Concert Talk

“It’s such an emotional piece, it has such a huge range of feelings and experiences.“ Geneva Lewis is soloist in the APO's 2023 Season opener, playing Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto. Read more Video, Audio

For the first time since 2021 the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band is going on tour, with performances scheduled for venues across the North Island. Host of the concerts, Corporal Hannah Darroch… Read more Audio

We catch up with harpist Helen Webby from Nikau Harp Trio, currently performing around Aotearoa for Arts on Tour. Read more Audio

One of the highlights of this year's Hamilton Arts Festival is a performance of Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. Music Director Maria Colvin tells us how preparations are going. Read more Audio

'One day milkmen will whistle my tunes when they're delivering the milk like they do Puccini today.' Dave Armstrong's new play features Austrian exile, composer, numerologist and self-confessed… Read more Audio

It was seeing Harpo Marx on TV when she was six, "playing this most beautiful instrument and having fun", that lured Amanda Whiting in to the mystical land of harps. Read more Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Director of Connecting, Tom Hamill, explains why it's important for the orchestra to get out into its community. 

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Bryan Crump finds out what's involved in making a harp. Read more Audio

Love the harp? Check out Harp Fest NZ this Waitangi Weekend in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. Read more Audio

Hātea Kapa Haka is one of the many groups taking part in the prestigious Māori performing arts festival this February. Bryan Crump caught up with the group’s choral master arranger, David Tapene. Read more Audio

"Childhood is a party", says composer, song writer and children's entertainer Chris Lam Sam. He tells Bryan why it's important for children to have songs written just for them. Read more Audio