Rakuto Kurano Photo: supplied
Violinist Rakuto Kurano has big ambitions for his time as the first Artist in Residence at a Wanaka retirement complex.
He's just completing the first of three week-long stints at The Aspiring Lifestyle Village, where he's taken lessons, given several performances and also visited local schools to talk about a musician's life.
Rakuto has now returned to the University of Canterbury to work on his Master of Music thesis, and he'll return to the village later in the year, to work on some of his other projects.
These include forming a local string quartet and recording a solo violin piece around Wanaka's Ruby Island.
Lynn Freeman asked Rakuto how the unusual opportunity came up.
Included in the interview is an excerpt of his recording "Fugue from Concerto Grosso", that's just been released on Spotify.
