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Martin Lodge (composer)
Martin Victor Lodge (3 December 1954 – 18 December 2024) was a New Zealand composer and Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Waikato. Life and careerLodge was born in Tauranga on 3 December 1954.[1] He studied English and German at the University of Waikato graduating with an MA in English literature.[2] He went on to do an MMus in composition at Victoria University of Wellington under Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar[1] followed by a PhD in composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.[2] After spending 13 years as a freelance composer, while doing a variety of other jobs, he was the Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago in 1990 and 1991.[1][2][3] In 1993 he was the Composer in Residence at the Auckland Philharmonia.[3] He took up a position at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Waikato in 1995 where he founded the music department and was instrumental in creating a performing arts venue, the Dr John Gallagher Concert Chamber.[1][2][4] He was responsible for archiving the works of music historian and writer John Mansfield Thomson at the university.[1] He initiated the study of Māori music for the Bachelor of Music degree and commissioned a set of traditional Māori instruments, taonga pūoro, for the university.[1][4] He composed several works using taonga pūoro: Toru (2003) which was dedicated to Hirini Melbourne, Hau (2005) and Oiche ghealai (moonlit night) (2009).[5][6][7] Lodge was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2022, and died in Hamilton on 18 December 2024, at the age of 70.[8][9] Selected worksPublications
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