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Dr Tim Beaglehole was a spritely 80-year-old when he welcomed Sarah Lang into his Karori home to be interviewed in 2013. The author and former university chancellor spoke of getting to know his late father John through the hundreds of letters he found while writing John’s biography. Photography couple Benjamin and Elise Johnson took Tim’s portrait with which he was delighted. After he died in 2015, aged 82, the family requested further copies of the photographs.
For a 24-year-old, composer/violinist Salina Fisher has quite the trophy cabinet. After winning the 2013 and 2014 NZSO/ Todd Young Composers Award, she became the youngest-ever winner of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award (New Zealand’s premier composition prize) in 2016 – and won again in 2017. Currently studying at New York’s Manhattan School of Music, Fisher’s home to hear the NZSO open three concerts with her new work Tupaia (Michael Fowler Centre, 21 April). Her compositions have been performed in eight countries.
Ardie Savea was 20 years old and playing under the shadow of his brother when we spoke to him in his first season of Super Rugby. He’s now a household name across New Zealand with 22 caps for the All Blacks. Ardie has a baby girl, threemonth old Kobe. In October 2017 he and partner Saskia Hartmann-Hechenberger released the first drop of Ardie Savea Clothing which is designed by Ardie and manufactured in Hawkes Bay using locally sourced materials.
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