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Margaret Wegener

Margaret Wegener was born in North-west London in 1920 and began composing as a child, continuing composition into her late 80s. After studying at Maria Grey...

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Hamish McKeich

New Zealand-born conductor Hamish McKeich has forged an impressive international conducting career on the world-stage. His partnership with the New Zealand S...

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Ashley Heenan

Ashley David Joseph Heenan was born in Wellington on 11 September 1925. He was educated at Nelson College from 1939-1942 and attended Victoria University of ...

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Sarah McCallum

Sarah McCallum was born in Sydney, Australia in 1983 to New Zealand parents. Her father is a singer-songwriter, her mother, a music teacher, and her two olde...

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Richard Oswin

Richard trained as a primary school teacher, specialising in music, at the North Shore Teachers’ College in Auckland graduating with Excellence in 1979. As a...

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Seth Haapu

Te Atihaunui-ā-Pāpārangi, Tahitian

Seth Haapu is a modern-classic image of South Pacific identity who writes, produces, and sings. Yet, he has hardly purs...

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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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George Smith

George Smith is a composer and orchestrator based in both Wellington and Queenstown, New Zealand. George has a Bachelors Degree in Music majoring in Composit...

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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...

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Ruby Solly

Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha

Ruby Solly is a Kai Tahu musician, taonga puoro practitioner, music therapist and writer living in Wellington. She has playe...

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Thomas Goss

Thomas Goss has worked as a professional composer, arranger, and educator in New Zealand and the United States. He has created orchestral education programme...

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Mike Crowl

Mike Crowl is a Dunedin pianist and composer, and is well-known in his home city as an accompanist of singers and instrumentalists. After living most of his ...

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Alan Starrett

Alan grew up surrounded by swamps near New Orleans in Louisiana. When it was time to begin school, his family moved to the state capital city of Baton Rouge,...

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Noel Rawiri Woods

Te Atiawa, Ngāti Porou, Ngāruahinerangi

Noel Rawiri Woods grew up near Waiwhetu marae, surrounded by improvisation in garages and parties, and his whānau ...

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Bryan James

Bryan James was born in Auckland on the 23rd of August 1949 and educated at Auckland University (MA Hons, Anthropology); Canterbury, Massey (Certificate of ...

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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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Te Puoho Katene

Ngāti Toa, Te Atiawa

Te Puoho (Paul) Katene, QSM was born on 21 October 1927 and spent much of his working and community life promoting and supporting the...

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Mary Celeste

Mary Celeste is a composer and orchestrator who was born in Wellington and currently lives in Nelson.

Mary writes for choir, small chamber or jazz ensembl...

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Thomas Botting

Tom Botting is a double bassist and composer originally from Hamilton working predominantly in jazz and improvised music. After relocating to Sydney in late ...

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Phil Boniface

Phil Boniface is a New Zealand/Canadian bassist, composer and educator.

Growing up in New Zealand his journey in music started at age 12 with piano, follo...

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Thomas Bedggood

Thomas Bedggood is a Composer-Performer and Violinist based in Christchurch, currently in his Honours year at the University of Christchurch majoring in both...

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Nathan Carter

Nathan Carter is a multi-instrumentalist and sound artist/composer, born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand.

Growing up as an avid drummer, he studied...

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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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Brad Jenkins

Brad Jenkins is a composer and musician based in Wellington. In 2012 Brad completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Composition (Instrumental and Vocal) at the New...

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Michelle Velvin

Michelle Velvin is a Wellington based harpist, composer and teacher. She has a special interest in writing harp music and performing New Zealand compositions...