Residential school of vocal music (classical) in Napier, Hawkes Bay; offers music workshops, master classes, languages, stagecraft and movement as well as massed choral works; patrons: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Malvina Major, Sir Donald McIntyre

Oldest independent music school in New Zealand; offers community music courses for pre-schoolers through to adults; has a purpose-built conservatoire, hires musical instruments, organises music festivals, concerts and so on

Irish traditional music workshops held in the summer of each year in Nelson; offers classes for flute, fiddle, uilleann pipes, whistle and accompaniment players

Music school in Christchurch which is celebrating its 50th anniversary; conducts classes in brass, choral, concerts, guitar, Indian music, keyboards, orchestras, bands, ensembles, percussion, recorder, strings, woodwind, horn, trumpet, tuba etc

School of Spanish Arts in Auckland, offering classes in dance, guitar, singing, cajon and palmas; also organises performances, creative concerts, workshops & lectures on Flamenco, & acts as an agency offering local and foreign talent

Wellington-based provider of music education programmes; a joint venture between Massey University's Massey's Conservatorium of Music & Victoria University's School of Music

Guitar school in Palmerston North; offers full range of courses including blues, rock, jazz, funk, classical, folk & country styles from beginners to advanced, ear training, theory, keyboard, composition, rhythm/ lead/ slide guitar & lap steel