In 2024, Auckland Philharmonia partnered with the New Zealand Dance Company to bring storytelling to life through music and movement. Thousands of primary and intermediate students joined us to discover the orchestra in a fun and engaging live concert.
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Get ready for a musical adventure with Toi Time! Live with Auckland Philharmonia! Join the enthusiastic audience as Buzz, Māia, and Jojo embark on a musical quest through the different sections of the Auckland Philharmonia. There's a mystery afoot for our favourite Toi Time friends – Buzz, Māia, and Jojo. They adore the thrilling blasts of the trumpets in their songs, but where in the grand orchestra do these shiny instruments belong? From the violins singing high and clear to the mighty drums making your heart thump, they'll meet a symphony of amazing instruments and talented musicians. Each section plays a vital role, creating a beautiful tapestry of sound.
We bring the colour and variety of the orchestra to littlies Auckland-wide. Introduce your under-sixes to the sound of a symphony orchestra through this vibrant concert experience. Come along and see the instruments of the orchestra come alive in this narrated and interactive concert for under-sixes. With concerts in various venues around Auckland, this is a great way to sing-along, dance-along and conduct-along to some popular orchestral works.
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This collaboration between the Auckland Philharmonia and the University of Auckland School of Music provides aspiring composers at tertiary level with the opportunity to workshop, perform and record their original works with Auckland Philharmonia musicians.
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Auckland Philharmonia's Community Bash brings together instrumentalists and singers of all ages and all abilities for an afternoon of spectacular music-making in the Auckland Town Hall. With special arrangements provided for beginner, intermediate and advanced players, allowing everyone to join in to sing or play in this huge orchestra of over 300 Aucklanders!
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Nau mai, haere mai and welcome to Auckland Philharmonia! Our 45th concert season is packed full of fantastic and varied musical experiences guaranteed to excite, inspire and entertain. You can view details of all of our 2025 concerts on our website. We have an extraordinary season of moving music ahead and we look forward to sharing it with you.
Using resources provided by Carnegie Hall (New York), Auckland Philharmonia's Learn & Participate programme gives teachers the tools to teach music! Participating classes learn a set of songs on recorder, violin, voice or another instrument. All of the schools then come together to participate in an interactive concert where you will discover how the orchestra can sing!
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Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Tristan Simon O’Neill
Isolde Ricarda Merbeth
Brangäne Katarina Karnéus
Kurwenal Johan Reuter
King Marke Albert Dohmen
Melot Jared Holt
Sailor/Shepherd/Steersman Andrew Goodwin
with The New Zealand Opera Chorus
Stage Director Frances Moore
Audio courtesy of RNZ Concert Video and livestream produced by JX Live
Recorded on Saturday 10 August, 2024 at Opera in Concert: Tristan und Isolde
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Tristan Simon O’Neill
Isolde Ricarda Merbeth
Brangäne Katarina Karnéus
Kurwenal Johan Reuter
King Marke Albert Dohmen
Melot Jared Holt
Sailor/Shepherd/Steersman Andrew Goodwin
with The New Zealand Opera Chorus
Stage Director Frances Moore
Audio courtesy of RNZ Concert Video and livestream produced by JX Live
Recorded on Saturday 10 August, 2024 at Opera in Concert: Tristan und Isolde
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Tristan Simon O’Neill
Isolde Ricarda Merbeth
Brangäne Katarina Karnéus
Kurwenal Johan Reuter
King Marke Albert Dohmen
Melot Jared Holt
Sailor/Shepherd/Steersman Andrew Goodwin
with The New Zealand Opera Chorus
Stage Director Frances Moore
Audio courtesy of RNZ Concert Video and livestream produced by JX Live
Recorded on Saturday 10 August, 2024 at Opera in Concert: Tristan und Isolde
Clarissa Dunn (RNZ Concert Presenter), Frances Moore (Stage Director, Tristan und Isolde), and Heath Lees (Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Auckland) join us for this roundtable discussion of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. They discuss the themes of the opera, Wagner's career and life at the time of composing, and what audiences can expect from our upcoming performance of Opera in Concert: Tristan und Isolde.
7.30pm, Thursday 3 October
Aotea Centre
Set against the breathtaking landscapes of ancient China, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon tells the story of the legendary master warrior Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) and his secret love Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), with whom he has entrusted the safekeeping of the mythic sword known as the Green Destiny.
Experience one of cinema’s most exciting martial arts spectacles and enduring love stories, together with composer Tan Dun’s Oscar®- winning score performed live by the Auckland Philharmonia.
Film will have the original Mandarin dialogue, with English subtitles.
Film is rated M: Suitable for mature audiences 16 and over. Low level violence.
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
with Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
Respighi Roman Festivals
This performance was filmed during the 13 June 2024 performance of The NZ Herald Premier Series: The Eternal City
Audio courtesy of RNZ Concert
Video and livestream produced by JX Live
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
with Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
Respighi Pines of Rome
This performance was filmed during the 13 June 2024 performance of The NZ Herald Premier Series: The Eternal City
Audio courtesy of RNZ Concert
Video and livestream produced by JX Live
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
with Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM)
Respighi Fountains of Rome
This performance was filmed during the 13 June 2024 performance of The NZ Herald Premier Series: The Eternal City
Audio courtesy of RNZ Concert
Video and livestream produced by JX Live
Meet Begonia Chan (cello) and Jonathan Cohen (Principal Clarinet) from the Auckland Philharmonia. The Auckland Philharmonia is a leading performing arts organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand, serving Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, the country’s largest and most vibrant city, with concerts, events and activities throughout the year. The orchestra presents more than 60 performances annually, showcasing many of the world’s finest classical musicians as well as exciting collaborations with New Zealand’s most inventive contemporary artists.
Video produced by Visit Auckland
In this SOUNZ Film, Ruby Solly’s ‘Ātahu’ brings together the wxhine taonga pūoro quartet Maianginui (Ruby, with Ariana Tikao, Khali Meari Materoa and Te Kahureremoa Taumata) and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (conductor Vincent Hardaker).
The work is a tribute to, in Ruby’s words, “the first known pūrākau of the whare tāpere; the house of entertainments, and the atua wāhine who used their oro and talents to seek revenge on Kae and his men after their theft of the sacred whale, Tutunui. To us as Māori, it is our evidence that female taonga pūoro players are part of our collective history and future. The tale of Kae and Tinirau with his whale Tutunui is found across the Pacific and features atua and tupuna that connect us as tāngata moana, ocean people. But despite the prevalence of this tale, it is often told through the male gaze despite the strong currents of female power and magic contained within it.”
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air.
Lyell Cresswell composed ‘Dragspil’ for the BBC Proms in 1995, its solo accordion part written for James Crabb. Crabb returned to the work for its New Zealand premiere with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (conductor Luke Dollman) last year and you can view our SOUNZ Film of this explosive, sinewy and entirely Cresswellian piece below.
Ahead of the performance James Crabb spoke with Elizabeth Kerr for her excellent music blog Five Lines, saying, “It [Dragspil] has a pulsating groove, a ceilidh stomp. I can just see Lyell chuckling away at this incessant, primal thing…It takes you by the collar and won’t let go. And when you think it’s over, it steps up another level and off it goes again. You’ve just got to hang on.”
The complete interview is here: https://www.fivelines.nz/articles/apo...
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air.
The “glowing centrepiece of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's In the Elements concert”*, Salina Fisher and Jerome Kavanagh Poutama’s ‘Papatūānuku’ is today’s SOUNZ Film release, part of our comprehensive coverage of Aotearoa-New Zealand works performed by the APO in 2023.
The work, in Salina’s words, “honours Papatūānuku (earth mother) as the bearer of all life, and centres instruments/voices that are closely connected to the natural world. It also honours the interconnectedness between wāhine (women) and whenua (land, placenta), recognising te whare tangata (the house of humanity) as both the womb of a woman, and womb of the earth.” Be sure to read our interview with Salina and Jerome over at the SOUNZ blog:https://sounz.org.nz/articles/salina-....
Jerome and 19 of his taonga puoro join the Vincent Hardaker-led Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in the Auckland Town Hall for this very special performance.
*William Dart, New Zealand Herald.
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air.
We begin our comprehensive SOUNZ Films coverage of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s performances of works by the composers of Aotearoa New Zealand with a world premiere. Symphony No.7 was the latest in the celebrated partnership between composer Ross Harris and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. In the New Zealand Herald William Dart wrote,
“This is a restless, unpredictable score. The pastoral mood of its opening bars is soon subverted by intriguing smudges of dissonance and teasing whiplashes of percussion. Striking contrasts come in spikey dances and jaunty, sometimes sinister marches; after an uproarious climactic tutti, the symphony’s 24-minute life fades into wisps of solo strings.”
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by Giordano Bellincampi.
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air.
We sat down and had a catch-up with our Music Director Giordano Bellincampi about life as a conductor, performing in the Auckland Town Hall and what a first time concert goer can expect on their first visit.
SYNTHONY - EDM Orchestra - Live at Auckland Domain 2024 - Presented by Manuka Pharm - with Auckland Philharmonia
Conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams
Arranged by Ryan Youens
Produced by Dick Johnson
Performed by Auckland Philharmonia
Choir - The SYNTHONY Choir
Presenting Partner - Manuka Pharm
Wine and Food Village - Stonewood Homes
VIP Garden - General Capital
Promotor - Duco Touring
Shot and Edited - Radlab
Experience a breathtaking collision of electronic dance music, live orchestra, DJs and vocalists, all in an immersive light, laser, and visual show, reimagining iconic club anthems.
Recorded live at the iconic Auckland Domain Festival, New Zealand. February 10th, 2024.
1. Strauss - Sunrise 0:00
2. Eric Prydz - Pjanoo 1:50
3. Calvin Harris - Summer ft Nate Dousand 3:45
4. Alex Gaudino - Destination Calabria ft Jenny B 6:55
5. Burns - Talamanca 11:15
6. The Shapeshifters - Lola’s Theme ft Ella Monnery 14:20
7. Bob Sinclar - World Hold On ft Sam Allen 17:05
8. Avicii - Wake Me Up ft John Butler 20:25
9. Chase & Status - Blind Faith ft Cherie Mathieson 24:35
10. The Potbelleez - Don’t Hold Back ft Ilan Kidron 29:00
11. Avicii - Levels ft lewis McCallum 33:55
12. Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire ft Ilan Kidron & Ethan Jupe 38:00
13. Chicane - Saltwater 41:45
14. Disclosure - Latch ft Nate Dousand & Ella Monnery 45:05
15. Bach - Toccata & Fugue 49:20
16. Robin S - Show Me Love ft Cherie Mathieson 50:20
17. Pink Floyd & Eric Prydz - Proper Education ft Sam Allen 54:00
18. Corona - Rhythm Of The Night ft Jenny B & Lewis McCallum 58:35
19. Bastille - Pompeii ft Ilan Kidron 1:03:15
20. Sigma - Changing ft Ella Monnery 1:07:10
21. DJ Fresh - Gold Dust ft Tali 1:10:50
22. Chemical Brothers - Galvanize ft Tiki Taane 1:14:20
23. Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries 1:19:20
24. Sash! - Equador 1:21:10
25. Robert Miles - Children 1:24:35
26. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody ft Nate Dousand 1:29:37
27. Fisher - Losing It 1:31:10
28. The Source / Candi Staton - You Got The Love ft Cherie Mathieson 1:33:50
29. Fred Again / Swedish House Mafia - Turn On The Lights Again ft P Digsss 1:37:55
30. Darude - Sandstorm 1:43:20
31. Th’ Dudes - Bliss ft Peter Urlich & Ethan Jupe 1:49:30
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Leonie Holmes For just a little moment
This performance was filmed during the 24 November 2023 performance of The New Zealand Herald Premier Series: Beethoven's Violin
Audio courtesy of RNZ Concert Video and livestream produced by JX Live
We sat down and chatted with our Principal Guest Conductor Shiyeon Sung.
Part 3 - In this final video we hear about the first thing Shiyeon does when she gets home after traveling for work, her pre-concert ritual and what her hopes are for her time as Principal Guest Conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia
