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12:30 PM.John Eady, the fourth-generation manager of Lewis Eady, talks to Tim Dodd about the 140-year history of the Auckland music retail business. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The music of NZ-born, usually US-based composer Gemma Peacocke often has a sociopolitical focus, a lot of it focusing on the marginalisation of women. Read more Video, Audio

12:32 PM."I want the audience's jaws to hit the floor when they hear the music", says conductor Marc Taddei about Orchestra Wellington's upcoming concert Houstoun Plays Rachmaninov. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Auckland composer Claire Cowan is busy with NZSO story time videos, her first album and a queer ballet project. Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Kenneth Young is conducting the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra this weekend in their first concerts for 2020. Read more Audio

4:23 PM.Principal Bassoon Ingrid Hagan takes centre stage as soloist in Mozart's Bassoon Concerto, part of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Great Classics concert on Thursday evening. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Collaborative pianist David Barnard talks about upcoming concerts and projects. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra made its welcome return to the stage last night after a shutdown forced by the Covid-19 Virus. Read more Audio

4:00 PM.The APO's Chief Executive Office Barbara Glaser talks about the orchestra's year so far, and their first concert in front of a live audience since lockdown which is coming up on Thursday 9 July. Read more Audio

6:00 PM.Come on a mid-winter journey with The Hunter Collective and Chamber Music New Zealand that weaves together myth, music, song and storytelling. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.The Royal New Zealand Air Force Band has put up the first in a series of online videos showcasing their very talented musicians. Read more Video, Audio

1:43 PM.NZTrio perform their first post-lockdown concert this weekend, and there's a world premiere on the programme. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Organist Kemp English is braving the winter chill to take his music to aged care facilities around the North Island. Have truck, have digital organ, will travel! Read more Audio

2:00 PM."I’m not finished. I’m not done." Michael Houstoun was due to retire from live performances at the end of this year but COVID-19 changed all that.

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5:00 PM.Opera director Jacqueline Coats is back in the country after study in the UK as part of her Pettman Dare Fellowship. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra gives a free live concert: Ngū Kīoro… Harikoa Ake celebrating the achievements of the 'team of five million' over the last few months amid a global pandemic. Read more Video, Audio

3:00 PM.Matthew Marshall has just released a new album of New Zealand guitar music on the Rattle Echo label. Read more Audio

12:11 PM.New Zealand Opera is looking for new voices to imagine what opera might be in the context of modern living in Aotearoa. Read more Audio

10:30 AM.Peter Biggs has taken on the leadership of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, with a mission to unite the country through music at a time of great need in the community. 

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1:57 PM.Warwick Blair talks about life as a composer and the projects he's been working on. Read more Audio

4:30 PM.Life has been on hold for our entertainment venues for three months now. Many shut before the country went into lock down in late March over concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in large gatherings… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Gale Mahood, recently appointed Director of Artistic Planning for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, tells David Morriss what it's like to start a new job in a new country just as it's about to go… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Orchestra Wellington plays its first concert in front of a live audience since the Covid-19 lockdown. Read more Audio