Wai-te-ata Music Press

Wai-te-ata Music Press is one of New Zealand’s largest and longest-running publishers of sheet music. Based at Victoria University of Wellington, the press was established by Douglas Lilburn in 1967 as a non-profit ‘composer facility’, producing inexpensive editions of New Zealand music for performance and study, and this continues to be the Press’s main function. From 1981, when composer Jack Body took up the editorship, Wai-te-ata Music Press has become the largest publisher of New Zealand music, with over 250 scores in its catalogue. Associate Professor Michael Norris took over the editorship of Wai-te-ata Press in 2013 following Jack Body’s retirement.