SOUZ contemporary prize awarded to Salina Fisher
Composer Salina Fisher has become the youngest ever winner of New Zealand’s SOUZ Contemporary Award. The 24-year-old took home the award for her work Tōrino … Read more
Composer Salina Fisher has become the youngest ever winner of New Zealand’s SOUZ Contemporary Award. The 24-year-old took home the award for her work Tōrino … Read more
New Zealand’s first ever ballet academy will open in Lower Hutt next year. Chilton Saint James School is located about 16km from Wellington, and will … Read more
Lang Lang will make his New Zealand recital debut, 12 years after the Chinese pianist first played in the country with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra … Read more
Things have been pretty bleak for Australian arts recently, but there is some good news for its antipodean neighbour New Zealand: three of its main … Read more
A new agency to support the touring of contemporary New Zealand theatre, dance and music will launch next March in an effort to strengthen the … Read more
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has recorded the soundtrack for the third film in director Peter Jackson’s acclaimed Hobbit trilogy. The music for The Hobbit: … Read more
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s music director, Pietari Inkinen (pictured), is to take up the chief conductor role with Prague Symphony Orchestra from September 2015. Inkinen, … Read more
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli landings with two simultaneous world premieres. Perth-based composer … Read more
A spaghetti food fight, a sphynx cat with a diamante collar, and a levitating woman all feature in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s latest marketing campaign. In … Read more
New Zealand conductor Rachael Young on her musical career to date, and her belief that classical music should transcend gender boundaries. My path to conducting … Read more