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Susan Frykberg

I'm a sound artist and composer of electroacoustic, instrument and vocal music and chant. I like to try different approaches to sound and composition and so ...

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David Grahame Taylor

Described as having a “radiant and ear-catching quality worth many further listens” (Straits Times, 2012), David Grahame Taylor has enjoyed numerous commissi...

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Eric Biddington

Eric Biddington was born in Timaru in October 1953. He received his schooling in Timaru and Christchurch. On leaving school he started work as a labourer and...

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Hamilton Dickson

Hamilton Dickson (1906–1980) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, where early in his musical career he became involved with theatre performances. As a cell...

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Michael Jamieson

Michael comes from Taranaki, New Zealand. He studied at Victoria University and Massey University, Wellington (later the NZ School of Music), and as a recipi...

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John Emeleus

John Emeleus was born in Northern Ireland, receiving his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music, London where he majored in composition, also studyi...

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Dorothy Freed

Dorothy Freed was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in February 1919. She was educated in Melbourne, returning to New Zealand in 1936 where she was employed in s...

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Maria Grenfell

Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia in 1969 and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating with a Master of Music degree from the University of Canterbu...

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Justine Cormack

As a freelance violinist Justine performs as soloist, chamber musician, guest-concertmaster and orchestral violinist. As a Creative Performance Coach, Justin...

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Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is a community orchestra based in South Auckland. The orchestra presents four varied concerts annually to patrons from a...

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Opus Orchestra

Opus is the professional city orchestra for the Bay of Plenty. Founded in 1991, Opus continues to offer outstanding orchestral experiences to audiences acros...

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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is Aotearoa's national orchestra.

One of the world’s oldest national symphony orchestras, they have charmed audiences w...

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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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Graham Parsons

Graham Parsons studied music composition under Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar at Victoria University and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Germany. He ta...

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Chris Watson

Ngai te Rangi

The music of Chris Watson (PhD - Victoria, 2007) has enjoyed premieres by orchestras including the Tokyo Philharmonic, the New Zealand Symph...

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Farquhar Wilkinson

Farquhar Wilkinson received his early musical education in Dunedin, where he played for a time in the 4YA orchestra of the then New Zealand Broadcasting Serv...

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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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Ivan Zagni

Ivan Zagni is a New Zealand-based musician and composer who has been a member of bands such as Jody Grind, Big Sideways and Avant Garage, and has recorded al...

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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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Ben Hoadley

Ben Hoadley holds degrees in bassoon performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. He received a Master of ...

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Craig Utting

Craig Utting was born in Wellington, where he attended Onslow and Tawa Colleges. At Auckland University, he studied Composition with Douglas Mews, John Rimme...

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Carolyn Mills

Harpist Carolyn Mills has been described by critics as a musician of “great sensitivity and technical accomplishment” and “intense expressiveness.” She studi...

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Chris Cree Brown

Chris Cree Brown is currently a freelance Composer and Sonic Artist. In 2018, he retired from his position as Associate Professor at the School of Music, Un...

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Rod Skipp

Rod Skipp is a cellist, conductor, composer, arranger and educator. Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Rod studied cello and composition at the Universit...

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Bruce Crossman

Bruce Crossman’s sound world embraces Asian traditional musics, free form improvisation and European influenced interval-colour sonority towards a personal P...

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William Thomas

William (Edwin Somerset) Thomas was born in Oxford, England. He graduated from Oxford University with a doctorate in 1893. He held several posts in England, ...

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Kirsten Strom

Kirsten Strom is a young composer, conductor and creative writer. From a life-changing encounter with God as a child, she is drawn to sacred works and the cr...

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Dale Vail

When a two year old is taken to a brass band concert, it is unsurprising that his attention is drawn to the longest, slidiest, loudest instrument on the stag...

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Clare Maclean

Clare Maclean was born in New Zealand in 1958. She studied composition with Gillian Bibby in Wellington, New Zealand, and with Peter Sculthorpe and Bruce Cro...

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Colin Hemmingsen

Colin Hemmingsen (Executant Diploma of Music, Auckland University, NZ (1968), Master of Music, New England Conservatory, USA (1973).

Hemmingsen has had a...

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Dorothy Buchanan

Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 1945) grew up one of six sisters in a musical family in Christchurch. Following an education in catholic schools she graduated M...

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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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David Downes

David Downes is a New Zealand born composer, filmmaker and performer who has pursued a diverse and individual creative career. His various music, sonic art, ...

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John Ritchie

John Ritchie was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1921. He graduated in music at the Otago University and trained as a teacher at Dunedin Teachers' Colleg...

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David Long

David Long composes and performs music. In 2022 he released a new album, Ash and Bone, through Rattle Records. It is recorded and mixed by Graham Kennedy a...

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Hugh Dixon

Hugh Dixon was born in Sydney in 1927. Since the age of 12 he has lived in New Zealand, with the exception of a stay of almost two years in Sydney between 19...

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Philip Norman

Composer, conductor, author, speaker, educator and publisher Philip Norman has been presenting work to New Zealand audiences for forty-five years. His output...

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Ian Sinclair

Born in 1929, Ian arrived in New Zealand from Scotland in 1974 with his wife and family. Although an architect by profession, Ian was involved in the promoti...

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Julian Kirgan Báez

Julian is an emerging composer and multi-instrumentalist from Wellington who has enjoyed a diverse freelance career over the last decade as a trombonist span...

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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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Isaac Shatford

Isaac Shatford is a composer, violinist and pianist based in Christchurch. His works, which have been performed across New Zealand, include an eclectic range...

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Julius Mari Magpantay

Julius Mari Magpantay is a Filipino-born Auckland-based composer. He has always been a lover of music and developed a strong interest in composition at Glenf...

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Alexandra Hope Watson

Alexandra is a performer, composer and lyricist, appreciating both classical and contemporary music. Alexandra is studying at the University of Canterbury (U...

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Lyell Cresswell

Lyell Cresswell was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 13 October 1944. He studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht. After some teaching at Glas...

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Gillian Whitehead

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Dame Gillian Whitehead was born in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1941. She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959-62, and Victoria University o...

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Jeremy Mayall

Jeremy Mayall is a Composer/Producer/Performer originally from Hamilton. Jeremy Mayall is a composer/producer/performer based in Hamilton, NZ. He works in ...

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Jessie Leov

Jessie Leov (MMus) is an award-winning composer, songwriter and musician, based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Active in the industry for over a decade, Jessie’s pract...

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Nigel Keay

Nigel Keay was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1955 and has been working as a freelance composer and viola player in Paris since 2001, having moved ...

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Maddy Parkins-Craig

Maddy Parkins-Craig is a composer, songwriter, performer and producer based in Dunedin. Originally from Australia, she completed her Bachelor of Music (Hons)...

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Elizabeth Sneyd

Elizabeth has played violin in professional orchestras, in both America and New Zealand, for the past 24 years. She led the University of Wisconsin Orchestra...