Media | Billboard | New Zealand Herald
28 October 2015
Adopted New Zealander, lead singer of post-punk English band Killing Joke, Jaz Coleman tells Billboard about his average day, which involves catching fish.
Coleman has a home on a secret island in the Hauraki Gulf,…
Arts | YouTube
2 October 2015
Watch the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra players Vesa-Matti Leppänen, Bridget Douglas, and David Bremner chat about their 2015 Season which involves a mix of international stars, popular composers, and…
Obituaries | Stuff
31 May 2015
Internationally renowned conductor and percussionist, Palmerston North-born Gary Brain has died in Paris. He was 72.
In 1989 Brain was the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s highly regarded principal percussionist and timpanist. He had already been…
Obituaries | Hollywood | Los Angeles Times
24 November 2011
Kerikeri resident Russell Garcia, an California-born arranger, composer and conductor who was an influential figure in the West Coast music scene during the 1950s and ‘60s and whose work in Hollywood included writing the…
Media | BBC News | Guardian (The)
4 September 2003
BBC stalwart, Brian Perkins, has resigned from his post at Radio 4, ending a news-reading career spanning 4 decades. The Guardian describes the resignation of NZ-born broadcaster as a loss: “Perkins’ voice has come…
Music | Sunday Times
26 August 2000
The arts festival running concurrently with the games in Sydney features Vaughan William’s Sinfonia Antarctica performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, with narration by Sir Edmund Hillary.