About

Cadence Chung is a 22-year-old poet, mezzo-soprano, and composer from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is one of the 2026/27 artists at Te Pae Kōkako - The Aotearoa New Zealand Opera Studio (TANZOS), supported by a Te Pae Kōkako Opera Grant. Find information on her singing career here.

 

Her writing has been published widely, and her nationally-bestselling poetry chapbook anomalia was published in April 2022 with Tender Press (formerly We Are Babies). As part of the inaugural Ruth and Oswald L Kraus Residency at Wai-te-Ata Press, she also produced Mythos: an audio-visual anthology of art by young New Zealanders. Her first full-length poetry collection, Mad Diva, was released in April 2025 with Otago University Press.

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Her compositions have been performed widely, and she has created many original productions,  including In Blind Faith (2022), Hector (2024), and Love Letterz (2025). She has also been a presenter on RNZ Concert.

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Cadence is also one of the founders and editors of Symposia Magazine, a new literary publication seeking to promote emerging poets. She also edits the New Zealand Poetry Society's quarterly magazine a fine line.