Upbeat

NZ pianist Henry Wong Doe talks about playing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2. with the APO tonight. Read more Audio

We feature piano from a classical and jazz perspective: NZ pianist Henry Wong Doe plays Rachmaninov with the APO and American jazz pianist Shelly Berg is soloist for the NZSM Orchestra and Big Band.  

Julia Waite, co-curator of Gordon Walters: New Vision, a major retrospective of art by one of New Zealand’s foremost modern artists at Auckland Art Gallery, plays five pieces of music to illustrate… Read more Audio, Gallery

Here at RNZ Concert’s Daybreak, we love reading (sometimes even staying up far too late to do it), so we decided to tap into the vast amount of literature about music and musicians to create the… Read more

Julia Waite has an overview of the sixty year career of contemporary artist Gordon Walters and it’s International Cat Day so our ballet feature by Jean Françaix is “The Ladies of the Night”, subtitled… Read more

Upbeat begins a series of Tuesday Proms matinee broadcasts starting today with BBC New Generation Artists the Calidore String Quartet and pianist Javier Perianes.

And we have the second part of our… Read more

Violinist, teacher and former NZSO Concertmaster Wilma Smith led the judging panel for the 2018 NZCT Chamber Music Contest National Final this year along with Klara Kollektiv (clarinettist Anna… Read more Audio

Te Ahi Kaa, a string quartet from Whangarei have claimed the top prize, The Wallace Foundation Platinum Award at the NZCT Chamber Music Contest 2018 National Final held last night at The Piano in… Read more Audio

The 2018 BBC Proms arrive today on RNZ Concert: we preview what’s in store for RNZ Concert listeners. We feature the winners of the NZCT Chamber Music Contest Te Ahi Kaa from Northland and speak with… Read more

Violinist Manu Berkeljon and clarinet player Anna McGregor are Kiwi components of Swedish based chamber music trio Klara Kollektiv. The ensemble formed in 2017 and is coming to the end of a regional… Read more Audio

New Zealand clarinetist Anna McGregor and fellow Kiwi violinist Manu Berkeljon from the Swedish based Klara Kollectiv discuss their tour and judging the NZCT Chamber Music Contest this weekend. And we… Read more

US based Kiwi violist Tim Deighton brings his talent home to perform the world premiere of Anthony Ritchie’s Viola Concerto No 2 with Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. He discusses his award winning… Read more Audio