Upbeat

Peter Hoar reviews Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's performance with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Did the famous maestro live up to expectations? The programme was Einojuhani Rautavaara's Isle of… Read more Audio

Bach Musica is doubling in size to perform Verdi’s Requiem in Hamilton and Auckland this weekend. Often referred to as “an opera, in church clothing” the work has such dramatic intensity that soloists… Read more Audio

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

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

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

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

Andy Reiss quit his day job to follow his love of musical theatre to perform in the first show of Les Miserables outside of London. That was 20 years ago and since then the famed musical has inspired… Read more Audio

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra turns 70 in 2017. Chief Executive Chris Blake and Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen discuss how the orchestra will celebrate this milestone.   Read more Audio

There are some rather big names in the New Zealand Opera’s season of Sweeney Todd – Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Antoinette Halloran and Helen Medlyn to name a few. But young talent Joel Granger as Tobias shows… Read more Audio

Former New Zealand Symphony Orchestra violinist Angela Lindsay pays tribute to her old friend the well known conductor Sir Neville Marriner, who died earlier this week, aged 92.

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A couple of years ago Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer Joseph Skelton was hit by a bus and it was thought he’d never walk without a limp again. But now he is leaping across the ditch to perform in… Read more Audio

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor Benjamin Northey looks ahead to the classical, creative and curious pieces the CSO will perform in 2017. From Romeo and Juliet and Beethoven, to David… Read more Audio