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NZSO Powers Up For Another At-home Online Performance

Monday, 6 April 2020, 7:11 pm | NZSO

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ’s talented woodwind musicians and harpist are in the spotlight for the Orchestra’s third at-home livestream performance this week. Play Our Part is a weekly free online series of performances by NZSO musicians ... More >>

NZSO Releases Free Concert Performance Online

Friday, 3 April 2020, 6:38 pm | NZSO

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will debut a video of a concert performance on its website for New Zealanders to enjoy during the COVID-19 restrictions. An Instrumental Voyage - Pae Tawhiti, Pae Tata was recorded in 2019 as part of Tuia Encounters 250 ... More >>

NZSO To Livestream Free Performance To All Of New Zealand

Saturday, 21 March 2020, 2:18 pm | NZSO

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will livestream a free performance from Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre to all of New Zealand next week on 25 March . The NZSO’s decision to livestream an on-stage performance follows the ban this week on public ... More >>

NZSO Suspends Concerts Due To COVID-19 Restrictions

Monday, 16 March 2020, 7:27 pm | NZSO

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has suspended all concert and associated activity until May. This follows the Government’s directive today banning public events or mass gatherings of more than 500 people. The NZSO was to have performed Mavericks ... More >>

Star singers and top conductor join NZSO

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 12:30 pm | NZSO

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is joined by one of world’s top conductors, four internationally renowned vocalists and the Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir to perform what Beethoven considered his greatest work. More >>

‘Bad Boy’ Organist And Music Phenomenon To Perform With NZSO

Monday, 17 February 2020, 11:58 am | NZSO

American organist Cameron Carpenter , hailed by The Los Angeles Times as a “a phenomenal virtuoso”, will perform for the first time with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in March. Carpenter, the first organist nominated for a Grammy Award, has ... More >>

Unique NZSO tour brings Bach, Beethoven and more to regions

Wednesday, 29 January 2020, 3:53 pm | NZSO

New Zealanders can enjoy the music of Bach, Beethoven and get up close with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as part of an innovative new tour in March. More >>

Star line-up of singers and conductor for NZSO’s Messiah

Friday, 22 November 2019, 12:20 pm | NZSO

Acclaimed Australian conductor and Handel scholar Graham Abbott returns to conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ’s annual must-see performance of the masterwork Messiah . More >>

Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh makes her NZSO debut

Friday, 11 October 2019, 7:18 pm | NZSO

Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh makes her NZSO debut in November One of the most exciting violinists of the decade will perform for the first time with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in November. More >>

NZSO celebrates spring with popular classics

Monday, 23 September 2019, 9:23 am | NZSO

Acclaimed conductor Jun Märkl makes his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra debut in October with a celebration of treasured classics and the world premiere of a new work by New Zealand composer Kenneth Young. More >>

NZSO National Youth Orchestra celebrates 60 years of music

Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 10:01 am | NZSO

The NZSO National Youth Orchestra celebrates its milestone 60th anniversary in July with special collaborative concerts with the New Zealand Youth Choir. More >>

NZSO to present a dazzling night of superb baroque music

Thursday, 16 May 2019, 3:40 pm | NZSO

One of the most haunting works ever written by the popular composer Antonio Vivaldi will be performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington next month. More >>

Star Wars: Film Concert Series

Thursday, 28 March 2019, 1:21 pm | NZSO

28 March, 2019 – Get set to journey to a galaxy far, far away in just four weeks when the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents the Star Wars: Film Concert Series in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. More >>

Sing along with the NZSO in a family Christmas concert

Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 3:27 pm | NZSO

From Hark the Herald Angels Sing to Silent Night , the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will give the audience the chance to sing along at a special family Christmas concert in Wellington on 15 December. More >>

NZSO’s ode to joy with Beethoven’s magnificent Ninth

Monday, 12 November 2018, 1:32 pm | NZSO

Four acclaimed singers will join the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in Wellington and Auckland this month to perform one of the greatest symphonies ever written. More >>

NZSO to perform Russian masterworks

Thursday, 1 November 2018, 4:52 pm | NZSO

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will perform two dazzling works by the Russian greats Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky exclusively in Dunedin and Christchurch in November. More >>

NZSO to perform Mahler’s magnificent Seventh Symphony

Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 12:37 pm | NZSO

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra returns to classical giant Gustav Mahler in November when it will perform his inventive and exciting Symphony No. 7 in Wellington and Auckland. More >>

Amadeus and The Shining on Wellington’s waterfront

Thursday, 11 October 2018, 1:40 pm | NZSO

It’s Amadeus and The Shining on Wellington’s waterfront with the NZSO Timeless music used to great effect in the hit films Amadeus and The Shining will feature in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s next Shed Series concert in Wellington ... More >>

Star pianist and conductor Lars Vogt to debut with the NZSO

Thursday, 4 October 2018, 8:49 pm | NZSO

He’s an international sensation at the piano and on the podium. Now acclaimed German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt is coming to New Zealand for the first time. More >>

Sensational cellist returns to play with the NZSO

Tuesday, 25 September 2018, 4:22 pm | NZSO

One of the most exciting cellists in the world will tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in October and also perform special solo recitals. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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