19 Sept · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Peter MechenQuang Hong Luu (piano) – brilliantly personifying composer and music and their times
10 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenThe Dolfin-Lin Duo – positively tingling with spontaneous re-discovery!
4 Sept · Peter MechenSPACE JUMP – An exhilarating listening leap from NZTrio into firmament-like territories
14 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenBeethoven in Kelburn resounding in St. Michael’s beautiful church
28 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenNSZO’S Let There Be Light illuminates Saariaho, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky
21 Jun · St James Theatre · Peter MechenAt Last! NZ Opera’s 2021 “take” on Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro makes it to Wellington
5 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenOrchestra Wellington in full “swing” with escapist New York jazz
5 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenNota Bene brings people in for some mellifluous music-making at St.Andrew’s
1 May · Peter MechenBright, Capricious and Colourful – Arohanui Strings’ Benefit Concert at Roseneath, Wellington ’s “Long Hall”
28 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenScriabin and Rachmaninov from Tony Lee – a piano-fancier’s ultimate dream concert?
23 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenTwo far-flung universalities from the Orpheus Choir – Mozart and Christopher Tin
15 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenResonances from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra – suggestive Ravel, effusive Dessner and harrowing Shostakovich
11 Mar · Peter MechenAn anniversary concert with delights aplenty from performers, music and venue – Benjamin Britten’s “Les Illuminations”
19 Nov · Peter MechenDarkness to light never brought so much relief! – from Shostakovich to Mozart via Ross Harris, at Roseneath’s Long Hall
27 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen“One of a kind” WYO/WYS/WYC “EARTH” concert lives up to expectations – and how!
22 Jun · St James Theatre · Peter MechenAtmospheric production, ingratiating voices, gentle updating – NZ Opera’s “La Boheme” in Wellington
2 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenA tantalizing 2025 season’s beginning – from Wellington Chamber Music
8 Apr · Peter MechenJosef Haydn’s meditation on empathy, forgiveness and love from Camerata at St.Peter’s-on-Willis-St., Wellington
17 Mar · St James Theatre · Jennifer ShennanA girdle of dance about the earth – Scottish Ballet meets Royal New Zealand Ballet in Wellington
30 Jan · Adam Concert Room · Peter MechenMichael Houstoun’s Well-Tempered Bach – “through all the tones and semitones”
1 Jan · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenWellington City Orchestra – heartily home-grown with Lilburn and Anthony Ritchie and gloriously global with Inbal Megiddo in Shostakovich
9 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenOrchestra Wellington – heroically fulfilling the need for music
11 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenOrchestra Wellington’s “The Jazz Age” – innovative, big-boned and fulsome!
24 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenWellington City Orchestra’s mix of enchantment and exoticism at St.Andrew’s
11 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenA Cornucopia of musical delights and pianistic thrills from Duo Enharmonics
10 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Maya FieldAndrew Joyce and Jian Liu – a masterclass in ‘Cello and Piano
18 Apr · Public Trust Hall · Peter MechenJane Austen’s “Mansfield Park” – an operatic transfiguration
8 Mar · Peter MechenCD review – Guitarist Matthew Marshall’s “Brighter than Blue’ contains rich and varied rewards
11 Feb · Peter MechenWorlds within and alongside worlds – solo and duo pianists Dénes Várjon and Izabella Simon at Waikanae
2 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenHandel’s “Messiah” – stimulation and distinction for 2023 in Wellington from the Orpheus Choir and Orchestra Wellington
24 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenWorlds of difference and sympathy – rapturous Beethoven and Saint-Saens from the Wellington City Orchestra
22 Apr · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Roger WilsonThe Bach Choir of Wellington – ambitious and imaginative ANZAC concert
12 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenSteadfast Wellington Chamber Orchestra brings off an exhilarating concert to finish an eventful year
8 Dec · Peter Mechen“Roxy” at Te Auaha, from WITCH Music Theatre – a whirl of visceral impressions from Tinseltown’s golden age of movie musicals
10 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rebecca StantonAn Orchestral Feast Showcasing a Rising Star – Peter Gjelsten (violin) with the Wellington Youth Orchestra
13 Aug · Adam Concert Room · Peter MechenMusicam scribo cogito ergo sum! – with a vengeance! – from the remarkable Ghost Trio
25 Jul · Peter MechenMonstrous and idiosynchrophiliac goings-on with Stroma at Wellington’s Bats Theatre
24 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne French“The Long Day Closes” – Mozart, with “Evening Music and Lullabies” from the Bach Choir of Wellington
23 Jul · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Rebecca StantonHenry Purcell’s “Food of Love” at Wellington’s Cathedral of St.Paul
30 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne FrenchStylish, varied and compelling – Inspirare’s tribute to Great Britain’s music
9 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenMegiddo and Thomson present ‘cello-and-piano treasures at St.Andrew’s
24 Apr · Peter MechenCantoris Choir celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with the help of Te Kōkī NZSM Orchestra and Mozart
13 Apr · Peter MechenThe Capital Band in Brooklyn – Pärt, Janáček and Bartók a great workout for the Vogelmorn Hall
23 Nov · Circa Theatre · Peter MechenCinderella (Rogernella? Gingerfella?) the Pantomime, delightfully mixed-up fun at Circa Theatre
23 Sept · Lindis TaylorNew Zealand String Quartet triumphantly reaches the heights of Beethoven’s Late Quartets
25 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenOrchestra Wellington concert triumphs despite first-half technical glitch
20 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis TaylorA piano recital that disabused one of certain beliefs and expectations
10 Mar · Calvin ScottMusical voyages to distant places – Jenny Wollerman with the New Zealand String Quartet
6 Nov · Circa Theatre · Peter MechenHelen Moulder and Sir Jon Trimmer warmly invite all of us to “meet Karpovsky” at Wellington’s Circa Theatre
3 Oct · Opera House · Peter MechenEnthralling and disturbing – NZ Opera’s take on Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw”
7 Apr · Circa Theatre · Peter MechenThe Children – redefining well-being as responsibility, at Circa Theatre
10 Mar · Lindis TaylorMichael Endres surrounds Schubert with varied companion pieces at Mulled Wine concert
13 Dec · Peter MechenCamerata’s latest “Haydn in the Church” concert – joyous antiphonal splendours, heart-rending beauties and al fresco hi-jinks!
16 Nov · Hannah Playhouse · Peter MechenEternity Opera sings triumphantly once again at Wellington’s Hannah Playhouse – Puccini’s Madam Butterfly
27 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis TaylorGreat performances of unfamiliar Bartók and major Dvořák introduced by young geniuses
13 Oct · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Rosemary CollierChoral concert to celebrate new digital organ at Cathedral of Saint Paul
15 Sept · St Mary of the Angels · Peter MechenInspirare’s partnership with Youth Choirs a resounding success
9 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenOrchestra Wellington – a “Golden” beginning to its 2018 season
16 Mar · Opera House · Peter MechenOrpheus – a Dance Drama – beautiful, complex and thought-provoking work from Michael Parmenter
22 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis TaylorA polished and scrupulously studied recital by male vocal quartet, Aurora IV
9 Nov · Rosemary CollierExcellent concert, with the old and the new, from NZTrio in a different City Gallery space
24 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis TaylorEntertaining concert, mixing symphony with jazz and a witty film score from Wellington Chamber Orchestra
31 Aug · Adam Concert Room · Peter MechenCamerata’s beguiling “What’s in a name?” concert of Haydn and Mozart
3 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenSchubert Concert at St.Andrews promises a weekend’s abundance
15 Mar · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Peter MechenGareth Farr’s Relict Furies – resonant and moving at Wellington Cathedral
20 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenWelllington Chamber Orchestra – significant, important, moving……
19 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenPopular for the best reason – the NZSO’s Classical Hits Concert
28 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter MechenCathedrals and landscapes – delight and awe with the NZSO
20 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis TaylorOrchestra Wellington in irresistible, largely Russian programme plus multi-cultural esoterica
8 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary CollierHoustoun’s stupendous feat in first of the final trilogy of Beethoven sonata recitals
12 Aug · Wellington Town Hall · Peter MechenYoung musicians’ mid-winter warm-up with Mozart and Rachmaninov
4 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis TaylorAdventurous and rewarding recital by Richard Mapp and Donald Maurice
28 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary CollierI Musici: highly accomplished performances of mainly light-weight music
19 Nov · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis TaylorBrilliant French programme with Anne Sophie von Otter and Wellington Orchestra at Town Hall
10 Dec · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Rosemary CollierOrganist Richard Apperley celebrates Advent and Christmas
20 Nov · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter MechenFestival Singers delight with Rossini’s “Little, Solemn Mass”
28 Aug · St Mary of the Angels · Peter MechenNew Zealand String Quartet: Schumann put in the shade by Shostakovich……
17 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis TaylorA St Patrick’s Day ensemble: clarinet, piano and strings
23 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis TaylorBlythe Press, violin, in Chausson, Prokofiev and Pärt
23 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis TaylorWellington Regional Aria Contest: Dame Malvina Major Prize
21 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter MechenA Mozart Double Bill – Boutique Opera and N.Z.Opera Society
19 Apr · St Mary of the Angels · Lindis TaylorChristopher Hainsworth at the organ of St Mary of the Angels