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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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Dugal McKinnon

Dr Dugal McKinnon works in the collision zones between sound, music, language, and acoustic, visual and digital media.

Recent projects include: _This Sto...

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Jann Rutherford

Jann Rutherford, the jazz pianist, composer, teacher and poet who was a prominent and unique musical force in Australia and New Zealand, died of cancer at th...

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Tyna Keelan

Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngāti Kahu, Te Aupōuri

Tyna Keelan is a musician, vocalist and composer. He grew up in Porirua, ne...

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Piliopo Nelson-Retzlaff

Piliopo Nelson-Retzlaff was born Joyce Rosabel Nelson on Christmas Day, 25 December 1912; passed away 13 January 1987.

She loved music and always owned ...

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John Psathas

Ioannis (John) Psathas was born in Wellington New Zealand July 3rd, 1966. His father (Emmanuel Psathas, from Nea Michaniona) and mother (Anastasia Psathas, f...

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John Elmsly

John Elmsly was born in Auckland on 1 July 1952. A childhood which included a dozen or so primary schools in Auckland, Melbourne, Blenheim, and the Hutt Vall...

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Tecwyn Evans

After his studies in New Zealand Tecwyn Evans left on a Fulbright Scholarship to study conducting at the University of Kansas with Brian Priestman and Simon ...

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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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Ross James Carey

Ross James Carey is a composer and pianist. A native of Te Awa Kairangi/Lower Hutt, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Ross completed a PhD in composition from the Unive...

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Jeni Little

Jeni Little lives with her partner and two children in Titirangi, Auckland. She has taught music at Epsom Girls Grammar School, and at Green Bay High School ...

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Te Okanga (Aussie) Kahutapere Huata

Ngāti Kahungunu - Ngāti Pahauwera, Ngāti Mihi, Ngāi Tamaterangi

Major Te Okanga Kahutapere (Aussie) Huata (MC - Millitary Cross) was born in Mōhaka, Wairo...

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Jaz Coleman

Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman is a musician, composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, lecturer, traveller, philosopher, actor and decorated Chevalier des Arts et...

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Dorothy Ker

Dorothy Ker’s music is performed and broadcast in both hemispheres and has been heard at international festivals in Auckland, Belfast, Darmstadt, Huddersfiel...

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Robin Maconie

Robin John Maconie (b 1942 in Auckland) is a composer and writer specializing in the late 20th-century avant-garde. He is a published authority on the music ...

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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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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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Anthony Ritchie

Anthony has composed over 200 compositions during a career that includes a decade of freelance composing, several composer residencies, and twenty years teac...

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Ewan Clark

Ewan Clark is a film composer, orchestrator and conductor based in Wellington. Since 2008 he has scored numerous short films, documentaries and feature films...

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Robin Toan

Robin Toan started composing at the age of 15 while she was at high school. She went on to graduate from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Music ...

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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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Georgina Palmer

Georgina Palmer is a New Zealand composer, currently in her third year of tertiary composition study at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

She began p...

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Jenny McLeod

Born in Wellington in 1941, Jenny McLeod grew up in Timaru and Levin. Throughout her childhood and adolescence she was always involved in music, as school pi...

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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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Brent Parker

Brent Parker was a New Zealand-born composer and pianist who lived in Ireland for more than 40 years. He taught at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in...

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Gillian Whitehead

Tainui

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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Marc Taddei

Celebrated for his “magnificent contribution as Music Director” by The Press, lauded as “a real interpreter of boldly romantic inclinations” by the Dominion ...

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Poulima Salima

Owner and director of SALIMA MUSIC LTD, established in 2010. I am a professional Composer, Educator and Director of Music. In 2005, I graduated with a Bachel...

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Kenneth Young

Kenneth Young is one of New Zealand’s most well-known and performed composers with a professional career which has expanded over the past 40 years. Numerous ...

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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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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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Anthony Young

Anthony Young graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters Degree in composition in 2004, and has had works performed by the Auckland Philharmoni...

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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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Warwick Blair

In the late 1980s, composer Warwick Blair was already being described as one of New Zealand’s most original musical thinkers (NZ Herald) and the enfant terri...

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Peter Godfrey

Peter David Hensman Godfrey CBE (3 April 1922 – 28 September 2017) was an English-born New Zealand choral conductor. He was Professor of Music at the Univers...

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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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Gareth Farr

Gareth Farr (b.1968) began his studies in composition and percussion performance at the University of Auckland. The experience of hearing a visiting gamelan ...

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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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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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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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Helen Bowater

Helen Bowater graduated BMus(Hons) in music history and ethnomusicology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1982. She later studied composition with Ja...

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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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Alexander Cowdell

Alexander Cowdell was born in Scotland in 1945 but educated in New Zealand, where as a student at Waihi College he first became interested in composition und...

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Keith Moss

Keith Moss was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and received his formal music training in Port Elizabeth focusing on piano performance at the Nelson Mandela U...

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James Gardner

James Gardner was born in Liverpool, England in 1962, and during the 1980s played keyboards for his group The Umbrella and thereafter for a variety of well-k...

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Jeffrey Grice

Pianist Jeffrey Grice was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. A student of Janetta McStay and Bryan Sayer at Auckland University (Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor o...

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Daniel Stabler

Daniel Stabler has been an active professional Double Bassist since 1967. He attended Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan, USA), The Juilliard School, Manhatt...

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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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Jillian Bray

Jillian Bray was known primarily as a writer of hymn tunes. Of about fifty published hymns, most are set to texts by Shirley Murray, who is among the foremos...