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Annea Lockwood

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Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939) is a New Zealand-born American composer. Her work incorporates microtonal, electroacoustic, and vocal music, as well as field recordings; she has also composed Fluxus-inspired pieces involving intentionally damaging pianos. She taught electronic music at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1982 until her retirement. Early life and education Lockwood studied composition and completed a Bachelor of Music degree with honours from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. Her composition studies continued with Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music in London from 1961 to 1963; with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from 1963 to 1964; and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She also studied in the Netherlands. Lockwood settled in London in 1964. Career and style During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lockwood performed and composed around Europe. Her compositions featured non-conventional instruments such as glass tubing used in The Glass Concert (1967). This work was published in the magazine Source: Music of the Avant Garde and later recorded and released by Tangent Records. In the 1970s, Lockw

Arnold Trowell

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Arnold Wilberforce Trowell (25 June 1887 – 16 December 1966), also known as Thomas Wilberforce Trowell, was a New Zealand composer, cellist and teacher who became professor of music at the Guildhall School of Music in London. Biography Arnold Trowell was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1887. He was the son of Thomas Trowell and twin of Garnet Carrington Trowell. In 1903 both brothers went to Europe to study; Arnold the cello and Garnet the violin. Trowell became a member of The Chamber Music Players, a group formed by Lionel Tertis, in 1922 until 1923. He became professor of cello at the Guildhall School of Music in 1924 and joined the staff of the Royal School of Music from 1937. He wrote seven concertos, three sonatas, four symphonic poems and numerous pieces for cello and piano and songs. Like Fritz Kreisler, Trowell forged in 1924 a version of Louis Francœur’s cello/violin sonata in E (which is also often misattributed to Francœur’s brother, François Francœur). Trowell replaced Francœur’s second movement with his own Allegro Vivo movement and modified the final Gigue movement. There are several recordings of the forgery with this misattribution. Selected works * Six morceaux

Christopher Marshall (composer)

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Christopher Marshall (born 1956 in Paris, France) is a New Zealand classical music composer who resides in Orlando, Florida, United States. His works include choral works, works for chamber ensemble, orchestral music and works for concert band, specifically wind ensembles, for which he is most notable. His most notable composition to date is L’homme armé: Variations for Wind Ensemble. Works ;For orchestra *The Song of Gaia, chamber orchestra (1987) *Eastman Overture, orchestra (1996) *Chaconne, orchestra (1998) *Hikurangi Sunrise, orchestra (2000) *Te Rerenga, orchestra (1998–2003) *Symphonic Reflections, orchestra (2010) ;Band ensemble / Wind ensemble *Aue!, wind ensemble (2001) *L’homme armé: Variations, wind ensemble (2003) *U Trau, 2 wind ensembles and chorus (2004) *Okaoka, wind ensemble (2004) *Resonance, wind ensemble (2005) *Rondorlando, wind ensemble (2007) *You’ll Never Walk Alone, soprano and wind ensemble (2007) arrangement of Rodgers song *Dare To Hope, wind ensemble (2009) *An Emily Dickinson Suite (9 miniatures), wind ensemble (2009) *Light, 13 wind instruments/wind ensemble (2010) *Heat Shimmer, wind ensemble/brass (2011) ;For Chamber *Schumannesque, cello choir (19

David Griffiths (composer)

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David Griffiths (born 1950, Auckland, New Zealand) is a composer, baritone and former Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Music at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Waikato. Griffiths has gained national and international recognition as a composer, opera singer and recital soloist. His choral compositions are popular in the United States of America and have been recorded by several choirs, while many works have been included on various record labels including Naxos Records, Kiwi Pacific and Atoll. Griffiths has performed as a soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, all major choral societies in New Zealand and regularly with NBR New Zealand Opera. He has also performed as a recital soloist, representing New Zealand in Taiwan, the US, the United Kingdom and Europe. Griffiths works as a freelance composer and is represented by SouNZ Aotearoa, the Centre for New Zealand Music. He has held positions of Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Voice at universities throughout New Zealand and as such has trained singers who have gone on to perform with the Cologne Opera and the Bayreuth Chorus. Biography David Griffiths was born 1950 in Aucklan

Denis Smalley

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Denis Arthur Smalley (born 1946 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a composer of electroacoustic music, with a special interest in acousmatic music. Biography Denis Smalley studied at the University of Canterbury and Victoria University in his native New Zealand, and later at the Paris Conservatoire with Olivier Messiaen, with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), and at the University of York. He initially composed onto tape, but as early as the 1980s realised his works using computer software. His composition Pentes (1974) is regarded as one of the classics of electroacoustic music. featuring the development of sounds in time. A lecturer at the University of East Anglia, England, from 1976 to 1994, he was professor of music at City University, London from 1994 until his retirement. His music has been performed around the world and most of his major works appear on commercially released CDs. Recordings * Impacts intérieurs (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0409, 2004) * Sources/scènes (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0054, 2000) * Névé (Effects Input, EI 03, 1994) * Tides (Ode Records (New Zealand), MANU 1433, 1993) * Impacts intérieurs (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9209, 1992) List of works * Bas

Dorothea Anne Franchi

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Dorothea Anne Franchi (17 February 1920 – 22 August 2003) was a New Zealand pianist, harpist, music educator and composer. Early life and education Franchi was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1920, the daughter of Peter Rudolph and Gertrude Franchi. She studied at the Auckland Teachers College and the University of Auckland, where she graduated BMus in 1939. She then went to the Royal College of Music in London in 1948. Career Franchi taught music at Epsom Girls’ Grammar School in Auckland before going to study in London. Honours and awards * Lionel Tertis Prize for Viola Rhapsody, 1950 * Philip Neill Memorial Prize, 1947 * The Composers Association of New Zealand KBB Citation for Services to New Zealand Music, 2000 Works Franchi composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, voice and instrumental performance. Selected works include: * A Man of Life Upright for bass and piano * A Wet Night in Greymouth for voice and piano * Abel Tasman for voice, piccolo, piano and drum * Apple-Picking Time for voice and piano * Concertino for harmonica, harp and strings * Do-Wack-A-Do (1956) – orchestral suite from the ballet of the same name * El Bailador Inamorado song cycle for tenor and piano *

Dorothy Buchanan (composer)

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Dorothy Quita Buchanan (born 28 September 1945) is a New Zealand composer and teacher. Life Buchanan was born in Christchurch on 28 September 1945, the second of six daughters in a musical family, and was educated at St Mary’s College. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Canterbury in 1967 and a teaching degree from Christchurch Teachers’ College in 1975. She married physician and endocrinologist David Carroll, and the couple went on to have one child. Buchanan has been active in music education. In 1976 she became New Zealand’s first composer-in-schools, remaining in that role until 1993, and has been a guest lecturer, adjudicator, musical director, advisor to teacher support services and an assessor with Creative New Zealand panels. In 1979 she served as president of the Composers’ Association of New Zealand and founded the Christchurch Music Workshops. In 1980 she co-founded the music publishing cooperative Nota Bene, which provides a hire library of music for schools and community use. Buchanan was the composer in residence at the New Zealand Film Archive from 1984 to 1993. Honours and awards In 1995 Buchanan was awarded the Philip Neill Memoria

Dorothy Freed

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Dorothy Whitson Freed (10 February 1919 – 1 April 2000) was a New Zealand author, composer, and music historian. She made significant contributions to the field of music librarians, and authored several books and articles regarding musical information and resources in New Zealand. Early life and family Freed was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her father was James Gerald Stokely Doorly, a mariner and Antarctic explorer, musician, and author, and her mother was Forrestina Muriel Whitson. She was the younger of two daughters. Early in her childhood, her family moved from New Zealand to Williamstown, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. She completed her public education in Melbourne, before returning to New Zealand in 1936, when she was 17. In New Zealand, she found work in a secretarial and media role. She married her husband William Ian Freed in 1940, and together they had three children. Neither wanted marriage, but wed out of necessity after a casual affair resulted in pregnancy and the two failed to find an abortionist. The marriage was unhappy and the two eventually separated. Education While Freed was raising her three children, she enrolled at Victoria University College to study

Douglas Lilburn

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Douglas Gordon Lilburn (2 November 19156 June 2001) was a New Zealand composer. Early life Lilburn was born in Whanganui and spent his early years on the family sheep farm in the upper Turakina River valley at Drysdale. He attended Waitaki Boys’ High School from 1930 to 1933, before moving to Christchurch to study journalism and music over the next three years at Canterbury University College, then part of the University of New Zealand. In 1936 his career in music was set when his tone poem Forest won visiting composer Percy Grainger’s national composition competition. In 1937 he began studying at the Royal College of Music in London, tutored in composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams until 1939. The two men remained close: in later years Lilburn sent Vaughan Williams gifts of New Zealand honey, knowing that the older man was fond of it. Letters of thanks from Vaughan Williams in 1947 and 1948 confirm this. Lilburn’s early works display the influence of Jean Sibelius; the symphonic poem Forest (1936), in which Lilburn depicts the autumn scenery of Mount Peel in South Canterbury, finds its composer, according to Robert Hoskins, “tracking Sibelius through the shadowy woods, keeping his

Douglas Mews (composer)

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Douglas Kelson Mews (22 September 1918 – 3 August 1993) was a Canadian-born composer, organist and church musician who worked in England and New Zealand. He taught composition at the University of Auckland from 1969 to 1983. Mews was a church organist and Director of Music at Auckland’s Catholic cathedral from 1970 to 1982. He composed a significant body of music for the liturgy as well as choral works, operas, piano and instrumental pieces and works for the accordion, much of it composed after he emigrated to New Zealand in 1969. Early life and education Mews was born on 22 September 1918 in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada His father Arthur was an organist in the Methodist church and his mother Florence was a pianist and piano teacher. He was called up in 1939 to the British Army, serving in Europe and North Africa in World War II until 1946. He graduated with a DMus in 1961. He was particularly skillful at improvisation on the organ and piano. One of Mews’s sons had recited the poem at his school prize-giving prompting Mews to set it to music played by the sopranino and bass recorder and drum. It has continued to be part of the choral repertoire Other influences on his compositio

Edwin Carr (composer)

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Edwin James Nairn Carr (10 August 1926 – 27 March 2003) was a composer of classical music from New Zealand. Biography Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys’ High School from 1940 to 1943. He studied music at Otago University from 1944–5 and Auckland University College from 1946, then left with his degree unfinished. In 1946 he attended the first Cambridge Summer Music School with Douglas Lilburn as his composition tutor. In 1948 he travelled to England on a New Zealand Government Bursary, to study composition at the Guildhall with Benjamin Frankel. During this time he did much freelance work, travelled widely and met Geoffrey Grey. In 1954 a British Council scholarship enabled him to study under Petrassi in Rome. He also worked in Italy as the musical director of an independent ballet company. In 1957 a further British Council scholarship enabled him to study with Carl Orff in Munich. In 1958 he returned to New Zealand, staying there until 1960 teaching and composing. During the 1960s he spent time in both Australia and England, composing, teaching and studying as well as several trips to New Zealand. In 1973–74 he was awarded the Mozart Fellowship at the U

Eve de Castro-Robinson

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Eve de Castro-Robinson (born 9 November 1956 in London, England ) is a New Zealand composer, professor and graphic designer. Her compositions include orchestral, vocal, chamber and electroacoustic works. She studied at the University of Auckland, where in 1991 she became the first person to receive a DMus from the University. She is Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Auckland. A “de Castro-Robinson Portrait” concert was held at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2004 and a 50th birthday concert was held at the University of Auckland in 2006. Besides teaching and composing, she also reviews music, speaks and broadcasts on music. She has published a number of professional articles in Canzona and Music in New Zealand. She has been Secretary of the Composers Association of New Zealand, Convenor of the Nelson Composers’ Workshop, and currently directs the Karlheinz Company, the University of Auckland’s resident contemporary music ensemble. Honours and awards *Philip Neill Memorial Prize 1987 *Auckland Philharmonia Composer in Residence 1991 *Philip Neill Memorial Prize 1993 *a pink-lit phase for flute, viola and harp *Chaos of Deligh

Fanny Howie

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Fanny Rose Howie ( or Poata; 11 January 1868 – 20 May 1916), also known by her stage name Te Rangi Pai, was a New Zealand singer and composer. Of Māori descent, she identified with the iwi of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui. The lullaby “Hine E Hine” is her most famous composition, and she was well known in Britain as a singer of opera and popular music from 1901 to 1905. Early life She was born in Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand, on 11 January 1868, the daughter of Thomas William Porter and Herewaka Porourangi Potae (also known as Te Rangi-i-pāea). She was the eldest of their nine children. Her mother was the daughter of Tama-i-whakanehua-i-te-rangi (a high-ranking Ngāti Porou chief and signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi) and Mereana Tongia, and held high rank in Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Te Whānau-ā-Ruataupare and Ngāti Porou. From her mother, Howie would inherit the title of ariki tapairu, meaning first-born female of a family of rank. In December 1900 she travelled to England where she embarked on concert, oratorio and ballad training with (amongst others) the baritone Charles Santley. Her vocal range was from mezzo soprano to contralto and allowed her to cover many styles. She sang be

Frank Hutchens

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Francis Hutchens OBE (15 January 1892 – 18 October 1965) was a pianist, music teacher and composer originally from New Zealand. He became a popular concert pianist in Australia and was a founding member of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, where he taught for fifty years. Early life and education Hutchens’ parents, Richard Lavers Hutchens and his wife Maria Giles, née Hosking, both Cornish, migrated to New Zealand in 1879. Richard tried his hand at farming and bootmaking before settling down at Hāwera as a piano teacher. Frank Hutchens was born in Leeston near Christchurch on 15 January 1892. He attended Hawera District High School. In 1904, at the age of twelve, Hutchens had the opportunity to demonstrate his talents after his piano teacher arranged for him to play for the virtuoso Ignaz Paderewski, who was then touring New Zealand. Impressed with the boy’s potential, Paderewski encouraged him to study in Europe. The following year, at the age of thirteen, Hutchens travelled alone to London to attend the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied piano and composition with Tobias Matthay and Frederick Corder. At the Academy, he won the Sterndale Bennett and Thalberg schol

Gary Daverne

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Gary Michiel Daverne (born 1939) is a New Zealand musical arranger, composer, conductor, director and producer. He was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1996. He held the position of Music Director/Conductor of the Auckland Symphony Orchestra from its formation in 1975 until 2010 when, on retiring, he was appointed Music Director Emeritus. Daverne has also composed music for symphony orchestras, brass and military bands, children’s songs and musicals with more than 500 television and radio advertising jingles, film soundtracks and pop songs. Daverne is New Zealand’s most prolific composer and arranger of music for the accordion. As a music producer Daverne has released over forty albums achieving one Platinum and two Gold records. Since his retirement from the Auckland Symphony directorship position, he has gone back to his pop and rock ’n’ roll roots as a record producer, digitally re-mastering, mainly for internet re-release on his Viscount label, archive recordings that he produced in his earlier years, along with producing new recording projects. He is still actively involved as a guest conductor with orchestras and as a musical arranger and composer. Du

Gemma Peacocke

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Gemma Rachel Peacocke is a composer from New Zealand based in the United States. Biography Peacocke grew up in Hamilton, New Zealand. She studied at Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand School of Music, followed by a master’s degree in composition and theory at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. In 2015 she studied at the Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination (IRCAM) in Paris. Peacocke is a doctoral student in composition at Princeton University and holds the Mark Nelson Ph.D. Fellowship. Peacocke also collaborates with directors, filmmakers and choreographers to write music for theatre, film and dance performances. Awards In 2014 and 2015 Peacocke was awarded the Creative New Zealand Edwin Carr Scholarship. Recordings *Waves & Lines by Gemma Peacocke with soprano Eliza Bagg, released on New Amsterdam Records (2019) References

Gillian Bibby

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Gillian Margaret Bibby (31 August 1945 – 7 August 2023) was a New Zealand composer, pianist, writer and teacher. Bibby was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand on 31 August 1945, the daughter of the Reverend Lawrence Vincent Bibby and Margaret Valerie Bibby (née Davidson). She studied at the University of Otago and Victoria University of Wellington with Douglas Lilburn. She continued her studies in Berlin and Cologne with Aloys Kontarsky, Mauricio Kagel and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1976, Bibby returned to New Zealand to take up a two year Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Bibby relocated to Wellington in 1978 and worked as a pianist, composer, music teacher and university lecturer. Bibby was active in several music-related organisations, serving as president and chair, and founded the CHAMPS Trust to offer opportunities for youth in music. She was awarded the Philip Neill prize in composition, the Kranichsteiner prize in composition and the Darmstadt prize for new music. In the 2020 New Year Honours, Bibby was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to music and music education. Bibby died in Wellington on 7 August 2023, at the age of 7

Gillian Whitehead

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Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead (born 23 April 1941) is a New Zealand composer. She is of Māori Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her Māori heritage has been an important influence on her composing. Early life Whitehead was born in Hamilton in 1941. The daughter of Ivan and Marjorie Whitehead, she is of Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her father was a music teacher and conductor of the Waipu Choral Society and her mother played the piano. Education She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959 to 1962, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus(Hons) in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from 1964–65, graduating MMus in 1966. That same year she attended a composition course given by Peter Maxwell Davies and in 1967 travelled to England to continue studying with him. She took up the Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago in 1992. From 1998 to 2003 she was president of the Composers Association of New Zealand. In 2005–2006 she was the Composer in Residence at the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University. She was the first Composer in Residence to stay at the Lilburn Residence. In 2009 Whitehead was one of the 2009

Graeme Revell

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Graeme Revell is a New Zealand musician and composer. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the leader of the industrial rock/electronic rock group SPK. Since the 1990s he has worked primarily as a film score composer. Some of Revell’s best known film scores include Dead Calm (1989), The Crow (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), The Craft (1996), The Saint (1997), The Negotiator (1998), Bride of Chucky (1998), Titan A.E. (2000), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Daredevil (2003), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), and Sin City (2005). He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director David Twohy, having scored Below (2002) and the Riddick franchise. He is an eight-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award, including the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award, and an AACTA Award winner. Biography Early life Revell attended Auckland Grammar School, where he finished his final year in 7A. As an orderly in an insane asylum in Australia in the late 70’s, he and another psych nurse, Brett Guerin, formed one of industrial music’s first bands, SPK, as an outgrowth of interest in music therapy. He spent the next decade m

Hanan Townshend

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Hanan Townshend is a New Zealand-born film composer best known for his work in Terrence Malick films such as The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, and To the Wonder. Career Townshend was a music licensee on Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or winning film The Tree of Life, where he received his first significant recognition. He has composed for numerous feature films, including Malick’s 2012 film To the Wonder and more recently, Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett and Imogen Poots. He has scored over a dozen large commercials for brands such as Apple, American Express, Nike and Google. He has also collaborated with producers such as Mike McCarthy and Daniel Lanois. Themes and style Townshend’s music reflects the broad background of inspiration from which he draws – the poetic soundscapes of his home country, the eager patterns of popular music, and the refinement of classical training and studies in art composition. Because of this, he has a penchant for approaching film music from a less conventional perspective and producing clever, memorable pieces that support just as much the picturesque as they do the auditory experience. References

Helen Bowater

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Helen Bowater (b. 16 Nov 1952) is a New Zealand composer. She was born in Wellington into a musical family, and studied piano and violin with Gwyneth Brown. In 1982 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in music history and ethnomusicology from Victoria University of Wellington. She continued her studies in electroacoustic music with Ross Harris and in composition with Jack Body. Bowater played in the Gamelan Padhang Moncar at Victoria University and her composition Tembang Matjapat (1999) is scored for gamelan and western strings and percussion instruments. After completing her studies, Bowater worked as a singer, pianist and violinist with ensembles and choirs, and also worked in rock bands Extra Virgin Orchestra and pHonk and with the Victoria University Gamelan Padhang Moncar. She completed residencies at the Nelson School of Music in 1992 and at Otago University in 1993, and was composer-in-residence with the Auckland Philharmonia in 1994 and at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University, in 2008-09. Bowater has published professional articles in journals including Music in New Zealand. Her music has been performed internationally. Honors and awards *Auckland

Helen Fisher (composer)

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Helen Wynfreda Fisher (born 1942) is a New Zealand composer and music teacher. Life Helen Fisher grew up in Māpua, Nelson, and attended secondary school in Wellington. She graduated from the University of Canterbury in 1964 with a degree in English and taught English, music and French in New Zealand and Canadian secondary schools. She married and raised three daughters, but continued her studies in music at Victoria University of Wellington with Ross Harris, David Farquhar and Jack Body. In 1987 she won first prize in the Victoria University’s Composers’ Competition with Woodwind Trio and in 1989 won second prize for Pounamu. She graduated in composition in 1991 and began working as a composer. Her compositions have been performed internationally. In 1990 and 1991, Fisher held the Arts Council residency of Composer-in-Schools in the Wellington area. In 1993, she co-founded the first New Zealand Composing Women’s Festival. Works Fisher’s compositions often blend Māori and European traditions. She composes for vocal and instrumental ensembles and also for dance theatre. Selected works include: *Te Tangi A Te Matui (1986) *Woodwind trio (1987) *Pounamu (1989) for SSAATB choir, alto so

Ihlara McIndoe

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Ihlara Jayne McIndoe (born 1997) is a New Zealand composer. Early life and education McIndoe was born in 1997. Growing up she learnt the piano and played in school orchestras and sang in choirs. She attended St Hilda’s Collegiate School in Dunedin and the University of Otago where she graduated with a BA (Hons), a BMus and LLB. Career In 2018, McIndoe led the Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institution delegation to the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. McIndoe visited Antarctica in 2020 as an Inspiring Explorer with the Antarctic Heritage Trust. Using sounds she recorded there as inspiration she composed five pieces: On Satin Waters, Wavering Horizon, On Whistling Sands, Ushuaia Sketches and Ephemeral Boundaries. All five works were performed in A Musical Journey to Antarctica a live-streamed concert in Christchurch in 2022. The work uses poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird. From 2021 to 2022 McIndoe spent almost two years working as a lawyer in Wellington. Awards In 2016, she won the Douglas Lilburn Student Composition Award. In 2022 she received an Arts Excellence Award from the Dame Malvina Major Foundation towards her study for a Masters at McGill University. Personal

Jenny McLeod

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Jennifer Helen McLeod (12 November 1941 – 28 November 2022) was a New Zealand composer and professor of music at Victoria University of Wellington. She composed several major works for big groups including Under the Sun for four orchestras and 450 children, and the opera Hōhepa. Biography McLeod was born in Wellington on 12 November 1941, the daughter of Lorna Bell McLeod (née Perrin) and Ronald D’Arcy McLeod, and grew up in Timaru and Levin. She was musical as a child and could read music at age five. During her professorship, she was influenced by Guru Maharaji’s Divine Light Mission, which led to her early retirement. In the 1997 Queen’s Birthday Honours, McLeod was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to music. McLeod is best known for two major works, Earth and Sky and Under the Sun for large forces. She also composed many songs and hymns. She was a great admirer of, and was greatly influenced by, the music of Messiaen. Her Seven Tone Clock Pieces were first performed by the New Zealand pianist Jeffrey Grice. Before her death in Palmerston North on 28 November 2022, at the age of 81, McLeod lived in Pukerua Bay, working on music theory, especial

John Metcalfe (composer)

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John Metcalfe (born 6 August 1964 ) is a British-based composer, arranger and violist, member of the Duke Quartet and a former member of the band The Durutti Column. Biography Metcalfe was born in New Zealand and moved to the United Kingdom as a child. Metcalfe’s unique style is a result of his extensive experience in classical, pop and electronica. As violist with the Duke Quartet he released many CDs and toured worldwide. Metcalfe’s string arrangements played by the Dukes feature on many albums by pop artists including Morrissey, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Coldplay and Blur. Metcalfe was instrumental in the formation of the record label Factory Classical, an offshoot of Tony Wilson’s Factory Records. He released an album of his own, The Inner Line, to positive reviews. In 2004, another album, Scorching Bay, was released, followed by A Darker Sunset in 2008. The Appearance of Colour was released in April 2013 as part of Bowers and Wilkins Society of Sound subscription series. Commissions include a set of pieces for the guitarist Tom Kerstens and an album of electronic/acoustic music for ‘cellist Matthew Barley. His music has also been used by various contemporary dance companie

John Psathas

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John Psathas, (born Ioannis Psathas, ; 1966) is a New Zealand Greek composer. He has works in the repertoire of such high-profile musicians as Evelyn Glennie, Michael Houstoun, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and is one of New Zealand’s most frequently performed composers. He has established an international profile and receives regular commissions from organisations in New Zealand and overseas. Early life and education The son of Greek immigrant parents, Psathas grew up in Taumarunui and then Napier. He attended Napier Boys’ High School and left early to study composition and piano at Victoria University of Wellington. This work and Drum Dances have become part of the standard repertoire for percussionists around the world. Psathas’ collaboration with Evelyn Glennie has been long-standing and produced many commissioned works, including the 2001 double concerto for piano and percussion View From Olympus. Glennie has also released recordings of many of his works. A retrospective concert of Psathas’ chamber music was given in the 2000 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, culminating with the premiere of the specially commissioned Piano Quinte

John Rimmer (composer)

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John Rimmer (born 5 February 1939) is a New Zealand composer. Biography John Francis Rimmer was born in Auckland. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 from the University of New Zealand in 1961, a Master of Arts in 1963 from the University of Auckland with Ronald Tremain, where he also completed post-graduate studies in musicology. He continued his studies, earning a Doctor of Music degree in 1972 from the University of Toronto in electronic music with Gustav Ciamaga and in composition with John Weinzweig. After completing his education, Rimmer worked as a lecturer at North Shores Teachers College in Auckland from 1970 to 1974 and taught at the University of Auckland from 1974 to 1999, where he was awarded a chair in music in 1995. He was awarded the Mozart Fellowship and served as composer-in-residence at the University of Otago in 1972, and composer-in-residence to the Auckland Philharmonia in 2002–03. Rimmer founded the electronic music studio at the University of Auckland in 1976 and the Karlheinz Company in 1978. His works have been performed internationally in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. Rimmer and his wife Helen reside in Tapu Bay, Kaiterit

John Robertson (composer)

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Ernest John Robertson (born 21 October 1943) is a New Zealand-born Canadian composer of concert music. He received his preliminary musical educational as part of his schooling in New Zealand. Upon emigrating to Canada in 1967 he took a position in the general insurance business, but in the mid 1970s he embarked on a course of private study in composition and counterpoint at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto with Dr Sam Dolin. In 1987, the entry in the Composer’s Competition won him a performance of his Variations for small orchestra Op 14. After his retirement, he has concentrated on getting his work heard more broadly and, since this moment, his music has been heard in Canada, Australia, Mexico, the UK, Sweden and Bulgaria. In 2014 after some orchestral pieces of his were played in Ruse, Bulgaria, the director of Ruse State Opera Nayden Todorov asked him to write an opera and the one hour long Orpheus was staged there in June 2015 and was revived in February and May 2016 and in June 2017.A companion piece for Orpheus, the dance piece with actors Lady Jane, appeared in 2017 and was seen in a new production in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, in August 2022 and repeated a month late

Judy Bailey (pianist)

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Judith Mary Bailey (3 October 1935 – 8 August 2025) was a New Zealand-born pianist, classical jazz musician, composer, arranger and senior lecturer who lived in Australia from 1960. Life and career Bailey was born in Auckland on 3 October 1935, and raised in Whangārei. As a young child she learned ballet, followed by piano and theory when she was 10 years old. She graduated from Trinity College London when she was 16. Bailey moved to Australia in 1960, spending most of her time in Sydney. She performed on TV, music venues such as the El Rocco, and on many recordings. In 1973, Bailey became the pianist on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation children’s radio show Kindergarten, which often featured presenters from Play School In 2017, rapper Rick Ross with producer Bink sampled Bailey’s “Colour of My Dreams” from the Judy Bailey Quartet album Colours. The sample was used on Ross’s track “Santorini Greece” on the album Rather You Than Me. Bailey was a represented artist of the Australian Music Centre. She died in Willoughby, Sydney, New South Wales on 8 August 2025, at the age of 89. Discography Albums Awards and honours *2004: Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) “for service to

Juliet Palmer

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Juliet Palmer is a contemporary composer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Career Juliet Kiri Palmer was born in New Zealand in 1967, where she completed a Masters of Music in performance, composition, and time-based art at the University of Auckland. She moved to New York City in 1990 to work with interdisciplinary pioneer Meredith Monk and obtained her PhD at Princeton University in 1999. Now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she is an active composer and interdisciplinary artist. Her compositions cover a wide range from chamber music and dance theatre to orchestral and opera. Palmer’s music has been featured in festivals in US, UK, New Zealand, Netherlands, Japan, Italy, France, Austria and Canada. Her work has been broadcast widely, including radio networks in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, US, Canada and Japan. A detailed catalogue of her work, including streaming audio and video samples may be found at both the Centre for New Zealand Music and the Canadian Music Centre websites. Further reading *Steenhuisen, Paul. “Interview with Juliet Palmer”. In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009. References External links * SOUNZ

Leonie Holmes

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Leonie Joyce Holmes (born 1962) is a New Zealand composer and lecturer at the University of Auckland with an interest in music education. Early life and education Holmes was born in Auckland in 1962. She began learning piano at age six and attended Pakuranga College. She studied at the University of Auckland from 1981 to 1985, graduating with MMus in composition. She has been Composer-in-Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia in 1997 and with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra in 2005. Holmes’s Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra who performed its first public premiere in October 2023. It had been recorded earlier by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. As at 2021 she is a senior lecturer in composition at the University of Auckland. Selected works * Nonette for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and string quartet (1984) * Fantasia II for piano (1986) * Four epigrams: for mandolin ensemble (1987) * Recitative II for viola and percussion (1991) * The estuary: for SSA choir and piano (1993) – words: A.R.D. Fairburn * Colloquium: two flutes and guitar (1993) * Seconds: for string orchestra (1994) * Three songs for baritone and piano (1997) * Chorale

Lyell Cresswell

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Lyell Richard Cresswell (13 October 1944 – 19 March 2022) was a New Zealand composer of contemporary classical music. He was the younger brother of philosopher Max Cresswell. Cresswell studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht and lived and worked in Edinburgh from 1985 on. Although he lived more than half his life away from New Zealand, he regarded himself as a New Zealander. Early life and education Cresswell was born in Wellington in 1944, the younger brother of Max Cresswell; his family belonged to the Salvation Army. In 2001, the Scottish Arts Council granted him the Creative Scotland Award and commissioned a work, in collaboration with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, exploring the issues of exile and identity. His composition Shadows Without Sun combines elements of oratorio, opera, music theatre and cantata. It requires orchestra, singers, speaking voices and recorded voices. The work intertwines the story of exiles living in both Scotland and New Zealand with the story of Cassandra. The Money Man, 2010, was written in collaboration with librettist Ron Butlin with whom Cresswell regularly worked. Cresswell found inspiration from visual arts and literature. Awards

Maewa Kaihau

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Erima Maewa Kaihau (; 1879 – 27 February 1941) was a New Zealand composer, pianist and music teacher, sometimes known as Louisa Maewa Molesworth. She is best known for her contributions to the song “Now Is the Hour”, and composed several other popular songs in both Māori and English. Life and career Kaihau was born Louisa Flavell in Whangaroa to a French father and a Māori mother of Ngā Puhi descent. On her mother’s side she was a descendent of Hōne Heke. In 1893, the family moved to Waiuku. In the late 1890s, she entered a customary marriage with Henare Kaihau, the Ngāti Te Ata leader and politician; their marriage was formalised in 1903. They had six daughters and two sons. After his death in 1920, she married Charles Molesworth. During their marriage she taught music and played the piano. She is best-known for the song “Haere Ra” or “Po Atarau”, known in English as “Now Is the Hour”. The song was adapted from an existing piano tune, “Swiss Cradle Song”, published under the name of Clement Scott (thought to be Albert Bokhare Saunders). “Swiss Cradle Song” became popular in New Zealand through its use as a Māori farewell song titled “Po Atarau” during World War I. Kaihau refined t

Maria Grenfell

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Maria Grenfell (born 1969) is an Australian music teacher and composer. Early life and education Maria Grenfell was born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia in 1969. She grew up and was educated in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master of Music degree. She subsequently went to the US, where she completed a Master of Arts at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, while also lecturing in music there. While in the USA she was taught by Stephen Hartke, Erica Muhl, James Hopkins, and Morten Lauridsen in Los Angeles, and Joseph Schwantner and Samuel Adler in Rochester, New York. In 2020, Grenfell composed the score for the ABC documentary Quoll Farm. It was recorded with performers from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She also wrote the score for Simon Plowright’s documentary, Living With Devils, in 2023. As of 2021, she is an associate professor at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania. Winner of the Tasmanian State Award for Ten Suns Ablaze in 2013, and Spirals in 2018 at the Australian Art Music Awards. Personal l

Mark Petrie

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Mark Petrie (born 20 May 1979) is a New Zealand film, television and video game composer. He is best known for composing the music in trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy, Life of Pi, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Avengers: Infinity War, and Venom, as well as writing the score for EA Sports’ Madden NFL American football video games. He has also composed scores for films, television shows, documentaries, political campaigns and sporting events. Early life and influences Petrie was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He began his early musical training while boarding at Dilworth School for eight years, studying piano and composition. After winning a scholarship to study film scoring at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, he relocated to the United States, and completed a degree majoring in film scoring. Career After graduating from Berklee College of Music, Petrie was awarded the BMI Foundation’s Pete Carpenter Film Composing Fellowship. He was flown to Los Angeles to work under the Grammy Award-winning composer Mike Post. He then began writing for TV shows and independent films. In 2007, he collaborated with PostHast

Nigel Keay

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Nigel Keay (born 1955) is a New Zealand composer. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher. Nigel Keay has held the following composer residencies: Mozart Fellowship, University of Otago 1986 and 1987, Nelson School of Music 1988 and 89, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra 1995. Keay was born in Palmerston North. Between 1983 and 1995, he received several grants from the Arts Council of New Zealand for various commissions, one of them being a one-act opera At the Hawk’s Well 1. His music, which ranges from solo and chamber music combinations to full symphony orchestra, has sometimes been driven by literary and philosophical ideas. Throughout his career he has wherever possible played in or directed his own works. He became an Associate-Violist with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1994. Nigel Keay moved to France in 1998 and lives now in Paris where he continues to work as a freelance composer and violist. In 2001, his Viola Concerto 2 was performed at the 29th International Viola Congress in Wellington by the Chamber Orchestra of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Taddei with Franck Chevalier as viola solois

Penny Axtens

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Penelope Axtens (born 1974) is a New Zealand composer. Biography Axtens studied composition at the University of Auckland where she gained an Honours degree before completing a Masters at Victoria University of Wellington in 1999. She studied under Ross Harris and John Psathas. In 1994 she won a Douglas Lilburn Student Composition Award. She received the Composers Association of New Zealand Trust Fund Award in 2002. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performed her work Part the Second which won the orchestra’s inaugural Music 2000 Prize. A further work from the sixth hour was also performed by the orchestra. She has resumed composing taking up the Lilburn Composer-in-Residence in Wellington in 2025. References Further reading * Norris, M. (2002). Finding your way out. Canzona, 2002; v.23 n.44, 18–19. About Axtens’s compositions Part the Second and from the sixth hour. External links * from the sixth hour – recording on RNZ, 2002. * Penny AXTENS: Part the Second – recording on RNZ, 2000

Richard Fuchs

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Richard Fuchs (; 26 April 1887 – 22 September 1947) was a German composer and architect, the older brother of German national team Olympic football player Gottfried Fuchs. Life Fuchs was in the German Army, and was awarded the Iron Cross. He was active in the Jüdischer Kulturbund Baden and President of the B’nai B’rith Lodge in Karlsruhe in the 1930s. He designed the Gernsbach Synagogue - destroyed in Kristallnacht in 1938 - among other buildings, few of which survive. After Kristallnacht he was in incarcerated at the age of 50, along with his brother Walter, on 1 November 1938 for some weeks in Dachau concentration camp. He was released when his application to emigrate to New Zealand was accepted, and he did so via England, arriving on 17 April 1939, bringing with him a selection of his compositions, listed below. In Wellington he worked as an architect with Natusch and Sons, and the Housing Department while continuing to compose and taking an active part in the Wellington music scene. However, whereas in Germany he was persecuted as a Jew, in New Zealand, he was shunned as a German. He wrote further chamber music, another string quartet and a piano quintet, songs, including A New

Robin Maconie

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Robin John Maconie (born 22 October 1942) is a New Zealand composer, pianist, and writer. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Maconie studied with Frederick Page and Roger Savage at the Victoria University of Wellington, receiving a Master of Arts in the History and Literature of Music in 1964. He studied analysis with Olivier Messiaen in 1963–64 at the Paris Conservatoire, and in 1964–65 studied composition for film and radio under Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and electronic music under Herbert Eimert at the Cologne Conservatory. He also studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, and Luc Ferrari at the Second Cologne Courses for New Music at the , also in Cologne, as well as piano with Aloys Kontarsky, conducting with Herbert Schernus, and information science with Georg Heike. Following a temporary lectureship at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1967–69, Maconie emigrated to England to study for a Ph.D in the Psychology of Music at Southampton University. In 1974 Maconie was appointed lecturer in music and technology at the University of Surrey, where he continued until 1985. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Performing Arts at the Savannah College of Art

Ross Harris (composer)

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Ross Talbot Harris (born 1 August 1945) is a New Zealand composer, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator. Life and career Born in Amberley, Harris was educated at the University of Canterbury before studying with Douglas Lilburn at Victoria University of Wellington. He then succeeded Lilburn as the professor of electro-acoustic music at Victoria, a position he maintained for over thirty years. A composer with wide interests, Harris’s compositions have spanned classical music works including operas, chamber music and seven symphonies, to electro-acoustic music, jazz, and rock music. He is a founding member of the Wellington-based band Free Radicals whose pioneering experiments in electro-acoustic music in the 1980s influenced the development of electronica in the 1990s. Harris was the resident composer of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 2005 and 2006; during which time he composed three symphonies for that orchestra. In 2014 he was awarded the Laureate Award by Arts Foundation of New Zealand. He has won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award from the Australasian Performing Right Association five times. He has also used many electro-acoustic instruments in his work with the Free Ra

Samuel Holloway

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Samuel Holloway (born 1981) is an Auckland-based composer of contemporary music and an educator. Early life and education From 2000 Holloway studied music and philosophy at the University of Auckland where he was taught by Eve de Castro-Robinson. He graduated in 2005 with a Masters degree in Music and Composition. Music career Soon after graduation Holloway’s work Stapes was performed by the NZTrio in the University of Auckland’s Music Theatre and has since been published in printed form by the Wai-te-ata Music Press. It was the first in a series of three works under the title Middle Ear and indicates Holloway’s early interest in the foundations of sound. The other two parts are Malleus and Incus. Stapes itself is named after the ear’s smallest bone that transmits to the inner ear the vibrations that make up sound. Fellow composer and music commentator Hermione Johnson noted that in Stapes Holloway was able to create a ‘microtonal sound from the piano by combining it with quarter tones from the violin and cello’. Music critic William Dart later credited Stapes as marking the beginning of Holloway’s ‘international success.’ Stapes went on to be awarded First Prize in the Asian Compo

Susan Frykberg

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Susan Frykberg (10 October 1954 – 7 April 2023) was a New Zealand author, electroacoustic composer, and sound artist. She also composed acoustic music in a variety of genres. Life Susan Frykberg was born in Hastings, New Zealand, and studied at the University of Canterbury and the University of Otago, studying under, among others, John Rimmer, Barry Vercoe, Barry Conyngham, and Iannis Xenakis. She moved to Canada in 1979 and worked as a freelance composer in Toronto until a move to Vancouver in 1986, to complete a master’s degree at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax. She taught in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University for seven years. Frykberg was a long-time member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, and helped to found both the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. She published a variety of papers on subjects related to electronic music, including computer music, and also wrote poetry. The Audio Birth Project The Audio Birth Project, a suite of four movements, was one of Frykberg’s most important projects. Funding was granted by the Canada Council, and revolved around concepts of giving birth and going int

Tecwyn Evans

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Tecwyn Evans (born 15 September 1971) is a New Zealand conductor. He holds a faculty position teaching conducting at the University of Auckland School of Music and in 2018 he was named as Director of Music of Den Jyske Opera (Danish National Opera). Evans has shared the concert platform with soloists including Steven Isserlis, Rebecca Evans, Jonathan Lemalu, Martin Roscoe, Anthony Marwood, So Ock Kim, Nicola Benedetti, Jennifer Pike, Marlis Petersen, Bryn Terfel, James Rutherford, Dame Malvina Major, Susanna Andersson, Nicolas Altstaedt, Peter Auty, and Elin Manahan Thomas. Across ten countries Evans has conducted the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Grazer Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Salomon Orchestra, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands, Queensland and Adelaide symphony orchestras. Career Early life in New Zealand Tecwyn Evans was born in Auckland, New Zealand, son of Donald and Elizabeth Evans (née Hop

Todd Hunter

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Todd Stuart Hunter (born 22 June 1951) is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon. Their best known songs are “April Sun in Cuba”, “Are You Old Enough?”, “Still in Love With You”, and “Rain”. Hunter also composed John Farnham’s hit song “Age of Reason” with Johanna Pigott and music for film Daydream Believer (1991) and TV series Heartbreak High (1994–1999). On 1 July 2008 the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) recognised Dragon’s iconic status when they were inducted into their Hall of Fame. Biography Dragon - 1970s Hunter (bass guitar, vocals) formed Dragon in 1972 with Graeme Collins (piano, vocals), Neil Storey (drums) and Ray Goodwin (guitar, keyboards, vocals); the group was soon joined by Hunter’s younger brother Marc Hunter (vocals) and moved to Australia in 1975. The band toured Australasia, America and Europe and their songs from that time, “April Sun in Cuba”, “Are You Old Enough?” and “Still in Love With You” are still played on radio. Jen Brown Hunter’s first wife was poet, artist, writer Jen Jewel Brown (aka Jennifer Hunter Brown) who had written Million Dollar Riff (1975) a book describing Australian band Skyhooks

Wayan Yudane

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I Wayan Gde Yudane (born 1963 or 1964) is a gangsa player and an exponent of Balinese music in New Zealand. Yudane learnt to play gamelan from his father, an architect and gamelan instrument maker. He attended the Performing Arts School (STSI) in Denpasar. In 2002, he became the 2002 Artist-in-Residence at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His collaboration with Paul Grabowsky, The Theft of Sita, was performed at the 2001 Next Wave Festival in New York City and toured Europe and the US. He also collaborated with New Zealand composer Jack Body on Paradise Regained for piano and pemade (Balinese metallophone). References Further reading * “Wayan Gde Yudane: a man for all cultures” by Duncan Graham, The Jakarta Post, 27 October 2010 External links *Crossroads of Denpasar, ABC Classic FM The Listening Room, 19 April 2003 *Personal website *Wayan Gde Yudane at SOUNZ