Concert Talk

NZ viola player Sophia Acheson is heading off to the International Viola Congress in Brazil next month, where she'll be performing works for viola and taonga pūoro with Ariana Tikao. Read more Audio

Tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain is coming to New Zealand at the end of June as part of the Triveni concert tour. He talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss. Read more Video, Audio

Congratulations to arts administrator Warner Haldane, whose work behind the scenes in New Zealand arts and music organistations has been recognised in this year's King's Birthday Honours. Read more Audio

In tune with the NZSO. Read more Audio

“I just revere this work, and the poem, and Elgar. I’m so lucky to be doing it!” Hamilton-based singer Kristin Darragh will be performing the role of The Angel in Edward Elgar's epic work, The Dream… Read more Video, Audio

The cello section gets to shine at the Auckland Youth Orchestra's upcoming concert, which includes a performance of 'Symphony for Eight' by Philip Glass. Young musicians Damon Herlihy-O'Brien and… Read more Video, Audio

Winner of this year's Nicholas Tarling Aria Competition, Sarah Mileham will be performing in Manukau Symphony Orchestra's next concert as part of her prize. Read more Audio

What if 19th-century composer Hector Berlioz met 21st-century Chinese New Zealander Hector Wong? Poet, composer and playwright Cadence Chung has written a new play, Hector, which imagines just that… Read more Audio

Ryan Smith talks with Bryan Crump about the contribution of composer John Charles to New Zealand film music. Charles died in early May at the age of 83, and is particularly remembered for his… Read more Video, Audio

A film that’s screening in the Doc Edge Festival this year is exploring the intriguing possibility that Maria-Anna Mozart, sister of Wolfgang, may have had a larger part in her brother’s composing… Read more Video, Audio

Dr Patrick Savage, Science Officer for The Global Jukebox project, talks with Bryan Crump about the free, interactive online database of coded songs from more than a thousand cultures around the… Read more Audio

Rachel Leach - composer, music educator and animateur - is in New Zealand to present a series of children's concerts with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Read more Video, Audio