“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 - ...

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh is a composer, performer, sound artist and freelance curator with an interest in working across disciplines, particularly with speech and language. She has collaborated ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Astrolabe is the name of the strip of water between Adele Island and the Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand’s Nelson Region. The Astrolabe Roadstead was named by Dumont d’Urville a French ...

Arli Liberman is an award-winning New Zealand composer, producer and guitarist who creates vibrant, immersive music for film, documentary and live experiences, using his distinctive approach to ...

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is Aotearoa's national orchestra. One of the world’s oldest national symphony orchestras, they have charmed audiences with memorable concerts and recordings since ...

Instrumentation: Descant, treble, tenor and bass recorders; flutes,oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, alto and tenor saxophones; percussion (xylophone ...

Penelope Axtens completed an Honours degree in Composition at the University of Auckland, during which time she received a Lilburn Trust Student Award for composition. She undertook her Masters at ...

Lin Zheng is a composer and zheng performer, who is a Ph.D. candidate in Music at the University of Auckland, under the supervision of Associate Professor Leonie Holmes and Professor Dean Sutcliffe.

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 ...