Upbeat for Wednesday 25 July 2012

12:15 Helene Renaud

Head of Burnside High's Music Department talks about their fourteen Chamber Music Contest entries

12:40 Annell Husband

Radio New Zealand producer reports from the Pacific Arts Festival in the Solomon Islands

1pm Jonathan Abernethy

New Zealand tenor about to begin the Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Programme at Opera Australia

1:15 Dorothy Buchanan

Composer looks back on the work of Margaret Mahy