Becoming a Friend of SOUNZ is more than just a membership—it’s a chance to actively support the vibrant music community of ...

Barry Anderson was born in Stratford, New Zealand. He studied piano, viola and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1952-1956, and later studied piano with Edwin Fischer and Alfred ...

Active as a professional jazz/contemporary bass player, Nick Tipping has performed on stages and in clubs around his native Wellington, New Zealand as well as in Italy, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and ...

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 ...

Our journey into the world of Taonga Puoro (Māori musical instruments) begins with the Pūtōrino, a cocoon-shaped Taonga Puoro that is truly unique to Aotearoa. The shape of the Pūtōrino is inspired by ...

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 ...

Helen spent her childhood years in Mapua, Nelson, before going to secondary school in Wellington. In 1964 she completed a B.A. in English at Canterbury University, then she taught English, Music and ...

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), ...

Jason Long is a composer, sound artist, researcher, and educator from Christchurch, New Zealand. He completed a PhD in sonic engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in 2018, and carried out ...

Originally hailing from Whakatane, four musical brothers from the Kora family—Laughton, Francis, Stuart and Brad—began playing together as a band in the early 1990s under the name Auntie Beatrice, ...

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Phil Dadson is a sound and intermedia artist with an interdisciplinary practice including solo performances and exhibitions, building experimental instruments and sonic objects, video/sound ...