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Classical Music Premieres at the NZIAF
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:45 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival has programmed a special weekend of classical music performances, films, and talks by renowned New Zealand and international artists in the Wellington Town Hall next March. More >>
Extensive Visual Arts Programme in NZIAF
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:44 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
“The visual arts provide additional perspective to the Festival, opening our eyes to new ways of seeing and understanding that which is around us - it is a very important part of the Festival,” says Lissa Twomey, Artistic Director of the New Zealand ... More >>
RESTAGE to Support New Zealand Performance
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:42 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival launches a new initiative RESTAGE that brings New Zealand theatre and dance work back to the stage following their next phase of development. More >>
Free Events Galore at the NZIAF 2010
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:40 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
On the Festival’s opening night, a live relay of the Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 will appear on a giant screen in Civic Square outside the Michael Fowler Centre where the performance, featuring the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the baton of ... More >>
The Festival within the Festival
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:38 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Around the world attendance at literary festivals is skyrocketing. Writers and readers, in ever increasing numbers, are coming together to share ideas, explore and reflect on the world in which we live. More >>
New NZIAF Nightclub on the Wellington Waterfront
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:37 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
A 500-seat performance venue and nightclub will be built on the Wellington waterfront especially for the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival. More >>
NZIAF 2010 Programme to the Wellington Region
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:36 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
National and International artists will perform in communities in the wider Wellington Region as part of the New Zealand International Arts Festival’s Art On The Move programme. More >>
World Premieres for New Zealand Music and Theatre
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 3:34 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Five world premieres of New Zealand theatre and classical music will be showcased at the New Zealand International Arts Festival in March next year. More >>
NZ International Arts Festival Announces Programme
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 9:55 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival has launched its programme for 2010. From internationally acclaimed conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy to legendary sitar player, Ravi Shankar, the New Zealand International Arts Festival will present the best arts ... More >>
2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 11:04 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
A fusion of dance celebrating George Gershwin’s music, a play with no words set to a soundtrack of Simon and Garfunkel, Mahler’s orchestral masterpiece ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ and leading British writer and historian Simon Schama are the first ... More >>
New Executive Director for Arts Festival
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 5:05 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The New Zealand International Arts Festival announced today that it has a new executive director, Sue Paterson. More >>
Where We Once Belonged: Coming of Age
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 9:44 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Lively, spirited and fiercely written, Where We Once Belonged is a starkly honest, sometimes brutal, yet often wildly funny coming-of-age story is co-produced by the Festival and Auckland Theatre Company during March. Written by Sia Figiel and adapted ... More >>
Master of Eclectic Enthusiasms
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 1:18 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
An exploration of French music, presenting some of Steven Isserlis’ favourite composers, this French Connection concert showcases the 2007 Gramophone Award-winning cellist’s eclectic enthusiasms. More >>
Exploring a Ménage of Music
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 1:17 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Steven Isserlis, one of the most erudite, accessible and exciting cellists of today, returns to New Zealand for a week of chamber music concerts as part of the NZ International Arts Festival in 2008. More >>
Take a Bow Mr Cello
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 1:17 pm | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Every symphony orchestra has its cello section, but rarely do you get the chance to hear the unique sounds and tonal combinations that a group of cellos can produce all on stage in a marriage of music with one of the world’s best cellists – Steven ... More >>
Chamber Music Performed With a Twist
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 11:16 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
"Classical chamber orchestra, rock band and big band, all in one," is what creator and conductor Kristjan Järvi calls the Absolute Ensemble. More >>
Groovily Exotic – Jarvi Rocks the Band
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 11:15 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
The Arabian stallions of Middle Eastern music will unite with the “musical omnivores” of contemporary music to bring Absolute Arabian Nights – a combination of classical music and jazz infused with the sound and spirit of the Middle East. More >>
Meow Meow… Sequinned Sex Bomb Waiting to Detonate
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 10:18 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Meow Meow, international singing sensation and exotica performance artist, will descend on the Pacific Blue Festival Club in a spiralling journey of obsessive love songs, minor multimedia, tired old tricks and gorgeous suicide ditties. More >>
Sparks Fly as Ballerina Realises Sacred Monsters
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 10:17 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
A mouthwatering collaboration of styles will see two of the world’s star exponents of ballet and contemporary dance, Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan, unite to bring their radical new work Sacred Monsters to the NZ International Arts Festival stage for ... More >>
Not ‘Yer Conventional Ballet’: New Take on Giselle
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 10:15 am | New Zealand International Arts Festival
Things are seldom what they seem. Attraction, deceit and betrayal with a mix of Slovak folk dancing, line-dancing, and contemporary partnering feature in Irish choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan’s version of Giselle at the 2008 NZ International Arts Festival. More >>
