Music will tell the story of the 733 Polish children and their caregivers who sought refuge in Pahiatua during the Second World War.

"The joy of performing is listening," says violinist Jennifer Koh, in New Zealand to play Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

The Auckland Arts Festival has named its line-up for 2020. It brings together the weird, the wonderful, the musical and the “mad”.

A Spanish nobleman attacking a windmill; birdsong; drunken soldiers singing folk songs - just some of the musical depictions in NZ Barok's final concert of 2019.

The Royal New Zealand Ballet, for the first time, has commissioned a female composer to write a full length ballet. For composer Claire Cowan it's a fairy tale composition.

Unity is at the core of a performance marking Kristallnacht in Wellington this week.

Natural trumpets will tingle the senses at this weekend’s Queen’s Closet concert “All The Pleasures” in Wellington.

Next week the Royal New Zealand Navy Band will present ‘Remember’, a concert paying tribute to New Zealand’s past and present.

Famed French quartet Quatuor Ébène brought Beethoven to life in a "really delicious" performance. Reviewer Elizabeth Kerr was there.

Epsom Girls Grammar School students have mass voted in Settling the Score for the ‘Grand March’ from Verdi’s Aida  thereby knocking ‘The Lark Ascending’ by Vaughan Williams off the top perch.

Beethoven's string quartets cross cultural divides as Quatuor Ébène performs them around the world.

The Women of Influence New Zealand programme recognises and celebrates women from all walks of life who make a difference in the lives of everyday New Zealanders - Bach Musica's Rita Paczian is one of them.

The events of March 15 are at heart for the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, which announced its 2020 season today.

Violinist Amalia Hall on performing the Barber Violin Concerto with Orchestra Wellington and her recent concerts with NZTrio.

Australian dancer Roshanne Wijeyeratne has Sri Lankan heritage but has become a passionate advocate for Andalusian flamenco. She is running flamenco workshops in Auckland before bringing her show Ida Y Vuelta to Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival.   

NZ soul singer-songwriter Louis Baker still loves the classical music his mum played him as a kid. He’ll be voting in RNZ Concert's classical music countdown Settling the Score, for an old favourite, Chopin.

Split into three generational groups (under 30s, 30-60s and over 60s) the participants in this community choral event express what they really think of each other - in song.

Back with the NZSO after a few years in the UK playing with the Royal Philharmonic, horn player Samuel Jacobs talks with David Morriss about some of the projects he's been involved in.

Actor and director Jennifer Ward Lealand talks about her earliest memory of music in ‘This Time it’s Personal’. In this year's Settling the Score poll, she’ll be voting for Violetta’s aria “Croce e delizia” from Verdi's La Traviata which made a big impression on her as a child. 

Guitar duo Jane Curry and Owen Moriarty have just released a new album. They chat about the recording process, their recent tour with the NZ Guitar Quartet and their nerdy obsession with their nails.

Music lover Joy Cowley chooses her favourite piece of classical music and tells us about the pleasure she gets from Debussy’s ‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun’.

When Shaan Singh from Drax Project needs inspiration, one place he turns to is Johann Sebastian Bach.

Guitarist and songwriter Molly Tuttle will plays her first ever New Zealand show on Sunday October 13th, as part of the Americana Fest at the Tuning Fork in Auckland. She spoke with Elliott Childs about playing music with her family and the many different styles of guitar picking.

Composer HK Gruber talks to David Morriss about returning to New Zealand for the first time since 1955 when he toured here singing in the Vienna Boys’ Choir.  This time he's here to conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and to sing in his most famous work Frankenstein!!  which has the players take up toy instruments.  

If your idea of a piano trio is that of restrained elegance, possibly a bit on the stuffy side, then you’re definitely not thinking of NZTrio, especially this week when the trio will be making an impact with a new commission from Martin Lodge titled ‘Tectonic Impact’.