MUSIC David Newton. From Tuesday, 9.30pm, the Jazz Club, $250, members $125. One of the finest young pianists to have emerged during Britain's jazz revival in the late 1980s, David Newton has made his mark as a leader, accompanist and soloist.
Famously one of the few keyboard players in the world able to make Chick Corea sweat, Newton has worked with major international artists including Benny Carter, Herb Ellis, Buddy de Franco and Art Farmer.
He has also played with several luminaries who have appeared at the club including Martin Taylor, Alan Barnes and Annie Ross. Expect a swinging evening featuring selections from his new album 12th of the 12th.
CLASSICAL MUSIC Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Monday, 8pm, Cultural Centre Concert Hall, $860, $650, $390, $180, Urbtix. One of the world's finest singers in a one-night-only recital, including works by Massenet, Puccini, Rachmaninov, Cantaloube and Leonard Bernstein, which presumably means West Side Story, the definitive recording of which featured her prominently.
Dame Kiri is accompanied by Warren Jones at the piano. Almost impossible to get a ticket now, I should imagine, but beg, steal, borrow or kill for one if you can.
EXHIBITIONS Horizon 2. From Monday, 10.30am to 6.30pm, Gallery 7, 1 Glenealy, Central. Paintings and drawings by Yan Kwai, the given names of artist, art director and musician Wong Yan-kwai, widely known as Yank Wong. However, the artist-formerly-known-as-Yank, taking a leaf from the artist-formerly-known-as-Prince, has recently dropped his English nickname and his Chinese surname, so Yan Kwai it is.