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MUSIC IN THE MANGROVES

GROWING UP AT THE END OF A QUIET cul-de-sac in Auckland’s Point Chevalier, Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper perhaps never thought that he would one day be building more than a tree house at the bottom of the garden. But, when he started to look for his own home about 10 years ago, it soon became apparent there was little on the market to accommodate his requisite music studio space.

A violinist from the age of six, Bridgman-Cooper is a composer, producer

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