Upbeat

Peter Mechen reviews Orchestra Wellington's season opening "Odes to Joy" concert on Saturday. Read more Audio

Veteren NZ performer celebrating her stellar career by touring with her current group The Lady Killers Audio

Adjudicator of The Big Sing's Northern regional festival on the selection process for choirs who will go through to the National Final in Dunedin in August. Audio

Wellington Jazz Festival is a mecca for local players to get together for dozens of free events. Bass player Nick Tipping has multiple gigs including recreating two classic albums Charles Mingus' 1959… Read more Audio

Violinist Natalia Lomeiko flies in to play as part of the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary this weekend. She talks about juggling the demands of chamber music, her concert master position… Read more Audio

Australian singers Henry Choo and Warwick Fyfe talk about the joy of finally standing up to sing in 'Odes to Joy' with Orchestra Wellington tomorrow after sitting through forty minutes of Beethoven's… Read more Audio

This weekend Auckland Choral will take the audience on a journey through English folk music from the 1500s until the 1980s. Musical Director Uwe Grodd will also play a favourite tune on his flute and… Read more Audio

The Wellington Jazz Festival opened last night to a full Opera House with headline act 82 year old American saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter. Norman Meehan explains whether the legendary… Read more Audio

It's been six months since Jess Hindin took the lead at Sistema Aotearoa as the musical director overseeing musical education and social development of the young South Auckland players. The talented… Read more Audio

NZTrio's Loft series has been so popular the group is extending the series with new commissions and collaborations. Each concert touches on a different theme. Violinist Justine Cormack and composer… Read more Audio

Have you ever considered what your brain does when you interact with music? Can music help us recover from illness? Professor Warren Tate from the University of Otago is a geneticist with an interest… Read more Audio

Feature film director Lee Tamahori, famed for James Bond and Once Were Warriors, has been using his long form knowledge to judge the short form, for the New Zealand International Film Festival's Short… Read more Audio