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Felicia Edgecombe, teacher, song-writer and musician, was born in Napier and educated at Tauranga Girls’ College, then later at Auckland University, studying...

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flea BITE

fleaBITE, the new award-winning children's music venture from Robin Nathan, is full of fun, offbeat humor and musical inventiveness.

fleaBITE's latest CD ...

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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

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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

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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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Adrianna Lis

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The Polish/New Zealand principal flutist of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra began her musical training in Poland with Anna Kolarz and Barbara Mazurkiewicz con...

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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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Julie Mason

Auckland-based jazz vocalist and pianist Julie Mason (BMus) has performed extensively throughout New Zealand, appearing at many major festivals, playing with...

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Jason Jones

Jazz saxophonist and music educator, Jason graduated from Auckland University (BMus) in 1994, already an established and respected saxophonist in the Aucklan...

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Natalie Moreno

Natalie Moreno holds a Bachelor of Music from Victoria University and the New Zealand School of Music. She is currently working as a Secondary School music t...

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Jenny Thomas

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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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Alan Wells

Alan Richard Wells was born in Havelock, Pelorus Sound in 1948 and educated by correspondence school (1954-64). Subsequently he studied part-time at the Chri...

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Arion Pons

Arion Pons is a young composer from Christchurch. His music is focused around amateur groups, and he has received commissions from the Christchurch Schools’ ...

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Nick Tipping

Active as a professional jazz/contemporary bass player, Nick Tipping has performed on stages and in clubs around his native Wellington, New Zealand as well a...

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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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Michael Nicholas Williams

Michael was born in Petone and studied Music at the Wellington Polytechnic. He made his professional debut as Musical Director in 1983 with Tom Foolery at Ci...

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Malcolm Mawhinney

Malcolm Mawhinney is a graduate of the University of Otago, where he gained his Bachelor of Music (Honours) majoring in Performance Viola with Dr Donald Maur...

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Katharine Neil

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Campbell Ross

Campbell Ross is a guitarist, composer and teacher who lives in Brisbane, Australia. He developed a passion for the guitar at an early age and almost immedia...

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Michael Stoop

Michael Stoop is a Wellington-based guitarist, composer, and teacher. He studied classical guitar performance at the New Zealand School of Music with Matthew...

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Anthony Watson

Anthony Watson was born in Southland in 1933. After studying music at the University of Otago, he moved to Wellington, where he played viola with the Nationa...

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Felicity Williams

Felicity Mary Williams (née Walker) was born on 24 July 1954 in Christchurch. Educated at Rangi Ruru Girls High School Christchurch (1968-1972), she left hig...

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Ivan Patterson

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Gary Wilby