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Peter Adams

Peter Adams is an Emeritus Professor in the Music Department of Otago University and a well-known conductor. Peter was educated in Dunedin, completing a Mus....

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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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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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Christopher Norton

Christopher Norton was born in New Zealand in 1953. He began composing at the age of 14, and, by the age of 16, had an orchestral work performed and broadcas...

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Charmaine Ford

New Zealand-born piano virtuoso and composer Charmaine Ford has accomplished more than most musicians do in a lifetime.

Charmaine was born in 1980 in Taur...

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Takerei Komene

Ngāpuhi

Takerei Komene (They/Them) is a composer, singer, instrumentalist, actor and conductor from Auckland. They are currently completing a Bachelor of ...

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Vernon Griffiths

Vernon Griffiths was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, England in 1894. Following war service in France, he graduated from Cambridge University and taught ...

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Matiu Te Huki

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rangitane, Italian, Scottish, Irish, English.

Matiu "The Hook" Te Huki is known for his amazing vocal skills and energy and for his...

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Gillian Bibby

Gillian Bibby was a NZ pianist, composer and researcher who studied at Otago, Berlin and Cologne, her teachers including Stockhausen. She was awarded the Kra...

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Mary Brett

Mary Brett (Mary Osborne) was born in Invercargill to musician parents who actively encouraged her love of music. Her mother taught singing, and her father p...

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Jillaine Wilson

Jillaine Wilson is a registered piano teacher from North Canterbury. She enjoys teaching piano and accompanies the local community choir. Jillaine plays duet...

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Judith Bell

Judith Bell started composing at 12 years and was lucky to work with Composer-in-Schools, Dorothy Buchanan. She went on to complete a MusB (Hons) in composit...

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Michael Hogan

Mike Hogan is a composer and performer. Primarily a guitar player, Mike has written a substantial body of work for this instrument both for solo and chamber ...

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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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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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Nick Snowball

Nick Snowball is a composer and performer from Wellington, New Zealand. His work features elements of experimental-theatre, performance art, instrumental com...

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Tom Ludvigson

New Zealand jazz and electronic musician Tom Ludvigson is an artist whose experience covers most dimensions of music production: composer, arranger, band lea...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Johnny Yang

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