Bruce Aitken
Bruce Aitken, Dunedin, received the Insignia of a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for services to education and music. He has been involved with Knox College for some 30 years and is Master of the college. He contributed to the governance of the University of Otago for over 20 years as a member of the University Council, and as Pro Vice-Chancellor. He has also contributed to church music voluntarily in Otago and Southland for more than 35 years in many capacities, including as the organist and choirmaster at Dunedin's Knox Church, where he established the choirboys' section of the choir, the Peter Warwick Scholarship Trust, and the Iona Choir for Girls. At Knox College, he established choral scholarships, the Ross Chapel Music Endowment Fund, and more recently the Fleming Galway Organ Fellowship and the Elman Poole Scholarship. Mr Aitken is a member of both the vestry and the chapter of St Paul's Cathedral and was Chairman of the Foundation for the Dunedin Civic Orchestra and president of the Dunedin Sinfonia Board.