Based at Victoria University of Wellington, the press was established by Douglas Lilburn in 1967 as a non-profit ‘composer facility’, which was intended to produce inexpensive editions of New Zealand music for performance and study.
'[1] The first score, published in 1967, was For Seven by Jenny McLeod, and was followed shortly by works by Larry Pruden, David Farquhar, John Ritchie, Ronald Tremain and Lilburn himself.
In 2013, New Zealand School of Music lecturer Michael Norris took over the editorship of Wai-te-ata Press following Jack Body's retirement.
He began his editorship with the publication of the complete Tone Clock Pieces by Jenny McLeod, as well as establishing an online store for the press's catalogue.
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