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2:22 PM.German conductor Sebastian Tewinkel talks about coming back to New Zealand to work with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Audio

2:00 PM.Composer Eve De Castro Robinson and poet and musician Alex Taylor talk about their new initiative to present mixed programmes of music and spoken word in art galleries. Audio

2:42 PM.Pianist Daniel de Borah talks about living in Hungary and then Russia before the fall of communism. He plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 2 with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra tomorrow night. Audio

2:22 PM.German improvising pianist Laurens Patzlaff is on a mission to free classical musicians from the tyranny of the score. Audio

2:01 PM.Swedish Mezzo Soprano Catrin Johnsson talks about her recent move to New Zealand and the opportunities she’s found here. Audio

2:35 PM.One of the judges of the 2015 Show Me Shorts <http://www.showmeshorts.co.nz/> festival talks about this year's selection and how winning the top award in last year's festival with his short film Dive… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Radio New Zealand, SOUNZ, the Centre For New Zealand Music, and NZ on Air are celebrating five years of collaboration on the Resound project. Resound gives new life to treasured recordings of… Read more Audio

2:37 PM.Dianne James reviews the NZSO concert that took place in Auckland on Saturday with American pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Read more Audio

2:26 PM.Nick Bollinger remembers the "musical giant" from New Orleans, who passed away last Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Auckland ensemble dedicated to 'Unity through music'. With their belief that music can strengthen communities Wairua Sinfonietta gives emerging artists and post­graduate performance students… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Three of our regular Upbeat reviewers look at some of the performing-arts highlights coming up in 2016. Audio

2:01 PM.Pianist Garrick Ohlsson returns to our stages this weekend to perform the First Brahms Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Audio

2:30 PM.Playwright Eli Kent's latest work 'Peer Gynt Recycled' premieres this weekend with the Auckland Theatre Company. He talks about his inspiration: Henrik Ibsen. Audio

2:01 PM.Martin Rummel left the University of Auckland School of Music about two years ago, to dedicate himself to his performing and recording commitments abroad. Next year, he'll be back: as Head of the… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Although it might seem an odd combination, trombonist Peter Maunder and harpist Ingrid Bauer are teaming up for a pair of concerts titled 'Opposites Attract'. Audio

2:20 PM.Dan looks at the work of some artists from Beijing. Audio

2:00 PM.New Zealand clarinettist Marcus Norman is the 2016 Pettman/DARE Scholar, working with Opera North, Leeds University and NZ Opera. Audio

2:30 PM.Singaporean choreographer Kuik Swee Boon is in the country to work with the students of the New Zealand School of Dance on excerpts from his piece 'As It Fades'. He talks to Eva about his influences… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Film-maker Tim Wong has released his documentary 'Out of the Mist: An Alternate History of New Zealand Cinema' on his website The Lumière Reader. He tells Clarissa Dunn about what prompted him to make… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Baroque ensemble Hausmusik NZ present 'Imported from Italy' this weekend: a concert of works by Italian and Italian-trained composers. Oboist John Green Paczian previews their performance. Audio

2:25 PM.RAD Talks is the Barbarian Productions contribution to this year's LitCrawl Festival in Wellington. Director Jo Randerson talks about the idea behind it. Audio

2:02 PM.Poet Anna Jackson has been awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2015. She tells Eva about her plans. Audio

2:30 PM.Bass-baritone Rodney Macann has brought together a quartet of New Zealand's most talented young opera singers for a Rotary Wellington fundraising concert for the Wellington Free Ambulance. He… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Amanda Skoog has been Managing Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet for nine years. She's moving on, and shifting to London. Clarissa asks her what she has planned. Audio