[4] NZSO principals have included Vesa-Matti Leppänen (violin), Bridget Douglas (flute),[5] and Ed Allen MNZM (horn).
[8] Its first concert, Wind, Rain & Light featured the music of Toru Takemitsu, James Gardner, Philip Brownlee, György Ligeti, Kaija Saariaho, Paul Booth, Michael Norris and Jenny McLeod.
[9][10] While Stroma's programmes are primarily focused on domestic composers and performers, it has also worked with international musicians (some of whom are New Zealanders) as Roberto Fabbriciani, Nicholas Isherwood, Richard Nunns, Madeleine Pierard (performing Pierrot Lunaire in 2012),[11][12] Lars Mlekusch, the Duo Stump-Linshalm, Simon Docking, Adam Page, Richard Haynes, Warren Maxwell and Pedro Carneiro.
In 2015, Stroma gave a tribute concert Nine Echoes to New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn on his 100th birthday at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Wellington.
[13] In 2016, ten of their players accompanied the opera Brass Poppies, produced by Ross Harris and Vincent O'Sullivan and set in Wellington at a time when soldiers were leaving for Gallipoli.