Welcome to Between the Lines, our brand-new musical book club series created with Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui Wellington Central Library, Orchestra Wellington and New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī. We're bringing music and literature into conversation across seven free, monthly concerts. For the third session in the series, curated and performed by NZSQ, we're exploring private lives. Music and literature both have the power to transport an audience deep into the interior private lives of...

Across the 2026 King's Birthday weekend the NZ School of Music - Te Kōkī Kelburn campus resounded with the sound of 34 bright young chamber musicians. Let's look back on some of the highlights of the weekend. The NZSQ ChamberLab @ Te Kōkī (previously known as the King's Birthday Weekend Chamber Music Intensive) is an annual long weekend of chamber music making and coaching for secondary school ensembles. It's a great way for aspiring musicians to get an immersive taste of what its like to...

Our events internship is back for its third year and in 2026 we're excited to have welcomed Caoimhe Pace to the NZSQ office! Caoimhe is a Wellington-based composer, performer and recent graduate of New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī. She has already been hard at work in the NZSQ office running our annual ChamberLab coaching weekend and is now ready to launch the 2026 season of The Racket Lounge. Read on to get to know Caoimhe and find out what she's most looking forward to as part of this...