Eva Radich

The talent was so good in this year’s Big Sing Finale that the judges had a very difficult time choosing the top choirs. Chair of the judging panel Peter Watts, explains how outstanding all the choirs… Audio

Peter Hoar reviews the APO’s Bach Collage where acclaimed UK conductor Stephen Layton directed a programme of works by Bach along with modern works by Arvo Part, a composer inspired by Bach.   Audio

The Rodger Fox Big Band and the NZSO are hitting the road for a 12 date tour, launching on the first day of spring. The big band’s name sake and the NZSO’s Hamish McKeich discuss covering Kiwi tunes… Audio

Wunderkind Delvan Lin was just 16 when he won the Wallace National Piano Competition. Now 17 and in his first year at the University of Auckland School of Music he’s already looking ahead to an… Audio

Adrienne Fenemor is a top Hammond B3 player, composer and singer. Despite the total lack of women playing the organ, Adrienne taught herself to play the B3 and now has a thriving career playing in New… Audio

Violinist Simeon Broom grew up in Mt Eden and while living in Europe started dreaming about starting a concert series in the village. With the help of his partner pianist Rachel Church and friends… Audio

Touch Compass is New Zealand's only professional, inclusive dance company and provides the stage for both disabled and non-disabled dancers to meet, on the floor and in mid-air. Artistic director… Video, Audio

Sydney based New Zealand tenor Jonathan Abernethy, who has been excelling with Opera Australia, returns to perform in his home town of Wellington for the first time since crossing the ditch. He’s… Audio

24 school choirs from around the country will be hitting the right notes this weekend at the Big Sing finals in Dunedin. Judge Debra Shearer-Dirié explains what the groups need to do to stand out from… Audio

Stephen Layton, Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, returns to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with a typically ingenious programme, putting music of today in the context of music of… Audio

Tudor Consort’s former Music Director Alastair Carey directs a concert which puts together four remarkable choral works all with the concept of "lux perpetua",  or eternal light at their heart. Audio

Wolfgang Schmidt was a judge for the first Wallace International Cello Competition held last night in Hamilton. There’s a wonderful serendipity here: Wolfgang was himself the winner of the first Adam… Audio

Stuart Maunder from New Zealand Opera talks about a fundraising concert for soprano Anna Leese and her husband Stefano Guidi, who has Motor Neurone Disease. The concert will raise funds for the couple… Audio

New Zealand Soprano Joanne Roughton-Arnold premieres a one woman opera in London this week.  Iris Dreaming is based on the life of New Zealand writer and pioneering feminist, Iris Wilkinson, who wrote… Audio

Australian choreographer Lina Limosani is working with the New Zealand Dance Company on her dance Whispers from Pandora's Box. It’s been described as “ Twisted, perverse, outrageously in your face… Audio

Michael Houstoun talks about his new interest in Bach’s Preludes and Fugues. He plays the complete Book II in the first concert in the Judith Clark Memorial Piano Series this weekend at the New… Audio

21 year old Cellist Santiago Canon Valencia has had a remarkable career already, sparked off by studies with James Tennant when the young Colombian enrolled at Waikato University at the age of 14. … Audio

Andrew Simon is principal clarinet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and an old friend of Music Director Marc Taddei from Orchestra Wellington with whom he plays the Mozart clarinet concerto… Audio

Nicolette Fraillon is the only woman to hold the job of chief conductor and musical director of a professional ballet company. She busted the glass ceiling years ago as top dog of The Australian… Audio

St Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra in Auckland has a fabulous pairing for their next concert on Sunday: virtuoso violinist Andrew Beer and charismatic New Zealand conductor Holly Mathieson. Holly is one… Audio