Sam Jury

Sam Jury Sam Jury is a musical director and pianist based in Auckland New Zealand. He studied classical piano performance and conducting at the New Zealand School of Music and at the University of Auckland, gaining a Bachelor of Music with Honours. He currently works in a range of fields spanning musical theatre, opera, solo performance, accompaniment (vocal and instrumental), coaching and recording. He has a particular interest in new music and theatre and was formerly a member of the SMP Contemporary Music Ensemble in Wellington, a group dedicated to commissioning and performing new works with funding from Creative New Zealand. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers New Zealand.





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BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at the Isaac Theatre Royal
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET at the Isaac Theatre Royal
October 14, 2016

Stephen Sondheim's epic musical thriller Sweeney Todd opened last night at Christchurch's Isaac Theatre Royal, its final stop on a tour across New Zealand. A joint collaboration between New Zealand Opera and Victorian Opera, this gritty and wonderfully stylised production emphasises the most operatic and dramatic features of this masterpiece of musical theatre.

BWW Reviews: LA TRAVIATA at the Isaac Theatre Royal
BWW Reviews: LA TRAVIATA at the Isaac Theatre Royal
July 16, 2016

Giuseppe Verdi's operatic masterpiece La Traviata opened triumphantly at the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch last night to a capacity audience. This production marks a welcome return by New Zealand Opera to the theatre that, following an extensive restoration from the Canterbury earthquakes of the 2010s, continues to be one of the artistic jewels of the city.

BWW Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE at ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre
BWW Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE at ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre
June 23, 2016

New Zealand Opera's new production of Mozart's final opera The Magic Flute is an absolute delight. The Magic Flute (or Die Zauberflote) tells the story of Prince Tamino's quest for his Princess Pamina through a fairytale dream-world where she is held captive by the wizard Sarastro. Aided by his impulsive companion Papageno and the magic flute given to him by The Queen of the Night, he sets off to rescue her and face the challenges set for him by Sarastro and the mysterious brotherhood.

BWW Review: MAMMA MIA! at the Isaac Theatre Royal
BWW Review: MAMMA MIA! at the Isaac Theatre Royal
April 1, 2016

The international smash-hit musical Mamma Mia! opened last night in Christchurch at the beautifully restored Isaac Theatre Royal. It is the first of three hotly anticipated musicals to be put on by Showbiz Christchurch this year as part of a national consortium of theatre production partners.

AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER at Charles Luney Auditorium
AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER at Charles Luney Auditorium
January 27, 2016

The two-time Tony Award-winning actress and Broadway Legend Sutton Foster will be performing for one night only this Friday the 29th of January at the Charles Luney Auditorium at St Margaret's College in Christchurch, following two weeks of tutoring and mentoring at the Christchurch International Musical Theatre Summer School.

BWW Reviews: LOVE AND INFORMATION at The Basement Theatre
BWW Reviews: LOVE AND INFORMATION at The Basement Theatre
November 19, 2015

Love and Information by the acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill opened last night at the Basement Theatre on Queen Street in a very polished new production produced by The Actors' Program and Last Tapes Theatre Company. The tagline reads: Sixteen Actors. Over 100 Characters. A Snapshot of life. Perhaps rather the plural, snapshots, might be a more accurate description of this unusual piece

BWW Review: MAMIL: MIDDLE AGED MAN IN LYCRA at The Court Theatre
BWW Review: MAMIL: MIDDLE AGED MAN IN LYCRA at The Court Theatre
October 14, 2015

Mark Hadlow excels in his hilarious one-man show MAMIL: Middle Aged Man in Lycra in a sell-out season at Christchurch's Court Theatre. Written and directed by Gregory Cooper, MAMIL plays to all Hadlow's strengths as an actor and gives him ample opportunity for humour with a good dose of clowning around. It is also not without its sensitive and thought provoking moments, particularly in the area of men's health -Hadlow himself is an ambassador for the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

BWW Review: TOSCA at the Aotea Centre
BWW Review: TOSCA at the Aotea Centre
September 21, 2015

NBR New Zealand Opera has been going from strength to strength over recent years, and this latest production of Tosca is no exception. Cleverly set during the Cold War era of Italy during the 1950s, this production stars two internationally famous New Zealanders, the tenor Simon O'Neill and the baritone Phillip Rhodes, who are joined by Irish soprano Orla Boylan in the title role.

BWW Review: ALL YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS FULFILLED FOREVER at the Q Theatre Loft
BWW Review: ALL YOUR WANTS AND NEEDS FULFILLED FOREVER at the Q Theatre Loft
September 17, 2015

Following on from successful seasons at BATS Theatre in Wellington and the famed La Mama Theatre in New York City, the five-time Chapman Trip Theatre Award nominated play All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever is a surreal existential comedy set in a hyper-realised modern age of internet-saturated media and Facebook, where Simon, a young twenty-something man is battling to make sense of his life, whilst simultaneously struggling to deal with the loss of his father.

BWW Review: CATS at the Civic Theatre
BWW Review: CATS at the Civic Theatre
September 12, 2015

The latest West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash-hit musical Cats kicked off its Australasian tour last night to a packed Civic Theatre in Auckland. Nominated for two Olivier Awards (including best revival) this production of Cats was put together by the original creative team of the award winning 1981 London production and features the superb UK star Sophia Ragavelas in the role of 'Grizabella'.

BWW Review: ERNEST RUTHERFORD: EVERYONE CAN SCIENCE!  at the Basement Theatre
BWW Review: ERNEST RUTHERFORD: EVERYONE CAN SCIENCE! at the Basement Theatre
September 9, 2015

Nic Sampson returns to the Basement Theatre as The Lord Ernest Rutherford of Nelson following a successful debut run of Ernest Rutherford: Everyone Can Science! in May 2013. Sampson (Billy T nominee 2015 and head writer for the Jono and Ben Show) writes and stars in this hilarious one man comedy about the legendary New Zealand scientist most famous for splitting the atom, who also appears on our $100 note.






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