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12:30 PM.The NZSO celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2022. Upbeat talks with Chief Executive Peter Biggs about what's in store for audiences next year. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.For this year's Halloween recital on the world's largest pipe organ in Atlantic City, New Jersey, there was a Kiwi musician at the manuals. Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Congratulations to soprano Madeleine Pierard, who has been named the inaugural Dame Malvina Major Chair in Opera at the University of Waikato. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Wellington choir The Tudor Consort is marking the 500th anniversary of the deaths of two great Renaissance musical masters - Josquin Des Prez and Robert Fayrfax - in a concert on Saturday evening. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Young Taranaki pianist Mercy Jones has come up with a great way to bring people enjoyment while getting valuable experience performing in public. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Cups of tea and glasses of wine between friends began the process of putting together New Zealand composer Dorothy Buchanan's memoir.  Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Upbeat catches up with Project Prima Volta founder, Anna Pierard, to find out what's been happening recently for the Hawke's Bay youth project. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Director of Artistic Planning, Gale Mahood, talks with Nick Tipping about what's on offer in the freshly launched 2022 Season. Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM."It's collaborative, it's the thrill of putting something together with other people... it's like a giant puzzle that's very satisfying to solve".  Violinist Wilma Smith tells Upbeat why she loves… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Composer Penny Axtens talks to Upbeat about life in Berlin as a marketing executive for Sony Classical, working with the likes of tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Igor Levit. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Upbeat catches up with New York-based NZ soprano Emily Mwila who is busy rehearsing for the Metropolitan Opera's production of Porgy and Bess. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Upbeat chats with Dr Te Oti Rakena, the newest member of the NZ Opera Board. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Our musical eyes and ears in Christchurch, Tony Ryan, takes a look at what Christopher's Classics has lined up for chamber music lovers next year. Read more Audio

12:10 PM."A wonderful colleague to work with, both on and off the stage." Opera singer Richard Greager shares some memories of his friend and colleague, baritone Barry Mora, who died earlier this week. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Christchurch is set to reverberate to the sound of big band music this coming Labour Weekend with the 15^th annual Christchurch Big Band Festival. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Kiwi conductor Ben Le Heux is back in the country after a decade working in Europe. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Wellington violinist Peter Gjelsten has a busy few days ahead, as soloist in two performances of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Upbeat talks with Benjamin Northey, Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, about the musical treats in store for audiences in 2022. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.We have a choral catch-up with NZCF's Chief Executive, Christine Argyle. Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Welcome to AWE Festival 2021 - a new stage for chamber music in the Southern Alps. Upbeat talks with Festival directors Justine Cormack and Benjamin Baker. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.We're celebrating the 100^th anniversary of the birth of New Zealand composer and educator Professor John Ritchie on 29 September 1921. Upbeat talks with John’s son, Anthony, and biographer Philip… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.“There should be no barriers to music”, says composer and multi-instrumentalist Dave Flynn. He talks with Upbeat about how he goes about eliminating them.  Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Nancy Howie, a piano tuner by profession and songwriter by inclination, found novel ways to complete her recording projects during lockdown - she made her own musical instruments. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Stroma is turning 20. Upbeat talks to composer Michael Norris and flutist Bridget Douglas about celebrating two decades of bold new sounds. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Melanie Lançon and Bede Hanley, principal musicians in Auckland's Philharmonia have come from halfway around the world to make Aotearoa their home. They have joined forces with pianist Stephen De… Read more Audio