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Celebrating brass banding at the Pacific Festival of Brass
8 Jul 2024The 2024 national brass band championships begin on Wednesday. This year, the contest is widening participation to outside New Zealand and into the Pacific. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with two… Read more Audio
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Matthew Chanwai, spoilt for choice
Spoilt for choice: Hamilton based Matthew Chanwai is about to become an organ scholar at Cambridge University, but he's already principal cellist with the NZSO National Youth Orchestra. Read more Audio
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Nigel Williams: 'Flax Fingers Weave the Moonlight'
4 Jul 2024Composer and Tauranga choral conductor Nigel Williams talks to Bryan Crump about setting some of New Zealand's finest poets to music for Matariki. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: The first smells, the first sip of a new day.
3 Jul 2024Listen to the reassuring sounds of breakfast on the make. Read more Audio
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Juilliard alumnus Sylvia Jiang on the concept of 'home'
2 Jul 2024Kiwi pianist Sylvia Jiang talks with Bryan Crump ahead of her concert with the Auckland Philharmonia, and her first Chamber Music New Zealand tour. Read more Audio
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Have sound desk, will broadcast
2 Jul 2024For the first time in 27 years, RNZ Concert has a new sound desk in its Wellington studio. Bryan Crump thanks the people who made it possible. Read more Audio
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Tianyi Lu on resilience and radical compassion
1 Jul 2024New Zealand conductor Tianyi Lu is back in Aotearoa to direct the National Youth Orchestra, ahead of making her BBC Proms debut next month. Read more Audio
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Deke Sharon on finding that pitch perfect vocal
30 Jun 2024Deke Sharon, music director for the three Pitch Perfect movies, is credited with modernising contemporary a capella singing. Read more Audio
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Alina Chen: Jumping through Juilliard's hoops
27 Jun 2024Young Auckland flute player, Alina Chen, talks to Bryan Crump about the hoops she had to jump through to win a scholarship to study at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Stillness interrupted
26 Jun 2024Listen as the Auckland Express interrupts the calm on a still night near Waiouru in 1958. Read more Audio
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The Panimals: Bream Bay's genre-defying pan band
26 Jun 2024Gabriella Uphof is a Year 11 student who is part of the musical joy-machine that is The Panimals; Bream Bay College's very own steel pan band. Read more Audio
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Tony Ryan's Matariki cluster of Kiwi compositions
25 Jun 2024Tony Ryan talks to Bryan Crump about a 'constellation of New Zealand compositions' he's conducting in Christchurch this Matariki weekend with the Resonance Ensemble. Read more Audio
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