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NZSO Brings Christmas Cheer And More With Summer Brass Tour
Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 5:44 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Summer Brass showcases the power and precision of the NZSO’s Brass and Percussion sections, who perform a programme to stir the soul and ignite the holiday spirit. More >>
NZSO Unveils A Thrilling Operatic Experience This October
Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 1:45 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Rossini’s dramatic hour-long choral work was inspired by the 13th-century ‘Stabat Mater’ liturgy, a creative source for numerous composers. As an exciting addition, the NZSO concerts also feature a new 21st-century Stabat Mater by acclaimed New Zealand ... More >>
NZSO’s Enchanting And Spellbinding Music Festival Begins This Week
Tuesday, 5 August 2025, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Led by the NZSO’s Music Director Designate, acclaimed German conductor André de Ridder, the Rumakina Immerse Festival features Oscar-winner Bret McKenzie, NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen and Grammy Award-winning taonga pūroro player and composer ... More >>
NZSO And Wairea Company To Headline Aronui Arts Festival 2025
Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 5:06 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Following the success of Aronui’s Matariki Drone Show, which drew over 35,000 people across two nights, the festival returns with a curated programme that focused on high-impact, deeply grounded works that highlight Indigenous storytelling and creativity. More >>
Music Legend To Conduct Bach, Beethoven And Mozart With NZSO
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 3:26 pm | New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Long considered Beethoven’s game changer on what a symphony could do, his Third Symphony ‘Eroica’ has been described by musicologist Paul Henry Lang as “the greatest single step made by an individual in the history of the symphony and in ... More >>
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 >>
