Upbeat

18 year old Stokes Valley pianist Liam Furey has just won the senior composition section of the 2016 Chamber Music Contest with his first Piano Trio. The work was described as being a very distinctive… Read more Audio

Norway based percussion soloist Jennifer Torrence works at the edge where theatre and music combine. She uses her body like an actor, sometimes armed with drumsticks.  Jennifer is in Wellington to… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand artist Richard Lewer, based in Melbourne, has won the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize for his work The Theatre of Sports (2016) which draws on his passion for art and sport. The 12… Read more Audio

Cello soloist Lavinnia Rae is a member of both the New Zealand School of Music  Orchestra and Wellington Youth Orchestra. Euan Murdoch the departing head of the NZSM brings together the two orchestras… Read more Audio

In the latest episode Upbeat producer Zoë George finds out about the unwritten rules of attending a blues jam session with recording artist and jam organiser Julie Lamb. Can I borrow someone else’s… Read more Audio

International cellist Daniel Yeadon joins NZ Barok in Wellington and Auckland this week for its second concert series this year. Yeadon will play Haydn’s first Cello Concerto, the work's first… Read more Audio

Peter Hoar reviews the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s semi-staged performance of Verdi's Otello,  featuring famed New Zealand tenor Simon O’Neill. The opera, which Verdi came out of retirement to… Read more Audio

Jeremy Olds is off to Columbia University in New York to complete a Master of Arts in journalism, with a focus on arts and culture. The 26 year old has already made a name for himself here, twice… Read more Audio

The New Zealand String Quartet has just returned from touring the United Kingdom and Canada. Violist Gillian Ansell explains how new addition Monique Lapins is bringing a fresh approach to the… Read more Audio

The Joffrey Ballet School is auditioning in New Zealand for the first time. The New York based academy offers training from classical through to contemporary and jazz and prepares dancers for… Read more Video, Audio

NZTrio and young British clarinet virtuoso Julian Bliss are half way through their nationwide tour for Chamber Music New Zealand. Elizabeth Kerr reviews their Wellington  concert featuring Messiaen’s… Read more Audio

Canterbury ex-pat Phil Keoghan (host of US reality television show The Amazing Race) returns to Christchurch for the world premiere of his new film documentary, Le Ride, at the New Zealand… Read more Audio