Bryan Crump

NZ Opera's new General Director, Brad Cohen, talks with Bryan Crump. Video, Audio

Record producer Ian Tilley on getting the same person, thirty years apart, and an orchestra on the other side of the world, into the same studio. Video, Audio

Her Yakama ancestry had already inspired bassonist Jacqui Wilson to record an album of music by fellow Indigenous Americans, Taika Waititi inspired her to do the same with music by Māori. Video, Audio

Only 16 and already winning awards. Leilani Aaron Woodmore talks with Bryan Crump about writing the 2023 Compose Aotearoa Competition winning piece for choir which sets Te Reo Maori and Te Reo Hawai'i… Video, Audio

Thirty years after she founded it, it looks like Debbie Rawson's quartet Saxcess has lived up to its name. Audio

Soprano Eliza Boom is fast establishing herself as a specialist of German repertoire based in Munich. She's back home in Aotearoa to sing some of it this month. Audio

He's planning to take his big band to the USA early next year, but Creative NZ's decision to reject his funding application has left Rodger Fox with a $90,000 hole he has to fill by the end of the… Video, Audio

She'd only been composing for a few years, but her big band work Dream Within A Dream was good enough to win Louisa Williamson the 2023 APRA Best Jazz Composition Award. Video, Audio

New Zealand baritone Chris Bruerton talks to Bryan Crump about the joys of being a member of one of the best known classical singing groups in the world, The King's Singers. Video, Audio

Kay Eady speaks with Bryan Crump about Preludes & Feuds, the history she's written on the Lewis Eady music business. Audio

Award winning Kiwi-Samoan violinist Hayden Afele-Nickel talks to Bryan Crump about getting classical music out of the museum and into the lives of all New Zealanders. Audio

The brilliant English organist Anna Lapwood talks to Bryan Crump about how a chance midnight meeting with electronic artist Bonobo in London's Royal Albert Hall led to a viral TikTok video. Video, Audio

Composer Ross Harris likes ambiguity. Little wonder then, that he latched onto a passing remark his wife made in French: 'Prendre ses rêves pour des réalités – let your dreams become reality'. Audio

Sherry Grant can't stop. The prolific writer and musician also can't stop thinking about Katherine Mansfield, organising an online festival in the centenary year of the author's death. She's even got… Audio

She's turned her life upside down to take on the role of Chief Executive of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, but Diana Weir is pretty confident she's landed on her feet. Video, Audio

Chris Illingworth loves pianos, especially Yamaha ones, but the keyboard maestro for English band GoGo Penguin also loves how – in this digital age – you can manipulate their sound. Video, Audio

Soprano Madeleine Pierard is (by her own admission) stretching herself a little thin these days, singing Sibelius, Berg, Purcell and Strauss in the space of six weeks. But musically she's never been… Video, Audio

Listening to music is not a passive activity according to French conductor Chloé van Soeterstède. In fact, sometimes she sits members of the audience among the players. Audio

Composer Leonie Holmes talks to Bryan Crump about her new piano concerto, which she wrote for Stephen De Pledge. It has its public premiere in Christchurch this weekend. Audio

He's not the first composer to attempt to complete it, but Robert Wiremu's arrangement of Mozart's unfinished Requiem is possibly the most imaginative. Audio