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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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Bryony Jagger

Bryony Jagger was born and brought up in England. She did not come from a particularly musical family and her parents encouraged her writing talents more tha...

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Matthew de Lacey Davidson

Matthew de Lacey Davidson (b. Toronto, Canada; now res. Nova Scotia) holds degrees from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; the University of Tor...

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Robin Fazakerley

Born 14 September 1932 in Mount Albert, Auckland.

Educated: Blockhouse Bay Primary School (1938-1941), Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland (1942-1945), Av...

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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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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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Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is New Zealand’s full-time professional Metropolitan orchestra, serving the country’s largest and most vibrant city with a co...

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Karlo Margetić

Karlo Margetić (b.1987) is a composer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. He studied composition and clarinet at the New Zealand S...

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Rupert D'Cruze

Rupert D'Cruze has been living in New Zealand since 2006. A boy chorister in the Temple Church Choir, London, then Principal Trombone in both the London Scho...

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Vicki Jones

Vicki Jones was born in Christchurch, NZ, May 27, 1953. She joined the bass section of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 1979 and took study leave overs...

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Joshua Pearson

Joshua is a New Zealand born Sāmoan sonic artist, composer, creative technologist, and at his foremost a creative multipotentialite.

Joshua was a music c...

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Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

Recognised nationally, and celebrated locally, for the depth of its work, the CSO believes that music can enrich lives in different ways and aims to share th...

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Michael Booth

Michael Booth is a trumpeter, composer and teacher. As a teenager he played in the Waikato Youth Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra, Waikato Big Band, and h...

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Auckland Chamber Orchestra

A professional orchestra resident in Auckland, New Zealand.

The Auckland Chamber Orchestra has been entertaining and inspiring audiences with many musical...

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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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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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Sarah Watkins

Sarah Watkins has enjoyed an impressive and busy career as a collaborative pianist. She performed across Australia, Asia, the USA and Europe as a founding me...

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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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Matthew Crawford

Matthew Crawford is a media producer, currently resident in Australia. He has written for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, 175 East and the Auckland Wind...

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Alex Taylor

Alex Taylor (b. 1988) has been commissioned and performed by prominent artists in his native New Zealand and abroad, including Orchestra Wellington (NZ), Ens...

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Nick Granville

Wellington-based jazz musician, Nick Granville works with a diverse range of sounds and styles. He is capable of playing everything from jazz to rock, pop, f...

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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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Monique Lapins

Monique Lapins began her violin studies at the age of 6 with the Suzuki method and continued her studies at the Australian National Academy of Music under Wi...

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Christopher Blake

Christopher Blake was born in Christchurch in 1949. He studied engineering and music at the University of Canterbury and composition at the University of Sou...

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Murray Hickman

Murray, a founding member of Strike, graduated from the Wellington Conservatorium of Music in 1993, then studied with Michael Askill at the Institute of the ...

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Sarah Ballard

Sarah Ballard is a New Zealand composer based in Wellington. Her works have been performed by ensembles such as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Auckl...

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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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Stuart Douglas

Stuart Douglas studied music at Bretton Hall College in Yorkshire and at Trinity College of Music in London. In England, he conducted large and small choirs ...

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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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John Rae

John Rae recorded his first album at the age of sixteen with the acclaimed Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and has subsequently recorded over 30 albums as a...

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Xu Tang

Xu Tang, a composer, was born in Beijing, where he received his early education including music. He moved to New Zealand in 2009. He completed his MMus 1st C...

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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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Madeleine Pierard

Lyric soprano, Madeleine Pierard became well-known in New Zealand after winning the 2005 Lexus Song Quest, a competition which helped launch the careers of D...

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Vyvyan Yendoll

Vyvyan Yendoll was born in the United Kingdom and after studying at the Royal Academy of Music spent a couple of years freelancing mainly in London and the c...

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Tim Sutton

Tim Sutton was appointed bass trombonist of the Auckland Philharmonia in 1990 right after his completion of a Bachelor of Music degree from Victoria Universi...

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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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Dean Major

Born and educated in Wellington, Dean joined the NZSO as a trainee violinist in 1975 and successfully auditioned in 1978 for the 'big' orchestra. As a train...

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Chris Gendall

Chris Gendall’s works have graced the programmes of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, NZTrio, Mark Menzies and the Christchu...

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Ben Gailer

Ben Gailer is a composer/arranger currently living in Tāmaki Makaurau. He is a classically-trained pianist with a passion for expressing his creativity throu...

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Lars Mlekusch

Lars Mlekusch is a graduate from Music Academy Basel (Marcus Weiss) and from Northwestern Univerisity Chicago (Dr. Frederick Hemke) where he earned his Soloi...

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Megan Kyte

Megan is an English-born composer, now living in New Zealand after moving here with her family in 2011. She began composing in high school and then studied c...

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Jeremy Fitzsimons

Jeremy Fitzsimons graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honours in 1995. While at Victoria Univer...

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Uwe-Alexander Grodd

Uwe Grodd, New Zealand based German conductor and flautist, has performed and recorded internationally for over 25 years.

From 1998 until 2002, Uwe was Ar...

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Eva Bedggood

During her second year of study at the University of Canterbury in 2021, her piece Azimuth was selected for performance by the New Zealand Symphony Orchest...

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Cameron Pearce

Cameron divides his time between teaching on the Bachelor of Musical Arts degree at Ara Music Arts (formally CPIT Jazz School) and working as an established ...

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Richard Francis

Richard Francis was educated at Testwood College in Hampshire, England where he was awarded a Junior Exhibition in music allowing him to have free music less...

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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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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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Thomas Botting

Tom Botting is a double bassist and composer originally from Hamilton working predominantly in jazz and improvised music. After relocating to Sydney in late ...

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Alissa Long

Alissa Long (formerly Kuang-Yun Liu) was born in Jordan, raised in Taiwan, and is now permanently based in New Zealand. She studied at Soochow University in ...