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Bruce McKinnon

Bruce McKinnon has been Principal Percussionist with the NZSO since 1989. He became Emeritus Principal in 2007.

As a soloist with the NZSO he has performe...

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Mark Hobson

Mark began his musical career under the watchful eye of his mother Noeline, who was his first music teacher. After deciding that the violin was not his instr...

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Margaret Medlyn

Known as a singing actor, Margaret Medlyn ONZM is one of Australasia's finest singers, with consistently highly acclaimed performances in opera, oratorio and...

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Rae de Lisle

Rae de Lisle is currently Associate Professor in Piano at the University of Auckland. Following eight years studying and performing in London, Rae spent fift...

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Olga Parshotam

Olga was born in Whangarei, New Zealand into a Dorofaeff family of five and educated at Christ West High School, Canterbury University College followed by Te...

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Mok-Hyun Gibson-Lane

Mok-Hyun Gibson-Lane was awarded Second Prize in the New Zealand Young Musician of the Year Competition held in Auckland, New Zealand. The finals of the New ...

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Reuben Derrick

Reuben grew up in Christchurch where he is now based as a saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser, sonic artist and composer, active in New Zealand and Australi...

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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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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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Arnold Trowell

A friendship between Arnold Trowell and Katherine Mansfield forms the extent of what little is usually known about Arnold Trowell today, however this was not...

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William Philipson

William Philipson is a New Zealand composer based in Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

Philipson has focused on music for screen, writing music for three f...

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Mere Boynton

Te Aitanga a Māhaki, Ngāti Oneone, Ngāi Tūhoe

Mere Tokorahi Boynton is a singer and actor, well known for her role as Mavis in the internationally acclaim...

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Deborah Wai Kapohe

Te Ātihaunui - ā - Papārangi

Worldwide, few professional opera singers can claim so diverse a repertoire of talents as Deborah Wai Kapohe, M.Mus(Distincti...

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Callum Allardice

Born and raised in small-town Motueka (New Zealand), Callum’s successful music career began early. At 15, he started his own jazz group and started gigging a...

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Richard Oswin

Richard trained as a primary school teacher, specialising in music, at the North Shore Teachers’ College in Auckland graduating with Excellence in 1979. As a...

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Kees Hilhorst

Kees Hilhorst completed his violin study at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands with Jan Hulst and Benzion Shamir and after spending some years wit...

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Marshall Smith

Marshall Smith is a composer and songwriter, MD of music company The Sound Room and Chairperson of the Screen Composers Guild of NZ.

The Sound Room Ltd (e...

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Liam Hotter

Liam Hotter is a freelance film and media composer and an independent music producer, based in Wellington New Zealand. His journey with music began when he w...

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Rosa Elliott

Rosa Elliott is a young composer from Christchurch, where she recently completed a BMUS and BA at the University of Canterbury majoring in Composition and En...

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Jesse Austin-Stewart

Jesse Austin-Stewart (he/him) is a sound artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a composer, sound artist, producer, and ...

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Reuben Bradley

Native to Wellington, Reuben Bradley has travelled the world extensively. Drumming with international jazz performers has developed his creativity and passio...

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Daniel Beban

Daniel is a musician, composer and sound artist who lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Daniel performs on a number of different instruments in groups incl...

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Gao Ping

Gao Ping is a composer-pianist, born in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province of China. He studied in the USA in the 1990s. In demand as a composer, he has receiv...

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Richard Paull

Richard Paull is a young music composer, performer and conductor who completed his studies at the University of Auckland School of Music at the end of 2018, ...

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Clovis McEvoy

Clovis McEvoy is an Auckland based composer, sound designer, sound engineer and music journalist. He completed a Bachelor of Music and Graduate Diploma in So...

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Jerome Kavanagh

Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu me te rohe o Mōkai Pātea.

Grammy award winning soloist and Maori musical instrument specialist Jerome Kavanagh (Poutama) ...

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Hanzhong Kang

Hanzhong Kang is a distinguished Composer, Music Educator and Guitarist, and a member of the Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ), making significant ...

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Doris Prentice

Doris A (Antoinette) Prentice (née Bagley) was born in Dunedin. She was the grand-daughter of James Schott, himself the grand-son of Bernhard Schott, the fou...

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John Cousins

John Cousins was born in 1943 in Wellington. He received training as a musician, graduating with an honors degree in music from the University of Canterbury ...

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Emma Carlé

Emma Carlé is classically trained in violin and piano and studied composition with John Psathas, Jack Body, John Young and Ross Harris at Victoria University...

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Alexa Still

Alexa is known internationally for her many recordings on the Koch International Classics label. She has been described as: “impeccable in technique and tast...

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Jake Baxendale

Jake Baxendale is an alto saxophonist and composer based in Te Whanganui-A-Tara (Wellington) Aotearoa. Raised in remote Mohua (Golden Bay) he demonstrates in...

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Anton Killin

Anton Killin studied musical composition, sonic art, music theory, and ethnomusicology at the New Zealand School of Music, Wellington. Anton’s MMus thesis an...

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Bob Bickerton

Bob has worked in the New Zealand music industry for over 45 years as a manager, trustee, recording and live sound engineer, educator, performer and composer...

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Donald Maurice

Donald Maurice is Emeritus Professor of Music at Victoria University in New Zealand. He has presented at over a dozen International Viola Congresses and has ...

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Hermione Johnson

Hermione Johnson is a pianist and composer from Auckland, New Zealand. Her performances center largely on extended and prepared piano techniques, focusing on...

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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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Edwin Carr

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, in August 1926, Edwin James Nairn Carr studied music at Otago and Auckland Universities from 1944 to 1947, then travelled to L...

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David Griffiths

David is a New Zealander, born and brought up in Auckland.  He gained his Bachelor of Music in 1971 and left for England to further his studies at the Guildh...

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Rachel Clement

Rachel Clement studied composition with John Rimmer and John Elmsly at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Master of Music (Composition) with disti...

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Ronald Tremain

Ronald Tremain was born in Feilding, New Zealand in 1923. He had a distinguished career as a composer and teacher. Initially studying piano, he gained Trinit...

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Takerei Komene

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Takerei Komene (They/Them) is a composer, singer, instrumentalist, actor and conductor from Auckland. They are currently completing a Bachelor of ...

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Vernon Griffiths

Vernon Griffiths was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, England in 1894. Following war service in France, he graduated from Cambridge University and taught ...

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Christopher Prosser

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Chris Prosser is a violinist-composer who writes music primarily to perform and record himself, as a solo artist and i...

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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...