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Scots College (CPAC) Music Rooms | 1 Monorgan Road, Strathmore, Wellington
$475.00 for 10 sessions | Unlimited places available
Run by Rātā Studios
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Wellington-based composer and bass player Simon Eastwood has a diverse practice, including orchestral and chamber works, electronic pieces, and improvisation. He studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington. Simon has a broad range of teaching experience, having taught double bass, bass guitar, and composition privately for 20 years, and has worked with students from a range of ages and backgrounds. During his time at the Royal Academy, he also completed an LRAM teaching diploma for composition, working with Junior Academy students. In 2020 he completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts at Victoria University of Wellington, and he was Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago from 2024-2025.
As a bass player, he regularly performs in a variety of contexts, playing in orchestras and chamber ensembles as well as rock, jazz and folk groups. As a composer, Simon has had works performed extensively around New Zealand, in the UK, Austria, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lithuania, and Korea, and in the United States.
Scots College (CPAC) Music Rooms | 1 Monorgan Road, Strathmore, Wellington