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Ensemble Zefiro. Recorded in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Read more Audio

Ensemble Zefiro. Recorded in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Read more Audio

From Eve de Castro-Robinson's A Zig-Zagged Gaze - a kind of Pictures at an Exhibition - this short piano piece is inspired by an artwork by Jim Speers. Performed as an encore by Henry Wong Doe at an… Read more Audio

Wellington jazz pianist Anita Schwabe and her quartet impress with swinging sounds from her album, Eat Your Greens. Read more Audio

Brass Poppies is a chamber opera from the productive partnership between composer Ross Harris and librettist Vincent O'Sullivan. It focuses on the disastrous Gallipoli campaign and the fate of the… Read more Video, Audio

The NZCT Chamber Music Contest is the longest running youth music competition in New Zealand and is the only nationwide chamber music competition for young secondary school musicians and composers in… Read more

The Phoenix Foundation performs songs in orchestral arrangements by NZ composers Claire Cowan, Chris Gendall, Gareth Farr & Hamish Oliver. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

Composer Gareth Farr and librettist Renee Liang provide Tim Dodd with background to their opera, premiered at the Auckland Arts Festival, March 2017. Read more Audio

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Malvina Major, and Song Quest Head Judge Lisa Gasteen present the awards at the end of the evening. And the winner, Joel Amosa performs his encore (Verdi) with the NZSO… Read more Audio, Gallery

Head Judge of the Lexus Song Quest for 2018, Lisa Gasteen talks with Clarissa Dunn about her own career, her experience of competitions and what she is looking for in the Lexus contestants. Audio

The five finalists - Eliza Boom, Filipe Manu, Joe Haddow, Manase Latu, and Joel Amosa - each sing two arias of their choice accompanied by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stephen… Read more Audio, Gallery

Performed by cellist Andrew Joyce Read more Audio