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1:00 PM.Shlomo Mintz is one of the greatest violinists in the world today. He is visiting New Zealand in three capacities: violinist, teacher, and conductor. We find out what motivates an artist of this… Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Clarissa Dunn speaks with sensational American pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton who make their debut with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra tomorrow night. The identical twins will play… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Integrated dancer Rodney Bell describes his Festival 2018 show running alongside the Commonwealth Games. Hurihuri stars Rodney dancing in the air strapped into his wheelchair in an aerial duet with… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.Wellington based professional choir Inspirare is bringing Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers) to life this weekend. Artistic director Mark Stamper and guest tenor Chris McRae discuss what it takes… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.Garry Trinder recently chalked up twenty years as the Director of the New Zealand School of Dance. But the anniversary comes after a difficult period, with an expansion plan for the School cancelled… Read more Audio

1:13 AM.Auckland producer Tim Dodd goes to a concert with a difference: art music performed in a lava cave under Mt Eden.  Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Brilliant young pianist Jason Bae is back home for a recital tour with a new CD to discuss. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Landsown Festival of Narropera director Hayden Rawstron previews this summer’s festival finale, Der Freischütz; Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Landsown Festival of Narropera director Hayden Rawstron previews this summer’s festival finale, Der Freischütz. We find out what brilliant young pianist Jason Bae has been up to; and the second of our… Read more

1:00 PM.It’s Bernstein’s centenary this year. New Zealand Opera Music Director Wyn Davies and leading man James Benjamin Rogers discuss his opera Candide and play their favorite Bernstein songs. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Laurie Anderson, pioneer of electronic music, inventor, visual artist, and wife of the late Lou Reed has just released an album with The Kronos Quartet, inspired by the objects she lost in Hurricane… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.War-stories from late nights playing piano in dodgy hotel bars make up a new show by visiting Australian musician Lisa Crawley. Audio

4:21 PM.The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra has been commissioning works by New Zealand composers for over three decades now. This relationship has meant the creation of over thirty diverse and colourful… Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Jiří and Otto Bubeníček talk about their ballet vision for the film The Piano. The new full-length work tells the story of Ada McGrath and her daughter Flora set to a score that depicts New Zealand’s… Read more Audio

12:00 AM.Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti makes his New Zealand debut with a full band at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna. The talented artist has worked with the very best in the music business but lives alone… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.It's ten years since the early death of prolific singer song-writer Mahinarangi Tocker. Mahinarangi composed more than 1000 songs exploring identity and aroha, many of them written in Te Reo Maori… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Audience members at composer Max Richter's concert, Sleep, are provided with camp beds and encouraged to nod off during the eight-hour overnight performance. Richter, joined by other musicians and… Read more Audio

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New Zealand guitarist Paul Bosauder plays flamenco with true Iberian passion.  Paul has returned from Andalusia in Southern Spain where he lives to tour the country. Paul did a… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.CMNZ brought together two old friends for an all-Beethoven programme in 2017. Bella Hristova and pianist Michael Houstoun share a mutual passion for Beethoven. Eva Radich speaks to Bella about the… Read more Audio

9:30 AM.The Prime Minister and Arts Minister Jacinda Ardern says she's concerned about reports that the publicly funded national dance company, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, will not include any of this… Read more Audio

9:23 AM.With a sound ranging from sensual to sleazy and a volume range from mind-melting to gentle, improvisational duo Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh have a charismatic and striking dynamic of polarities… Read more Video, Audio