Music Alive

Toiere unites beloved operatic arias, duets and ensembles in their original languages and te reo Māori, celebrating voice, language and identity while honouring Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich cultural… Read more Video, Audio

Six impressive young soloists perform music by classical heavyweights Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, and Richard Strauss, accompanied by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. (VIDEO) Read more

The top twenty-four secondary school choirs, selected from over 200 across the motu, perform at The Big Sing Finale. You can listen, and see videos, here:  Read more Video, Audio

Multi-Grammy Award winner Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the NZSO in two post-war American works, Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No 2, The Age of Anxiety with pianist Joyce Yang, and Aaron Copland’s… Read more Audio

Chamber music trio Les Voisins celebrate French culture through music in this eclectic concert. Read more Audio

James Judd conducts the NZSO in an uplifting programme that invites us to question the range of emotions lurking beneath the music’s smiling surface.

Recorded 30 May 2024 at the Michael Fowler… Read more Audio

André de Ridder conducts the NZSO in two of Beethoven’s most dramatic works written around the same time, both in C minor - his trailblazing Fifth Symphony and the Coriolan Overture. In between you… Read more Audio