Eva Radich

Singer-songwriter Amiria Grenell and professional actor & musician Amy Grace are musical sisters. The duo founded The Swan Sisters after meeting at NASDA and now tour extensively, this year performing… Audio

The Adam Chamber Music Festival has brought interesting and varied performers and pieces to Nelson, but did it live up to the hype? Elizabeth Kerr reviews a number of performances, including… Audio

Who at 13 knew what they wanted to do? By that age German pianist Frank Dupree was wowing audiences with his outstanding performances and had taken an interest in conducting. The former Wunderkind is… Audio

Today is World Radio Day, and to celebrate it, Celeste Oram has composed a new piece to pay homage to the humble radio. Her new work, which involves a large number of battery-powered radios, has been… Audio

The Air Force Band is back in force, winging its way around the North Island before heading to Ohakea for the 2017 Air Tattoo which marks the Air Force’s 80th Anniversary. Conductor Flight Lieutenant… Audio

It’s hard enough having one show in the Fringe festival, but how about two. Wellington based Eliza Sanders brings two solo show – Castles, and Pedal - to the Basement Theatre in Auckland, in late… Audio

Top European choreographer Arthur Pita used his teenage experiences as a competition-level disco dancer to colour his work for Russian dancers Natalia Osipova and partner Sergei Polunin. Both are… Audio

Ian Wedde is curator for the Auckland Arts Festival exhibition Picturing Asia: Double Take. It celebrates the work of two of the world’s leading photo journalists:  New Zealander Brian Brake… Audio

Berlin-based performance artist Alexa Wilson is doing a new solo work at the Auckland Fringe Festival. She’s one of the pioneers behind feminist performance art in New Zealand and is doing an… Audio

Aussie Tenor James Egglestone is one of the stars of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s outdoor summer event. The concert at Pegasus Bay Winery in Waipara on Saturday week features James along with… Audio

Biographer Joanne Drayton is on a residency at the Carey Institute for Global Good in New York State.

The Auckland English teacher and author of biographies of crime writer Ngaio Marsh, painters… Audio

Auckland Youth Orchestra Principal Trombone player Mark Bingham talks to Eva Radich about finding his love of a variety of music through the Star Wars theme, which last year led to performing music… Video, Audio

One of the more offbeat shows on as part at the Auckland Fringe is taking place at the Barista Cats cat café. Purrfectly Pawsome Catacular promises half an hour of cat focused dancing and performance… Audio

Elizabeth Kerr is in Nelson to enjoy the Adam Chamber Music Festival. She reviews Journeys (featuring violinist Monique Lapins as a soloist), Dame Gillian Whitehead's new one-woman opera Iris… Audio

Isaac Hayward is one of Australia’s most exciting young music directors.

He’s only twenty-five, has already been nominated for a Helpmann Award and worked with performers as diverse as Tim Finn, Jon… Audio

The voice is an instrument and it can be used in many different ways. As part of last month’s New Zealand Singing School, the style of belting was explored.  Zoe George explains there’s more to the… Audio

Former Cantabrian soprano Amina Edris is doing very well at San Francisco Opera. She’s in the second year of the young artist Adler programme and will appear in supporting roles in Verdi’s La Traviata… Audio

Wellington composer Natalie Hunt loves the clarinet. She’s made it the main feature in her new work, due to have its world premiere at the Adam Chamber Music Festival on Waitangi Day. It’s called Quar… Audio

New arts organization The Zimbelstern Foundation is taking the pipe organ and broadening its appeal as the “king of instruments”. Paul Rosoman explains why this instrument should be treasured, how… Audio

It’s a fact of life, we all die. Death is theme of Once There Was A Woman created and performed by Beth Kayes. Grief, memory, vulnerability, caring for the elderly and death, along with race… Audio