Upbeat for Friday 29 September 2017

1:35 PM.Last night the APRA Silver Scroll Awards were on in Dunedin. The Silver Scrolls recognises outstanding achievement in the craft of song writing and for the first time ever, all five finalists for the… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Composer Salina Fisher has won the SOUNZ Contemporary Award 2017, New Zealand's premier composition prize, for her work for string quartet 'Tōrino'. This is the second consecutive year Fisher has won… Read more Video, Audio

1:05 PM.A number of voices are coming together this weekend for the world premiere of Victoria Kelly’s The Unusual Silence first in Auckland and then in Napier. Voices NZ will be joined by a 24-strong male… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Peter Godfrey passed away last night at the age of 95. Peter was born in England but travelled to New Zealand in 1958 to take up the position of Lecturer in Music at Auckland University, which he held… Read more Audio