Upbeat

Whether you have been naughty or nice this year, RNZ Concert has some lovely things for you to look forward to hearing over the festive season. Read more

Calling Home this week is Dunedin-born tenor Nicholas Madden. He's a Lay Clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and lives in the castle grounds. Read more Audio

That beautiful Christmas tune - Prokofiev's Troika - and others will be played live this weekend and next by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in their interactive family concert series APO 4 Kids… Read more Audio

With the year's end in sight, it's time to look forward to what 2023 will offer RNZ Concert listeners. Read more

RNZ Concert wants to know how you feel about some of the music we play regularly on the radio, whether you love it or hate it, what you are bored by or want to hear more of, whether it is familiar or… Read more

In March 2021, Ihitai'Avei'a – Star Navigator premiered to sell-out crowds in South Auckland, then Covid-19 closed the curtains. Composer Tim Finn and writer Célestine Hitiura Vaite talk about its… Read more Video, Audio

Sound artist and composer Jesse Austin-Stewart has created an album of music vibration compositions, designed to be felt rather than heard. By holding a PlayStation Dualsense controller, the music can… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland-based composer Victoria Kelly's latest work Requiem takes inspiration from the work of New Zealand poets and photography - drawing on the words of Bill Manhire, Sam Hunt, Chloe Honum, Ian… Read more Video, Audio

Music Director of the National Band of New Zealand, David Bremner joins the show with a wonderful mix of brass music to mark the coming Christmas season. Read more Video, Audio

The Mosgiel Brass Band celebrated their 150th Anniversary over the weekend. Front and centre was Barbara Cooper, who's been playing in brass bands for 70 years. Barbara speaks to Jesse. Read more Audio

This weeks guest on the Mixtape is choreographer and dancer Neil Leremia. Read more Audio

Georgia Steel started playing viola at the relatively ripe age of 17 and now, just 10 years later, she is a highly-sought after viola, violin and piano teacher. Read more Audio