New Year 2021 Honours: Constellation of Kiwi stars shine bright
30 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Arise, Sir Dave Dobbyn (left). The artist has been honoured for services to music over decades. Dame Anne Salmond (right) has been made a member of the Order of New Zealand. Photo / Files
Many of the people lauded in this year s New Year honours will come as no surprise - they are already household names.
One of those is musician Dave Dobbyn, whose classic tunes are well known to many and will more than likely be on the playlist at many New Year gatherings tonight.
Dobbyn is one of four people to be made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
New Year 2021 Honours: Dave Dobbyn s slices of heaven rewarded with knighthood
30 Dec, 2020 08:00 PM
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The words and tunes of Dave Dobbyn - now Sir Dave - are woven indelibly into New Zealand society. Photo / File
David Joseph Dobbyn, ONZM.
For services to music.
Songwriter Dave Dobbyn reckons he s at a loss for words. It s not glamour at Rhythm and Vines or the frantic rockstar lifestyle that has him stumped.
He s just arrived from a motel by van, he s sober and, barely an hour before he s due to play, he chats on the phone from a house near the Gisborne festival stage.
Emma Pearson proud to tutor at Opera School
17 Dec, 2020 10:33 PM
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Wanganui Midweek
Australian soprano Emma Pearson considers herself an absolute Kiwi as she lines up from January 4, 2021 as one of the five Kiwi tutors at the New Zealand Opera School.
Emma, originally from Perth, trained with the Australian Opera Studio and has sung with the Australian Opera company as well as leading roles with companies throughout Europe and Britain.
In October she sang in New Zealand Opera s production in Auckland of Handel s Semele then the Bach B Minor Mass with the Orpheus Choir in Wellington.
For the past 10 years Emma has lived in Wellington with her New Zealand husband Wade Kernot, a bass baritone and former student of the opera school who teaches music at Victoria University.
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