Winner of the 1998 NZ Young Composers’ Award, Ewan Clark began his compositional study at the University of Otago before moving to Victoria University in 2001, where he completed a Bachelor of Music and Graduate Diploma in Arts. He’s a composer, teacher and conductor who was accepted last year into the Royal College of Music in London, in fact ranking among the top percentile of all applicants to the Composition for Screen course at RCM. He is currently studying there towards a Masters of Music, condensing the normally two year course into one.
We've invited some folk known for their keen-eyed music industry observations to comment on events and trends in the biz, both here at home and abroad.

"What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down?"

As reported over at Billboard.biz, NZ's very own musical wonder woman Kimbra (Johnson) is the first female '90s-born artist to top the Billboard Hot 100

News that NZ Herald owners APN have decided to turn off their A4-sized newsprint music street press, has come with Volume’s 33rd weekly issue, and a tad awkwardly right on the eve of the 12th annual NZ Music Month.

Thinking about giving your music away for free? Well, there's more to it than simply posting your track online and talking about it on Facebook.