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David Burchell
David Burchell has been Musical Director of the City of Dunedin Choir since the beginning of 2000. He is organist and Choir Director at St Joseph’s Cathedral and acting Director of Music at All Saints’ Church. He is the Dunedin City Organist, the University of Otago’s Graduation Organist and organ tutor in the Department of Music. He is also a regular conductor of the Dunedin Youth Orchestra, and in May 2011 directed a concert with St Kilda Brass.
Anthony Ritchie
Anthony Ritchie is one of New Zealand’s most prolific composers, having written over a hundred works including four operas, three symphonies and several concertos. Ritchie completed his Bachelor of Music with Honours at the University of Canterbury, and went on to study composition with Attila Bozay at the Liszt Academy before completing a Ph.D. on the music of Béla Bartók, studying at the Bartok Archives in Budapest. Ritchie has been the Composer-in-Schools in Christchurch, the Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago and Composer in Residence for the Dunedin Sinfonia. He now teaches composition at the University of Otago.
Peter Adams
Peter Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the Music Department of Otago University and a well-known conductor. Peter was educated in Dunedin, completing a Mus.B with 1st class Honours in 1981 at Otago University majoring in composition, conducting and clarinet performance. A Commonwealth Scholarship took him to London and King’s College where he completed a M.Mus in Theory and Analysis and studied clarinet with Georgina Dobree and conducting with John Carewe. Since his return to Dunedin to take up his post at the university, Peter has built up a fine reputation as a conductor and musical director working all around New Zealand.