Upbeat

“If we serve up the same old cat food, then no one gets to taste anything different,” says New Zealand Opera’s General Director Thomas de Mallet Burgess, who announced the 2020 season today. Read more Audio

Yo-Yo Ma performs with New Zealand artists in an extraordinary event on the banks of the Ōtākaro/Avon River in Christchurch to celebrate the way water connects us. Read more Video, Audio

Music will tell the story of the 733 Polish children and their caregivers who sought refuge in Pahiatua during the Second World War. Read more Audio

A brief and soulful glimpse into another human life, helping us to hear their favorite music - and each other - differently. Read more

Right now students around the country are studying for exams. We've chosen some music to calm the nerves, focus the mind and motivate the unmotivated! Read more Video

"The joy of performing is listening," says violinist Jennifer Koh, in New Zealand to play Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio

The Auckland Arts Festival has named its line-up for 2020. It brings together the weird, the wonderful, the musical and the “mad”. Read more Audio

A Spanish nobleman attacking a windmill; birdsong; drunken soldiers singing folk songs - just some of the musical depictions in NZ Barok's final concert of 2019. Read more Audio

The Royal New Zealand Ballet, for the first time, has commissioned a female composer to write a full length ballet. For composer Claire Cowan it's a fairy tale composition. Read more Audio

Unity is at the core of a performance marking Kristallnacht in Wellington this week. Read more Audio

Part mixtape, part love-letter. Real people tell us a story about the classical track that means the most to them. Read more

Natural trumpets will tingle the senses at this weekend’s Queen’s Closet concert “All The Pleasures” in Wellington. Read more Audio