Upbeat

New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall on her recent win at the 64th Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition Overseas Award. Audio

Acoustic blues and roots Melbourne guitarist Nick Charles is in Wellington for the New Zealand launch of his new album The River Flows which has already received high praise in Australia. The finger… Read more Audio

Stepping into the spotlight are Hannah Smith and Ralph McCubbin Howell the brains behind the theatre company Trick of the Light. The company are presenting the show Beards! Beards! Beards! at Bats… Read more Audio

Edo de Waart opens his tenure as Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, with Swedish mezzo soprano Charlotte Hellekant and a host of singers. Peter Hoar reviews the epic 100 minute… Read more Audio

This Saturday is the world premiere of Erebus, a musical memorial of the 1979 civil aviation disaster. Composed by David Hamilton, Erebus takes the audience through the excitement as the passengers… Read more Audio

Musical theatre educator Cindy Ripley tells us about the super food that singing in musicals can be for young minds. She tells Zoe George, also a musical theatre devotee, that music and singing are… Read more Audio

On Sunday virtuoso organist Christopher Herrick gives his first concert on the organ he rescued from abandonment. The former Westminster Abbey organist wrote the report that convinced Auckland City… Read more Audio

New Zealand born cellist Dr Rebecca Turner is home at the moment to perform the work Hearing Voices. The piece combines solo cello and electrically modified cello; Rebecca will talk about this new… Read more Audio

Swedish born mezzo-soprano Charlotte Hellekant is in New Zealand to perform Mahler 3 with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edo de Waart. She tells Eva about how she wants to make the… Read more Audio