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STROMA is one of New Zealand’s finest contemporary chamber ensembles, comprising players from the NZSO and other freelance Wellington performers.
Core personnel have included:
- Hamish McKeich (conductor)
- Bridget Douglas (fl)
- Robert Orr, Stacy Dixon (ob)
- Patrick Barry (cl)
- Ed Allen (hn)
- Mark Carter (tpt)
- Dave Bremner (tbn)
- Andrew Jarvis (tba)
- Carolyn Mills (hp)
- Emma Sayers, Donald Nicolson (pf/keys)
- Arnold Marinissen, Jeremy Fitzsimons (perc)
- Vesa-Matti Leppännen, Anne Loeser, Andrew Thomson, Rebecca Struthers (vns)
- Andrew Thomson, Johnny Chang (vas)
- Rowan Prior, Robert Ibell (vcs)
- Vicki Jones, Matt Cave, Malcolm Struthers (dbs)
Stroma's management include:
- Michael Norris, Bridget Douglas, Hamish McKeich (co-directors)
Guest performers have included:
- Pedro Carneiro (perc)
- Simon Docking (pf)
- Richard Haynes (cl/bcl)
- Duo Stump-Linshalm (cl/bcl)
- Ananda Sukarlan (pf)
- Hayden Chisholm (saxes)
- Lars Mlekusch (saxes)
New Zealand works premiered by Stroma include:
- James Gardner » Fetish Effigies
- Rachel Clement » knitting dust
- Paul Booth » Impossible Colour
- John Bayer » Asana
- Victoria Kelly » Song for chamber ensemble
- Dugal McKinnon » Christ lag in Todesbanden
- Hayden Chisholm » Magnificat 3
- Miriama Young » Learning to Breathe on the A-Train
- Lyell Cresswell » Con fuoco
- Chris Watson » Carrick Bend
- David Long » Cross Creek
- John Psathas » Psyzygysm
- Ross Harris » At the edge of silence
- Alison Isadora » the little baby jesus and the bee
- Jeroen Speak » Musik für Witwen
- Brigid Bisley » In Memoriam
- John Croft » murmures secrez…Avernales eaux
- Helen Bowater » Lumen
- Dylan Lardelli » Paulownia
- Michael Norris » Scintilla
- Michael Norris » Splinter Cells
- Michael Norris » Icons & Artifice
- Philip Brownlee » Sparks Among the Geysers
- John Young » Arrivederci
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