Classical

There Are No More Four Seasons! That’s the name of a visionary Swedish duo touring New Zealand. Mattias Petersson and George Kentros make amazing music while recomposing the classics.

There Are No… Audio

Klezmer band The Kugels are composer and virtuoso accordion player Ross Harris, leader of Saxcess Debbie Rawson, fiddler and former NZSOer Robin Perkins, and bass player Jaqueline Norden. They all… Audio

Prolific and highly regarded and awarded New Zealand-born pianist Mike Nock is about to return to New Zealand. The Mike Nock Trio and NZ Trio work have developed, Vicissitudes which they premiered at… Audio, Gallery

2016’s Arts Festival Dunedin includes a broad range of musical performances, from Eastern European cabaret to the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra.

Sitting somewhere between are performances featuring… Audio

Tauranga’s first youth orchestra in over 20 years is gearing up into existence. Bay of Plenty Symphonia musical director Justus Rozemond is also about to direct Youth Philharmonic Tauranga. The… Audio

Hitting the Highs Audio

The name Frank Zappa doesn’t often associate with classical music, however US based conductor Eckart Preu has been handed the baton to lead the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s Appalachian to Zappa … Audio

US trumpet virtuoso Allen Vizzutti is here for a nationwide tour. As famous for his compositions as his technique, equally at home in classical and jazz work, Allen will have a starring role with the… Video, Audio

Competition winner Lixin Zhang plays the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.3 in C Op.2, Chopin's Ballade No.1 in G Minor Op.23 and Bartok's Allegro Barbaro at the 2016 Wallace National… Audio

Marianna Kang plays Debussy's Jardin sous la pluie and movements 1 and 4 of Samuel Barber's Excursions at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music… Audio

Marianna Kang plays Haydn's Piano Sonata in C Sharp Minor Hob 16:36 and The Lark by Mikhail Glinka (transcribed by Balakirev) at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of… Audio

Emilly Fan plays Prelude No.8 'Un reflet dans le vent' at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Emilly Fan plays movement one of Beethoven's Sonata No.7 in D, Op.10 No.3 and Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor Op.27 No.1 at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of… Audio

Sean Yang plays Prelude in B Flat Op.23 No.2 by Rachmaninov and the third movement of Ravel's Sonatine at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music… Audio

Christina Xiao plays Partita No.5 in G Praeambulum and Allemande by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Tone Clock Piece No.1 by Jenny McLeod at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the… Audio

Conroy Hu plays Gyorgy Ligeti's Musica Ricerata - Allegro con spirit and Franz Liszt's La Campanella at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music Theatre.

Stephen Layton, Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, returns to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with a typically ingenious programme, putting music of today in the context of music of… Audio

Tudor Consort’s former Music Director Alastair Carey directs a concert which puts together four remarkable choral works all with the concept of "lux perpetua",  or eternal light at their heart. Audio