POSITIVELY WELLINGTON, MICHAEL FOWLER CENTRE

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a performance of Handel’s magnificent Messiah. This year, we are delighted to welcome back the Australian broadcaster and Handel scholar ...

After a string of triumphant 2015 dates across North America, BEN HARPER and the Innocent Criminals will embark on a headline tour of Australia and ...

The shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the most famous moments in film history. Intended to run without any music at all, ...

Hitchcock - Vertigo The shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the most famous moments in film history. Intended to run without any ...

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor Elgar - Symphony No.1 in A-flat major In the last of our Masterworks series, Maestro Edo ...

The London Conchord Ensemble is one of Europe’s leading chamber ensembles. They are known for their imaginative programming, which has won them many accolades in ...

Steve Reich - Three Movements Mason Bates - Violin Concerto Dvorak - Symphony No.9 in E Minor We celebrate Steve Reich’s 80th birthday with his ...

The New Zealand String Quartet is joined by Grammy-nominated American violist James Dunham for this special experience highlighting masterpieces from Brahms and Mozart. Wellington and ...

Visiting 12 centres throughout New Zealand from Kerikeri to Invercargill, Swing into Spring is our most extensive tour of the season. This year, we are ...

Strauss - Four Last Songs Mahler - Symphony No.4 in G major The rapturous Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss represent a pinnacle in the ...

Escher - Musique pour l’esprit en deuil Mozart - Horn Concerto No.4 in E-flat Major Strauss - Sinfonia Domestica In a concert of contrasts, hear ...

British clarinet prodigy Julian Bliss is back in the country, joining forces with our own adventurous NZTrio. This is an opportunity to hear one of ...

An immense mystery and awe lies at the centre of Messiaen’s hypnotic last work, Eclairs sur l’Au-Delà, (Illuminations of the Beyond). Written in the final ...

In 2015 Suyeon Kang became the first Australian to win the coveted Michael Hill International Violin Competition; also taking home the Audience Prize. New Zealand ...

Kodaly - Dances of Galánta Lalo - Cello Concerto in D minor Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade Op 35 We welcome back to the NZSO the Peruvian ...

The Enso String Quartet return to New Zealand following their successful 2012 tour with an exciting series of concerts. One of the United States’ most ...

Brahms - Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat Farr - From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs Part 1 Shostakovich - Symphony No.1 in F ...

Bramwell Tovey - Time Tracks (Suite from opera The Inventor) Magnus Lindberg - Piano Concerto No.2 Christopher Blake - Symphony - Voices (world premiere) In ...

Frederick Septimus Kelly - In Memoriam Rupert Brooke George Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad Ross Harris - Symphony No.2 We continue to commemorate the centenary ...

Lilburn - Festival Overture Brahms - Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor Double Concerto Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major Eroica ...

Mahler - Symphony No.3 in D minor With Mahler’s Symphony No.3 we welcome our new music director, Edo de Waart, in the first of our ...

A three-hundred-year-old Christmas smash hit, Handel’s peerless oratorio is the perfect holiday season gift for concertgoers of every kind. With international Baroque specialist Nicholas McGegan ...

“The final concert is a celebration of the composer. In it we hear the work of a great Romantic figure, a great modernist who revered ...

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending WALTON Cello Concerto STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring Discover why Stravinsky’s avant garde 1913 ballet score for The Rite of ...

BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3 MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D major Haffner BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor Formidable American piano master ...

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony follows on from the Fourth with the similar use of a reappearing motif. This motif appears in all four of the movements ...

Cross exciting new musical frontiers with the NZSO’s Bold Worlds tour, a celebration of intrepid new steps in classical music. Let the frenzy of Peruvian ...

A rare opportunity to experience one of the world's great performers. America's legendary folk singer, songwriter and activist Joan Baez will perform in Christchurch for ...

Capturing the spirit of chamber music, the Vienna Piano Trio is a polished gem steeped in the grand Central European musical tradition. Ensemble-in-residence at Vienna’s ...

Following their sell-out tour of NZ in 2013, the Glenn Miller Orchestra return with their unique repertoire of the huge Glenn Miller hits of the ...

“Harmony, polyphony, rhythmic pulsation and vitality, music as testament of faith, of all this JS Bach is the supreme master and his legacy is infinite.” ...

It’s a mouth-watering selection of classical music’s greatest hits when our much-loved NZSO Music Director Emeritus James Judd returns for a special national tour. Indulge ...

This concert is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear celebrated international diva Renée Fleming perform for the first time with the NZSO. Renée Fleming’s is one ...

Our fourth concert features Tchaikovsky’s breakthrough work. The Fourth Symphony is Romantic to its core, with clear programatic expressions of fate, melancholy, grandeur and joy. ...