Sam Jury is a musical director and pianist based in Auckland New Zealand. He studied classical piano performance and conducting at the New Zealand School of Music and at the University of Auckland, gaining a Bachelor of Music with Honours. He currently works in a range of fields spanning musical theatre, opera, solo performance, accompaniment (vocal and instrumental), coaching and recording. He has a particular interest in new music and theatre and was formerly a member of the SMP Contemporary Music Ensemble in Wellington, a group dedicated to commissioning and performing new works with funding from Creative New Zealand. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers New Zealand.
Stephen Sondheim's epic musical thriller Sweeney Todd opened last night at Christchurch's Isaac Theatre Royal, its final stop on a tour across New Zealand.
The two-time Tony Award-winning actress and Broadway Legend Sutton Foster will be performing for one night only this Friday the 29th of January at the Charles Luney Auditorium at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, following two weeks of tutoring and mentoring at the Christchurch International Mu
Love and Information by the acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill opened last night at the Basement Theatre on Queen Street in a very polished new production produced by The Actors' Program and Last Tapes Theatre Company.
Following on from successful seasons at BATS Theatre in Wellington and the famed La Mama Theatre in New York City, the five-time Chapman Trip Theatre Award nominated play All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever is a surreal existential comedy set in a hyper-realised modern age of internet-saturat
The latest West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash-hit musical Cats kicked off its Australasian tour last night to a packed Civic Theatre in Auckland.
Nic Sampson returns to the Basement Theatre as The Lord Ernest Rutherford of Nelson following a successful debut run of Ernest Rutherford: Everyone Can Science! in May 2013.