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John Rimmer

John Rimmer was born in Auckland in 1939 and studied with Ronald Tremain at the University of Auckland. In 1967 he was awarded a Canadian Commonwealth Schola...

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Susan Frykberg

I'm a sound artist and composer of electroacoustic, instrument and vocal music and chant. I like to try different approaches to sound and composition and so ...

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Sonya Ishimnikova

Sonya Ishimnikova is a New Zealand sonic artist, electronic musician and composer. Her works include acousmatic, electroacoustic, installations, film scoring...

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Philip Brownlee

Te Atiawa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa Rangatira

Philip Brownlee (b. 1971) is a composer and sound artist, based in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2008 he recei...

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Denis Smalley

Denis Smalley is a composer specialising in electroacoustic music. He was born in New Zealand in 1946, and completed music degrees at the University of Cante...

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Lissa Meridan

Lissa Meridan (b.1972) is a New Zealand composer and sound artist based in France. Her works include orchestral, chamber, vocal, filmscore, electroacoustic, ...

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Annea Lockwood

Born in New Zealand in 1939, Annea Lockwood moved to England in 1961, studying composition at the Royal College of Music, London, attending summer courses at...

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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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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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James Dunlop

James Dunlop is a freelance composer and sound designer. While he works mainly in theatre, he has also been involved in film, television and dance production...

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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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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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Bronwen Thomson

Bronwen Thomson completed a BMus in composition, specialising in electroacoustic music in 1996. She has written a number of different works for contemporary ...

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David Downes

David Downes is a New Zealand born composer, filmmaker and performer who has pursued a diverse and individual creative career. His various music, sonic art, ...

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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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Hannah Gilmour

Composer Hannah Gilmour (b. 1986) was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, and raised on an orchard in Te Puna, a small rural town on the outskirts of Tauranga. Sh...

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Bronwyn Officer

Bronwyn Officer was born in 1959 in Invercargill. She gained her MusB (Hons) in composition from Otago University in 1981. From 1982 till early 1987 she work...

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Robert Bryce

Robert Bryce is a composer, electroacoustic performer, sonic artist, and teacher. His compositions have been performed throughout New Zealand by performers s...

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Chris Cree Brown

Chris Cree Brown is currently a freelance Composer and Sonic Artist. In 2018, he retired from his position as Associate Professor at the School of Music, Un...

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David Sanders

Born in England, Treefrog 'David' Sanders is a Wellington-based composer and self-employed music teacher. He studied composition at Victoria University of We...

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Kit Powell

Born in 1937 in Wellington, Kit Powell met Brigitte, his Swiss wife, while studying in Europe in 1966/67. Since 1984 the Powell family have lived in Switzerl...

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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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Briar Prastiti

Briar Prastiti (b. 1992) is a composer and vocalist of New Zealand and Greek Cypriot descent. She hails from from Tauranga, New Zealand and is currently base...

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Peter Adams

Peter Adams is an Emeritus Professor in the Music Department of Otago University and a well-known conductor. Peter was educated in Dunedin, completing a Mus....

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Mohi Allen

Te Tai Tokerau, Tauranga Moana and Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa

Mohi Wati Te Rau Allen, known professionally as MOHI was born and raised in West Auckland ...

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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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Richard Bolley

Having spent twenty years living in Auckland, Richard Bolley is proud to consider himself – at least in part – a New Zealander, although he lives at present ...

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Jeremy Mayall

Jeremy Mayall is a Composer/Producer/Performer originally from Hamilton. Jeremy Mayall is a composer/producer/performer based in Hamilton, NZ. He works in ...

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Thomas Bedggood

Thomas Bedggood is a Composer-Performer and Violinist based in Christchurch, currently in his Honours year at the University of Christchurch majoring in both...

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Jason Post

Jason Post is a composer and sound artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. His main interests and composition techniques stem from spectral music, soundscap...

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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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Joshua Taylor

Joshua gained a Bachelor's degree in composition at the University of Auckland studying under Eve de Castro-Robinson. His music has been performed by the NZ ...

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Jack Woodbury

Jack Woodbury is an electroacoustic composer and audio engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand. His debut album, inst.19-20, was recently released on Rat...

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Philip Dadson

Phil Dadson is a sound and intermedia artist with an interdisciplinary practice including solo performances and exhibitions, building experimental instrument...

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William Harsono

William Harsono was born in Taiwan in 1980, and started his musical training at age 4. He immigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1996. After two years ...

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Diana Blom

Diana Blom, composer/pianist, was born in New Zealand and moved to Sydney in 1969. She studied music at the University of Canterbury (NZ), University of Sydn...

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John Coulter

Dr John Coulter is a Senior Lecturer, and the Coordinator of Sonic Arts Programs at the School of Music, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, ...

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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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Alison Isadora

Born and bred in Aotearoa/New Zealand Alison Isadora (1962) studied political philosophy and music at the Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), before movi...

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Christopher Prosser

Photo credit: Stephen A'Court

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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Karlheinz Company

Founded in 1978 by John Rimmer, the Karlheinz Company is New Zealand’s oldest contemporary music ensemble, based at the School of Music, University of Auckla...

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Stephen Ralph Matthews

Born in Heretaunga, New Zealand, Stephen Ralph Matthews works in Auckland as a composer, lecturer, multi-media artist and performer. Most of his works refere...

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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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Gemma Peacocke

Composer Gemma Peacocke grew up in Hamilton, New Zealand, and she moved to New York in 2014. She writes a broad range of music including art-pop chamber musi...

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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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Christopher Marshall

Christopher Marshall was born in Paris, France of New Zealand parents in 1956 and educated in Australia and New Zealand. A self-taught composer he holds a Ma...

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Reuben Rameka

Iwi: Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kurī , Ngāti Tarawhai, Te Ārawa, Tuhourangi

Hapū: Ngaituteauru, Ngāre Hauata, Ngāti Hinemihi, Ngāti Kawa, Ngāti Korokoro, Ngā...

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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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Neville Hall

Neville Hall was born in 1962 in Wellington, New Zealand. He studied composition at Auckland University from 1987–91 with John Rimmer and John Elmsly, gradua...

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Noel Meek

“Meek’s composition is about alliances.” – Su Ballard, author of Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetic.

Noel Meek is a Pākehā musician...