Concert Talk

Aotango will be bringing tango music to four North Island centres during the first week of October. David Morriss talks with the quintet's violinist, Andrew Beer. Read more Video, Audio

Once described as 'a musical Bear Grylls' for his fearless performance of a virtuosic horn piece, young UK musician Ben Goldscheider is a star on the rise. He's one of the guest artists in this year’s… Read more Video, Audio

Hawkes Bay tenor Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono has just won the prestigious IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. He's back in the Bay to sing the role of Tamino in a special concert performance of… Read more Video, Audio

American-born violinist Esther Yoo talks with Bryan Crump ahead of her Napier concert with the NZSO playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Read more Video, Audio

Bryan Crump speaks to Norwegian conductor Eivind Aadland, in Aotearoa to conduct the Auckland Philharmonia and possibly to add to his collection of contemporary art. Read more Audio

To mark Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori, Bryan Crump speaks to and plays waiata with Toni Huata, Kaihautū Puoro Māori, director of Māori Music at SOUNZ. Read more Video, Audio

RNZ film critic Simon Morris assesses Hollywood's latest biopic on a dead composer. "Chevalier" is the story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of slave (and a slave owner) who… Read more Audio

Andrew Clark is a seasoned broadcaster with a life-long passion for classical music.who will be a wonderful addition to the RNZ Concert Mornings team. Read more

Bridget Douglas, NZSO Principal Flute and Chair of the Alex Lindsay Awards Trust, talks to Bryan Crump about this year's recipients of grants to further their careers as orchestral musicians. Read more Audio

Collaborators Sophie Linday and Peau Halapua talk to Bryan Crump about the incidental music they've created for Sophie's play, ÉMILIE, the story of Émilie Du Châtelet, the woman who translated the… Read more Audio

Waikato-raised, Portugal-based soprano Madison Nonoa is back home for the first time since the Covid pandemic. She's playing Cupid in Black Grace & NZ Opera's co-production of the dance-opera (m)Orphe… Read more Audio

NZTrio pianist Somi Kim takes time out to speak to Bryan Crump about her busy schedule of solo and chamber performances including Homeland, the trio's three-part concert series. Read more Audio