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1:50 PM.New Zealand violinist Amalia Hall on her recent win at the 64th Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition Overseas Award. Audio

1:30 PM.Acoustic blues and roots Melbourne guitarist Nick Charles is in Wellington for the New Zealand launch of his new album The River Flows which has already received high praise in Australia. The finger… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Stepping into the spotlight are Hannah Smith and Ralph McCubbin Howell the brains behind the theatre company Trick of the Light. The company are presenting the show Beards! Beards! Beards! at Bats… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Edo de Waart opens his tenure as Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, with Swedish mezzo soprano Charlotte Hellekant and a host of singers. Peter Hoar reviews the epic 100 minute… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.This Saturday is the world premiere of Erebus, a musical memorial of the 1979 civil aviation disaster. Composed by David Hamilton, Erebus takes the audience through the excitement as the passengers… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Musical theatre educator Cindy Ripley tells us about the super food that singing in musicals can be for young minds. She tells Zoe George, also a musical theatre devotee, that music and singing are… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.On Sunday virtuoso organist Christopher Herrick gives his first concert on the organ he rescued from abandonment. The former Westminster Abbey organist wrote the report that convinced Auckland City… Read more Audio

1:38 PM.New Zealand born cellist Dr Rebecca Turner is home at the moment to perform the work Hearing Voices. The piece combines solo cello and electrically modified cello; Rebecca will talk about this new… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Swedish born mezzo-soprano Charlotte Hellekant is in New Zealand to perform Mahler 3 with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edo de Waart. She tells Eva about how she wants to make the… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.New Zealand Opera has started touring to schools around the country, taking the art form to students of all ages. Juliette Sivertsen joined the crew for their first day on the road, starting at… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Wellington based Jazz guitarist and composer Callum Allardice won the inagural Apra Best Jazz Composition award at the 2016 Jazz Awards handed out at Easter. He tells Zoe George how his winning 10… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.David Alsop previews several new exhibitions: Frida Kahlo: Her Photos at Te Manawa Museum in Palmerston North; Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation; the latest offerings from Wellington artist Rob… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.British pianist Clare Hammond recently made her film debut as the younger version of Maggie Smith's character, 'Miss Shepherd', in the Alan Bennett film adaptation The Lady in the Van, directed by… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Tenor Amitai Pati is one third of opera group Sol3 Mio. The trio has just completed a nationwide tour before the three individual singers move on to follow their individual opera dreams. Amitai speaks… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Martin Riseley will be both the director and soloist in the CSO's first concert of its new Artist Series. He explains how he manages to juggle the varied… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Circa Theatre is celebrating its 40th birthday in 2016. Susan Wilson directs Robert Lord's Joyful and Triumphant with three of the actresses from her original production from 1992. That production… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Juliette Sivertsen visits the Veiqia Project in Auckland. She talks with curator Tarisi Sorovi-Vunidilo about how the once taboo art form has become an important part of the cultural identity for… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.The National Jazz Festival is on in Tauranga over Easter. Liam Ryan talks about the Jazz Awards that will be presented on Saturday, the Tui for Best Jazz Album of the Year and the APRA Best Jazz… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Scotty Cotter has been acting since he was 16. Now he's co-directing other young actors to create a play that reflects their lives. He talks about being co-director of Massive Theatre Company's newly… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Tudor Consort welcomes back former Music Director Peter Walls as part of its 30th Anniversary concert series. On Good Friday, Peter conducts Music for Holy Week: St Matthew Passion by Heinrich Schütz… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.While messages of support flow into Brussels from around the world, after last night's bombings, Belgian composer Jef Neve talks about the divisions afflicting his country. Jef is trying to leave… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda has been in New Zealand attending and playing at Womad in New Plymouth. The 37 year old New York based Latin-Jazz inspired harpist tells Trevor Reekie about taking… Read more Audio