and fou...

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Anna Leese

New Zealand Soprano Anna Leese completed a Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honours at the University of Otago. Anna is the recipient of an impressi...

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Camryn Nel

Camryn Nel is a performer and composer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Originally growing up in Taupō, Camryn began his composition degree at the University of Auc...

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Josiah Carr

Josiah is a composer, conductor and performer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has just finished his masters degree in composition studying with Leonie Hol...

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Timothy Deighton

Timothy Deighton is professor of viola at Penn State University, and enjoys a wide variety of performance opportunities. He performs regularly with Orpheus C...

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Kathleen Candy Colbert

Kathleen Candy Colbert is a Composer, Arranger, Educator, Professional Violinist and Violist. She lived in rural areas as a child and learned to sing and pla...

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Tabea Squire

Tabea Squire (b. 1989) has a BMus, a GradDip and Honours in performance from the New Zealand School of Music, where she studied for five and a half years und...