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Join Bryan Crump, RNZ Concert host, singer & choir director as he shares the love of classical music with guests from Aotearoa & around the world. It's a classical conversation in more ways than one.
RNZ hosts Crump's Classical Conversation, a music show with 38 episodes published.
He's still got a year and a half of school to go, but the 16 year old Auckland pianist Shan Liu already has a gig with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Watch a very young Shan Liu play a bit of Gershwin here. Here
She's one half of New Zealand's opera power couple, and soprano Amina Edris is back in Aotearoa with her husband Pene Pati to sing the title role in Massenet's Manon. Watch Amina singing Puccini h ere. With her hubby sin
Composer, singer and conductor Luka Venter is one of only two people to make it into the Royal Academy of Music's postgraduate conducting programme Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
She was drawn to his writing because it's intelligent and silly; like her music. Eve de Castro Robinson's first work as 2026 composer in residence at Douglas Lilburn's old home is a collaboration with Wellington poet Nic
Back in the UK, English born organist Catherine Anderson met a Timaru organ builder. Now she's a force of nature in the South Canterbury music scene. Check out Catherine's organ credentials here. Go to this episode
He's one of New Zealand's finest guitarists, but these days you're just as likely to hear David Long's music on the screen - large and small. In fact, the former Muttonbirds guitarist recently traveled to the USA to pick
American opera singer Frederica Von Stade is the star judge for this year's Kiri Te Kanawa Song Quest. Ahead of the big night she shared a sparkling conversation with my RNZ Colleague Clarissa Dunn. Watch Frederica sing
Mataatua wharenui, the stolen meeting house. Ngāti Awa built it in the 1870s in Whakatāne, then lent it to the Crown for an exhibition in Australia. It took a century to get it back. Composer Gillian Whitehead and collab
The 2026 NZSO National Youth Orchestra dazzled audiences in Auckland and Wellington this month. Bryan spoke to couple of the crew, sisters Portia and Indiana Bell. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Kiwi baritone Julien Van Mellaerts has an album out, "Dialogues" singing Schubert along with music by his friend (and current Master of the Kings Music) Errollyn Wallen. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Apart from the odd stay in a transit lounge, American violinist Gil Shaham's never visited New Zealand. We spoke with Gil ahead of his New Zealand debut playing Beethoven with the Auckland Philharmonia. Watch Gil Shaham
This year's Mt Eden Chamber Music Festival is a tribute to two leading lights of New Zealand classical music who've died this year; violinist Mary O'Brien and pianist Katherine Austin. Festival director Simeon Broom tell
Peter Hobbs has been making music with bees. The Auckland sound artist and composer tells us how he used recordings of the insects as the raw material for his latest album, Bee Sides. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for
American conductor Mark Russell Smith is the leader of probably the largest band coming to Aotearoa this year; the 126 strong Greater Twin Cities Youth Orchestra from Minnesota. Watch that bit of Prokofiev's Romeo a
Young Dunedin violinist Skyla Murray decided to do her university study in Finland and it's paying off. She spoke to us about all day sun, saunas, Finnish small talk (they don't do it) and making wonderful music. Go to t
Tui Mamaki shares her love of Bulgarian song with her all female choir Medena, recorded in RNZ's Auckland studio. Medena sings a song of Bulgarian independence here . Medena performs a song about getting married here . M
Australian baritone James Clayton is a jack of all trades. He took time out from opera to drive a truck during the Covid pandemic. Luckily for opera lovers he's back singing, including performing the title role in Mozart
New York pianist Kelly Moran sometimes performs on a "prepared" piano. That's when you put nuts and bolts on the strings to change the sound. She's no slouch with digital pianos either. Kelly spoke to us ahead of her tou
Sensors that transform chemical changes in rotting fruit into sound and recordings of birdsong made with machines used in mineral prospecting are part of the latest exhibition at New Plymouth's Len Lye Centre. Anna Brier
In late 2024, the New Zealand music scene mourned the death of Hamilton composer Martin Lodge. Eighteen months later, his partner Dr Gail Pittaway talks about the tribute album, Aeon, featuring music by his composing fri
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Crump's Classical Conversation is hosted by RNZ. The show is categorised under music (interviews) and has published 38 episodes.
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