“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 ...

In this episode of ‘Instruments of the Moana’, we journey across the Moana Pacific to uncover the hidden stories of the pan pipe. Though commonly linked in Western traditions to the god Pan, the pan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mere Tokorahi Boynton is a singer and actor, well known for her role as Mavis in the internationally acclaimed movie Once Were Warriors. Her true passion, however, is singing. She has had formal vocal ...

Janet completed her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the University of Auckland majoring in harpsichord and organ performance. She was awarded Senior Prizes in both Music 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 ...

Jack Body (1944–2015) studied at Auckland University, in Cologne and at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht. During 1976–77 he was a guest lecturer at the Akademi Musik Indonesia, Yogyakarta, and from ...

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