Emeritus Professor Peter Adams, of Dunedin, MNZM for services to music and music education
Emeritus Professor Peter Adams has composed pieces for a wide range of instruments, and taught at the School of Performing Arts at Otago University, where he established Music Technology as a subject. He has been musical director for the St Kilda Brass Band and City Choir Dunedin. He conducts the Dunedin Youth Orchestra, and has served as conductor for the New Zealand National Secondary Schools Symphony Orchestra. Emeritus Professor Adams was Director of the National Youth Brass Band, and has been a brass band Adjudicator, nationally and in Australia. He is musical director and principal conductor of the Waitaki Summer Music Camp.