Upbeat for Thursday 6 October 2016

2:10 PM.Super-star pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is in New Zealand to conduct the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Read more

1:40 PM.New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s new associate principal bassoonist Vicky Crowell has played around the world, including on the West End. But earlier this year she made the move to NZ, far from home… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Well known Wellington musician and Director of Music at St Mary of the Angels, Robert Oliver, gives an insight into playing the stringed Renaissance/Baroque instrument the viol. His group, the… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Vladimir Ashkenazy, arguably one of the best pianists of our time, nearly didn’t make it to the conducting podium, as he tells RNZ Concert in his only New Zealand interview. Read more Video, Audio