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Phil Broadhurst
New Zealand composer, jazz pianist, music lecturer and radio presenter

Phil Broadhurst

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New Zealand composer, jazz pianist, music lecturer and radio presenter
A.K.A.
Philip Douglas Broadhurst Philip Broadhurst
Gender
Male
Age
70 years
Education
Master of Philosophy
Massey University
Palmerston North, Palmerston North City, New Zealand
(-2007)
Awards
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
(2001)
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Phil Broadhurst
Broadhurst in 2008

Philip Douglas Broadhurst MNZM (26 June 1949 – 24 April 2020) was a New Zealand composer, jazz pianist, music lecturer and radio presenter.

Education

Broadhurst has a master's degree from Massey University, completed in 2007. His thesis examined the music of French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani.

Career

Broadhurst hosted the Art of Jazz programme on Radio New Zealand for more than 20 years.

From 2000 until 2016, Broadhurst was Head of Jazz Studies at the New Zealand School of Music at Massey University's Albany campus in Auckland.

The 2011 album Delayed Reaction was a tribute to Michel Petrucciani and was reviewed favourably in the JazzTimes.

Honours and awards

In the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours, Broadhurst was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for service to jazz music.

At the NZ Music Awards in 2016, Broadhurst won Jazz Tui for the third album Panacea from his Dedication trilogy.

Personal life

Broadhurst lived in Auckland with his wife Julie Mason. He died on 24 April 2020, aged 70.

Discography

  • Sustenance, 1982
  • Iris, 1985
  • Sustenance 3, 1987
  • Live at The London Bar, 1993
  • Delayed Reaction, 2011
  • Flaubert’s Dance, 2013
  • Panacea, 2015
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