JOHN RIMMER

John Rimmer has produced a wide variety of works for different musical forces; particularly instrumental and orchestral. About a quarter of his output employs electroacoustic resources often in combination with instruments and voices and many of his works are published and recorded. He is active as a horn player and is the founder of the Karlheinz Company, an ensemble for new music at the University of Auckland where he taught for twenty-five years before retiring in 1999. In 1995 John Rimmer received the KBB Citation of the Composers Association of New Zealand for services to New Zealand music. In 1995 he was awarded a personal professorial chair at the University of Auckland and in 1997 a Lilburn Trust award, again for services to New Zealand music.