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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 primary school breakup. I found performing very ...

If you need proof of that renaissance, and of Tim’s place within it, look no further than Seven. “Seven is a stunning statement from an extraordinary musician at the peak of his powers. Energy, drama, ...

“Meek’s composition is about alliances.” – Su Ballard, author of Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetic. Noel Meek is a Pākehā musician, composer, and artist based in Ōtautahi, ...

Instrumentation 3*222; 3211; timp.; 3 perc.... In Māori mythology, Te Ihorangi is the god who personifies rain and is one of the off-spring of Rangi (Ranginui - the sky father) and Papa (Papatuanuku - ...

Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hine, Rongomaiwāhine. Ngahiwi Apanui is one of New Zealand’s most prolific composers of moteatea (traditional chanting) and contemporary Māori music. With the loving influence of ...

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' College. Ritchie served in the navy in World War ...

Sieni Richardson comes from Samoa.

Dorothy Ker’s music is performed and broadcast in both hemispheres and has been heard at international festivals in Auckland, Belfast, Darmstadt, Huddersfield, Perth, Taipei, Seoul, at the ISCM, and ...

Sarah McCallum was born in Sydney, Australia in 1983 to New Zealand parents. Her father is a singer-songwriter, her mother, a music teacher, and her two older brothers have also pursued musical ...

Dr Andrew Perkins was born in Warkworth, New Zealand. He attended Auckland University from 1980 till 1985, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Music (1983) then the degree of Master of Music ...