EXPERIENCE
Industry Experience
The Warehouse Group
- Creative Producer (TV, Radio, Online)
- Composer & Sound Design
October 2018 – CURRENT
Auckland, New Zealand
Be The Joy
Ad campaign - Torpedo7, Noel Leeming, The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery
- Creative Producer (Online, Social, In-store Radio)
- Composer & Sound Design
October - November 2019
Auckland, New Zealand
ENVY Studios
Audio Post Production Engineer (Film - Voiceover/Foley/ADR)
April 2018 – May 2018
Auckland, New Zealand
Hiccups
Film – by Carl Mellgren
January 2018 – May 2018
Auckland, New Zealand
Credits:
Music Composer/Producer
Post Production: Sound Department
NZLIVE TV (NEP)
Multi-Skilled Technician (Audio/Media/Vision-Switch)
July 2017 – October 2018
Auckland, New Zealand
Composer - University of East Anglia, UK
(Manifesto Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2018)
Documentary "Time in Culture" by Vera da Silva Sinha
June 2017 – November 2017
Auckland, New Zealand
Credits:
Music Composer/Producer
Script pronunciation review
*Screening at the Manifesto Film Festival Amsterdam, 2018*
The University of Auckland, NZ
AV Technician/Live Sound Engineer
April 2017 – CURRENT
Auckland, New Zealand
SAE Institute, NZ
Audio Post Production Workshop Facilitator at
ChicMix & ChicFlix
March 2016 - CURRENT
Teaching at Audio Engineering & Film Workshop for Women
South Pacific Pictures (Shortland Street)
Sound Assist/Boom Operator
December 2016 – March 2017
Auckland, New Zealand
The Portland Public House
Live Sound Engineer
November 2016 – December 2017
Auckland, New Zealand
Black & Blue
Film – by Piushani Morapaya
January 2016 – April 2017
Auckland, New Zealand
Credits:
Music Composer/Producer
Post Production: Sound Department
Kaupapa Project
Animation – Bachelor of Film Arts Students (NZ)
July – August 2016 (2 months) Auckland, New Zealand
Credits:
Music Composer/Producer
Post Production: Sound Department
Cerebellum
Film/TV Pilot – Bachelor of Film Arts Students(NZ) Apr 2016 - June 2016
Credits:
Sound Recordist
Boom Operator
Brandspeak
Sound Recordist & Boom Operator
July 2016 – July 2016 (1 month)
Perform Fitness - Formosa Golf Resort
Reflector
Film – Christopher Hines (NZ)
Nov 2015 – Apr 2016
Credits:
Music Composer/Producer
Sound Department
(Post Production Engineer, ADR, Sound Editor, Sound Mixer)
Actress - Mother of two boys
SAE Institute Advertisement
Music Composer/Producer & Post Production Engineer
Jan 2016 – Feb 2016
Credits:
Music Composer/Producer
Audio Engineer (Mix & Master)
Post Production (ADR & Sound Editing)
Acting
Jianjie (Norwich Radical Film Festival, UK, 2016)
(New York International Film Festival, USA, 2017)
Film – Nicole Chen (NZ) Oct 2015 – Dec 2015
Credits:
Music Composer
Sound department - sound editor and voice-over
IMDB Link:
Attractors & Repulsors
Film – by Christopher Hines (NZ)
August 2015
Credits - Music Composer/Producer
Qualifications
Industry Intensive
Park Road Post Production, NZ
September 2017
Bachelor of Recording Arts Degree
(Level 7) Distinction
SAE Institute, Auckland, NZ
Jan 2015 – Completed October 2017
Diploma in Audio Engineering
(Level 5) Distinction
SAE Institute, Auckland, NZ
2014 – 2015
Certificate in Child First Aid
St. Johns Ambulance, NZ
2012
Certificate in Small Business Management
Southern Institute of Technology, NZ
2010 – 2011
Bursary Music
Westlake Girls Highschool, NZ
2000
Grade 8
Trinity College of London Speech and Drama, NZ
2000
Grade 6
NZ Speech Board
1997
Instrumental & Orchestral Experience
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I've studied with Resident Composer Neil Colqhoune at Kadimah College 1992 – 1996
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I've also studied with music professor Mikhael Tabliss (Moscow University) 1994 – 1996
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I play the piano, clarinet and soprano saxophone.
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I have been writing, performing and singing music since age six.
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I have also engineered, composed, performed and recorded two albums at 12yrs and 13yrs old.
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I have written several orchestral pieces and can read scores.
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I am also familiar with all instruments in an orchestra and have spent one-on-one time in a workshop with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra learning about the specific functions of each instrument.
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I know beat patterns and what to listen for in regards to conducting.
I have performed in many orchestras, wind ensembles, choirs and Jazz bands including:
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1992 – 1993 Shore Musicana Orchestra (2nd clarinet)
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1993 – 1994 – Northcross Intermediate Concert Band (1st clarinet)
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1995 - APPA Symphonia (1st clarinet & Soprano Saxophone in Bb Trumpet)
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1995 - Auckland Junior Music contest (Clarinet & Keyboard solo's)
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1995 – Concert Band & Classical quartet (1st Clarinet) – Westlake Girls Highschool
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1995 – 1996 – George Turner Wilson Trust Scholarship 2 years in a row.
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1996 - Big Band (Sop. Sax), Jazz Combo (Soprano Saxophone), -Concert Band (1st Clarinet) – Glenfield College
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1998 – Marching Band(Soprano Saxophone), Concert Band (1st Clarinet) Alexander Hamilton Highschool of Performing Arts Academy in Los Angeles, USA
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1999 - 2000 Concert Band (1st Clarinet) Westlake Girls Highschool
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1999 - 2000 Key Cygnetures Choir Won Gold in the Youth Arts Festival (Choral Section) Westlake Girls Highschool
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2001 – World Symposium for children's choirs, Vancouver – Canada (special request to join Key Cygnetures Choir in tour after graduating High school in previous year)
Albums
I Must Leave
Album - by Donna Kavanagh (NZ)
Composer, Singer/Songwriter, Musician, Audio Engineer
1995, York Street Studios
Fadeaway
Album - by Donna Kavanagh (NZ)
Composer, Singer/Songwriter, Musician, Audio Engineer
1994, Stebbings Recording Studio
Workshop Tutor
ChicMix & ChicFlix
SAE Auckland, New Zealand, 2016 - 2018
Women About Sound
Auckland, New Zealand, 2017 - 2019