All are welcome at this short concert at Te Papa Tongarewa, in the Wellington Foyer directly in front of the Gallipoli exhibit.
Virtuoso Strings will join us for this special appearance, adding some beautiful strings to old and new repertoire.
Free entry to Te Papa and concert (tickets not required). Limited seating will be available.
Broadcast in HD from the intimate setting of the VOCES8 Centre, this new online festival includes some of the world’s finest vocal ensembles. A portion of ticket sales through our website will go towards the NZ Youth Choir.
The festival will be broadcast every Saturday for ten weeks from the 1st August 2020. It has been designed to raise money for artists, venues and promoters to cover their COVID-19 losses, and to reunite the world’s many singers, and audiences with much needed live concerts.
The ensembles will be performing their favourite works, and pieces for which they’ve become renowned, singing repertoire from the Renaissance to contemporary A Cappella. The festival is a heart-warming display of vocal ensembles helping each other in a time of crisis. These concerts will be some of the first performances by the ensembles since the start of the lock-down restrictions at the beginning of the year. A portion of all ticket sales will be put towards funding for grassroots music education, and to addressing topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in choral music
The line-up includes VOCES8, I Fagiolini, Stile Antico, The Swingles, The Sixteen (from Kings Place), The Gesualdo Six, Apollo5, Chanticleer (from San Francisco), and a special guest appearance by The Academy of Ancient Music.
Join us at the end of our first week! This is the first time the 2020-2022 NZ Youth Choir is meeting in person, and you’re invited to sit in on a rehearsal to see how our week has gone. A great opportunity for singers, conductors and music lovers to get behind-the-scenes with the choir.
Led by Musical Director David Squire, with Deputy Music Director Michael Stewart and Vocal Consultant Morag Atchison.
No on site car parking. Free entry.
Internationally renowned tenor Simon O’Neill and rising star soprano Eliza Boom join the Orchestra for an evening of classics from Bizet’s Carmen, Puccini’s La Bohème and Verdi’s Otello.
A celebration of New Zealand wouldn’t be complete without our own music. Gareth Farr’s From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs and John Psathas’ ecstatic Tarantismo feature, while vocalist Maisey Rika and Taonga Pūoro specialist Horomona Horo perform music from the NZSO’s successful 2019 An Instrumental Voyage Pae Tawhiti, Pae Tata concert.
The full power of the Orchestra will be on show for Richard Strauss’ inspirational Suite from Der Rosenkavalier before all our guest soloists and singers from Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir join the Orchestra for a special finale, the beloved waiata Pōkarekare Ana.
This concert will also be streamed on the NZSO website and on social media. When booking you have the option to also make a koha contribution to the NZSO Foundation. The contributions will go towards community musical ensembles of all ages mentored by NZSO players.
The amps are unplugged, the drum kits pushed aside, the human voice takes centre stage. Bring your fav person into our bubble, ‘cause this set is about LOVE. Join six members of our national ensemble Voices NZ to hear the stories of some ancient and contemporary rockstar-composers and what they have to say about falling ‘head over heels’. For Monteverdi it was sweet, Whitacre feels like ‘moving as one’ – yep, this topic is infectious.
The NZ Youth Choir will take the stage in the brand new Kāpiti Performing Arts Centre.
Fresh off their tour of the Pacific, the NZ Youth Choir will be bringing an amazing new repertoire to Kāpiti.
More details to come.
CANCELLATION: It is with great disappointment that we have to CANCEL our tour to Tauranga, Hamilton and Rotorua. Yesterday’s announcement and introduction of the alert level 2.5 for Auckland and Aucklanders defined a new expectation around Aucklanders’ travel to the regions and participation in mass gatherings.
With the majority of our singers being Auckland-based assembling the choir under a 2.5 level has become untenable. Ticket holders to our three concerts will be notified in the next few days and refunds offered.
NZYC singers and artistic team have very much looked forward to the music-making and community engagement this week, but we hope to return to the rehearsal spaces and stages soon when it is safe to do so.
Until then, stay well and safe.
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During this visit we will workshop our repertoire, perform publicly and represent the spirit of our country through song.
More details to come.
Originally this course coincided with the World Choral Symposium which has unfortunately been cancelled due to the coronavirus COVD-19.
With a packed week of rehearsal, community events, digital updates and a public concert in Kāpiti, it’s a big week!
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