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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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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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Cameron Monteath

A composer and musician from Dunedin, Cameron will complete a MusB (Hons) at Otago University in 2024, studying piano under Blair Professor Terence Dennis an...

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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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Miriama Young

Dr Miriama Young is a dual-national New Zealand/Australian composer, sound artist and educator based at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (...

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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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Timothy Deighton

Timothy Deighton is professor of viola at Penn State University, and enjoys a wide variety of performance opportunities. He performs regularly with Orpheus C...

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Joanna Drimatis

Joanna Drimatis has been a champion of Australian music and contemporary classical music for over 25 years. She has commissioned works from respected compose...

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Jeff Lin

Jeff Lin is originally from Taiwan and immigrated to New Zealand in 1995. He studied with John Elmsly, Eve de Castro-Robinson, and Fiona McAlpine at the Univ...

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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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Michael Vidulich

Michael Louis Vidulich was born in Wellington on the 3rd of November 1946. He left New Zealand in the 1950s, settled in Santa Monica, California in the 1960s...

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James Wade

James Wade (1979 - 2017) developed an interest in music comparatively late which allowed his compositions to be largely influenced by philosophical and abstr...

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Jack Speirs

Jack William Malcolm Speirs was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1939. He was educated at Edinburgh University from 1959 to 1963 where he studied composition ...

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Kathleen Candy Colbert

Kathleen Candy Colbert is a Composer, Arranger, Educator, Professional Violinist and Violist. She lived in rural areas as a child and learned to sing and pla...

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James Tennant

American cellist, James Tennant, came to the staff at Waikato University continuing a long and lively career as a concert cellist, teacher and arts instigat...

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Adrien de Croy

Adrien de Croy was born in 1968 in Wellington, and grew up in Hamilton and later Cambridge. He graduated with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Auckl...

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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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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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Robbie Ellis

Robbie Ellis is a composer, music director, broadcaster, comedy songmaker, and other.

Born on Auckland’s North Shore, he studied Composition at the Univer...

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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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Jack Body

Jack Body (1944–2015) studied at Auckland University, in Cologne and at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht. During 1976–77 he was a guest lecturer at the Aka...

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Ray Twomey

Ray Twomey was a contemporary classical music composer. Born in England in 1938, he moved to New Zealand after the war and completed his schooling. Ray immig...

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Peter Barber

Peter Barber performed in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as Assistant sub-principal violist. In addition he taught the viola privately, and performed as ...

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Sharon Joy Vogan

Sharon Joy Vogan is a New Zealand pianist, primarily known for her interpretations of the classical composers Haydn and Mozart and her recordings of works by...

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James Instone

James Instone is a Music educator, composer, performer and conductor who is passionate about Music education, new music and the musical cultures of South Eas...

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Tom McLeod

After graduating from the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, where he majored in jazz piano, Tom spent several years performing at festivals around N...

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Victoria Kelly

Victoria Kelly is an award-winning composer based in Aotearoa New Zealand and formerly the Director of NZ Member Services at APRA AMCOS. She works across a s...

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Michael F. Williams

Michael F. Williams is a well-known figure in New Zealand composition. He has received commissions from most of the country's major musical institutions incl...

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Luka Venter

Luka Venter (they/them) is an award-winning composer and conductor from Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, currently based in London, where they are training ...

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Mike Nock

Pianist, composer, band leader and jazz educator Mike Nock, came to Australia from New Zealand in the late 1950s where he quickly established himself as a mu...

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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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John Young

John Young was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1962 to English and Italian parents. He studied at the University of Canterbury, completing a doctorate o...

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Stephan Prock

Stephan Prock is currently an Affiliated Associate Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He has also taught at Te Kōkī New Zealand S...

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Nathan Haines

Nathan Haines is an internationally renowned saxophonist, composer, producer, bandleader and vocalist with a body of work in multiple styles stretching back ...

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Whirimako Black

Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Ranginui, Kahungunu, Te Whakatohea, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Te Arawa, and Ngati Awa

A veteran of eight solo albums, Whirim...

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Chris Archer

New Zealand music educator, pianist, organist, accompanist and composer, Chris Archer was Head of Music at Villa Maria College until 2000. He was then employ...

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Michael Vinten

Michael Vinten studied Music History and Composition at Victoria University, Wellington, and then completed a Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting at Cinc...

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Lucy Mulgan

Lucy Mulgan (b. 1971) is a composer and bass player from Aotearoa New Zealand who works in a variety of musical styles.

Her compositions range from sweep...

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Kevin Field

Pianist and composer Kevin Field has collaborated with some of the top international names in jazz including guitarist Nir Felder, bassist Matt Penman and dr...

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Andrew Perkins

Dr Andrew Perkins was born in Warkworth, New Zealand. He attended Auckland University from 1980 till 1985, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Music (1...

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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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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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Clive Cockburn

Clive Cockburn composes for film and television and also hosts his own music writing course teaching arrangement and composition. His career working in the r...

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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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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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Kirstin Eade

Dr Kirstin Eade has been the Sub Principal Flutist in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra since 2003. Originally from the Waikato, Kirstin completed undergra...

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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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Alwyn Westbrooke

Violinist and composer Alwyn Westbrooke is a founding member of the Westbrooke Quartet. He studied at Burnside High School, Christchurch and spent a year on ...

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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...

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Stacey Dixon

Stacey is from Christchurch, and studied the oboe and cor anglais at Victoria University in Wellington, before moving to the UK in 2000. She holds a PGDip in...