Michelle Scullion (born 1957) is a New Zealand musician and composer. Several of her soundscapes are part of installations at

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Biography

Scullion grew up in

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, on the outskirts of Wellington, New Zealand. After high school, she studied music at

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and

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. Her first major film project was to create the score for Sir

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's 1987 film ''

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''. During her career, she has composed music for commercials, corporate videos, short films, documentaries and feature films. She also performs and records. In 2003 she was a judge for the Kodak Music Clip Awards at the Wellington Fringe Film Festival. Scullion started playing the flute when she was 13 years old and also composes music for flute. In 2011 she assembled a group of flautists to perform her works as part of the

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in Wellington.

Awards and recognition

References

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