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 ...
Ngatapa Black is a fluent speaker of Māori and a bilingual singer-songwriter who has been composing, recording and performing music for more than a decade. She is an award-winning promotions producer, ...
Ian Donald McDonald was a composer, lecturer and writer. He was born in Wellington in 1937 and educated at St Patricks College. He studied composition at Victoria University of Wellington as a student ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 - ...
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 ...
Blake Scanlen is a bass-baritone singer, conductor, and composer from Tāmaki Makaurau. He completed a Bachelor of Music and a GradDip (Mus) at the University of Auckland in 2022 where he studied ...
In this episode of ‘Instruments of the Moana’ we delve into the wooden slit drum family, which inhabits many realms amongst the Moana Pacific islands and oceans. Our journey spans the Cook Islands, ...