Dr Inge van Rij, Associate Professor (Musicology) at the New Zealand School of Music, shares some of her favourite pieces by Berlioz to mark 150 years since the composer’s death.

A new orchestral work by Wawrick Blair comes with the explicit instruction from its composer “no conductor”. Instead, each player is asked to play each note to their own interpretation of when it should be played.

After eight years of silence, City Organist and the Town Hall’s organ curator Martin Setchell has reopened the Christchurch Town Hall's magnificent Reiger Organ with a series of concerts, including work composed for the occasion.

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra's Phoenix concert launched their concert season and the restored Town Hall in fine style.

Donovan Bixley on Daybreak

Zoe George talks with David Morriss about the significance of the reopening of the Christchurch town hall. Sir Harold Marshall discusses his design of the hall's world class acoustics. We hear performances and speeches from the opening concert on 30 September 1972.

Three vibrant international soloists will bring Beethoven alive with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra tonight.

Pianist Tony Chen Lin discusses the new Steinway he'll be performing on this weekend for the first concert at the Christchurch Town Hall.

Suite Gallery owner David Alsop takes us through some of the most interesting visual art that is on offer around the country right now.

Two Auckland Festival shows in March put waiata Māori front and centre - a free sing-along event in Aotea Square called Tira, and another called Tōku Reo Waiata. The brains behind the shows, Tama Waipara, and performer Annie Crummer tell Kirsten Johnstone about the kaupapa.