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1:00 PM.Klezmer band The Kugels get ready for their New Zealand tour. Read more Audio

11:05 AM.The Aotea Centre is renaming its ASB theatre after our most famous opera singer and first-ever Grammy award winner, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.  Read more Audio

5:51 AM.When an Australian musician recorded his fart on his phone he had no idea it would become an educational talking point for music students all around the world. His 7-tone fart was so unique, he turned… Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.The Lazarus String Quartet is about to embark on a tour of New Zealand. Read more Video, Audio

6:55 PM.Scottish accordionist James Crabb is a world authority on Piazzolla's tango music, a lover of folk music and a champion of new music for the accordion. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.NZSO's latest Shed Series concert 'Sinfonietta' proves to be the most intellectually challenging of the series for reviewer Hadyn Green but a winner thanks to Conductor Hamish McKeich's thorough… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Reimagined concert lived up to its title for reviewer Peter Hoar, with music from ancient China to the 1990s delivered in effortless style. Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Jennifer Stumm is a viola virtuoso with a career to prove it. She's also committed to breaking down barriers to classical music. Jennifer runs a Latin American festival which gives young… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.APO soloist and Pip virtuoso Wu Man talks about and plays her instrument which dates back more than 2,000 years. She's been its biggest advocate for several decades, helping the pipa find a place in… Read more Audio

2:36 PM.Wellington string quartet Sixteen Strings has won the NZCT annual chamber music contest Grand Final held in Auckland over the weekend. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Dunedin singers soprano Clare Barton and tenor James Adams talk about the fun of performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s satiric opera The Mikado.  Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Mark Carter is well-known as sub-principal trumpet in the NZSO, and now he’s also Music Director of the Wellington Youth Orchestra. He talks about his plans for developing the young players.  Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Marc Taddei, Music Director of Orchestra Wellington, discusses the August 2nd concert 'Pictures at an Exhibition' which blends the musical and visual arts together and includes the live creation of a… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.New Zealand mezzo soprano Bianca Andrew is back home this winter to sing with Stroma New Music Ensemble and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. She talks about her new position as a member of the… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.Barry Vercoe is a New-Zealand-born composer you may not have heard of – at least as far as composing goes. But in the field of computer audio, he’s something of a legendary figure. Read more Audio

7:00 PM.A conversation with the late pianist Georgina Zellan-Smith covering her early life in South Otago, and her successful performing career in London in the 1960s and 70s where she rubbed shoulders with… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra has an innovative community engagement programme, including working in schools, partnering with dance companies, and much more. CSO's Cathy Irons and Gretchen La… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.The Jerusalem Quartet give New Zealand String Quartet violist Gillian Ansell a glimpse into their genesis as an ensemble meeting as teenagers in Israel soon after emigrating from the Soviet Union.  

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7:12 PM.This weekend the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra highlights the talents of two of the city's finest musicians - Violinist Tessa Petersen and 'cellist Heleen du Plessis. Read more Audio

7:00 PM.John Drummond looks at famous pieces of piano music as windows into the world in which they were created. A composer cannot help but reflect the world he lives in, his understanding of life, his… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.New Zealand-born Robin Wilson has become one of the most sought-after violin teachers in the Southern Hemisphere. Last year his 10-year-old pupil Christian Li won the Junior division of the… Read more Video, Audio

2:47 PM.Between them, the NZSO National Youth Orchestra and the New Zealand Youth Choir have clocked up 100 years of making music and training future professional musicians and singers. So they're heading out… Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Classical and modern guitarist Gunter Herbig was born in Brazil, grew up in Portugal and Germany, and moved to New Zealand in 1989. A teacher, he was Head of Classical Guitar and Chamber Music at the… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Simon O'Neill is one of the greatest Wagner tenors of our time, singing with the world's most eminent conductors and orchestras. Ahead of a tour with baritone Iain Patterson and pianist Terence… Read more Audio