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1:02 PM.Chief Executive of NZ On Air announces Doc Connect: their new documentary initiative. Audio

12:40 PM.Upbeat visual-arts contributor on some of New Zealand's most successful exports and upcoming international arts events. Audio

12:17 PM.British soprano playing Mother Abbess in the upcoming New Zealand season of The Sound of Music. Audio

1:06 PM.NZ composer and violist Alex MacDonald and flutist Samantha Dench present Mystical impressions concert with harpist Ingrid Bauer this week in Paekakariki. Audio

12:48 PM.Upbeat Melbourne correspondent Vincent O'Donnell speaks to Auckland born author Diana Sweeney who won the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. Audio

12:40 PM.Talise Trevigne is an American soprano who is singing the lead role of 'Mimi' in NZ Opera's Christchurch production of Puccini's La Boheme. Audio

1:00 PM.The WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival has launched its most ambitious programme yet, featuring over 100 writers, thinkers, commentators and performers from New Zealand and the world… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Darren picks some seminal tracks by blues legend Muddy Waters. Audio

12:15 PM.The Wallace National Piano Festival is in full swing. Tonight, the festival features adjudicator Read Gainsford in recital, performing works by Haydn, Schubert and Rachmaninov. He speaks to Eva about… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.It's starting to seem like Kristian Lavercombe is the heir apparent to the role of Riff Raff in 'The Rocky Horror Show'. The young New Zealand actor first performed the role in the local leg of an… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.John continues his survey of some of Bill Evans' most delightful recordings, with collaborating artists including Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane. Audio

12:15 PM.The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra led by Tom Woods performs Mahler's Second Symphony this Saturday with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, and a 120-strong choir made up of singers from Christchurch… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The Christchurch Pops Choir is fast becoming a permanent fixture in the city's musical landscape, after forming in 2011 when singers and audiences in Christchurch sought relief from the upheaval… Read more Audio

1:04 PM.Wellington's Circa Theatre presents Arthur Miller's 'A View from the Bridge': widely acknowledged as one of his most powerful works. Gavin Rutherford plays the lead role of Eddie Carbone, and Jude… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.Peter looks at historic recordings of international artists collaborating with New Zealand musicians. Audio

12:15 PM.UK-based pianist Chenyin Li returns to New Zealand for a concert of music by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Debussy. Chenyin established a strong international performance career after winning the… Read more Audio

1:02 PM.Conductor Ray Chan has drawn some of the city's top young musicians into his new chamber orchestra Enzemble, who'll premiere 'Spheres of Light' commissioned from David Grahame Taylor this weekend in… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.The Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra is on its first international tour, visiting a number of centres around the North Island. Music Director Bronwyn Gibbs and president Eve Brown talk about the value… Read more Audio

12:13 PM.French conductor Emmanuel Joel Hornak is back in New Zealand, working with NZ Opera on their seasons of Verdi's 'La Traviata'. He maintains a busy schedule, regularly appearing on podiums and in the… Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Directors of the new ensemble-based theatre company The Outfit preview their latest show "SIN" which premieres at Auckland's Q Theatre this week. Audio

12:08 PM.21 year old Australian pianist and winner of the 2014 Kerikeri International Piano Competition speaks to RNZ Concert producer Sophie Wilson about his victory yesterday. Audio

1:00 PM.Anna McGregor, Manu Berkeljon and Anders Norén Members of the Sweden based Dalecarlia Clarinet Quintet are touring NZ at the moment. Anna McGregor and Manu Berkeljone are New Zealanders and Anders is… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Peter Hoar reviews last night's Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra concert featuring Ukranian violist Maxim Rysanov and conductor Eckehard Stier. Audio

12:15 PM.Karin Schaupp is a well-known Australian classical guitarist who is giving two performances of Rodrigo's 'Concerto de Aranjuez' with the Southern Sinfonia in Dunedin this weekend. Audio