Jack Bewley, NZSO NYO Composer-in-Residence 2026

Every year the NZSO provides a young New Zealand composer with the opportunity to write a full symphonic commission. 

NZSO NYO Composer-in-Residence 2026 

Jack Bewley is a composer, arranger and musician from Whakatāne and now based in Wellington.

His music has been played around New Zealand and Australia by groups such as the National Brass Band and National Youth Band of New Zealand, Wellington Brass, the Arthur St Loft Orchestra and musicians from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO), Orchestra Wellington and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

In 2019 and 2021, he won the Orchestra’s Choice Award at the TODD NZSO Young Composer Awards. He was selected for the NZSO SOUNZ Composer Sessions in 2024. Previous commissions have included set works for the New Zealand Brass Band Championships in 2017, 2018 and 2022.

He holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours from the New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī (Victoria University of Wellington).

For further information, please contact the NZSO Education team at education@nzso.co.nz.