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143 reviews

2026 · 10

30 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Nature and art, architecture and philosophy – Orchestra Wellington’s epic 2026 “Revelations”

23 Oct · Peter Mechen

Spirit of Youth effervesces and overflows at Wellington Youth Orchestras’ combined 2026 concert

26 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington City Orchestra spinning musical tales of adventure, love and vengeance

30 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington’s “Creation” concert boldly crosses cultures and genres

21 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

A feast of classic and contemporary Finnish music – from Pietari Inkinen and the NZSO

28 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NSZO’S Let There Be Light illuminates Saariaho, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky

2 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Virtuosi – Orchestra Wellington’s celebration of the capital’s individual and interactive instrumental brilliance

26 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

A world-encircling winter solstice concert compendium – from the Wellington City Orchestra

24 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO reaches for Mahler’s “Titan” via Ades and Korngold

1 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Music from the memory, in the air and on the wing – all from Wellington City Orchestra’s opening 2026 concert!

2025 · 6

9 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS – Wellington City Orchestra’s congress of assorted realities

22 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO’s Symphonic Dances concert explores Nature, Life and Love

24 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

ENEMY OF THE STATE – a multivaried concert experience with Psathas, Glazunov and Shostakovich

25 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington City Orchestra – a Matariki celebration of nature, legend and art

30 May · Peter Mechen

John Psathas’s “Leviathan” – genre-defying and irresistible

15 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Musical Prodigy Night for Orchestra Wellington

2024 · 6

1 Jan · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington City Orchestra – heartily home-grown with Lilburn and Anthony Ritchie and gloriously global with Inbal Megiddo in Shostakovich

21 Oct · Peter Mechen

Wellington’s Youth Orchestras show the way through is together!

24 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington City Orchestra’s mix of enchantment and exoticism at St.Andrew’s

18 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Revisiting Romance with Orchestra Wellington

8 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington and Marc Taddei – legacy of The Classical Style

4 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington’s “The Grand Gesture” presentation casts its spell

2023 · 9

20 Oct · Peter Mechen

Haydn and Mozart Camerata’s perfect fellow-churchgoers at Wellington’s St.Peter’s-0n-Willis

10 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Anton Webern steals the show! – Orchestra Wellington and Marc Taddei with “Pharaoh”

17 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Evocations of Spain, from Ewan Clark and the Wellington City Orchestra

5 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington’s “Prophecy” – promise and fulfilment by young composers

23 Jul · Peter Mechen

Expressions of joyful energies – JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos from the Amici Ensemble

24 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Worlds of difference and sympathy – rapturous Beethoven and Saint-Saens from the Wellington City Orchestra

3 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Myth and Ritual in everyday life – from Orchestra Wellington

11 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Tribute to Souvenirs, Sovereigns and Soulmates from the NZSO

15 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Fundamentally thrilling – Orchestra Wellington

2022 · 10

15 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

The River of Youth – Arohanui Strings and Orchestra Wellington

1 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

A concert of “music from then and now” with the NZSO

1 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rebecca Stanton

Masterworks from the WYO

24 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Popular and enterprising fare from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

20 Sept · Opera House · Steven Sedley

Music to celebrate an anniversary of international friendship

17 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Towards a new Romantic language

20 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

A Springful of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” music, from Orchestra Wellington

6 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

NZSO under New management

4 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

The band is back – NZSO with Hilary Hahn and Gemma New

11 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Rhapsody and Rapture

2021 · 10

12 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Steadfast Wellington Chamber Orchestra brings off an exhilarating concert to finish an eventful year

17 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington under Taddei with Adam Page triumphant in Psathas’s saxophone ‘concerto’

12 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Amalia Hall splendidly embodies Virtuoso Violin with Orchestra Wellington

18 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

“Strings for Africa” joyously fill the vistas of St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace

15 May · Peter Mechen

Welington Youth Orchestra and Mark Carter with violinist Lucas Baker – a Transatlantic treat!

1 May · Peter Mechen

Camerata at St.Peter’s-on-Willis does Haydn (and others) proud…..

17 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Wellington Chamber Orchestra’s Mendelssohn and Shostakovich make for stimulating contrast

8 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Music of magical flight – Palmer, Mozart and Stravinsky from the NZSO

26 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO launches into 2021 determined, with a splendid, dynamic programme to evade Covid 19

20 Feb · Peter Mechen

Camerata – continuing the joy of new discovery with Haydn at St.Peter’s-on-Willis.St Church

2020 · 18

13 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

End of the musical year for Wellington Chamber Orchestra with an Emperor and Franck’s symphony

8 Dec · Peter Mechen

Compelling Beethoven recordings from Eugene Albulescu

5 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Orchestra Wellington: huge percussion resources exploited in Psathas masterpiece from Olympus complemented by huge Rachmaninov symphony

2 Dec · Peter Mechen

Gareth Farr’s “Chemin des Dames” Concerto and Elgar’s ‘Cello Concerto together a powerful “concerted” statement on disc

20 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO with three widely varied works: two masterpieces and a charming, approachable New Zealand concerto

15 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Belated rapture from Orchestra Wellington’s “Rachmaninov 1”, but well worth the wait…..

9 Nov · Public Trust Hall · Peter Mechen

Warm response for an innovative “Seen-and-Heard” Kristallnacht Concert at Wellington’s Public Trust Hall

31 Oct · St Mary of the Angels · Lindis Taylor

Remarkable NZSO concert of Bach family music inspired by Vesa-Matti Leppänen, Diedre Irons and Andrew Joyce

17 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington and Sistema Orchestra Hutt Valley in varied and colourful concert

5 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

A programme of brilliantly scored Romantic era music from Wellington Youth Orchestra

27 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO’s “Eroica” programme title lives up to its name at Wellington’s MFC

26 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington delivers spectacular concert of two great classics and a major New Zealand work

26 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

NZSM Orchestra with conductor Hamish McKeich showcases achievements by 2020 award-winning composer and instrumentalist at St.Andrew’s-on-The-Terrace, Wellington

30 Jul · Adam Concert Room · Peter Mechen

NZSM Concerto Competition – an evening of elegance, frisson and feeling

8 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

“Emperor of Composers” – an eponymous Piano Concerto and a lovely Symphony, “live” from the NZSO

20 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

A beautiful “Mozart hat-trick” from Orchestra Wellington

13 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington’s second concert featuring Mozart violin concertos and city-named symphonies

9 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · admin

Orchestra Wellington restores live music to the city with Mozart at St Andrews

2019 · 14

17 Dec · Steven Sedley

Large audience for a delightful concert by Camerata chamber orchestra

8 Dec · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Chamber Orchestra succeeds with Šinkovec Burstin in Grieg piano concerto, and other Nordic classics

30 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Enthusiastic reception by big audience for Orchestra Wellington’s final 2019 concert of remarkable but unfamiliar music

24 Nov · Peter Mechen

“Cello for Africa” at Porirua City a spectacular and moving multi-cultural collaborative event

8 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO: Salonen’s Violin Concerto points in a fruitful, inspiring direction; Schubert’s Greatness persists through 200 years

24 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Admirable NZSO concert touching several rewarding themes: all German apart from Ken Young’s new piece

20 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Delightful, delicious, and declamatory – a “no-holds-barred” night with Marc Taddei and Orchestra Wellington

21 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Orchestra Wellington succeeds with an odd programme of important, challenging and beautiful works

7 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Percussion-driven “Carmina Burana” with the Orpheus Choir a triumph

2 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Innovative, adventurous, AND intensely musical!! – “Pictures” with Orchestra Wellington and Marc Taddei

30 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Worlds within worlds brought to us by the Wellington Chamber Orchestra, with The Tasman Trio and Kenneth Young

20 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

NZSO marks Blake’s retirement with his haunting ‘Angel at Ahipara’, plus splendid Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky

8 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

The NZSO “reclaims the night” for Baroque composers at St.Andrew’s on-The-Terrace, Wellington

6 May · Opera House · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington takes Vivaldi and Piazzolla to Upper Hutt with great success

2018 · 9

1 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Creative, thrilling and heart-warming conclusion to Orchestra Wellington’s 2018 season

27 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Great performances of unfamiliar Bartók and major Dvořák introduced by young geniuses

26 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Exuberance and poetry from pianist and conductor Lars Vogt with the NZSO

2 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

300 years of riches from the NZSM Orchestra – What is it about Bartok’s Second Violin Concerto this year?

7 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington’s “The Prophecy” a remarkable musical journey

24 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Dvořák with Rolf Gjelsten wins all hearts at Wellington Chamber Orchestra concert

9 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington – a “Golden” beginning to its 2018 season

12 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Vivaldi triumphs in the NZSO’s Italian celebration

17 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

NZSM Orchestra’s “Triple” celebration with the Te Kōkī Trio

2017 · 12

10 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Admirable Sibelius as well as Lilburn and a rare trombone concerto from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

29 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Lindis Taylor

Imposing commemoration of 500th anniversary of Lutheran Reformation

27 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Rachmaninov – jubilation and bitterness, but sheer poetry from Joyce Yang

4 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

“The Three Altos” – scenes of glory and achievement for the viola here in Wellington

14 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Adventurous, quirky, energetic – a musical-life experience for the 2017 NZSONYO

7 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Jeux, Debussy’s quiet revolutionary, steals Orchestra Wellington’s show

2 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Magical Mendelssohn and tempestuous Tchaikovsky from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

17 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Schumann and Barber – adventurous and absorbing sounds from the NZSO, with Daniel Müller-Schott

13 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

“Firebird” from Orchestra Wellington an incendiary experience

5 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Aotearoa Plus from the NZSO set alight by Gareth Farr premiere

9 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Magisterial performances from Siyu Sun (piano) and the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

7 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Adams and Mozart (and Martin Fröst) inspire de Waart and the NZSO

2016 · 8

4 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Shaken but not stirred – Wellington Chamber Orchestra’s “Peter and the Wolf” and other delights

29 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Edo de Waart and Ronald Brautigam confirm stature: symphonic conductor and Mozartian pianist

11 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington Youth Orchestra and Simon Brew – playing for keeps

3 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

“Orchestras Unite” – a brilliant success for youthful Wellington musicians

31 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Music Futures diverting showcase for rising young musicians

3 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Stunning clarinet playing and a “Great” symphony courtesy of the WCO

16 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Full house for Edo de Waart and the NZSO in magnificent Eroica and an epic Double Concerto by Brahms

10 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Committed and successful concert of Russian classics from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

2015 · 12

20 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Rites of Spring – from the sublime to “cor blimey” in all respects

7 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Providence delivers the goods, courtesy of Houstoun, fireworks and Orchestra Wellington

30 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

An experience to be savoured – Kari Kriikku with the NZSO

19 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Hamish McKeich’s final WYO concert a knockout

1 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Worlds of Music – Lilburn, Vaughan Williams and Mozart from the NZSM Orchestra

20 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Welllington Chamber Orchestra – significant, important, moving……

5 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Breaking the concert mould, with fateful results – Orchestra Wellington

28 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Cathedrals and landscapes – delight and awe with the NZSO

8 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Rarities and a classic of Russian music from Orchestra Wellington

10 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Brilliance, poetry, power and passion from Trpčeski, Petrenko and the NZSO

28 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington Chamber Orchestra rounds on Beethoven with Mozart

29 Mar · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Ambitious and satisfying concert from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

2014 · 8

7 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – a wonderful concert and a promising conducting debut

8 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Musicians join in with the fireworks in Wellington

10 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestral spectaculars from the NZSO – and a 2015 sneak-preview

8 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Masters of whole worlds: Mozart and Mahler with the NZSO

6 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Anniversaries, celebrations and NZ premieres – NZSM Orchestra at St.Andrew’s

4 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Aspects of nature, life and love, from the NZSM Orchestra

17 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Passion, poetry and valediction from the NZSO

13 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Splendour and Strife from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

2013 · 5

9 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

“Un spectacle fantastique” from orchestra and fireworks

29 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – after the First Cuckoo……

14 Apr · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

“Round the Horn” – Wellington Chamber Orchestra and Samuel Jacobs

13 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO’s “Home is where the Heart is….”

9 Apr · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Britten, Milhaud and Tchaikovsky from the NZSM Orchestra

2012 · 4

2 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Worlds Old and New, from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

10 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

JS Bach and Mahler – worlds of sensibility from Inkinen and the NZSO

13 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Nicola Benedetti and the NZSO show their class

1 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Peter Mechen

Triple the pleasure and more at St.Andrew’s

2011 · 2

18 Sept · Peter Mechen

Dream team together on record – Trpčeski, Petrenko and Rachmaninov

11 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen