Biography
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Born
23 April 1941 (age 83)
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Born In
Auckland, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
Gillian Whitehead is a prominent New Zealand composer, born in 1941 in Hamilton. She studied under Peter Maxwell Davies and has subsequently produced a variety of music from solo to orchestral works. Particularly notable are her opera Outrageous Fortune and her collaborations with taonga puoro virtuoso Richard Nunns.
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