Hamish McKeich

Hamish McKeich is a New Zealand conductor particularly associated with contemporary and experimental music. He has worked with major orchestras in New Zealand, Australia and Europe and has conducted numerous world premieres. His teachers included Ilya Musin, Valery Gergiev, Sian Edwards and Peter Eötvös. A conductor and co-director of Stroma, he received a Douglas Lilburn Trust citation for services to New Zealand music in 2012. He directs Stroma in Paolo Cavallone’s Hóros on Miroirs d’Esquisses.