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Rosel
Wedding Musician
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Based in: Wellington, Wellington
Based in: Wellington, Wellington
From: $250
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Rosel Labone is an international singer who has performed at venues across Australasia, America and Europe, with over 15 years' experience and a wide repertoire of songs.... (more)
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Nick van Dijk
Pianist / Keyboardist
Available in New Zealand
Based in: London, Wellington
Based in: London, Wellington
From: $300
A consummate musician based in London, reader and soloist on piano & brass with rich experience in performing at the highest level in New Zealand & international gigs, 20 years as jazz lecturer at Victoria University NZ. Duo with Jess Murphy (vox/keys) as Loose Units.... (more)
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Lola Bosser Toca
Multi-Instrumentalist
Available in New Zealand
Based in: Ōtautahi Christchurch, Canterbury
Based in: Ōtautahi Christchurch, Canterbury
From: $250
Versatile musician, performer, composer, and arranger with lifelong experience across diverse instruments and ensembles. Passionate about music in all its forms, fostering creativity, collaboration, and high-quality performance.... (more)
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David Selfe
Pianist / Keyboardist
Available in New Zealand
Based in: Norsewood, Manawatu-Wanganui
Based in: Norsewood, Manawatu-Wanganui
5.0 (1 review)
From: $300
From: $300
Band Leader - Working with a small team.
Orchestral Musician - Working with a large 8 to 28 piece orchestra.
Musical Director - Working with a Cabaret.
I am the guy, from the West End of London theatre scene. As a reading musician with over 10,000 shows played!... (more)
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‘Silent screen, living sound’
Performance at Shambles Theatre, 20
September 2025, reviewed by Shamus Baker
Audiences were treated to an invigorating
immersion into the past on Saturday 20
September at Shambles Theatre, where pianist
David Selfe and percussionist Jeremy Fitzsimons
provided an ingenious musical accompaniment
to two silent films of the great Charlie Chaplin, A
Dog’s Life (1918) and The Pawn Shop (1916). All
music was composed by Selfe, and adapted by
Fitzsimons for their duo.
While this is not the place for a synopsis of either
film, both involved Chaplin’s iconic Little Tramp
persona in various scenarios of mayhem, trickery
and social faux pas, with his eventual triumph occurring against both the odds of ordinary logic
and his own relentlessly inventive disdain for normal codes of behaviour – to great comic
effect.
Both musicians did themselves great credit in a performance situation that stretched
concentration and agility to an unusual degree ....
View This Profile - David Selfe - Pianist / Keyboardist - Norsewood, Manawatu-Wanganui
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