Concert Talk

The Sleeping Beauty is this year's Opera in Schools touring production. Bryan Crump speaks to performers Ridge Ponini and Alexandra Francis about Cook Islands opera and the role reversal used in this… Read more Audio

Bryan Crump speaks to Matthew Ross Read more Audio

The 55th National Concerto Competition took place over the weekend, featuring three of New Zealand's top young pianists. The winner of the career-launching $10,000 first prize was Yuzhang Wu, a year… Read more Audio

Bryan Crump speaks with pianist and National Concerto Competition 2023 finalist Yuzhang Wu. Read more Audio

NZSO Principal Harp Carolyn Mills has a new album out on the Atoll label. An Enchanted Land is a selection of traditional Celtic melodies for solo harp, with several she's arranged herself. Read more Audio

The New Zealand Music Trust aims to connect people and cultures through music and the arts. Two of the Trust's founding members talk about the latest project: four volumes of New Zealand and Chinese… Read more Audio

Central Christchurch will reverberate to the skirl of Highland pipes as the city hosts this year's NZ & South Pacific Pipe Band Championships. Read more Audio

Eight composers, eight performers, nine new works. Auckland Arts Festival concert Force of Nature brings nature alive through the language of music. Read more Audio

Usually at the heart of the harmony in the NZSO's string section, Associate Principal viola Alexander McFarlane will take centre stage in the orchestra's upcoming Brandenburg tour, performing… Read more Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's conductor Giordano Bellincampi takes a moment to talk to the audience in the middle of a performance of Beethoven's 8th Symphony after some started clapping at… Read more Audio

Come on a journey with Auckland Choir Viva Voce as they perform Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles around the country. Read more Audio

Giordano Bellincampi, Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, is looking forward to conducting the final concert in the orchestra's Beethoven symphony cycle. Read more Audio