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Announcement of the death of Bill Hawkey
1:00 PM.Former Director of Music of Christchurch Harmonic Society and Emeritus Professor of the University of Canterbury, William Hawkey MBE, OAM has died in Australia at the age of 87. Audio
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Creating Samoan Opera
1:34 PM.Samoan-New Zealand opera singers like Jonathon Lemalu, Aivale Cole and the Sol3 Mio trio have forged international careers.But operatic harmonies aren't part of Samoa's music tradition - quite the… Read more Audio, Gallery
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McGegan on Messiah
1:03 PM.Baroque expert Nicholas McGegan is back in New Zealand to conduct Handel's Messiah with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio
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Art, Life, Music - Kushana Bush
1:00 PM.Kushana Bush is creating an entirely new style of art. Her works, gouache on paper, draw on an enormous range of styles and epochs from Renaissance fresco to Japanese Shunga woodblock to the Mughal… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Art, Life, Music - Kim Pieters
1:00 PM.Kim Pieters has been painting most of her life, under the radar, known only to a few dealers and a few galleries. She popped up in a retrospective in Wellington's Adam Art Gallery before suddenly… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Five composers from four countries go with the flow for new album
12:00 PM.Flow - a new album for string quartet - is a project to link composers from four countries in a joint musical statement on the Taoist / Buddhist theme of ‘flow’. Read more Audio
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Meet the NZSO's newest bassoon
1:59 PM.David Angus, the Principal Contrabassoon with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, shows us his new toy ... a contraforte. Read more Video
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Conductor Tianyi Lu and the APO's Frances Moore discuss gender equality in music
1:00 PM.125 years after women’s suffrage in Aotearoa why does it still take a special occasion to have female composers works heard? Young New Zealand conductor Tianyi Lu and the APO's Artistic… Read more Audio
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Wellington tango ensemble and Argentinian pianist Joel Tortul bring tango to St Marys
1:30 PM.Wellington’s tango group Bravo Ensemble and guest Joel Tortul from Argentina play some tango and samba on Upbeat before their concert tonight at St. Mary of the Angels in Wellington.
Joel Tortul is a… Read more Audio
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Five Faves with NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen
1:00 PM.NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen is the soloist for the orchestra's performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 in Dunedin on Friday night and in Christchurch on Saturday. Read more Video, Audio
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Art, Life, Music - Karl Maughan
1:00 PM.Karl Maughan is not only the best known garden painter in New Zealand – he is one of the most successful in the world. Charlotte Wilson visits him to discuss his collection of art books and poetry -… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Tony Ryan reviews the CSO and the musical year in Christchurch and asks if it's time for the CSO to become a full-time orchestra
1:00 PM.Tony Ryan reviews "Pictures at an Exhibition", the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra's last Masterworks concert for 2018 and nominates the whole Masterworks series as the musical highlight of the year… Read more Audio
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Jonathan Bieslki, Artistic Director of Auckland Arts Festival, talks about his 2019 programme
1:00 PM.Jonathan Bielski, Artistic Director of Auckland arts Festival, discusses the highlights and themes of his 2019 programme. A production of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute" from Komische Oper Berlin is… Read more Audio
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Trustee of the Adam Foundation Christopher Finlayson discusses the legacy of one of our most significant arts patrons
1:00 PM.National MP Christopher Finlayson, a Trustee of the Adam Foundation, speaks to Eva Radich about the work of his friend Denis Adam who died on October 18 in Wellington in his 95th year.
Chris has… Read more Audio
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Art, Life, Music - Hannah Beehre
1:00 PM.Lyttelton artist Hannah Beehre talks about music to paint to, her residency in Antarctica, the mysteries of nature and her monumental Nebula series. Read more Audio, Gallery
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NZTrio’s currently touring a programme called “Twine”
1:00 PM.Vanessa Zigliani is manager of NZTrio one of this country’s best loved classical ensembles. At present the trio has a line-up of guest players working with cellist Ashley Brown, which this month… Read more Audio
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Art, Life, Music - Lisa Reihana
1:00 PM.Auckland digital artist and film-maker Lisa Reihana, recently appointed MNZM, on kiwi music and the stories behind her work that amazed the world at the Venice Biennale 2017. Read more Audio, Gallery
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German pianist Lars Vogt takes on the Mozart challenge, playing and conducting from the keyboard
1:00 PM.Peter Mechen reviews pianist Lars Vogt who has taken on the Mozart challenge of directing from the keyboard with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
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The winner of the Leonard Bernstein Award performs with Orchestra Wellington and its concertmaster in two different settings
1:00 PM.Pianist Christopher Park is soloist with Orchestra Wellington in its concert ‘The River’ this Saturday. Park is also teaming up with Orchestra Wellington’s concertmaster Amalia Hall for a one-off… Read more Audio
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UK conductor reflects on his Westminister experiences
1:05 PM.Dunedin Symphony Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor Simon Over returns from London to conduct an all-Russian programme. Read more Video, Audio
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Music by New Zealand and Australian women celebrates women's suffrage
1:00 PM.Composer Jasmine Lovell-Smith and soprano Barbara Paterson discuss the concert Vox Fem, which features music by New Zealand and Australian women, performed by Stroma and The Jac ensemble as part of… Read more Audio
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'Break a leg" couldn't be more apt for latest Opera production
1:00 PM.Wellington bass baritone Barry Mora steps up to play twin roles of Benoît/Alcindoro when his friend Richard Greager breaks a leg days before New Zealand Opera's La Bohème begins production. Read more Audio
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Johannes Moser: from chamber to death-metal cello
10:07 AM.German Canadian virtuoso cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world's leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics and Chicago and London… Read more Video, Audio
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Cellist James Bush discusses the keys to understanding early music
1:00 PM.Cellist James Bush and violinist Miranda Hutton, artistic-co-director of NZ Barok, discuss the early music ensemble's current touring programme "The Splendour of Venice" which explores music by… Read more Audio
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Shuan Hern Lee from Australia wins New Zealand piano competition
12:10 PM.A 16 year old from Australia has taken out the top prize at the Kerikeri International Piano Competition held over the weekend. Shuan Hern Lee won the first-prize playing works by Prokofiev and Chopin
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