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Manukau Symphony Orchestra

The Manukau Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is a community orchestra based in South Auckland. The orchestra presents four varied concerts annually to patrons from a...

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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is Aotearoa's national orchestra.

One of the world’s oldest national symphony orchestras, they have charmed audiences w...

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Nelson Symphony Orchestra

The Nelson Symphony Orchestra is a regional orchestra of dedicated musicians aiming to produce high quality orchestral concerts.

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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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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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Anna Leese

New Zealand Soprano Anna Leese completed a Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honours at the University of Otago. Anna is the recipient of an impressi...

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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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Andrew Sewell

New Zealand conductor, Andrew Sewell, is currently in his twentieth season as Music Director of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. From 2000-2010, he was musi...

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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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Hamish McKeich

New Zealand-born conductor Hamish McKeich has forged an impressive international conducting career on the world-stage. His partnership with the New Zealand S...

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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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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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Colin Decio

Colin Decio (the 'c' is pronounced 'ch' as in 'church' - hence Dech-io) was born in Birmingham, England to an English mother and a Ukrainian father. From 198...

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Hugh Dixon

Hugh Dixon was born in Sydney in 1927. Since the age of 12 he has lived in New Zealand, with the exception of a stay of almost two years in Sydney between 19...

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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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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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Jonathan Besser

Composer/Pianist Jonathan Besser was born in New York City in 1949, and studied composition in New York at the Mannes College of Music with David Loeb. Resid...

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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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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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Nathaniel Otley

Nathaniel Otley is a composer, violinist and conductor based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin. He completed his MusB(Hons) at Otago University in 2019 studying violin wit...

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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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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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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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Colin Hemmingsen

Colin Hemmingsen (Executant Diploma of Music, Auckland University, NZ (1968), Master of Music, New England Conservatory, USA (1973).

Hemmingsen has had a...

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Ian Sinclair

Born in 1929, Ian arrived in New Zealand from Scotland in 1974 with his wife and family. Although an architect by profession, Ian was involved in the promoti...

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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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Orpheus Choir Wellington

Orpheus Choir Wellington is a symphonic choir based in New Zealand's capital.

They bring the big choir experience — dramatic, spectacular and emotionally...

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Justus Rozemond

Justus is a graduate from the New Zealand School of Music in Music Performance on (bass-)clarinet.

He started conducting in New Plymouth, with the Taranak...

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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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Carolyn Mills

Harpist Carolyn Mills has been described by critics as a musician of “great sensitivity and technical accomplishment” and “intense expressiveness.” She studi...

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Michael Jamieson

Michael comes from Taranaki, New Zealand. He studied at Victoria University and Massey University, Wellington (later the NZ School of Music), and as a recipi...

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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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Andrew Uren

Andrew Uren is a keen performer of all styles and genres of music and dedicates himself tirelessly to promoting the bass clarinet and New Zealand music. He ...

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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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Nalin Shen

Born in southwest of Sichuan, China, Shen Nalin studied composition at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music with Professor Gao Wei Jie and Yao Yi Rang. During t...

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Celeste Oram

Celeste Oram (b. 1990, Manhattan) is a composer and musician who grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand, and is currently living in San Diego, California, unceded t...

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Juliet Palmer

New Zealand-Canadian composer Juliet Palmer is known as a “post-modernist with a conscience” (The Listener) whose work “crosses so many genres as to be in a ...

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Nigel Keay

Nigel Keay was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1955 and has been working as a freelance composer and viola player in Paris since 2001, having moved ...

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Alan Heathcote White

Whanganui-born composer Alan Heathcote White was educated at Wellington College where he began composing. He claimed descent from Carl Maria von Weber. He be...

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Abby Pinkerton

Abby Pinkerton is a Waikato based composer. Growing up in Rotorua, she completed both her ATCL and LTCL in piano performance before moving to Hamilton to beg...

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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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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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John Hopkins

John Hopkins OBE, conductor and administrator, was born in Yorkshire, UK. He moved to New Zealand in 1957 and to Australia in 1963. He conducted the Auckland...

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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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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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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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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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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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Adrianna Lis

The Polish/New Zealand principal flutist of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra began her musical training in Poland with Anna Kolarz and Barbara Mazurkiewicz con...

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Robert Burch

Robert William (Bob) Burch was born in Lyttelton, New Zealand, 28 Jan 1929. His family Family moved to Timaru and he was a Chorister St. Mary's Anglican Chu...