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Ben Hoadley

Ben Hoadley holds degrees in bassoon performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. He received a Master of ...

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Craig Utting

Craig Utting was born in Wellington, where he attended Onslow and Tawa Colleges. At Auckland University, he studied Composition with Douglas Mews, John Rimme...

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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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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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Rod Skipp

Rod Skipp is a cellist, conductor, composer, arranger and educator. Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Rod studied cello and composition at the Universit...

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Bruce Crossman

Bruce Crossman’s sound world embraces Asian traditional musics, free form improvisation and European influenced interval-colour sonority towards a personal P...

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William Thomas

William (Edwin Somerset) Thomas was born in Oxford, England. He graduated from Oxford University with a doctorate in 1893. He held several posts in England, ...

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Kirsten Strom

Kirsten Strom is a young composer, conductor and creative writer. From a life-changing encounter with God as a child, she is drawn to sacred works and the cr...

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Dale Vail

When a two year old is taken to a brass band concert, it is unsurprising that his attention is drawn to the longest, slidiest, loudest instrument on the stag...

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Clare Maclean

Clare Maclean was born in New Zealand in 1958. She studied composition with Gillian Bibby in Wellington, New Zealand, and with Peter Sculthorpe and Bruce Cro...

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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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Dorothy Buchanan

Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 1945) grew up one of six sisters in a musical family in Christchurch. Following an education in catholic schools she graduated M...

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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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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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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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David Long

David Long composes and performs music. In 2022 he released a new album, Ash and Bone, through Rattle Records. It is recorded and mixed by Graham Kennedy a...

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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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Philip Norman

Composer, conductor, author, speaker, educator and publisher Philip Norman has been presenting work to New Zealand audiences for forty-five years. His output...

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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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Julian Kirgan Báez

Julian is an emerging composer and multi-instrumentalist from Wellington who has enjoyed a diverse freelance career over the last decade as a trombonist span...

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Christopher Norton

Christopher Norton was born in New Zealand in 1953. He began composing at the age of 14, and, by the age of 16, had an orchestral work performed and broadcas...