The likes of ABBA, Queen and Coldplay should now be put on the same pedestal of the world's greatest classical composers according to a new study published in the Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain journal.

Hayden Tee is one of New Zealand’s most successful musical theatre exports. He's just released a new album and is back home to perform in Les Miserables. The humble, and entertaining leading man talks about his new album Face to Face, his small town heritage and working with a 64 piece orchestra.

The New Zealand jazz community is about to get a lot better connected with the launch of Jazz Aotearoa.

“If we serve up the same old cat food, then no one gets to taste anything different,” says New Zealand Opera’s General Director Thomas de Mallet Burgess, who announced the 2020 season today.

Yo-Yo Ma performs with New Zealand artists in an extraordinary event on the banks of the Ōtākaro/Avon River in Christchurch to celebrate the way water connects us.

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.