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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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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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Horomona Horo

Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Taranaki

Composer and taonga pūoro practitioner, Horomona Horo has fused traditional Maori instruments, taonga pūoro, with a diverse...

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Douglas Beilman

A native of Kansas, USA, Douglas Beilman studied with Dorothy Delay and Hyo Kang at the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory of Music. He then c...

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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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Henry Shirley

Henry Shirley was born in 1902 in Staffordshire, England, the youngest of 13 children. His family emigrated to Auckland in 1906. He was educated at Ponsonby ...

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Alfred Hill

Alfred Hill (1869-1960) was New Zealand's first fully professional composer and a leading figure in Australian music from the early years of this century. Wi...

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Alex Lindsay

Alex Lindsay M.B.E. was born in Invercargill in 1919 and died suddenly in 1974. He was one of New Zealand's most famous musicians; a gifted violinist and fou...

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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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Richard Mapp

Richard Mapp showed musical promise early. He made his solo debut at the age of 12 with the Christchurch Civic Orchestra, playing Mendelssohn's First Piano C...