Concert Talk

Her Yakama ancestry had already inspired bassonist Jacqui Wilson to record an album of music by fellow Indigenous Americans, Taika Waititi inspired her to do the same with music by Māori. Read more Video, Audio

Only 16 and already winning awards. Leilani Aaron Woodmore talks with Bryan Crump about writing the 2023 Compose Aotearoa Competition winning piece for choir which sets Te Reo Maori and Te Reo Hawai'i… Read more Video, Audio

Thirty years after she founded it, it looks like Debbie Rawson's quartet Saxcess has lived up to its name. Read more Audio

Baritone Julien Van Mellaerts convinces Bryan Crump he can't afford to miss Orchestra Wellington's performance of Berg's opera Wozzeck, in which Van Mellaerts will be singing the title role. Read more Audio

As choral festivals go, they don't come much bigger than the World Choir Games, and Aucklander John Rosser is right in the thick of it. Read more Audio

Soprano Eliza Boom is fast establishing herself as a specialist of German repertoire based in Munich. She's back home in Aotearoa to sing some of it this month. Read more Audio

He's planning to take his big band to the USA early next year, but Creative NZ's decision to reject his funding application has left Rodger Fox with a $90,000 hole he has to fill by the end of the… Read more Video, Audio

She'd only been composing for a few years, but her big band work Dream Within A Dream was good enough to win Louisa Williamson the 2023 APRA Best Jazz Composition Award. Read more Video, Audio

Helen Tupai's Signature Choir broke new ground when the Pasifika group sang Pasifika songs arranged and performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra last year. This month, they're taking the show… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand baritone Chris Bruerton talks to Bryan Crump about the joys of being a member of one of the best known classical singing groups in the world, The King's Singers. Read more Video, Audio

Kay Eady speaks with Bryan Crump about Preludes & Feuds, the history she's written on the Lewis Eady music business. Read more Audio

Award winning Kiwi-Samoan violinist Hayden Afele-Nickel talks to Bryan Crump about getting classical music out of the museum and into the lives of all New Zealanders. Read more Audio