Upbeat

Michael Fletcher, Director of Music at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, has just returned from the UK where he spent two months studying cathedral choirs and repertoires and attending a… Read more Audio

Only one woman is a contender for this year’s Best Animated Feature Academy Award, and that woman is New Zealand director Leanne Pooley. Her animated documentary 25 April is about the WWI Gallipoli… Read more Audio

Award winning female Maori playwright Maraea Rakuraku’s play Tan-Knee was one of three selected as part of Auckland Theatre Company’s development programme Next Stage Festival. The broadcaster, poet… Read more Audio

Wellington based multi-instrumentalist Oscar Laven will be traveling to Saturn, Uranus and Neptune with Orchestra Wellington for their performance of Holst’s The Planets. He’ll be playing planetary… Read more Audio

Art is an avenue to explore our past, present and future, but for some residing in prison, art is a form of escape. Sharon Hall and her team from The Learning Connection work with prisoners around the… Read more Audio

Jack Body will be front row and centre, so to speak, for The New Zealand Guitar Quartet’s upcoming concert. The quartet will be celebrating the life of the composer with a special commission… Read more Audio

It’s the bare necessities that have been put into a 60 minute show, which allows the next generation to experience Broadway on their own stages. Broadway Junior is a teaching tool for primary schools… Read more Audio

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra went to the movies this weekend, playing the scores of two famous Hitchcock films Vertigo and Psycho. The music, written by Bernard Herrmann took the audience on a… Read more Audio

Bach Musica NZ will be joined by soprano Madison Nona and baritone Jarvis Dams – both 2016 Lexus Song Quest participants – to perform a Christmas concert with a German flavor. Two rarely performed… Read more Audio

In this week’s Resound, Kenneth Young explores Juliet Palmer’s Swerve, performed by The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, recorded by Radio New Zealand in September 2011. Read more

The contemporary art collection of gallerist Nadene Milne is going under the hammer next week in Auckland. She’s built a reputation through developing strong relationships with artists through her… Read more Audio