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2026 · 14

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

9 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms – music of free and sonorous measure!

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

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

17 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington’s “Colossal” triumphantly ticks all the descriptive and presentation boxes

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

19 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

RADIANCE, from the NZSO with Simon O’Neill (tenor) and Pietari Inkinen (conductor) – two glimpses of Richard Wagner’s youth-to-maturity journey as an innovative opera composer.

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

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

Wellington Youth Orchestra with Mark Carter serves up an orchestral feast.

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 · 10

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

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

2 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO’s night of beauty and splendour with Berlioz and Bruckner

25 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Music from Home and Abroad – for its time and for all time

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

30 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

THE SHOCK OF THE NEW REVISITED – New Zealand premieres from Orchestra Wellington

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

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

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

Wellington Youth Orchestra – revels ceremonial and fantastical

28 Apr · Peter Mechen

Delicious, profound and adventurous – an irresistible orchestral feast from the Wellington City Orchestra

15 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Musical Prodigy Night for Orchestra Wellington

2024 · 9

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

9 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington – heroically fulfilling the need for music

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

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

Wellington City Orchestra sounds a classy farewell to conductor Rachel Hyde

20 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Conductor Han-Na-Chang’s NZSO debut in music by Leonie Holmes, Richard Strauss and Pyotr Tchaikovsky

4 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

2023 · 12

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

27 Jul · St James Theatre · Peter Mechen

Celebrating 70 Years – Royal New Zealand Ballet’s “Lightscapes”

30 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Bravo NYO!

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

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

Wellington Youth Orchestra take on Verdi, Grieg and Tchaikovsky

28 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Magnificent Endurance

15 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Fundamentally thrilling – Orchestra Wellington

31 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Mirror of the World – Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony in Wellington

2022 · 12

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

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

7 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

A state of extreme delight

4 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

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

31 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Plaudits for the Wellington Youth Orchestra with Donald Maurice

11 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

Rhapsody and Rapture

28 May · Rebecca Stanton

“Packed (and) buzzing” audience acclaim Wellington Chamber Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Concert

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

Wellington Youth Orchestra – an appealing programme delivered with rich orchestral sound

2021 · 19

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

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

25 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Brahms’ Schicksalslied gives its name to a programme of uplifting music from the NZSO

5 Nov · Peter Mechen

Dramatic and innovative Haydn in the Church from Camerata with soprano Carleen Ebbs

31 Jul · Peter Mechen

Wellington Youth Orchestra and Andrew Joyce take on quintessential Beethoven and Dvořák

17 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

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

11 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Anne French

A girdle about the earth from Antarctica to Leningrad – the NZSO National Youth Orchestra concert

10 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

The NZSO’s “The Rite of Spring” replete with anniversaries and commemorations

4 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Anne French

Spacious, enraptured, beautiful – Wellington Chamber Orchestra with Baroque Voices and Nota Bene

19 Jun · Peter Mechen

The Capital Band’s “Strange Meetings” a resounding musical success

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!

14 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Holly Mathieson’s “Dream” debut concert with the NZSO….

1 May · Peter Mechen

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

24 Apr · Peter Mechen

Cantoris Choir celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with the help of Te Kōkī NZSM Orchestra and Mozart

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

11 Feb · Peter Mechen

A new film commemorates the 1941 Babiy Yar Massacre of Ukraine Jews by the Nazis

2020 · 28

22 Dec · Peter Mechen

Now on CD! – Claire Cowan’s incandescent score for the RNZB’s recent “Hansel and Gretel”, played by the NZSO with Hamish McKeich

18 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

At last! – the 2020 NZSO National Youth Orchestra gets to show what it can do

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

5 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

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

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…..

14 Nov · Lindis Taylor

Another entertaining Shed Concert from the NZSO touching the Weimar era

7 Nov · Peter Mechen

Adventurous programming and bold concert presentation from The Capital Band, at Vogelmorn Hall, Brooklyn

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

24 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

“Timeless” classics with a twist – latest in the NZSO’s “Podium” Series

17 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

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

9 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

THe NZSO’s “Monumental” concert…..counting the ways

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

20 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Chamber Orchestra justifies attention to neglected Schumann symphonies, among some less triumphant performances

5 Sept · Peter Mechen

A memorable debut by a new ensemble – “The Capital Band” presents works by Mozart and Schubert

20 Aug · Peter Mechen

Camerata’s latest Haydn in the Church concert elegantly “framed” by youthful endeavours

6 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

Simon O’Neill generates plenty of “Spirit” in NZSO Podium Series Concert

8 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

26 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

First in the world with a normal public concert : NZSO’s record, celebrating the emergence from Covid 19 lock-down

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

21 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO, Gorecki and Ponifasio/MAU share singularly successful juxtaposing of utterly disparate creations, of profound common human vulnerabilities

9 Feb · Lindis Taylor

Michael Houstoun bows out triumphantly at Waikanae in the company of the Amici Ensemble

31 Jan · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Big audience for the first NZSO Shed series avoiding the mainstream classics

2019 · 38

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

22 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Gustav Mahler’s heartfelt expression of existentialist optimism given resplendent treatment by the NZSO and departing Music Director Edo de Waart

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

10 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

HK Gruber’s critique of classical music with the NZSO a hit with a younger, if smaller, audience

6 Oct · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

Accomplished performances from Wellington Youth Orchestra with talented Asaki Watanabe in Bruch concerto

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

Ken Young’s final outing with the NZSM Orchestra with a new composition and a concerto with a gifted violinist

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

Versions….and versions – Beethoven, Mahler (orch. Michael Vinten) and Bruckner, from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

21 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

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

6 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Asher Fisch, Louis Lortie and the NZSO in splendid form with classical masterpieces

31 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Two sides of a genius – Beethoven’s Eighth and Ninth Symphonies from Edo de Waart and the NZSO

30 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Compelling, relentless performances of Beethoven’s sixth and seventh symphonies continue the NZSO’s festival

29 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

And then we heard……Symphonies Four and Five from the NZSO in its Beethoven-fest……

28 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Rewarding start to the NZSO’s Beethoven Festival from Edo de Waart

9 Aug · Lindis Taylor

Third of NZSO’s Shed series delivers some hits, some misses, and a couple of real successes

8 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Camerata continues exploring Haydn with an aside to Mozart: charm and surprises

2 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

28 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Steven Sedley

The best drawn from Wellington Youth Orchestra in taxing programme under Donald Armstrong

13 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Splendid, richly satisfying NZSO concert of four strongly contrasted works played with mastery and conviction

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

6 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington – gone vinyl to splendid effect with live Beethoven

30 May · Hannah Playhouse · Steven Sedley

Stroma enhances Wellington with music inspired by where sea meets sky

25 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington’s triumphant concert of two last completed works by great composers

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

NZSM Orchestra speaks its concert presentation’s name with skill and conviction at St.Andrew’s

18 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Steven Sedley

A beautiful concert of Romantic symphonic music from the NZSO under Thomas Søndergård

10 May · Lindis Taylor

Adventurous, surprising, unorthodox, informal concert by the NZSO in a waterfront shed

6 May · Opera House · Lindis Taylor

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

29 Apr · admin

Darth Vader, Storm Troopers, The Millenium Falcon… and the NZSO. Sounds unlikely? Don’t judge it until you’ve heard it.

13 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Edo de Waart’s NZSO subscription concert full of charm and affection with Brahms, Elgar and Strauss

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

Soloists steal the show with Mozart’s K.364 at Wellington Chamber Orchestra’s inspiring concert

30 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Art-to-music realisations, a royal farewelling, and interplanetary evocations – all in an evening’s work for the NZSO

27 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO’s season-opening concert splendid, popular programme under Hamish McKeich

1 Feb · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Peter Mechen

NZSO’s Telemann/Handel presentation at Wellington Cathedral – spectacle before music?

31 Jan · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Big audience for the first NZSO Shed series avoiding the mainstream classics

2018 · 33

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra with rewarding and interesting music from Britain and Armenia

3 Dec · Opera House · Peter Mechen

An “Enchanted Evening” from The Virtuoso Strings with Jonathan Lemalu

1 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

23 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO in splendid Beethoven: the first and the last, under Edo de Waart

9 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Edo de Waart reaffirms his comprehensive Mahlerian authority and insight with Number Seven

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

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

Admirable concert of well-chosen music from Wellington Youth Orchestra under Mark Carter

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

Monumental NZSO concert of Russian masterpieces with cellist Johannes Moser

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?

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

Exotic, rhapsodic, gruesome and tragic – Wellington Chamber Orchestra with conductor Andrew Atkins and Thomas Nikora (piano)

19 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Strong, exemplary student performances of string orchestra masterpieces

15 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Some great hits from NZSO’s popular classics concert; a win by a big margin

24 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Rachmaninov and Stravinsky – not such strange bedfellows, courtesy of de Waart and the NZSO

19 Aug · Peter Mechen

East and West mingle at Wellington Youth Orchestra Concert

18 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO triumphs with brilliant Beethoven and Brahms masterpieces

11 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Third fine Orchestra Wellington concert, unthemed but with Dvořák 7, a great success

13 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Trpčeski’s emphatic restoration of Grieg concerto and a blazing Shostakovich Tenth from Martín and NZSO

7 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

6 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Jaime Martín and National Youth Orchestra on full throttle as percussion and brass deliver excitement and panache

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

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

23 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO in splendid form under Harth-Bedoya with Brahms and Tchaikovsky

16 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Lawrence Renes, NZSO and Simon O’Neill in superb Wagner songs and monumental Bruckner 4th

9 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

14 May · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Wellington Youth Orchestra goes for broke with Beethoven

12 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Vivaldi triumphs in the NZSO’s Italian celebration

11 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Spectacular centenary concert for Leonard Bernstein from the NZSO

21 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Sasha Cooke’s entrancing Berlioz songs, a bewitching premiere and masterpieces of Debussy and Ravel: thanks to De Waart and the NZSO

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

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

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra in interesting Alfred Hill exploratory mode

6 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

De Waart and NZSO: Brilliant Mozart two piano concerto and epic Mahler performance

4 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

National Youth Orchestra’s summer concert a brilliant showcase for cellist Balzat in Elgar concerto

2 Feb · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Rosemary Collier

NZSO opens the musical year with Bach, Rameau and Locatelli

2017 · 35

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

Legal choristers and instrumentalists in anniversary class action supporting child cancer campaign

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

2 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Cataclysmic conclusion to Orchestra Wellington’s Diaghilev season

18 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

NZSO players in special concert under Aisslinn Nosky with Baroque masters

10 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Edo de Waart and NZSO in deeply assimilated music of Brahms, Wagner and Sibelius (with Janine Jansen)

4 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Orchestra Wellington out-performs the fireworks with a stunning “Petrouchka”

27 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

23 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Outstanding concert to mark disasters at Aberfan and the Pike River: music by Schubert and Karl Jenkins

10 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Excellent NZSO concert – Berlioz, Elgar and Tchaikovsky – draws disappointing audience

24 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Entertaining concert, mixing symphony with jazz and a witty film score from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

9 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington with scintillating programme: Grieg piano concerto midst spectacular orchestral waltzes

4 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

25 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO and Edo de Waart’s outstanding performance of Damnation of Faust

12 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Bruch’s violin concerto and Beethoven’s Seventh survive another (splendid) exposure as great works

11 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Mahler, Berg – and Salina Fisher, from the NZSO – music of innocence and experience

5 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Astonishing performance of complete Daphnis et Chloé ballet music, plus a Schumann allusion

1 Aug · Peter Mechen

Beauty, poignancy, energy, focus – Kenneth Young’s CD “Shadows and Light”

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

Exuberant and popular performances by Wellington Youth Orchestra

29 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Splendid Bartók; evocative New Zealand piece; guitarist substitution perhaps not a misfortune

14 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

8 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Magnificent NZSO concert, with percussionist Colin Currie, under James MacMillan

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

23 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Youth Orchestra in winning performances, especially Brahms No 1

20 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Splendid NZSO concert with a greatly gifted cellist and young conductor prodigy

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

3 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Renowned Bach scholar and conductor Suzuki with fine baroque ensemble Juilliard415

28 Apr · Lindis Taylor

Further excellent exploratory concert into delightful quasi-juvenile symphonies

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

26 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Strauss’s final tone poem a mighty opening for the NZSO’s 2017 season

6 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

The NZSO at seventy with an inspired programme for a full house

8 Feb · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

St Andrew’s opens 2017 lunchtime concerts with enjoyable baroque concert

2016 · 25

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

15 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington’s fifth concert excels with last works of Berlioz, Bartok and Tchaikovsky (almost)

8 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

America: NZSO performances of brilliant new violin concerto plus Dvořák in New York and Reich in minimalist heaven

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

High drama, pastoral beauty and symphonic grandeur from the WCO with Michael Vinten

10 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Schubert’s “Great”, and Mahler-Berg connections explored brilliantly by Wilma Smith and Orchestra Wellington

20 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington, Orpheus Choir, clarinet in brilliant Mozartian form

6 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO and Christiane Libor in wonderful Strauss songs and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

5 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Diverting, accomplished, baroque concert from Auckland’s NZBarok on a cold night

3 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

30 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Full success for three works at Edo de Waart’s first Strauss excursion of his tenure

16 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Enthusiasm for Orchestra Wellington, with Anna Leese, in war-time masterpieces by Strauss

8 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Youth and experience together produce brilliant and heartfelt Messiaen

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

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

17 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Popular Russian orchestral show-piece, unfamiliar cello concerto and colourful, Hungarian, folk-based music

11 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Triumphant concert from Orchestra Wellington and Orpheus Choir: Beethoven and Haydn

13 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Memorable NZSO concert with rising young conductor and acclaimed pianist

10 May · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Vibrant and wholehearted – Wellington Youth Orchestra and ‘cellist Matthias Balzat

7 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

The Orpheus Choir and Orchestra Wellington at Sea with Brent Stewart

6 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO ‘wastes its sweetness upon the desert air’ with some splendid, approachable, 21st century music

21 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO and Madeleine Pierard with Ross Harris’s anguished Second Symphony to mark ANZAC Day

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

14 Apr · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

After fifty-seven years of public neglect – Farquhar’s First Symphony from the NZSM and Ken Young

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

Committed and successful concert of Russian classics from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

2 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

A view of the world – Edo de Waart and the NZSO

2015 · 25

4 Dec · Opera House · Lindis Taylor

A few days in Sydney for opera and symphony

20 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

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

13 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Wonderful NZSO programme of masterpieces from the heartland of classical music

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

28 Oct · Rosemary Collier

Sistema Hutt Valley’s Arohanui Strings and related ensembles offer wonderful example

19 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Peter Mechen

Hamish McKeich’s final WYO concert a knockout

19 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Popular for the best reason – the NZSO’s Classical Hits Concert

12 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Memorable, glamorous, musically interesting evening with Renée Fleming and the NZSO

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

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

Praiseworthy, adventurous concert from Tawa Orchestra moves into foreign parts

13 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Triumphant farewell to Inkinen with a neglected Sibelius masterpiece and standing ovation

29 May · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Youth Orchestra under Hamish McKeich with winning Brahms and Rachmaninov

28 May · Rosemary Collier

A new Baroque ensemble on a cold evening at Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, musical strengths, but…

19 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

School of Music Orchestra wins audience delight with demanding programme

1 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO with Lilburn’s Symphony No 2, his successor’s impressive piece plus striking Swedish composer and trombonist

27 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO and Sydney Symphony Orchestra in moving shared ANZAC concert of new works by composers of both countries

18 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington on brilliant form opens six-concert series dominated by Tchaikovsky, Michael Houstoun and Russia

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

Ambitious and satisfying concert from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

29 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

Spectacular NZSO concert with violinist Janine Jansen in the Tchaikovsky

14 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Bravos for the second of Freddy Kempf’s Beethoven concerto concerts with the NZSO

2014 · 36

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

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

21 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

A divided NZSO with a breathtaking cellist in a sparkling touring programme for the South Island

15 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington ends its year in blaze of irreverent glory

8 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Musicians join in with the fireworks in Wellington

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

Wellington Youth Orchestra’s final, tumultuous concert for 2014

10 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

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

7 Sept · Opera House · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington confirms its vital role in city’s musical life with wonderful Haydn and Mahler

25 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Searing contribution from the WYO to “Recovering Forbidden Voices”

9 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

Imaginative programme of too rarely played masterpieces from Orchestra Wellington

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

2 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Unexciting, lowpowered NZSO programme under Alexander Shelley yields riches after all

18 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO National Youth Orchestra 2014 tackles showpieces with a will

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – nostalgia, high spirits and adventure

27 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO under Venezuelan conductor triumphs with essential German and Russian masterpieces

22 Jun · Opera House · Peter Mechen

Gamut of emotions – Orchestra Wellington’s second 2014 concert

15 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Choral Symphony in a triumphant end to NZSO’s monumental Beethoven symphony cycle

14 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

In the marvellous heartland of Beethoven’s symphonies: concert No 3

13 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Beethoven from Inkinen and the NZSO – the excitement continued…..

12 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Great start to NZSO’s Beethoven festival with the first three symphonies

8 Jun · Lindis Taylor

Tawa’s orchestra tackles substantial programme under lively young conductor

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

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

24 May · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Orchestra Wellington confirms its stature in large scale late Romantic as well as Haydn, and honours Franz Paul Decker

17 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Passion, poetry and valediction from the NZSO

9 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

James MacMillan conducts NZSO in his own and Cresswell’s music of the past twenty years

3 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO scores a success in recent music delving some of the world’s tragedies

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

Splendour and Strife from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

5 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Audience gives enthusiastic reception to splendid NZSO concert

28 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

NZSO with Farr’s first piano concerto plus Respighi celebrating Rome

25 Mar · Sacred Heart Cathedral · admin

Rich opportunities for NZSM Orchestra’s youthful freshness, commitment, poetry and dynamism

13 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Triumphant finish to the NZSO’s ‘Five by Five’ lunchtime venture

10 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Marc Taddei and NZSO with a splendid Sibelius Fifth

7 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

Festival’s return to lunchtime concerts, now with the NZSO and Tchaikovsky, a triumph

3 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Schubert with the NZSO – head held high in symphonic company

25 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Beethoven blazes to the front of the NZSO’s ‘Five by Five’ symphony series

6 Feb · Te Papa · Lindis Taylor

Scintillating Te Papa concert by National Youth Orchestra

2013 · 25

8 Dec · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · admin

Promising orchestral concert: excellent Ritchie, problematic Mozart

17 Nov · Opera House · admin

Orchestra Wellington – breathlessly exciting Beethoven and Bernstein

9 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

“Un spectacle fantastique” from orchestra and fireworks

12 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

NZSO’s “Tall Tales and Tangos” musically resplendent but dramatically inert

8 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Rosemary Collier

NZSM Orchestra serves composers well, with a star cello soloist

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

Courageous Wellington Youth Orchestra tackles enterprising programme amid space difficulties

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – after the First Cuckoo……

8 Sept · Opera House · Peter Mechen

Fancies and realities from Orchestra Wellington

30 Aug · Lindis Taylor

Admirable performances from Kapiti orchestra under Ken Young and hornist Ed Allen

9 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

Mozart from the NZSO – magical music and music-making

29 Jul · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

Fine Choral Symphony from Wellington Youth Orchestra, but where’s the audience?

28 Jul · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Contemplations of life and death from disparate times and nations

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

Enterprising take on the year’s anniversaries with Wellington Chamber Orchestra

5 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Magnificent Nordic programme from NZSO, Vänskä and Currie

14 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Antipodean stargazing and planetwatching from the NZSO

28 May · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

Twin Peaks – a concert of Verdi and Wagner

26 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Orchestra of Swing, courtesy of “The Duke”

17 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Larks and serious business, with Yevgeny Sudbin and the NZSO

11 May · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

Wellington Youth Orchestra trumps with Shostakovich

10 May · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

NZSO performs Hear and Far, but all contemporary, to warm reception

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

22 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO’s “Bolero” – well-wrought excitement and elegant ecstasy

8 Feb · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Youthful brilliance from the NZSO National Youth Orchestra

2012 · 31

7 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Freddy Kempf’s Gershwin with the NZSO – poet-pianist with a brilliant orchestra

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

Worlds Old and New, from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

17 Nov · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Orchestra with its end-of-year winnings musically and in survival

11 Nov · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Youth Sinfonietta paves the way to orchestral careers

10 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · admin

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

21 Oct · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Music-making with virtuosity, beauty and energy at Wellington Youth Orchestra’s last 2012 outing

13 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Nicola Benedetti and the NZSO show their class

9 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

‘Close encounters’: NZSO’s admirable enterprise to get good music on to the street

22 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Litton and Hough combine with the NZSO to present an exhilarating concert

16 Sept · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Orchestral rarities in impressive performances from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

1 Sept · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Gendall’s Triple Concerto perplexing highlight of Wellington Orchestra concert

22 Aug · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

NZSM Orchestra cover themsleves with glory in Debussy and Mahler

17 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Dancing in the Cathedral – Mozart and Bruckner from Simone Young and the NZSO

12 Aug · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Young musicians’ mid-winter warm-up with Mozart and Rachmaninov

14 Jul · Lindis Taylor

NZSO plays benefit concert for Anna van der Zee and her family

4 Jul · Wellington Cathedral of St Paul · Rosemary Collier

Fine touring youth orchestra from California victim of certain difficulties

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

Triple the pleasure and more at St.Andrew’s

23 Jun · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Wellington Orchestra’s musical haggis

1 Jun · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

Spellbound by NZSO and the organ of Olivier Latry

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

Rhapsodic strains from the NZSM Orchestra with Kenneth Young

25 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Wonderland in name and deed – Made In New Zealand

5 May · Peter Mechen

Hutt Valley Orchestra – “What did you say they were playing?….!”

4 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO’s welcome exposé of Schumann symphony and Elgar’s cello concerto

20 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO and Pietari Inkinen all at sea

14 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Triumphant NZSO concert by Inkinen in Mahler, Stravinsky and Lilburn

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

Highly enterprising concert from School of Music Orchestra

24 Mar · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

NZSO Soloists and a kaleidoscopic “Carmen”

17 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Splendid concert from the summer sessions of the National Youth Orchestra

11 Feb · Lindis Taylor

A few hours of sun as the annual concert at Government House garden returns

1 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Perry So and John Chen illuminate NZSO’s Chinese New Year

31 Jan · Peter Mechen

Tribute to Kurt Sanderling from ICA Classics

2011 · 42

15 Dec · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Peter Walls’s years as NZSO’s chief ends with excellent didactic performance

14 Dec · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

Adventurous and educational leaving-taking by NZSO’s conductor-chief executive

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

Accomplished playing from Wellington Chamber Orchestra

19 Nov · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Brilliant French programme with Anne Sophie von Otter and Wellington Orchestra at Town Hall

5 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Flawed silent film, Metropolis, with original score in splendid NZSO realisation

15 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Audience cheers the last of the NZSO’s Brahms concerts

14 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Brahmissimo: Third concert with 3rd symphony and 1st piano concerto: magnificent

13 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

Brahmissimo! The second concert with the violin concerto

12 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO triumphs in Brahms festival with Inkinen and Irons

3 Oct · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

A Happy Few hear well-balanced concert from Wellington Youth Orchestra

29 Sept · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Of conflict and tragedy – New Zealand School of Music Orchestra

22 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Celebrating the rugby, with Beethoven, without the violence

21 Sept · Peter Mechen

NZSO concludes its Sibelius Symphony cycle on Naxos

18 Sept · Peter Mechen

Dream team together on record – Trpčeski, Petrenko and Rachmaninov

17 Sept · Lindis Taylor

A new element in the ‘Live in Cinemas’ phenomenon – orchestral concerts

15 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Boris Pigovat’s Requiem – a stunning CD presentation

11 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

On The Transmigration Of Souls – 9/11 Commemoration by John Adams presented by the Vector Wellington Orchestra

3 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO NYO 2011 – “Tomorrow’s Sounds” already heart-warming strains

1 Sept · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Orchestra’s funding secure through 2013

26 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Spain and Aranjuez celebrated by the NZSO and guitar

20 Aug · Lindis Taylor

A composer’s credentials – a clarification

12 Aug · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Showcase for winner of NZSM concerto contest

5 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Petrenko’s convincing rehabilitation of two great Russian works

26 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

An Angel Released – music by Eve de Castro-Robinson

23 Jul · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Wellington Orchestra’s unfinished business

8 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Splendid Russian concert from Pinchas Steinberg conducting NZSO with Simon Trpčeski

3 Jul · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Wellington Chamber Orchestra with Emma Sayers in Mozart

25 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Romeo and Juliet – beautiful but cool from Inkinen and the NZSO

10 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Triumphant Mahler Six from Inkinen and NZSO

25 May · Adam Concert Room · Lindis Taylor

Four fine musicians compete for NZSM Concerto Competition

21 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Antoni Wit and cellist Hurtaud score in wonderful NZSO concert

14 May · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Lindis Taylor

Brilliant Shostakovich from violinist Riseley and NZSM Orchestra

13 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Made in New Zealand – Enchanted Islands

6 May · Lindis Taylor

Royal New Zealand Ballet puts Stravinsky in the limelight

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra interprets Michael Vinten’s orchestral disinterments

16 Apr · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Orchestra set for another triumphant year: a superb concert

25 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO’s first subscription concert fills the MFC

23 Mar · Lindis Taylor

NZSO concert this Friday the 25th – correction

20 Mar · Rosemary Collier

Profane Bach at St Paul’s Lutheran Church

6 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

VECTOR WELLINGTON ORCHESTRA – whatever the weather……

19 Feb · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO Soloists wind players delight

29 Jan · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Postcards From Exotic Places – NZSO’s Chinese New Year

2010 · 29

21 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Connecting with Sibelius – NZSO on Naxos

9 Dec · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Christmas presents from the NZSO….

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra, with pianist Claire Harris, plays Beethoven and Sibelius

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

Bow – New string ensemble’s first concert

8 Oct · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Lindis Taylor

A musical machine plus Bartók and Sibelius from NZSM Orchestra

30 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Rosemary Collier

NZSO Soloists in interesting but problematic programme

18 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

From darkness to light – soundscapes of the mind from the NZSO

11 Sept · Wellington Town Hall · Rosemary Collier

Wellington Orchestra play Elgar with violinist Feng Ning under Taddei

3 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Percussionist Currie dazzles in brilliant NZSO concert

26 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

National Youth Orchestra in brilliant form

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

Bowing and blowing – Orchestral Concert from NZSM Orchestra

30 Jul · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

NZSM Orchestra downtown for major concert with the school’s star teachers

24 Jul · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Time-travelling Wellington Orchestra revisits 1810 and more….

17 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Rapturous Mahler and more, with the NZSO

16 Jul · Rosemary Collier

NZSO’s Friday series with Schumann and Schoenberg

27 Jun · St Andrew’s on The Terrace · Rosemary Collier

Twentieth-Century fare from the Wellington Chamber Orchestra

25 Jun · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Witchcraft, Romance and Nostalgia from the NZSO

15 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Viennese Connections – Dame Malvina Major and the NZSO

14 May · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Dame Malvina Major and the NZSO – a concert of commitment

12 May · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Fantasy and reality – New Zealand School of Music Orchestra Concert

7 May · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

NZSO demonstrates a century of New Zealand music

29 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Polish Pride – an Antipodean tribute from the NZSO

23 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Brilliant NZSO in Slav and Finnish country

17 Apr · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Orchestra opens the season in fine form

10 Apr · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Grief and Grandeur – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – Warring Walton and Enigmatic Elgar

19 Mar · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Second concert by Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

17 Mar · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra – sounds from the Old World

5 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Simon O’Neill – Wagner Gala

2009 · 18

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – family connections

22 Nov · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

Odes to Joy – Wellington Orchestra with Michael Houstoun

13 Nov · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

Diverse Soundscapes – Segerstam and Kringelborn with the NZSO

31 Oct · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Kringelborn and Segerstam with NZSO

26 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

NZSO – Inkinen and Capuçon in Saint-Saëns and Bartók

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

East of Vienna – Wellington Chamber Orchestra

19 Sept · Peter Mechen

Sibelius Festival 2009 – Pietari Inkinen and the NZSO

17 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Sibelius Festival – 2nd concert: Symphonies 1 & 4

16 Sept · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor

Sibelius Festival: No 5 and Violin Concerto

13 Sept · Sacred Heart Cathedral · Lindis Taylor

Young Musicians Twelfth Annual Concert with NZSO players

12 Sept · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Wellington Orchestra and Houstoun in Beethoven 4

25 Aug · Michael Fowler Centre · Alan Wells

NZSO/Todd Corporation: promoting our young composers

22 Aug · Wellington Town Hall · Lindis Taylor

Last Night of the Proms with Wellington Orchestra

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

NZSM Orchestra and Kenneth Young – no holds barred

4 Jul · Michael Fowler Centre · Peter Mechen

NZSO National Youth Orchestra 50th Anniversary

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

Wellington Chamber Orchestra – Psathas, Lilburn, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams

18 Apr · Wellington Town Hall · Peter Mechen

PULSE – Vector Wellington Orchestra’s first 2009 subscription concert

20 Mar · Michael Fowler Centre · Lindis Taylor