Concert Talk

Baritone Julien Van Mellaerts convinces Bryan Crump he can't afford to miss Orchestra Wellington's performance of Berg's opera Wozzeck, in which Van Mellaerts will be singing the title role. Read more Audio

As choral festivals go, they don't come much bigger than the World Choir Games, and Aucklander John Rosser is right in the thick of it. Read more Audio

Soprano Eliza Boom is fast establishing herself as a specialist of German repertoire based in Munich. She's back home in Aotearoa to sing some of it this month. Read more Audio

He's planning to take his big band to the USA early next year, but Creative NZ's decision to reject his funding application has left Rodger Fox with a $90,000 hole he has to fill by the end of the… Read more Video, Audio

She'd only been composing for a few years, but her big band work Dream Within A Dream was good enough to win Louisa Williamson the 2023 APRA Best Jazz Composition Award. Read more Video, Audio

Helen Tupai's Signature Choir broke new ground when the Pasifika group sang Pasifika songs arranged and performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra last year. This month, they're taking the show… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand baritone Chris Bruerton talks to Bryan Crump about the joys of being a member of one of the best known classical singing groups in the world, The King's Singers. Read more Video, Audio

Kay Eady speaks with Bryan Crump about Preludes & Feuds, the history she's written on the Lewis Eady music business. Read more Audio

Award winning Kiwi-Samoan violinist Hayden Afele-Nickel talks to Bryan Crump about getting classical music out of the museum and into the lives of all New Zealanders. Read more Audio

The brilliant English organist Anna Lapwood talks to Bryan Crump about how a chance midnight meeting with electronic artist Bonobo in London's Royal Albert Hall led to a viral TikTok video. Read more Video, Audio

Composer Ross Harris likes ambiguity. Little wonder then, that he latched onto a passing remark his wife made in French: 'Prendre ses rêves pour des réalités – let your dreams become reality'. Read more Audio

Sherry Grant can't stop. The prolific writer and musician also can't stop thinking about Katherine Mansfield, organising an online festival in the centenary year of the author's death. She's even got… Read more Audio