Crump's Classical Conversation
Join Bryan Crump, RNZ Concert host, singer & choir director as he shares the love of classical music with guests from Aotearoa & around the world. It's a classical conversation in more ways than one.
Episodes
Composer Keith Moss talks to us about his big break, getting to write an opera for Vienna's Summer Music Festival.
Listen to Keith's Overture for an Unwritten Opera here.
Listen to Keith's "Chamber Dances".
A billion streams and counting. Pasifika composer Opetaia Foa'i talks about the phenomenal success of his Moana hit 'We Know The Way'.
Watch a video of "We know the Way".
After spending most of this century working with some of the best orchestras in Europe, Australian cellist Martin Smith is back down under with the NZ String Quartet.
Check out NZ String Quartet gigs here.
It's been a busy 11 years since former NZSO music director Pietari Inkinen was last with the band, including directing Wagner's Ring Cycle at Bayreuth, and getting a house in the shadow of the Matterhorn.
Check out Pietari's home base here.
Norman Meehan has been setting the poetry of Bill Manhire to music for vocalist Hannah Griffin to sing since 2010. Their fifth and latest collaboration; Little Prayers is out now.
Listen to Hannah Griffin sing Huia
Hannah Griffin sings Little Prayers
He's one of four opera singing brothers from the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere taking on the world. We speak with baritone Faamanu Fonoti-Fuimaono before he leaves Aotearoa to study singing in London.
Faamanu and his brother Jordan knock the big duet from Bizet's Pearl Fishes out of the park.
All four of the opera singing Bros in the one video.
Darrell Daglish is an alphorn fanatic - all three and half metres of it. This is the story of how he realised the dream of bringing his own Swiss made Alphorn home to Aotearoa, and we're dropping it just in time for Swiss National Day, August 1st.
Watch a whole lot of alphorns here.
Watch Fabian Jud play the Leopold Mozart alphorn piece here
Wellington Central Library has a new concert series for lovers of music and literature. We spoke to librarian and organiser Corrina Connor about "Between the Lines".
He's from Hawkes Bay but he lives in Wales, he likes playing bad guys but off stage he's trying to be the best dad he can. We speak to Kiwi baritone Phillip Rhodes.
Watch Phillip Rhodes play the ultimate operatic bad guy here.
He's still got a year and a half of school to go, but the 16 year old Auckland pianist Shan Liu already has a gig with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Watch a very young Shan Liu play a bit of Gershwin here.
Here's Shan playing Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Composer, singer and conductor Luka Venter is one of only two people to make it into the Royal Academy of Music's postgraduate conducting programme
She was drawn to his writing because it's intelligent and silly; like her music. Eve de Castro Robinson's first work as 2026 composer in residence at Douglas Lilburn's old home is a collaboration with Wellington poet Nick Ascroft.
Back in the UK, English born organist Catherine Anderson met a Timaru organ builder. Now she's a force of nature in the South Canterbury music scene.
Check out Catherine's organ credentials here.
He's one of New Zealand's finest guitarists, but these days you're just as likely to hear David Long's music on the screen - large and small. In fact, the former Muttonbirds guitarist recently traveled to the USA to pick up an Emmy award for one of his latest TV scores.
Mataatua wharenui, the stolen meeting house. Ngāti Awa built it in the 1870s in Whakatāne, then lent it to the Crown for an exhibition in Australia. It took a century to get it back. Composer Gillian Whitehead and collaborator Tessa Peterson talk about the true story that inspired an opera.
The 2026 NZSO National Youth Orchestra dazzled audiences in Auckland and Wellington this month. Bryan spoke to couple of the crew, sisters Portia and Indiana Bell.
Kiwi baritone Julien Van Mellaerts has an album out, "Dialogues" singing Schubert along with music by his friend (and current Master of the Kings Music) Errollyn Wallen.
Apart from the odd stay in a transit lounge, American violinist Gil Shaham's never visited New Zealand. We spoke with Gil ahead of his New Zealand debut playing Beethoven with the Auckland Philharmonia.
Watch Gil Shaham play Beethoven here.
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