Born in Auckland, New Zealand, in August 1926, Edwin James Nairn Carr studied music at Otago and Auckland Universities from 1944 to 1947, then travelled to London on a New Zealand Government Bursary ...

Leonie Holmes is an Auckland based composer, writing for orchestra, chamber, choral, vocal and solo instrument. Recent works have been commissioned and/or performed by the New Zealand Symphony ...

Brigid Ursula Bisley is a composer, arranger, transcriber, conductor, violinist, teacher and Kodály music specialist. She is a passionate community musician who believes that music should be ...

Richard Madden was born in Dunedin in 1953. He was educated at Otago Boys’ High School (1966–1971) and University of Otago (1971–1976). He studied composition with Don Byars and Edwin Carr and singing ...

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 impressive number of Australasian awards and prizes ...

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 - ...

Articles and interviews with composers and performers relating to music in ...

Sebastian Black is an NZ / British musician, born in 1996 in Colchester, UK. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music and the University of Oxford, before studying with Sir George Benjamin at King’s ...

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, ...

The thirty-two works by fifteen composers in this album were chosen with the intention of presenting works of moderate difficulty and wide appeal. The indirect reference to New Zealand’s national ...

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Reuben Jelleyman is a composer and acoustician from Auckland, New Zealand. His works have been played by ensembles such as Ensemble InterContemporain and Multilatérale (France), Avanti! (Finland), ...