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Experience Out-Of-This-World Music With The NZSO And Star Violinist
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 2:45 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The Planets: Elgar & Holst is performed in Wellington and Auckland with the orchestra lead by NZSO Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor Gemma New. More >>
Superstar Violinist To Play The Music Of John Williams With NZSO
Monday, 16 October 2023, 1:17 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Anne-Sophie Mutter , one of the world’s greatest violinists, performs the music of movie legend John Williams with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in November. It will be the first time the Grammy Award-winner has performed in Aotearoa New Zealand. ... More >>
Internationally Renowned New Zealander Appointed NZSO Artistic Advisor And Principal Conductor
Sunday, 27 February 2022, 8:56 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
New Zealander Gemma New, in demand by orchestras around the world, has been appointed Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Te Tira Pūoro o Aotearoa. Her title takes immediate effect with the start of the 2022 ... More >>
NZSO Celebrates Matariki And More With Exciting Winter Festival
Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 4:28 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Pianiist Michael Houstoun. Photo credit: Robert Catto The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents a winter feast of extraordinary music in July, including three innovative back-to-back concerts in Auckland and Wellington, as part of its Immerse 2021 festival. ... More >>
NZSO Brings A Carnival Of Great Music To Wellington And Auckland
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 4:23 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
NZSO Principal Conductor in Residence Hamish McKeich Photo: Stephen A’Court. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Te Tira Pūoro o Aotearoa brings a carnival atmosphere to Wellington and Auckland in March with a performance of dazzling music from Igor ... More >>
Stellar Line-Up Of Singers Join Celebrated Kiwi Conductor For NZSO’s Messiah
Thursday, 26 November 2020, 4:47 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Messiah conductor Gemma New | Photo: Fred Stucker Acclaimed New Zealand conductor Gemma New will lead the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for its annual not-to-be-missed performance of Handel’s masterwork Messiah in Wellington. New will be joined by ... More >>
NZSO To Perform Its Lockdown Greatest Hits At Te Papa This Sunday
Friday, 19 June 2020, 7:12 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will play the best of its popular streamed performances at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa this Sunday, 21 June. Over the day the national orchestra will perform for free in different locations within Te Papa, ... More >>
Wellington And NZSO Celebrate Nation’s Resilience With Free Concert
Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 4:28 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Wellington City Council are to stage a free live concert to celebrate the enormous effort New Zealanders made to protect the vulnerable and eliminate COVID-19. The 26 June concert Ngū Kīoro… Harikoa Ake ... More >>
Superb Singers Join NZSO For Online Performance On 8 May
Monday, 4 May 2020, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Ariana Tikao and Bianca Andrew Two exceptional vocalists will perform with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra online this Friday, 8 May, in celebration of New Zealand Music Month. Singer, composer and musician Ariana Tikao and New Zealand mezzo-soprano ... More >>
NZSO To Play Bach’s Masterpiece In Lower Hutt On 5 March
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 10:51 am | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will perform JS Bach’s baroque masterpiece Goldberg Variations in Lower Hutt next week on 5 March. Directed by NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen , Goldberg Variations sees the Orchestra perform the variations ... More >>
NZSO Music Director appointed Conductor Laureate
Thursday, 18 July 2019, 8:46 am | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra announces that Music Director Edo de Waart will conclude his term as NZSO Music Director at the end of the 2019 Season and take up the role of Conductor Laureate, returning for concerts in 2020 and 2021. More >>
NZSO joins global project to sing Ode to Joy in Te Reo
Friday, 1 February 2019, 12:52 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is to be part of a unique international project celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday next year, which will include school and youth choirs performing the composer’s famous Ode to Joy in te reo Māori. More >>
NZSO presents a summer’s night of classical and jazz
Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 3:17 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra returns to Wellington waterfront venue Shed 6 on 8 February to perform works by a diverse range of composers, including jazz legend Duke Ellington. More >>
A rare talent with a rare instrument to perform
Wednesday, 27 September 2017, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Acclaimed French musician Antoine Tamestit will perform in October with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on one of the world’s rarest violas. More >>
A rising-star conductor, a world-class cellist
Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 4:13 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
One of the fastest rising American conductors of the decade is coming to New Zealand next month for the first time. More >>
Free Family Concerts in May that will move body and soul
Friday, 12 May 2017, 12:36 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ’s FREE Family Concerts in May will celebrate some of classical music’s greatest dance tunes. More >>
Three great talents ready to captivate audiences
Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 9:04 am | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
A Grammy-nominated conductor, a star cellist and an award-winning young Kiwi composer are set to wow audiences in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ’s four-city concert tour this month. More >>
World premiere of WWI-inspired work by Kiwi composer
Tuesday, 4 April 2017, 4:01 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Following Anzac Day commemorations later this month, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will premiere a ground-breaking work by acclaimed New Zealand composer Gareth Farr , inspired by his family’s sacrifices in the First World War. More >>
NZSO presents fifth annual performance of Handel’s Messiah
Wednesday, 30 November 2016, 10:57 am | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
It wouldn’t be Christmas without a performance of Handel ’s famous oratorio Messiah , one of the great masterworks of Western art music. More >>
Live orchestral experience at the movies with Hitchcock
Monday, 7 November 2016, 1:36 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is teaming up with Alfred Hitchcock to present a unique movie experience featuring a live symphony orchestra. More >>
