Upbeat

Music by Antonio Vivaldi features in the latest production by Tim Bray Theatre Company, which is celebrating 30 years of professional children's theatre in Auckland. Read more Audio

Upbeat catches up with Composers' Association of New Zealand president Antonia Barnett-McIntosh to find out how this year's Nelson Composer Workshop is going. Read more Audio

Upbeat catches up with pianist Liam Wooding, who is touring a solo recital for Chamber Music New Zealand. Read more Audio

Upbeat talks with NYO musicians Mana Waiariki and Lauren Jack about the 2021 programme which includes a performance of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony alongside NZSO players. Read more Audio

Taking control of her own career, freelance French horn player Anita Austin has developed several concert options that she's taking around New Zealand's rest homes and retirement villages. Read more Audio

Anne Rodda, Executive Director of the Hill Family Foundation for Art and Music, talks about a special music competition for young New Zealand musicians coming up in September this year. Read more Audio

Upbeat talks with taonga puoro composer and practitioner Horomona Horo about this weekend's premiere in Hamilton of a new concerto for taonga puoro and orchestra. Read more Audio

Dr Tessa Romano, Head of Voice at Otago University, is performing Aaron Copland's settings of poems by Emily Dickinson this weekend with the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio

Pianist Henry Wong Doe is back in New Zealand to perform with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio

Congratulations to young pianist Lixin Zhang, who has been awarded Silver Medal in the prestigious Bachauer International Young Artist Piano Competition. Read more Audio

Find out how the recently formed Three Lakes Cultural Trust is encouraging and enabling the arts in the Queenstown Lakes District. Read more Audio