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Edward Ware

New Zealander Edward Ware has been involved with music and performance all his life, from early childhood piano lessons and choir through the discipline of t...

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Kim Dyett

Kim Dyett was born in Wellington 1-10-56. Educated at Rongotai College 1970-4. Attended Victoria University of Wellington 1975-80 graduating MMus 1980. 1981-...

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Michael McCleary

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Ros Emeleus

Ros Emeleus holds a B.Mus. from Canterbury University, an Honours degree in composition from the Victoria University of Wellington as well as a performance d...

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Danielle Wood

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William Dart

Composer, broadcaster, writer, editor, critic and teacher, William Dart was born in Auckland on 24 June 1947. He was educated at Whakatane High School 1960–4...

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Michael Smither

My parents bought me a piano when I was eight. I was given lesson by Sister Mary Rose at the local convent. I played The Flight of the Bumblebee at the pri...

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Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett is an actor, musical director and voice artist and has appeared in over a hundred productions throughout New Zealand, Australia and Britain. He ...

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Jeff Henderson

Jeff Henderson is a well-known solo improviser and multi-instrumentalist. A specialist on saxophones and clarinet, Jeff also plays guitar, banjo, piano, perc...

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Mark Storey

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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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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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Wayne Laird

Wayne Laird (ONZM) is a composer, producer and Waikato University Research Associate. In 1997 he founded the independent record label Atoll Records, where he...

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Diane Cooper

Born in 1960, Dianne Cooper was a talented musician whose career as principal keyboard player with the NZSO was cut short in the late 1990s by the brain tumo...

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Guy Jansen

Guy Elwyn Jansen MNZM was a New Zealand music educator and choral musician. He ran choral courses for secondary school students during the 1960s, and establi...

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John Lewis

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Paul Edgeler

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Christopher Jarman

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Andrea Robinson

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Paul Booth

Paul studied composition with John Elmsly and John Rimmer at the University of Auckland, graduating in 1996 with a Master of Music (First Class Hons). He dev...

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Andrew Powdrell

Raised in the small farming community of Wairoa, Andrew spent four years at Wanganui Collegiate, where he studied piano under the late Sonja Wilson. In 1989 ...

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Alex Lithgow

Alexander Lithgow was born in Glasgow and brought to Invercargill as a boy by his migrant family. He was taught to play the cornet there by W.V. Siddall who,...

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Cheryl Camm

I’m a composer currently living in Northumberland with strong links to New Zealand where lots of my music is performed, and Yorkshire, where lots of my works...

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Philip Hodgson

Philip Hodgson was born on 17th November 1935 and died on 9th December I964.

Philip was the third of a family of four, born in Gisborne to Elizabeth and h...

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Reo

Taonga Pūoro, Chanting Voices and Digital Audio Textiles

_Reo is voice – the human voice, the voices of our instruments, the voices of the natural world...