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Listen out for Charlotte Wilson’s daily international music news, interviews and concert reviews. From Radio New Zealand Primary Format : Classical Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : New Zealand Region : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Upbeat Podcasts Methings.com listings of Upbeat Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Opera Beer Competition At Brewery Ommegang in upstate New York, Robbie Ellis talks to Jason Parrish and Morgan Micucci who are working with the Glimmerglass Festival to design an operatically inspired beer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reuben Friend Curator at Wellington City Gallery talks about 'Walking With Taniwha' exhibition by artist Israel Tongaroa Birch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Parry British conductor and Director of the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London and featured guest of next month's Akaroa Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gretchen La Roche Artistic Planning Manager of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra talks us through 2012 season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Uren Auckland based bass clarinettist on the release of his latest cd 'Steep Steps'. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barbara Graham The Toronto-based soprano talked to Upbeat producer Janina Nicoll last week on Skype about heading overseas to pursue a career in singing and winning first prize in the Concours de Musique et de langue français in Paris last year. Now, she's giving Toronto a shot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher The husband and wife team from Britain are guest speakers at the National Conference of the New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing starting tomorrow in Wellington. For the past decade their company Vocal Process has been using science and art to help singing teachers understand the psychology and physiology of singing performance in a practical way. 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