Upbeat

New Zealand poet, musician, artist and Creative New Zealand’s Berlin Writer in Residence Hinemoana Baker invites Upbeat’s Vincent O’Donnell inside for a catch up about what the residency means for her… Read more Audio

Deborah White takes us on a journey through garden paths, galleries and grassy knolls, exploring the 2016 Artweek Auckland festival, which will present 1000 artists across 100 venues over 10 days. Read more Audio

Foremost American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers brings the most valuable antique violin in the world to New Zealand, to perform a work written especially for her by American composer Mason Bates. She… Read more Audio

Christopher Marshall’s latest work, Soul Journeys, is about to be premiered in a free Auckland Chamber Orchestra concert. It’s a guitar concerto, composed especially for Matthew Marshall, one of NZ’s… Read more Audio

Salina Fisher has been named as the winner of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award 2016 at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards held in Auckland's Vector Arena. Read more Video, Audio

Doryun Chong is in New Zealand to be part of the judging panel for contemporary art award; the Walters Prize, and was previously Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at New York’s Museum of… Read more Audio

One of the world’s most popular funk bands Tower of Power, a staple of Californian soul-funk, is about to bring their revue to Auckland.

They’ve been 48 years on the road and the ever changing band… Read more Audio

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is the famous display of military bands on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, that hundreds of thousands of people see come to see every year. In 2016 Charlotte… Read more Audio

As part of Arts Festival Dunedin The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra is performing a brand new oratorio by Anthony Ritchie called Gallipoli to the Somme, marking the centenary of the battle of the Somme… Read more Audio

NZTrio have been up to a lot recently. You might have caught their recent Chinese-inspired concerts in Wellington and Auckland with celebrated guzheng player Xia Jing: they’ve got performances at the… Read more Audio

The various strands of The University of Auckland’s School of Music are coming together to present Cloudburst, a programme that incorporates music from Duke Ellington, Eric Whitacre, Debussy, and… Read more Audio

NZ Opera’s production of Sweeney Todd which is on at the moment. The story was originally published as a penny dreadful in 1846 that morphed over the years into a play and then the Broadway show, that… Read more Audio