We are so delighted to be revisiting our 2016 ‘Live in London’ venue – Sinfonia Smiths Square!
Full programme
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Traditional moteatea – Ko ngā waka ēnei
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Te Whānau Wehi – Kua Rongo
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Marek Raczyński – Gaudeamus Omnes
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Josef Rheinberger – Kyrie from Cantus Missae, Op.109
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Johann Ludwig Bach – Das ist meine Freude
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Herbert Howells – In Youth is Pleasure
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David Griffiths – Beata Virgo
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Lili Boulanger – Hymne au Soleil
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Anton Bruckner – Os Justi
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Michel Legrand, arr. Alexander L’Estrange – How do you keep the music playing?
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Anthony Ritchie – Ururangi
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Trad. spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan – The Battle of Jericho
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Trad. Samoan, arr. Igelese Ete – Ua Fetausunu’i Ao
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Trad. Fijian/Tongan, arr. Siliva Gaugatao – Isa Isa Vulagi Lasa Dina
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Tuirina Wehi – Aotearoa
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The Ōtautahi-based members of the NZ Youth Choir are delighted to present Haere Rā: a fundraising concert designed to showcase the best of the youthful talent Christchurch has to offer as we prepare to leave Aotearoa’s shores for Asia and Europe.
Featuring invited guest ensembles from around the city who are near and dear to our hearts – either as directors, managers, or fellow members – we are honoured to be joined by Quantum Acoustics (current Barbershop Harmony NZ silver medalists), The Christchurch Boys’ Choir, Cantrices from Christchurch Girls’ High School (national/regional The Big Sing finalists) and the Christchurch Youth Choir. We are especially excited as all of these featured groups are also “youths” just like us!
The NZYC regional members will serenade you with songs from Cole Porter and Herbert Howells, offer sacred favourites from Thomas Tallis and Charles Wood, and share home-grown classics like Isa Isa and Haere Rā (Now is the hour).
Be sure to bring your spare change too as we will be running some raffles – including some very, very special items which we will announce closer to the time.
We are thrilled to be touring Asia and Europe in 2025, including representing New Zealand at the Grand Prix of Nations in Denmark and the Choir of the World competition in Wales. Proceeds will go towards supporting an equity-based hardship fund to ensure that no singer is left behind due to financial strain!
This event is hosted by the Ōtautahi members of the New Zealand Youth Choir and joined by special guests from around Christchurch!
Join our newest cycle of NZSSC in their first open rehearsal of the year!
Our 56 singers from across the motu will arrive in Wellington, and spend a whole week rehearsing together!
The NZ Secondary Student’s Choir is an internationally acclaimed choir, and we have no doubt that this cycle will continue to reach new heights with their singing!
Join us for a laid-back, open rehearsal, and watch our new cohort tackle some challenging repertoire, waiata, pese, you name it!
Free entry, koha appreciated
Join our newest cycle of NZSSC in their first open rehearsal of the year!
Our 56 singers from across the motu will arrive in Wellington, and spend a whole week rehearsing together!
The NZ Secondary Student’s Choir is an internationally acclaimed choir, and we have no doubt that this cycle will continue to reach new heights with their singing!
Join us for a laid-back, open rehearsal, and watch our new cohort tackle some challenging repertoire, waiata, pese, you name it!
Free entry, koha appreciated
The Auckland members of the New Zealand Youth Choir are delighted to present Tō Mātou Haerenga | Our Journey, a concert series by NZYC Auckland. We invite you to experience our European journey with us, as we present a selection of music from a variety of genres that closely follows our European tour destinations.
On this journey, we explore the Scandinavian territory with works from Alfvén and Pedersen. With Mendelssohn and Gjeilo, you’ll be transported further into Europe. On our journey, we do not forget about home – Puanaki and Komene remind us of our roots, and a surprise feature from Lim reflects our excitement about stopping over in Singapore.
Tō Mātou Haerenga | Our Journey is a concert series fundraising for the New Zealand Youth Choir’s European Tour in July this year. The choir will be competing in two of the world’s top choir competitions: the European Choir Games in Denmark, and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in Wales. Ticket proceeds will go directly to our equity-based hardship fund to ensure no singer is left behind.
The Auckland members of the New Zealand Youth Choir are delighted to present Tō Mātou Haerenga | Our Journey, a concert series by NZYC Auckland. We invite you to experience our European journey with us, as we present a selection of music from a variety of genres that closely follows our European tour destinations.
On this journey, we explore the Scandinavian territory with works from Alfvén and Pedersen. With Mendelssohn and Gjeilo, you’ll be transported further into Europe. On our journey, we do not forget about home – Puanaki and Komene remind us of our roots, and a surprise feature from Lim reflects our excitement about stopping over in Singapore.
Tō Mātou Haerenga | Our Journey is a concert series fundraising for the New Zealand Youth Choir’s European Tour in July this year. The choir will be competing in two of the world’s top choir competitions: the European Choir Games in Denmark, and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in Wales. Ticket proceeds will go directly to our equity-based hardship fund to ensure no singer is left behind.
Note: If you would like to support our equity-based hardship fund without purchasing a ticket, continue to ‘GET TICKETS’, scroll past tickets, and enter your donation amount under ‘DONATIONS’.
After the resounding success of ‘The Firefly Wakens’, local members of NZYC are thrilled to present a novel programme celebrating the spirit of childhood!
From South Africa to Singapore, we step into the bright-eyed lives of children across the globe. Stumbling through the coltish joys of youth, we are thrust to the cusp of adulthood and confronted with the wider questions of the world – what it means to love, to long for, when to turn, and when to keep going.
From percussion driven folk songs to tender lullabies, virtuosic solos to lush harmonies suspended in time, this concert will bring together the novel and the nostalgic. Featuring John Tavener’s ‘Svyati’, Eric Whitacre’s ‘A Boy and a Girl’, songs from NZ composer Jenny McLeod’s ‘Childhood’, and three Aotearoa premieres by contemporary composers Maria Kõrvits (Estonia), Toh Ban Sheng (Singapore), and Jacob Narverud (USA), Childhood is a tender tribute to youth, the growing pains of adolescence, and carrying childlike wonder into adulthood.
We are joined by acclaimed cellist Tomos Christie, who is fundraising to pursue further study in Europe in 2025.
We are thrilled to be touring Asia and Europe in 2025, including representing New Zealand at the Grand Prix of Nations in Denmark and Choir of the World competition in Wales. All proceeds will go towards establishing an equity-based hardship fund to ensure that no singer is left behind due to financial strain!
This event is hosted by the Lower North Island members of the New Zealand Youth Choir and joined by special guests from Wellington!
