The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra take on the music of Ross Harris with excellent results.

I catch Javier Perianes by phone at his Hobart hotel and the Spanish pianist quickly assures me that, no, he's not watching the Olympics

Tonight's second instalment of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Degenerate, Denounced, Outrageous series was always going to be the

The evening almost stole upon us. First up, clarinettist Julian Bliss gave us Debussy with pianist Sarah Watkins and, with shivery

It was cheering that the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra opened its latest concert with an indisputable Strauss masterpiece.

When the dinner conversation turns to crocodiles, you know this is no ordinary music festival. Crocodiles are a regular part of life

Jordi Savall's latest project explores five centuries of shifting cultures in southern Spain, focusing on the city of Granada from

The classical music world is nothing if not cosmopolitan. German soprano Christiane Libor makes her debut with the New Zealand Symphony

At 27, Julian Bliss knows what it's like to be a wunderkind. The British clarinetist won his first major concerto competition at 12

Nicky Spence's impassioned performance of Andre Caplet's 1917 song-cycle, Les Prieres inevitably takes on new resonances, after an

The race is on for the one of New Zealand's premier music competitions, the Lexus Song Quest. After five days working with Head Judge

Four days after winning the country's most prestigious song contest, Benson Wilson was at his Onehunga home helping to put away groceries

Finals night looms for the cream of young chamber musicians.

Sir Andrew Davis, who conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Illuminations concert, roars with laughter when I tell him how

In August 1901, a Hugh McLeod, writing in The New Zealand Illustrated Magazine on the occasion of yet another performance of Il Trovatore

Sinfonia Domestica of Richard Strauss offered 44 minutes of uber-romantic immersion in the second half of the NZSO's Mozart & Strauss concert.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's major 2016 commission, a sixth symphony by Ross Harris, was the musical and emotional core of Thursday's

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra seems happy that Music Director Giordano Bellincampi is back in town, and one sensed it in the first

Auckland Chamber Orchestra, under the admirable Peter Scholes, set off tonight with a welcome taste of the local.

Suyeon Kang, the first Australian to take top honours in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, has undertaken her winner's recital tour and concerto performance.

The Youth ensemble in thrilling form on eve of departure for Europe.

We had been told that Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade had been programmed at least 23 times in the orchestra's history and, once again, it proved a reliable audience magnet.

The music of Eve de Castro-Robinson is well represented on CD, with three fine albums on the Atoll label.

Town Hall to host Michael Hill International Violin Competition star.

The Lang Lang circus came to town, pitching a tent in our most exotic movie palace.

New Zealand Opera is bringing Sara Brodie's production of The Magic Flute to Auckland after a successful season in the capital.

Lang Lang may call China his first home but "it's not like I'm living here at the moment," he explains. "I'm just touring all the time. In fact, I'm not living anywhere."

Rachmaninov's Vespers holds a special place in the composer's output, far removed from the popular concertos that reflect his international career as a concert pianist.

Enso String Quartet still has the freshness and attack that spurred one critic to rationalise the group's smouldering power as half honey and half molten lava.

Experiencing Stephen Hough's magisterial Brahms Second Piano Concerto brought back a conversation in which the Englishman talked of the power that came from the work's sense of emotional containment.