New Zealand Classical & Contemporary Music
A comprehensive list of websites
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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.
Agents, publishing rights
Agents, managers, bookings, services.
A directory from MusicNZ.
INZA: International New Zealand Artists
Representing world class artists in their respective disciplines.
APRA
Australasian Performing Right Association
The songwriters and publishers’ association collects performance monies on behalf of its members internationally. APRA’s NZ office is located in Mt Eden, Auckland. APRA presents the annual Silver Scroll, SOUNZ Contemporary and APRA Maioha awards.
PPNZ
PPNZ Music Licensing is a non-profit organisation established to administer the rights of local and international record labels and recording artists in the New Zealand territory.
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 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 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.
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Bands, singers
Bands on video. New Zealand bands on YouTube.
Bands and D J Guide. Reaction
Reviews, archives, events.
Wikipedia entry on New Zealand music.
Bellringers
The Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers.
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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Calendars, events, concerts
Calendar of music events, from Sounz.
Centre for New Zealand Music (SOUNZ)
New Zealand classical music, jazz, experimental music.
CDs, Music Distributors
Atoll
Classical, Historical and Contemporary New Zealand recordings.
Real Groovy
Second-hand CDs and records.
New Zealand classical music cds. Sounz.org.
Choral, chamber, Maori and Pacific, Orchestral music.
Chamber Music
Auckland Chamber Orchestra
A professional chamber orchestra, under the direction of Peter Scholes.
Chamber Music NZ, Christchurch Branch.
Stroma Contemporary Music Ensemble. Wellington
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra
Choirs
Bach Musica
Founded in 1977, Bach Musica is a choir and orchestra specializing in music of the Baroque and Classical periods.
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Choir and Orchestra, Christchurch.
Cecilian Singers, a choir of women’s voices from the city ofChristchurch.
The Christchurch Liedertafel Male Voice Choir
Graduate Choir
A mixed voice chorus & male voice chorus based in Auckland.
Cantorum Auckland Chamber Choir
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
Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir
The Tower New Zealand Youth Choir
Christchurch
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra
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 International Piano Competition
The Kerikeri competition began in 1987 as a national event, under the auspices of Kerikeri Arts. A Trust was established in 2007 to take on the responsibility of presenting New Zealand’s most recognised classical music competition for solo piano. The competition became the Kerikeri International Piano Competition in 2012 and has since gained international recognition for its quality and fine organization.
Lexus Song Quest
The Lexus Song Quest is a biennial opera singing competition, held in New Zealand since 1956. The competition is managed and presented by the New Zealand International Arts Festival. Winners include the sopranos Dame Malvina Major, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Jonathan Lemalu.
Lexus Song Quest past winners. Wikipedia.
Michael Hill International Violin Competition
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.
Composers: see also alphabetical listing on these pages
See also: New Zealand composers
New Zealand composers, Wellington City Libraries
Search the database for New Zealand composers.
Composers Association of New Zealand
The Composers Association of New Zealand is a non-profit organization of mostly professional and amateur composers, as well as other supportive institutions.
They maintain contact with organizations such as SOUNZ (The Centre for NZ Music), the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Radio New Zealand Concert, RIANZ, Creative New Zealand, APRA and the Government.
Composers.
New Zealand composers, a searchable database 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
Gary Brain
Gary Brain
Gary Daverne,
Gary Daverne, conductor, composer and arranger
Tecwyn Evans
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.
Kenneth Young
Kenneth Young is a composer, conductor, radio presenter and lecturer in composition, conducting and orchestration at the New Zealand School of Music, Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington.
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
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Dame Malvina Foundation for the Performing Arts
Dunedin
‘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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Education; music education in New Zealand
Education. New Zealand Society for Music Education
Competitions, young composers, Arts Curriculum, Fanfare magazine, contacts, history of NZSME, research, links.
Auckland University School of Music
Corelli School of Music, Albany, Auckland
Creating an environment where home-grown talent is recognized and fulfilled through in-depth musical study.
Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation
The Foundation’s mission is to establish, build and manage a trust fund to provide financial and career support to talented young New Zealander singers and musicians. The Foundation will raise funds by soliciting donations from individuals and companies, and by staging fund-raising events. Dame Kiri has pledged her personal commitment to the establishment and ongoing support of the Foundation.
Eelman Records
An independent record label. While in Wellington a loose collective of bands recorded under the banner of EELman. In a bleak post-punk world, the EELman groups stood out for their humour and their funk.
Electro-acoustic music
Lilburn, Douglas. Electroacoustic Music
EMI Virgin New Zealand music releases.
Events, festivals
Events. New Zealand music events calender, from Sounz.
Event Finder
Arts and culture, music and gigs, sports, business, education. List your own events here.
Festivals and events, a website directory.
Experimental 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.
Karlheinz Company
The Karlheinz Company is a music ensemble based at the University of Auckland School of Music. The ensemble was founded by composer, John Rimmer.
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Flying Nun
New Zealand recording studio. An independent New Zealand music label.
Folk music in New Zealand
Folk and Acoustic Music in New Zealand, Folk and acoustic music festivals in New Zealand.
Acoustic Routes
Promoting Wellington folk music.
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Gilbert and Sullivan Down Under
The history of Gilbert and Sullivan productions in Australasia.
Guitar
Bruce Pain,
Auckland-based classical guitarist experienced in performance and recording.
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Handbell Society of Australasia
Houston, Michael
Pianist Michael Houstoun’s homepage.
HRL Morrison Trust
Recording New Zealand composers and musicians.
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Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand
Instrumentalists: databases, directories
HRL Morrison Trust
Recording New Zealand composers and musicians.
New Zealand classical instrumentalists, a list from Wikipedia.
SOUNZ (Centre for New Zealand Music)
Search the database for musicians and composers.
INZA: International New Zealand Artists
Representing world class artists in their respective disciplines.
Jazz in New Zealand
CJC Creative Jazz Club Aotearoa, Auckland
CJC is a new artist-based initiative whose aims are to create an environment where musicians can perform and grow their creative projects.
New Zealand International Jazz Festival
Whangarei Jazz and Blues Festival
Jazz courses at The New Zealand School of Music
Jazz at Victoria offers a comprehensive jazz education programme.
Bachelor of Music (BMus). The University of Auckland
Learn from some of New Zealand’s leading names in jazz.
Journals, music magazines
Music in New Zealand
A leading music magazine for composers, players, reviewers, audiences and students of contemporary music.
Middle C
Middle C is run by long-time music reviewers Peter Mechen and Lindis Taylor reporting in an analytical yet sympathetic manner on a range of classical music events in Wellington.
National Library of New Zealand index of music periodicals.
New Zealand Opera News, an index of periodicals from the NZ National Library.
Symphony Quarterly, an index of periodicals from the NZ National Library.
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Karlheinz Company
The Karlheinz Company is a music ensemble based at the University of Auckland School of Music. The ensemble was founded by composer, John Rimmer.
Te Kanawa, Kiri
Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation
The Foundation’s mission is to establish, build and manage a trust fund to provide financial and career support to talented young New Zealander singers and musicians. The Foundation will raise funds by soliciting donations from individuals and companies, and by staging fund-raising events. Dame Kiri has pledged her personal commitment to the establishment and ongoing support of the Foundation.
Kiri Te Kanawa, Wikipedia entry.
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