We pride ourselves on providing workshops and masterclasses for our students with international performers. We also have guests and guest lecturers at our fortnightly Music Forum and Composers Workshops.

The following people and groups have been recent visitors to the New Zealand School of Music:

2017

• Wu Man—the world’s premier pipa virtuoso
• Martin Fröst, swedish clarinetist and conductor
• Richard Mapp, NZ concert pianist
• Mark Lettieri (guitarist for Snarky Puppy)
• Fire & Grace - Canadian-born violinist Edwin Huizinga and Grammy Award-winning guitarist William Coulter
• Polish violinist and vocalist Jolanta Kossakowska
• Composer, pianist & conductor Lawrence Axelrod
• Toyin Spellman-Diaz (oboe) & Monica Ellis (bassoon) from Imani Winds
• Du Rusong (bamboo flute and xiao), Liu Le (guzheng), and composer Nalin Shen
• new music group Ensemble Nikel
• Dr León García Corona, University of Northern Arizona
• Classical guitarist Johannes Möller
• Joshua Hyde, Australian saxophonist based in Paris
• NZ throatsinger Jonny Marks
• Antoine Tamestit, viola
• Estère, electronic musician, artist, producer
• Benjamin Carey, Sydney-based saxophonist, composer and technologist
• New Zealand Chamber Soloists—pianist Katherine Austin, violinist Amalia Hall and cellist James Tennant
• Indonesian music and dance group Seni Nan Gombang
• Belgian jazz and classical music pianist and composer Jef Neve
• Dave Weckl, jazz drummer
• Ngripto Raras (Indonesian dance group)
• Santana vocalist Tony Lindsay
• Adam Schroeder, jazz saxophonist
• trumpeter Alex Sipiagin
• pianist Eugene Alcalay
• Ilya Gringolts, violin
• Krzysztof Wegrzyn, violin
• Baroque violinist Sigiswald Kuijken
• Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg, Silver Garburg Piano Duo

2016

• Nicola Benedetti (violin)
• Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
• Karrin Allyson (jazz singer) with the Tom Warrington Trio
• Enso String Quartet
• Amsterdam-based musicians Katharina Gross and Arnold Marinissen
• Dr Bonnie McConnell from Australian National University
• Australian classical guitarist Stephanie Jones
• Professor in Music Therapy, Katrina Skewes McFerran
• trumpet virtuoso Allen Vizzutti
• Michael League, founder of jazz super-group Snarky Puppy
• Michael Houstoun, NZ concert pianist
• Diedre Irons, NZ concert pianist
• British clarinettist Julian Bliss
• Susan Roper and Peter Alexander Wilson, Royal Northern College of Music
• Classical guitarist Vladimir Gorbach
• Garrett Mendelow, percussionist from the United States
• Nicholas Isherwood, contemporary vocalist
• Laurence Sherr, Professor of Music at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta
• US blues guitar master Chris Cain
• New Zealand soprano Anna Leese
• New York-based jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine
• artist Lucie Strecker
• UK-based cellist Rebecca Turner 

2015

• Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean of The Juilliard School
• New York saxophonist Dick Oatts
• Los Angeles-based trumpeter Jon Papenbrook
• Christian Lindberg (Sweden)
• Keith Kirchoff (US)
• Brodsky quartet (US)
• Paris based new-music group soundinitiative
• jazz pianist Mike Nock
• Kari Krikkuu, clarinet (Finland)
• Chris Cain, jazz guitarist
• Simon O’Neill, NZ opera star
• Christine Goerke, American soprano
• Orla Boylan, Irish soprano
• Philip Bohlman, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and of Music, University of Chicago

2014

• alumnus Janos Cegledy, composer and pianist
• Hanumi Saxophone Quartet
• Sara Mead on lyra viol
• Slovak cellist, Jozef Lupták
• Korean-born pianist Junghwa Lee
• classical guitarist Alex Tsiboulski
• internationally acclaimed jazz composer Mike Gibbs

2013

• Marek Pasieczny – Renowned Polish classical guitarist
• Marian Sobula – Polish pianist
• Barbara Borowicz – Polish clarinetist and Anna Miernik-Sobula – Polish pianist (SoundArt Duo)
• Nicholas Isherwood – leading interpreter of contemporary vocal repertoire
• Liane Keegan – Australian contralto
• Massimo Perciaccante and Sara Dominici – Italian pianists and artistic directors of the Ludus Tonalis Accademia in Rome
• Estrella – Auckland-based piano quartet
• Colin Currie – percussionist
• Clive Greensmith – cellist with the Tokyo Quartet
• John Couch – guitar
• Trevor Jorgensen – Assistant Professor of Wind Studies at the State University of New York at Oswego
• Robert Marshall Auler – award-winning American concert pianist
• David Berkman – jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator
• Darcy James Argue - jazz composer and bandleader with the Mothergroove Jazz Orchestra
• Dmitri Sitkovetsky – Michael Hill International Violin Competition adjudicator
• Christian Altenburger – Michael Hill International Violin Competition adjudicator
• Konstanze Eickhorst – Bremen-born international pianist
• Robin Ward – international harpist and NZSM alumnus
• Xiang Zou - renowned Chinese pianist

2012

• Shackle – electronic music duo from the Netherlands: Anne LaBerge on flute and electronics and Robert van Heumen on laptop-instrument.
• Roberto Fabbriciani – leading Italian flautist specialising in contemporary/newly composed works
• Bart van Oort – renowned Dutch period instrumentalist and forte piano specialist.
• Bennie Maupin - living jazz legend, saxophonist and recording artist who has featured on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and Tribute to Jack Johnson, as well as being a former member of Herbie Hancock's Headhunters.
• Dick Oatts - one of the world's finest alto saxophonists and a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
• Guillermo González – Spanish pianist regarded as the world's leading exponent of works for piano by Spanish composers.
• Tom Warrington – US jazz bassist and respected academic
• Sofya Gulyak – Russian piano virtuoso, visiting Wellington through the NZ International Piano Festival and Lewis Eady Charitable Trust
• Michael Houston – New Zealand's most internationally experienced pianist
• Jonathan Lemalu – one of New Zealand's operatic stars in the International arena
• Simon O'Neill – one of New Zealand's operatic stars in the International arena

2011

• Manos Achalinotopoulos – Greek clarinetist and soloist
• Fabricio Mattos – Guitar Masterclass
• Joe LaBarbera, Tom Warrington, Larry Koonse, Denise Perrier, Bruce Foreman, Charley Davis, Alex King and Jake Reed from Cowbop and Phil Salazar
• Duo Saxe – Chamber Music / Flute / Guitar Masterclass:
• Cho-Liang Lin – Michael Hill International Violin Competition adjudicator  Masterclass
• Isabelle O'Connell – Irish pianist specialising in contemporary/newly composed works
• Bob Cranshaw and Peter Bernstein – members of Sonny Rollins touring band, in Wellington for the New Zealand International Arts Festival performance
• Isabel Siewers – Guitar Masterclass (with support from the Embassy of Argentina)
• Guilherme Vincens – Guitar Masterclass (with support from the Brazilian Embassy)
• Dr Anna Kijanowska – Piano Masterclass
• NZTrio – Chamber Music Masterclass
• John Chen – piano masterclass
• Ricardo Gallén  – guitar masterclass (with support from the Spanish Embassy)
• Warwick Fyfe – classical voice masterclass
• Xuefei Yang – guitar masterclass
• Simon O'Neill – Classical voice masterclass
• Dieter Flury – Principal flautist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra