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12:00 PM.Fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and close harmonies are the ingredients going into The All Day Breakfast Stringband. The Montreal-based band are in New Zealand doing an extensive tour, and hoping to… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Wellington's legendary all female group The Beat Girls is celebrating 21 years with a new show All Grown Up. Founded by Andrea Sanders, the group has been called "as iconic as the Wellington Bucket… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Grammy award winning mezzo soprano Michelle DeYoung makes her debut with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra this week with Elgar's Sea Pictures. The song cycle is part of Music Director Edo de Waart's… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Musician and sound artist Daniel Beban shares highlights of the underground music scene with Lynda Chanwai-Earle, the locals and the more surreal moments of his time in Beijing. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:00 PM.Since 1978, Koichi Makigami has been making music with Hikashu, a collective who have taken in post-punk, new wave, krautrock and free jazz. With techniques and sounds borrowed from various indigenous… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.Soprano Katherine McIndoe and Baritone Daniel O’Connor are performing in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin for Days Bay Opera.

Katherine will perform as Tatyana, while Daniel will reprise Eugene Onegin… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Biographer Joanne Drayton is on a residency at the Carey Institute for Global Good in New York State.

The Auckland English teacher and author of biographies of crime writer Ngaio Marsh, painters… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Auckland Youth Orchestra Principal Trombone player Mark Bingham talks to Eva Radich about finding his love of a variety of music through the Star Wars theme, which last year led to performing music… Read more Video, Audio

1:40 PM.One of the more offbeat shows on as part at the Auckland Fringe is taking place at the Barista Cats cat café. Purrfectly Pawsome Catacular promises half an hour of cat focused dancing and performance… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Elizabeth Kerr is in Nelson to enjoy the Adam Chamber Music Festival. She reviews Journeys (featuring violinist Monique Lapins as a soloist), Dame Gillian Whitehead's new one-woman opera Iris… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Isaac Hayward is one of Australia’s most exciting young music directors.

He’s only twenty-five, has already been nominated for a Helpmann Award and worked with performers as diverse as Tim Finn, Jon… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.New arts organization The Zimbelstern Foundation is taking the pipe organ and broadening its appeal as the “king of instruments”. Paul Rosoman explains why this instrument should be treasured, how… Read more Audio

1:15 PM.RNZ Concert Senior Producer Tim Dodd talks to violinist Yebin Yoo the winner of the competition, Eva Radich has a chat with Juror Julia Joyce and we hear some of Yebin's winning performance of… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Poet Sam Hunt shared his vote for Settling the Score with David Morriss on RNZ Concert's Classic Afternoons. Read more Audio

11:00 AM.Clarissa Dunn spoke with Christchurch Symphony Orchestra CEO Gretchen La Roche about her votes in Settling the Score 2016 one of which was Mendelssohn's overture 'Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage'.

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10:30 AM.The NZSO's Principal Timpanist Larry Reese spoke with Clarissa Dunn about the three works he voted for in Settling the Score 2016. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Is a love of music passed down through the family? Read more Audio

1:30 PM.Figaro, Figaro, Figaro - introducing children to opera Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Discovering Music Through Dance Read more Audio

1:01 PM.What makes a child persevere with an instrument? Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Cynthia Morahan and Clarissa Dunn look at some of the ways children experience classical music in Aotearoa. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.A world's worth of performers will visit Taranaki in March for WOMAD 2017. Read more Gallery

1:20 PM.Peter Hoar reviews Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's performance with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Did the famous maestro live up to expectations? The programme was Einojuhani Rautavaara's Isle of… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Vladimir Ashkenazy, arguably one of the best pianists of our time, nearly didn’t make it to the conducting podium, as he tells RNZ Concert in his only New Zealand interview. Read more Video, Audio

Christopher Marshall’s latest work, Soul Journeys, is about to be premiered in a free Auckland Chamber Orchestra concert. It’s a guitar concerto, composed especially for Matthew Marshall, one of NZ’s… Read more Audio