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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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Thomas Goss

Thomas Goss has worked as a professional composer, arranger, and educator in New Zealand and the United States. He has created orchestral education programme...

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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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Kodi Rasmussen

Kodi Rasmussen is an accomplished composer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He graduated from the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Well...

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Claire Cowan

Claire Cowan is hailed as one of New Zealand’s most exciting composers with an impressive array of scoring and composition credits spanning concert, film, te...

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Matthew Beardsworth

Matthew Beardsworth (b. 1999) is a young composer, arranger, and songwriter living on the North Shore of Auckland. He currently freelances in addition to stu...

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Salina Fisher

Salina Fisher (b.1993) is an award-winning New Zealand composer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Her highly evocative music often draws on her Japane...

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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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Ryan Youens

Ryan Youens is an arranger, orchestrator, composer and music preparer, with fifteen years experience collaborating with ensembles, artists, publishers, compo...

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Fritha Jameson

Currently based in Shenzhen, China, Fritha's musical background can be best described as "eclectic". Early exposure to electronic synthesized sound, classica...

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Mary Celeste

Mary Celeste is a composer and orchestrator who was born in Wellington and currently lives in Nelson.

Mary writes for choir, small chamber or jazz ensembl...

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Jordan Stevenson

Jordan Stevenson is a composer, orchestrator, and musician from New Zealand. Coming from the contemporary music scene as an experienced drummer, Jordan studi...

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Jonathan Crehan

Jonathan Crehan is a Lower Hutt based piano teacher and composer who grew up learning both classical music as well as playing in a celtic style family band. ...

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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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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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Judy Bailey

Pianist, composer, arranger and educator Judy Bailey is constantly involved in a wide and varied range of musical activities. She teaches at the Sydney Conse...

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Denis Betro

While still in his teens Denis Betro travelled from New Zealand to the UK to study music at the Royal College of Music. He supported himself in this endeavor...

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George Smith

George Smith is a composer and orchestrator based in both Wellington and Queenstown, New Zealand. George has a Bachelors Degree in Music majoring in Composit...

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Julia Francis

Julia Francis is an Auckland-based composer, arranger, musician, and performer. After wanting to be a composer from a young age, in 2018 she completed her Ba...

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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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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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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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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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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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Sandra Lynch

Sandy Lynch was classically trained on piano, attaining an ATCL Performers Diploma at age 16, before further developing her repertoire through jazz lessons. ...

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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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Michael Norris

Michael Norris (b. 1973) is a Wellington-based composer, software programmer and music theorist. He holds composition degrees from Victoria University of Wel...

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Robbie Ellis

Robbie Ellis is a composer, music director, broadcaster, comedy songmaker, and other.

Born on Auckland’s North Shore, he studied Composition at the Univer...

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Ken Wilson

Ken Wilson, clarinetist, composer.

He was born in Auckland in 1924 and began music study [clarinet and piano] at 9 years of age. In 1937, he moved to Cal...

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Mike Crowl

Mike Crowl is a Dunedin pianist and composer, and is well-known in his home city as an accompanist of singers and instrumentalists. After living most of his ...

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Justin Clarke

Justin Clarke is a composer, guitarist, producer, arranger and songwriter. He is active in a variety of musical styles drawing from diverse experiences in ja...

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Dunedin Symphony Orchestra

The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is Dunedin’s only professional orchestra and is funded by Creative New Zealand. The DSO have established a reputation fo...

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Peau Halapua

Peau Halapua descends from Lapaha and Hihifo in the Kingdom of Tonga; and Pārāwai, Aotearoa. She has performed and worked professionally as a violin player...

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Brad Jenkins

Brad Jenkins is a composer and musician based in Wellington. In 2012 Brad completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Composition (Instrumental and Vocal) at the New...

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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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Clive Cockburn

Clive Cockburn composes for film and television and also hosts his own music writing course teaching arrangement and composition. His career working in the r...

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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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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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Louisa Nicklin

The work of composer Louisa Nicklin encompasses both contemporary classical and popular music.

A graduate of Te Koki New Zealand School of Music - having...

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Orchestra Wellington

ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA

With a rich history as New Zealand’s oldest regional orchestra founded over sixty years ago, Orchestra Wellington’s audience numbers h...

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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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Robert Wiremu

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tuwharetoa

As an occasional composer, Robert has been relatively prolific in output. A student of the late Jack Body, ...

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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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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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Stacey Dixon

Stacey is from Christchurch, and studied the oboe and cor anglais at Victoria University in Wellington, before moving to the UK in 2000. She holds a PGDip in...

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Gary Daverne

As a composer, Gary has composed music for symphony orchestras, brass and military bands, children’s songs and musicals, Māori Waiata, more than 500 televisi...

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Peter Scholes

Peter Scholes is a clarinettist, musical director, conductor and composer. Born in Auckland, his specialist instrument is the clarinet which he studied with ...

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Adrien de Croy

Adrien de Croy was born in 1968 in Wellington, and grew up in Hamilton and later Cambridge. He graduated with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Auckl...

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William Green

William Green was born in Christchurch and studied piano with Jean MacLachlan, and with Maurice Till at the University of Canterbury, graduating BMus/MA. He ...

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Tony Ryan

Since returning to New Zealand after several years living in Mombasa (Kenya) and Singapore, Tony Ryan has resumed a very busy music schedule as a composer, c...