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1:30 PM.Trevor Reekie talks to Uk Jazz musician Emma Jean Thakray. Read more Video, Audio

7:12 PM.We talk to wine critic and multisensory researcher Dr Jo Burzynska about her event at Christchurch's WORD Festival called Words/Wine/Sound about the fascinating relationship between the wine, sound… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Jacob Collier is an English musician, whose music incorporates a combination of jazz with elements from many other musical genres, and often features extensive use of re-harmonisations and close… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.New Zealand's famous opera singers are performing together before they head overseas for international stages. It's called the Auckland Opera Studio Annual Gala - and it's on this Sunday at the… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.No matter how famous they become overseas, our opera singers are often keen to come home to perform. Munich- based Eliza Boom is no exception. Eliza's in the lineup of in-demand young operatic talent… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.Considered one of the world's great violinists, American Hilary Hahn is a three-time Grammy Award winner passionate about making classical music more accessible. Read more Video, Audio

10:05 AM.A thoroughly modern Cinderella centred around a quest for identity, true love and the courage to be yourself is being staged by the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company. Cinderella is the company's first… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.You can't be an opera singer unless you have an impressive pair of lungs - and know how to use them.

But Auckland-born soprano Christina Orjis had to get professional help to learn how to breathe… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.For today's Music Feature we're exploring the Art of Broadway Orchestration with Auckland University musicologist Gregory Camp. Read more Audio

11:30 AM.A young Porirua violist has been selected to study at an Ivy League university in the US. Former Tawa College student Jess Jenkins has been accepted at Harvard, from over ten thousand applications… Read more Audio

8:05 PM.Giordano Bellincampi talks to Tim Dodd about Verdi's opera 'Il Trovatore' and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's semi-staging of the opera in the Auckland Town Hall. Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Lexus Song Quest 2022 Grand Final Read more Video, Audio

5:00 PM.The Lexus Song Quest 2022 judge talks with Clarissa Dunn about his singing career following his first prize win in the 1991 contest, and how a comment from the judge has stayed with him and held true… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.The South Island Organ Company has been keeping the unique craft of organ building and restoration alive for 55 years and is still going strong. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Three of New Zealand's national choirs are about to join forces for the first time in 20 years for a very special performance of Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana'. Read more Audio

5:35 PM.New Zealand bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes talks with Clarissa Dunn about what he’ll be looking for as the adjudicator of this year’s Lexus Song Quest. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.We speak to Robert Johnson from The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra about their Notes Fund and his work at the APO as a librarian. Read more Audio

12:27 PM.Integrating the style and colour of traditional Māori music with the vast range of an orchestra is the goal of award winning composer and sonic artist, David Mason, this year's National Youth… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.After a four year hiatus, the much anticipated Lexus Song Quest will showcase some of Aotearoa's best young vocal talent. Clarissa Dunn from RNZ Concert, who will be hosting this year's semis and… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.It is the king of instruments. Nothing is louder, bigger or more complicated than the pipe organ. And one of the most accomplished players in the world is Kiwi Thomas Gaynor from Wellington.  Read more Audio

12:36 PM.We look at repairing wind instruments - which include flutes, clarinets, oboes and bassoons. Wood instruments can swell when they get damp so the rainy winter months are particularly hard on them… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.A blend of Pacific and Mediterranean of ancient and right now, is promised in a new dance film series shot by Daniel Belton and scored by Dame Gillian Whitehead. Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Off the back of his band The Jac taking out the 2021 Tui for Best Jazz Artist, Wellington-based alto saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale is about to reveal a new suite of compositions based on the… Read more Audio

5:00 AM.From Vancouver to Auckland: violinist Andrew Beer prepares to debut a major new work in his adopted home. Read more Audio