Award-winning New York musicians, plus some of New Zealand’s best choir conductors, were just some of the talent to visit the Far North recently.
Wellington musician and Fulbright scholar Dexter Stanley-Tauvao and New York violinist Bridget Kinneary traveled to Kaitaia from New York last month to hold a series of music workshops and a special music recital at Kaitaia’s Pompallier School church.
Stanley-Tauvao is currently studying a MA Jazz Drums in New York, with Kinneary studying a MA at the prestigious Aaron Copland School of Music Manhattan.
Opeloge Ah Sam, Kaitaia College HOD Music, organised the mini-tour.
“I used to mentor Dexter during his undergraduate days at Victoria University when I taught there between 2012-2014,” Ah Sam said.