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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

Maxim Rysanov is back in Auckland, and tonight plays his viola arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. He's performed them many times, ever since his… Read more Audio

Simon features the Harlem Quartet, and introduces us to some of their award-winning recordings. They are a string quartet made up of first-place laureates of the Sphinx Competition for Black and… Read more Audio

When the Wellington Town Hall closed last year for earthquake strengthening, no-one imagined that the cost would balloon from 43 to 60 million dollars. The Wellington City Council now faces a decision… Read more Audio

New Zealand violinist Natalie Lin received the Audience Choice Award at the 2013 Michael Hill International Violin Competition, and is working towards her Doctoral degree at Rice University's… Read more Audio

Upbeat world music correspondent ,Mona-Lynn Corteau, looks at the theme songs for various teams who have done well this far in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil including Brazil, Columbia… Read more Audio

Guy is the Artistic Director of Choral Connect '14: the national convention of the New Zealand Choral Federation Association of Choral Directors. Dr Jansen founded the National Youth and NZ Secondary… Read more Audio

This Sunday, the Auckland Chamber Orchestra audience gets to play a work by the ensemble's own music director, Peter Scholes, paired with Schubert's 'Trout Quintet'. Peter tells Eva about his ballet… Read more Audio

Last week New Zealand contemporary-music ensemble Stroma gave multiple performances of its 'Mirror of Time' programmes, interspersing pieces of today with the music of centuries ago. Elizabeth reviews… Read more Audio

Christopher Elton is Emeritus Professor and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music London. He's here to judge the Kerikeri international piano competition this weekend with Natasha Vlassenko from… Read more Audio

Domenic review the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's season opening Wounded Hearts concert in Wellington, featuring cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare. Audio

Peter reviews last Saturday's 20th Anniversary concert by Wellington based vocal ensemble Baroque Voices. Audio