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Jerome Kavanagh

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu me te rohe o Mōkai Pātea.

Grammy award winning soloist and Maori musical instrument specialist Jerome Kavanagh (Poutama) ...

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Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal

Ngāti Whanaunga, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāpuhi

Dr Charles Royal (Te Ahukaramū) is an independent composer, teacher, researcher and cultural leade...

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Alistair Fraser

Alistair Fraser is a widely respected player, composer, and researcher of ngā taonga puoro with a performance background that enables him to provide a sensit...

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Horomona Horo

Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Taranaki

Composer and taonga pūoro practitioner, Horomona Horo has fused traditional Maori instruments, taonga pūoro, with a diverse...

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Komako Silver

Ngāti Pakahi, Ngā Puhi

Komako Silver is a filmmaker and taonga pūoro artist based in Waikato who integrates her spirituality-based upbringing with her mu...

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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...

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Rob Thorne

Ngāti Tumutumu

Composer, Performer, Improvisor, Collaborator, Anthropologist, Specialist New Zealand Māori composer, performer, improvisor, collaborator,...

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GiGi Crayford

Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa Ngāti Tūwharetoa Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga

GiGi Crayford, a mokopuna of the "Crayford Jazz Dynasty" is a multi dimensional ...

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Reti Hedley

Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Reti was mentored by his late mother Rangiiria Hedley. Rangiiria was a renowned taonga pūoro artist and lecturer at the university of Wai...

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Stephen Ralph Matthews

Born in Heretaunga, New Zealand, Stephen Ralph Matthews works in Auckland as a composer, lecturer, multi-media artist and performer. Most of his works refere...

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Ariana Tikao

Kāi Tahu

Ariana is a singer, composer, leading player of taonga puoro (Māori instruments) and New Zealand Arts Laureate. She writes waiata exploring the...

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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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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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Tipene Harmer

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahu

Tipene Harmer, is one of Aotearoa’s leading Hip Hop Artists of Ngāti Kahungunu descent from Te matau a Maui-Hawke...

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Bob Bickerton

Bob has worked in the New Zealand music industry for over 45 years as a manager, trustee, recording and live sound engineer, educator, performer and composer...

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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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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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Michael Norris

Michael Norris (b. 1973) is a Wellington-based composer, software programmer and music theorist. He holds composition degrees from Victoria University of Wel...

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VOICES New Zealand

Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, with Music Director Dr Karen Grylls, made its début at the 1998 New Zealand International Arts Festival and later that year...

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Dylan Lardelli

Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tūhoe

Born in Wellington New Zealand, Dylan holds degrees in Guitar performance, and Composition from Victoria University Wellington. He...

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Martin Lodge

Martin Lodge’s music is imbued with the sounds of nature, traditional Maori instrumental sounds and chant, rock music, and computers, as well as the Western ...

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Te Kahureremoa Taumata

Ko Ngai Te Upokoiri, Ngāti Hinemanu, Ngāti Manunui ōku hapu
Ko Ngāti Kahungunu, Ko Ngāti Tuwharetoa ōku iwi
Ko Te Kahureremoa Tiopira Taumata tōku ingo...

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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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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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Te Reotakiwa Dunn

Hokianga, Ngāti Tuwharetoa

"Music in the home and in our everyday space impacted and influenced my life."

Kapa haka helped Reo to realize his strength...