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NZ Barok

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Specialist baroque music ensemble NZ Barok play the third movement of Vivaldi's Concerto in C majorat a concert in Auckland. The orchestra is run cooperatively by founders Graham McPhail and Helen Brinkman, joint musical directors McPhail and Miranda Hutton, and the players themselves, who all contribute to musical decisions and administration.

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Peter Walls, Orchestras – The future of orchestras, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/44529/nz-barok (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peter Walls, published 14 March 2014.