Todd Smith is a brass musician and composer hailing from the Manawatu region, now based in the Waikato. Todd began his career learning tenor horn as part of Palmerston North City Brass before moving to Blenheim to join Marlborough District Brass Band as a euphonium player. Todd has won multiple national and regional junior solo titles on euphonium, as well as being a member of the National Youth and National Secondary Schools Brass Band on both euphonium and bass trombone. In 2018, Todd moved to the Waikato and joined Hamilton City Brass on cornet. In 2022 Todd won the award for Outstanding Principal Cornet in the A Grade Own Choice. Todd’s compositions have been performed all over New Zealand, Australia and Europe. He has received commissions from the National Australian Brass, Footscray-Yarraville City Band in Melbourne, as well as two major commissions from BBANZ for the New Zealand National Championships.
Outside of brass banding, Todd works as an IT Systems Engineer at Hill Labs in Hamilton.  

Kaperiera has lived and breathed music her entire life having come from a very musical family. She is an accomplished cornetist, known for her emotive style and beautiful tone. Kaperiera  also plays trumpet in reggae bands and one of her musical highlights was performing to thousands of people at the One Love Festival with well known Kiwi reggae band 1814.  Most recently Kaperiera conducted Matamata Brass  leading them to win the national championships in the D grade  section held in Christchurch in 2021. Kaperiera has a diploma in music, production and performance, plays drums and has taught many developing brass and drum musicians in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions.

Walter was born into a musical family and it was only natural that at seven years of age he began learning the Trumpet. Walter has Manawatu roots but grew up in the Bay of Plenty, settling in Hamilton with his wife and three children. His wife and son are also established brass musicians and members of Hamilton City Brass, and as per family tradition, his two younger daughters will likely follow suit.
Walter has been a valued member of many brass and concert bands across all grades including national representative bands, but considers Hamilton City Brass his home band and is the band’s  Principal Cornet. Walter is a versatile musician having played in the Soprano and Euphonium seats for several years before returning to Cornet after the height of covid times. By day Walter is in civil engineering with a local professional services consultancy.