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2:40 PM.Glen Downie and Stephen Cleland: 'Performance Scores' The Adam Art Gallery are currently exhibiting a collection of work by Bruce Barber, titled 'Performance Scores'. Curator Stephen Cleland… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Simon Romanos: Following the Score Simon looks at the work of three lesser-known conductors. Audio

2:00 PM.The 2016 Auckland Arts Festival programme is out now. Artistic director Carla van Zon previews some of the highlights from next year's lineup. Audio

2:40 PM.When Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir perform in the Christopher's Classics series this weekend in Christchurch, they'll be singing a new work by composer Leonie Holmes. She joins music director Karen… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.The Egmont Ensemble are in the country to perform a series of concerts on behalf of the Royal Overseas League, and to adjudicate the prestigious Pettman-ROSL Chamber Music Scholarship. Clarissa speaks… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.NZTrio perform the first of their 'Blast' concerts this weekend, featuring music by Faure, Beethoven and New Zealand composer Kenneth Young. He joins violinist Justine Cormack and pianist Sarah… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.British flutist Adam Walker performs with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra this week, as soloist in the 'Pied Piper Fantasy' by John Corigliano. He talks about that work, and moonlighting from his… Read more Audio

2:27 PM.Elizabeth reviews last night's Stroma performance of 'Nine Echoes': composer responses to the Nine Short Pieces for piano by Douglas Lilburn, on what would have been his 100th birthday. Audio

2:01 PM.NZ Opera General Director Stuart Maunder previews their 2016 productions, talent and designs. Audio

2:00 PM.New music ensemble Stroma mark 100 years since Douglas Lilburn's birth with a concert of specially composed works: responding to Lilburn's Nine Short Pieces for Piano. Co-director and composer Michael… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Australian baritone Barry Ryan is in Rotorua this weekend to judge the New Zealand Aria competition. With 50 young singers vying for the $20,000 first prize, Barry tells Clarissa Dunn what he looks… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Now in its 20th year, Black Grace Dance Company are presenting 'Siva' and '20 for 20' over the next couple of months. Artistic director and choreographer talks about these works, and looks back on the… Read more Audio

2:46 PM.Auckland Choral perform Beethoven's 'Missa Solemnis' this weekend, with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and a quartet of strong vocal soloists. Conductor Uwe Grodd previews their performance. Audio

2:30 PM.Photographer John Miller joined the 1975 Māori Land March at Porirua, following it through to Parliament in Wellington. He looks back on some of his photographs of those events, 40 years on. Audio

2:00 PM.The Arts Foundation announced this year's group of Laureate Award winners at last night's ceremony at Auckland's Mercury Theatre. Director Sara Brodie is among the recipients, and she tells Clarissa… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.This weekend's concert by the Auckland-based period-music ensemble NZ Barok mixes music from both the baroque era and works by living New Zealand composers. Artistic co-director Graham McPhail… Read more Audio

2:20 PM.Director Nina Nawalowalo has been busy recently. At this year's Christchurch Festival she directed two shows: 'Duck, Death and the Tulip', and 'The White Guitar'. Upbeat roving correspondent Vincent… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Miho's Jazz Orchestra formed in 2011, bringing together an eclectic group of musicians and musical influences in venues all over New Zealand. Flutist and namesake Miho Wada joins guitarist Andrew… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.The Tudor Consort performs the 'Officium Defunctorum' by Tomás Luis de Victoria this weekend. Music director Michael Stewart talks about the work and challenges it poses to choirs. Audio

2:30 PM.Composer Patrick Shepherd's latest symphony is titled 'Ex Tenebris Lux', and inspired by a statue bearing that inscription in the Christchurch Art Gallery. He previews the work's premiere performances… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.Finnish clarinet virtuoso Kari Kriikku is back in the country to perform the Kimmo Hakola concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He speaks to Clarissa Dunn about contemporary music, and his… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Wellington's Stagecraft Theatre are mounting a production of Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'. Eva speaks to director Josh Hopton-Stewart and actor Rebecca Gumbley about the play, its historical… Read more Audio

2:00 PM.The lineup for next year's WOMAD world music festival in Taranaki is out. Artistic director Emere Wano talks through some of the highlights. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.The New Zealand Festival celebrates its 30th Birthday in 2016. Artistic director Shelagh Magadza previews next year's lineup. Read more Audio