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New Zealand musicians & composers
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Adam Chamber Music Festival
The Adam Chamber Music Festival is a performance-based international chamber music festival produced in Nelson every two years.
The festival features guest artists from abroad as well as leading artists from around New Zealand performing chamber music works, many made possible by musical collaborations created during the festival.

Adams, Peter. Peter Adams, composer.

Agents

Agents, managers, bookings, services.
A directory from MusicNZ.

INZA: International New Zealand Artists
Representing world class artists in their respective disciplines.

Paul Gleeson Associates, Auckland (email address).
Amplifer. New Zealand music downloads.

Arch Hill Recordings, Auckland.

Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
ABRSM is the exam board of the Royal Schools of Music, delivering over 650,000 exams and assessments every year in 93 countries. ABRSM is committed to supporting high-quality music-making, learning and development throughout the world, and to producing the best possible resources for music teachers and students.

Atoll
Classical, Historical and Contemporary New Zealand recordings.

The Audio Foundation
An online database, resource and networking hub for experimental audio culture in NZ.

Auckland

Auckland Bands:
music history from the 70s and 80s: The Mutton Birds, Don McGlashan, Richard von Sturmer, Phil Judd, Neil Finn, Otis Mace, Blam Blam Blam, etc.

Auckland Chamber Orchestra
A professional chamber orchestra, under the direction of  Peter Scholes.

Auckland Gigs. Mukuna.
Mukuna is a database of Auckland music event information and a gig guide distribution system. It is a tool for helping venues and promoters let the public know what's on. Enter your events once, see them listed in multiple places. Maps to most every venue in town.

Auckland Music Theatre
Auckland's longest running musical theatre group.


Auckland Philharmonia
The orchestra has been around for more than 23 years and has now achieved regional icon status. Resident in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, the orchestra performs more than 145 concerts a year and has performed with Placido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, Nigel Kennedy and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the orchestra’s Patron.

Auckland Symphony Orchestra

Auckland University School of Music

Audio Foundation of New Zealand
The Audio Foundation, founded in April 2004, is a Charitable Trust for the support of innovative and experimental audio culture in NZ. The presentation of this includes performances, CD releases, radio transmissions, field recordings, installations, site-specific public work and work in conjunction with new media.

Australian Music Centre

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Bands, singers

Bands on video. New Zealand bands on YouTube.

Bands and D J Guide.  Reaction
Reviews, archives, events.

Simon Grigg's site.

Wikipedia entry on New Zealand music.
Bellringers.
The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers.

Besser, Jonathon. Jonathon Besser
The homepage of Jonathon Besser, New Zealand composer and pianist.


Blake, Christopher. Christopher Blake
The well-known New Zealand contemporary composer.  Sounz
Christopher Blake's  The Furnance of Pihunga.
HRL Morrison Music Trust
Blues
New Zealand Blues Society, New Zealand Blues news.

Brass Bands Association of New Zealand

Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, Auckland.
A major music, theatre and events auditorium at Auckland's North Shore.
  
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Calenders, events, concerts

Calender of music events, from Sounz.
Carr, Edwin. Edwin Carr
Biography and list of works.

Edwin Carr
Wikipedia

Centre for New Zealand Music (SOUNZ)
New Zealand classical music, jazz, experimental music.

CDs, Music Distributors

Atoll
Classical, Historical and Contemporary New Zealand recordings.

Promethean Editions

Real Groovy
Second-hand CDs and records.

Smoke CDS
New Zealand online store for contemporary music.

New Zealand classical music cds.  Sounz.org.
Choral, chamber, Maori and Pacific, Orchestral music.

Chamber Music

Adam Chamber Music Festival

Auckland Chamber Orchestra
A professional chamber orchestra, under the direction of Peter Scholes.

Chamber Music New Zealand

Chamber Music NZ, Christchurch Branch.

New Zealand String Quartet

Stroma Contemporary Music Ensemble. Wellington.
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

de Castro-Robinson, Eve. Eve de Casto-Robinson
The established contemporary New Zealand composer.

Choirs

Auckland Choral Society

Bach Musica
Founded in 1977, Bach Musica is a choir and orchestra specialising in music of the Baroque and Classical periods.

The Big Sing choir contest.

Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Choir and Orchestra, Christchurch.

Cecilian Singers, a choir of women's voices from the city of Christchurch.

The Christchurch Liedertafel

Christchurch City Choir

Festival Singers, Wellington.

Graduate Choir
A mixed voice chorus & male voice chorus based in Auckland.

Male Choirs in New Zealand.

Musica Sacra
A chamber choir of around 30 voices committed to the highest standards of choral excellence. Based in Auckland. 

The New Zealand Choral Federation

The Orpheus Choir of Wellington

Tower Voices New Zealand
The Tower New Zealand Youth Choir

Christchurch

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

Christchurch Town Hall
Organ. The Reiger Pipe Organ
in The Christchurch Town Hall. Events, music, sound files and more.

Competitions, awards, residences and scholarships

Awards and competitions,
a web directory of New Zealand classical music awards and competitions, from The Ministry of Culture and Heritage.

Auckland Philharmonia composer residence, workshops, awards.

Kerikeri National Piano Competition

Lexus Song Quest (NZ Opera)

Michael Hill International Violin Competition

National Competition for Pianists, Kerikeri.

Scholarships and prizes from The New Zealand School of Music.

The SOUNZ Contemporary Award,
a composers award, is a project of both APRA, Australasian Performing Rights Association, and SOUNZ. Entry forms are published with the mid-year issue of APRAP New Zealand, the APRA publication or they are available from SOUNZ.

Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards

Composers: see also alphabetical listing on these pages

Biographical dictionary of New Zealand composers,
compiled by John Mansfield Thomson.

Composers Association of New Zealand

Composers.
New Zealand composers, a searchable database from  Sounz.

Composers index, from  Sounz.

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Young Composer Awards

The SOUNZ Contemporary Award,
is a project of both APRA, Australasian Performing Rights Association, and SOUNZ. Entry forms are published with the mid-year issue of APRAP New Zealand, the APRA publication or they are available from SOUNZ.
Concert FM
New Zealand's classical music station. A fine music network, broadcasting classical music, alongside the best in contemporary music, as well as informative spoken features about the musical world

Concerts

Event Finder
Arts and culture, music and gigs, sports, business, education. List your own events here.

SOUNZ
Search the database for classical and contemporary music events.

Conductors

Brain, Gary
Gary Brain

Daverne, Gary
Gary Daverne, conductor, composer and arranger

Evans, Tecwyn
Tecwyn Evans began his career as Chorus Master at Glyndebourne and has gone on to established himself as one of the most successful New Zealand conductors.

Young, Kenneth. Kenneth Young

New Zealand Conductors Association [NZCA]
Their mission is to promote conductive education in New Zealand and establish and maintain service standards for Conductors working in the country.
 
Corelli School of Music, Albany, Auckland.
Creating an environment where home-grown talent is recognised and fulfilled through in-depth musical study.

Country Music, New Zealand

New Zealand Country Music Association
The society's aim is is to foster and encourage participation and performances in the art of Country Music by way of song and song writing. The Association also encourages its members to take part in Country Music awards.

New Zealand Country Music Gold Guitars Award.
Cowan, Claire. Claire Cowan,
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ontemporary New Zealand composer for film, theatre, dance and concert hall.
Claire Cowan
List of works and background information. Sounz
Cresswell, Lyell. Lyell Creswell
An established contemporary New Zealand composer. Sounz

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Dame Malvina Foundation for the Performing Arts

Daverne, Gary. Gary Daverne Homepage

de Castro Robinson, Eve. Eve de Castro Robinson
SOUNZ

Directories. databases

New Zealand Sites directory of New Zealand music websites, from Alternative to Rock.
Downes, David. David Downes
The website of New Zealand composer and intermedia artist David Downes.

Dunedin

Dunedin Town Hall
'Norma,'
the Dunedin Town Hall organ and organ trust.
Southern Sinfonia, Dunedin.
The Southern Sinfonia is Dunedin's only professional orchestra.
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