Filmmakers Andrea Bosshard and Shane Loader discuss their film The Great Maiden's Blush, which had its world premiere in Wellington on 2 May.

Music Director of the Orpheus Choir Brent Stewart spreads his net wider with a performance of Vaughan Williams' epic work A Sea Symphony. Inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman, this choral symphony uses the sea as a metaphor for a voyage into eternity. The performance features soloists Lisa Harper-Brown and James Clayton.

Dr. Sherr is a specialist in Holocaust remembrance music, as a composer, producer and lecturer. He's a guest of the New Zealand School of Music to attend the Australasian premiere of his sonata for cello and piano to be performed by Senior Lecturer in Cello Inbal Megiddo and Head of Piano Performance Jian Liu.

Auckland jazz singer and pianist Julie Mason talks about her sixth album Layers of Disguise, her first after many years where illness prevented her from performing.

The Kapiti Chorale gives the premiere of American composer Robert Hanson's oratorio Hiawatha this weekend. Robert is also a premiere conductor in Chicago and was leader of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra for several decades. Under his leadership it became one of the fastest growing and most celebrated orchestras in the United States.

Director Frances Moore brings her company UnstuckOpera to Auckland's Basement Theatre for the first time. She's directing Purcell's Dido and Aeneas recomposed and conducted by Alex Taylor. Singers run riot and witches wreak havoc in this playful, heartbreaking promenade opera.

Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan has a reputation for being controversial due to his ability to make fun of each country's scared cows. What he will pillory on his Out of the Whirlwind New Zealand tour starting tomorrow is anyone's guess but you can be guaranteed it won't be tame.

It's 20 years since some of the members of Split Enz and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra got together to record ENZSO. The album, which featured classic Split Enz songs arranged by the band's former keyboardist and sound engineer Eddie Rayner, is being re-released.

The New Zealand International Comedy Festival is underway this week bringing well known international and local comics to Wellington and Auckland. But they all had to start somewhere. Zoë George explores the Raw Comedy Quest in Wellington to discover new talent and what it takes to be a stand-up comedian.

Victoria Columbus leads the Contemporary Dance programme at the New Zealand School of Dance. Third year student Tristan Carter is working with her on the students' choreographic season, where the students create their own works for a showcase next month.