Upbeat

Legendary brass player Ken Smith died recently in Melbourne aged 88. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's David Bremner shares his memories. Read more Audio

Did The Royal New Zealand Ballet bring Jane Campion’s iconic film The Piano to life as a dance work? Jennifer Shennan reviews the new production that opened at New Zealand Festival. William… Read more

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra opened its 2018 season on Saturday. Tony Ryan reviews the orchestra’s 60^th anniversary concert, which featured a new work by John Young, Bruch’s Violin Concerto no… Read more Audio

The NZ Festival opened in Wellington on Friday evening. Lynn Freeman, host of RNZ National’s arts programme Standing Room Only talks about some of the highlights and disappointments of the Festival’s… Read more Audio

Was the NZ Festival opening weekend a “spectacular”? Lynn Freeman shares her thoughts & Tony Ryan review the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s 60^th anniversary season opening concert. We also explore… Read more

RNZ’s music station started to sound a little different starting on Monday. Here’s an outline of the new programmes and hosts you will hear: Read more

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra has been commissioning works by New Zealand composers for over three decades now. This relationship has meant the creation of over thirty diverse and colourful… Read more Video, Audio

For many years artists and musicians have been inspired by each other’s work. Significant periods in music history are named after equivalent movements in the visual arts, such as the Baroque, or… Read more Audio

Music has the ability to transport us, to tell stories and to expose the inner workings of the human heart. Wellington Film Society president Chris Hormann chooses music that adds to the story telling… Read more Video, Audio

We celebrate Wellington Film Society’s 2018 season launch with some cinematic story telling through music with Chris Hormann, then Love, Longing, Loss and opera at the Auckland Art Gallery. Read more

Canterbury organist Martin Setchell gives the inaugural recital on an organ that’s more than 100 years old. He explains how the instrument survived the February 22^nd earthquake even though the church… Read more Audio

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 60^th anniversary on Saturday. Violinist Natalia Lomeiko, who’s been a soloist  with the CSO since she was seventeen, will play Bruch's romantic… Read more Audio