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1:00 PM.Eva Radich talks with visiting Romanian violinist Ioana Cristina Goicea and pianist Andrey Gugnin. Goicea was the winner of the 2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition. She’s back in New… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Multi-talented  American pianist Awadagin Pratt is in New Zealand to serve on the judging panel for the Kerikeri International Piano Competition. Read more Video, Audio

8:00 PM.Neil Finn is joined by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to play his album "Out Of Silence" in its entirety plus some of his older hits at the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival. Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Dugal McKinnon, Deputy Director; Composition and Sonic Arts at the NZSM, talks about his new festival which showcases ground breaking musical performance from some of the world's leading sonic arts… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Composer Victoria Kelly talks about female representation in the music industry 125 years since female suffrage in Aotearoa, New Zealand.   Read more Audio

12:00 AM.The Big Sing 2018 results from the Gala Concert at the Michael Fowler Centre on Saturday. Read more

1:00 PM.Festival Artistic Directors Nicholas McBryde and Charlie Unwin discuss the importance of the Dunedin and Nelson Arts festivals to their communities. We find how much emphasis they put on collaboration… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Today on Upbeat: Lover or #metoo predator? Don Giovanni, women representation in ballet choreography with visiting choreographer Andrea Schermoly and Stravinsky conducts his own ballet score. Read more

1:00 PM.Listeners have two more weeks to prove themselves great lullaby music writers. To help you along here at Upbeat we feature a few different lullabies, from Brahms to Tiki Taane. Read more

1:30 PM.Multi-genre Latin music group Latinaotearoa have just finished a raucous tour of Australia and New Zealand in the wake of their recently released album of reinterpretations of South American songs… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.We speak with Grammy Award winning violinist Augustin Hadelich who is mid tour with the NZSO and Music Director Edo de Waart presenting de Waart’s third Masterworks concert for 2018.  The young German… Read more Audio

12:34 PM.All over the country programmes are gathering momentum celebrating the 125^th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The Royal New Zealand Ballet are among the producers: Strength and Grace performed on 17… Read more Audio

10:59 AM.Top ranked violinist Augustin Hadelich talks about working with Edo de Waart and the NZSO to perform Beethoven’s difficult Violin Concerto and we meet multi-genre music group Latinaotearoa.

And we… Read more Video

2:00 PM.Most likely known as the only piece you may know on the piano, “The Celebrated Chop Waltz” was written in 1877 by sixteen year-old British composer Euphemia Allen. But there are some rather… Read more

1:00 PM.Music and arts events in New Zealand are becoming more accessible for disabled people, says Áine Kelly-Costello, an Auckland based flutist, writer and advocate. Read more Audio

12:00 AM.Baroque wind ensemble Zefiro has recently begun a tour of the country. Elizabeth Kerr gives their opening night concert is Wellington her hearty approval. Read more Audio

James Morrison – a Celebration of Ella and Louis by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra this week celebrates the famous collaboration of jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Virtuoso… Read more Audio

1:27 PM.What music is best to fall asleep to? Upbeat provides some suggestions. Because... soon you will be able to finally fall asleep to music without needing headphones. The Flexound Humu – a pillow that… Read more Video

1:00 PM.Upbeat talks with Helene Pohl and Rolf Gjelsten of the New Zealand String Quartet ahead of nationwide tour Turning Points and, celebrating the famous collaboration of jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and… Read more

1:00 PM.The New Zealand String Quartet is about to embark on a nationwide tour. The quartet is celebrating 30 years since its first tour in 1988 with some of the most groundbreaking works in the quartet… Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Composer Gao Ping and counter tenor Xiao Ma premiere their Orchestra Wellington commission Wild Cherry Tree and tell Eva Radich about their unique hybrid of Chinese and Western music. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.We speak with cherished Italian woodwind Maestri Alfredo Bernardini  and Alberto Grazzi from Italy’s Ensemble Zefiro, and composer Gao Ping and counter tenor Xiao Ma, who are about to premiere their… Read more

1:00 PM.The extraordinary colours of 17th and 18th century woodwind instruments have lent Italy’s Ensemble Zefiro a cult following. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.NZ pianist Henry Wong Doe talks about playing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2. with the APO tonight. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.We feature piano from a classical and jazz perspective: NZ pianist Henry Wong Doe plays Rachmaninov with the APO and American jazz pianist Shelly Berg is soloist for the NZSM Orchestra and Big Band.