BonaNZa is New Zealand’s premier trombone quartet. Formed in 1997, BonaNZa premiered at the Bay of Islands Arts Festival the same year. Since then they have continued providing a fun, varied and informative musical program to people from a wide range of ages, backgrounds and cultures.
BonaNZa is made up of five professional trombone players from throughout NZ, representing the Auckland Philharmonia, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and the Vector Wellington Orchestra. The members enjoy playing varying styles of music and performing in diverse places, from inside trains, busking in the coromandel or the top of the Sky Tower, to a band rotunda tour of the South Island. Bonanza played to 150,000 people at the 2009 Startlight Symphony as soloists with the Auckland Philharmonia, a world record for a trombone ensemble (unofficial but probable…)