Live Music

LISTEN: This concert features fifteen songs celebrating the theme 'Alleluia' and 'Hallelujah', dating from the 18th Century through to 2019, performed by Wellington Choirs Inspirare and Schola… Audio

LISTEN: Pop star Benee teams up with the NZSO for a spectacular show of her award-winning songs in amazing new symphonic arrangements inspired by Disney, James Bond, even 90's trip-hop treatments… Audio

The NZSO has fun with music from Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka, Ravel’s La Valse, and his irrepressible Piano Concerto performed by Stephen De Pledge, as well as Clyne’s Masquerade, commissioned for…

LISTEN to the world premiere of NZ composer Robert Wīremu’s Tahuri koe ki te maunga teitei, which was written to be paired with Mahler 3, one of the greatest symphonies of all time. Featuring Sasha…

National Concerto Competition 2023 first place winner Yuzhang Wu.

Performed by Yuzhang Wu (piano) with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey in the Douglas Lilburn… Audio

National Concerto Competition 2023 second place winner Henry Meng.

Performed by Henry Meng (piano) with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey in the Douglas Lilburn… Audio

National Concerto Competition 2023 third place winner Madeleine Xiao.

Performed by Madeleine Xiao (piano) with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey in the Douglas… Audio

The Berlin-based Lazarus String Quartet perform in St Andrew's on The Terrace in Wellington. The quartet was established in 2007 by four University of Canterbury graduates who now tour extensively in…

A Concert celebrating 75th Jubilee of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Audio

This year, iconic feminist punk pioneers Bikini Kill will perform in New Zealand for the first time ever. Charlotte Ryan spoke to frontwoman Kathleen Hannah from her office in Pasadena, California. Video, Audio

In the summer of 2019, musician Aimee Renata (aka Erny Belle)  relocated from Tāmaki Makaurau to the Northland township of Maungatūroto to write and record her debut album Venus Is Home. She performs… Audio

Andrew Beer (Auckland Philharmonia Concertmaster), Sarah Watkins (well-known collaborative pianist and 2020 NZ Best Classical Artist) and Lev Sivkov (Russian cellist – international competition winner… Audio

Levansa Trio: Andrew Beer (vln), Lev Sivkov (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno)
Wellington Chamber Music Trust, St. Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington 31 July 2022. Audio

Levansa Trio: Andrew Beer (vln), Lev Sivkov (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno)
Wellington Chamber Music Trust, St. Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington 31 July 2022. Audio

Levansa Trio: Andrew Beer (vln), Lev Sivkov (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno)
Wellington Chamber Music Trust, St. Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington 31 July 2022. Audio

Levansa Trio: Andrew Beer (vln), Lev Sivkov (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno)
Wellington Chamber Music Trust, St. Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington 31 July 2022. Audio

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra presents a concert of 'Romantic Masters', starting with Berlioz' 'Roman Carnival Overture', then Saint-Saëns' Nile-inspired 'Piano Concerto No 5', and Dvořák's… Audio

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra/Luke Dollman

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Dvořák 's was inspired to write this symphony after hearing Brahms' monumental… Audio

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Somi Kim (piano), Christchurch Symphony Orchestra/Luke Dollman

In 1896, Saint-Saens journeyed to the temple town of… Audio