Concert Talk

Pianist Tony Chen Lin is performing Schumann's Piano Quintet in Eb with the Sonoro Quartet around the country for Chamber Music New Zealand. Read more Audio

The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra has two concerts coming up this weekend, part of the city's Puaka Matariki Festival. Included in the programme is 'Manaaki', a composition by Phil Brownlee and Ariana… Read more Video, Audio

Kalino Pongi is Music Director of the Maamaloa Brass Band, a Tongan community band based in Auckland. He talks with Bryan Crump. Read more Audio

Jonathan Griffith tells Bryan Crump why 'The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace' is so special. The US-based conductor is in New Zealand to lead two free performances of Karl Jenkins' popular choral work. Read more Audio

Tabla player Manjit Singh shares his love of music through his job: he runs the Rhythm School of Indian Music in Auckland and teaches a course on the Indian Classical tradition at the University’s… Read more Audio

The American-born conductor, pianist, vocal coach and new New Zealand music supporter Dobbs Franks (1933-2023) has died aged 90. In this 2000 interview Christine Argyle asks him about his life's work.

Bryan Crump finds some furry fans of RNZ Concert at Wellington's SPCA animal shelter. Read more Video, Audio

Tom Davoren, one of the Chief Adjudicators for this year's New Zealand Brass Band Championships, still gets goosebumps when the sound of a brass band is 'just right' , even after more than 20 years of… Read more Audio

Released earlier this year, Janet Jennings' album The Earth Child includes settings of specially chosen poems to mark the centenary of Katherine Mansfield's death. Read more Audio

The New Zealand Doctors' Orchestra is preparing for their next concert, which is in New Plymouth this year. Trumpet player Dr Tom Wilkinson is one of the organisers. Read more Audio

Juanita Hepi is Creative Director for Christchurch Symphony Orchestra's Matariki Around the World concerts. Read more Audio

Polly Sussex and friends have put together a programme of music and readings to mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley publishing her novel Frankenstein under her own name. Read more Audio