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Minors in Composition, Music Technology, Performance or Popular Music Studies are available for most BMus students, and students in some other Bachelor degrees.
Feel like doing something practical and ear-opening in 2021? Choose to study either Māori music performance or Javanese gamelan, with no audition required.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the audio recording for NZSM’s 2020 opera project, filmed in our Adam Concert Room last year.
Professor Sam OwensIn August 1899, an item published in the Sydney-based Deutsch-Australische Post heaped praise…
The New Zealand String Quartet once again fill the Adam Concert Room with their musicianship…
Professor Sally-Jane NormanMusicking and sonic arts serve to sound out our social and physical environments,…
The Wellington Brass Band, under musical director David Bremner, have won the National Brass Band Championships in Christchurch, the band's third consecutive win and seventh win in the last decade.
Orpheus Choir Wellington are performing at Wellington Cathedral of Saint Paul on Saturday 7 August at 7.30pm and on Sunday 8 August at Kapiti Coastlands Theatre/ Te Raukura ki Kapiti
The annual New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī Jazz Project was held earlier this month. Dr Dave Wilson and Dr Rodger Fox led the two-day event.
