The NZ Youth Choir is returning to the Bay of Plenty!

In the last few years this award-winning ensemble have toured the South Pacific, gone viral on Facebook, sung for the Prime Minister and travelled across Australia.

It is always an honour to put the black uniform. These 50 singers have been selected from all over the country to represent Aotearoa New Zealand. The trophy cabinet at headquarters is full to the brim and includes the world cup of choir singing, the ‘Choir of the World’ trophy, won in Llangollen, Wales.

This is your chance to see the choir on your home turf, with special performances in Tauranga, Waihi and Hamilton. Bring your whānau and invite your mates, this will be one glorious performance.

We have group booking rates available, especially for schools and choirs. Please email if this applies to you: ben@choirsnz.co.nz

Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D Minor

What better way to kick off Gemma New’s first full year as NZSO Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor than with one of the greatest symphonies of all time? Mahler’s Third Symphony is a colossal monument in the orchestral repertoire, requiring a giant orchestra, singers from Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, a children’s choir, and a mezzo-soprano soloist. In this work, Mahler interrogates and portrays gorgeous life itself – summer, nature, humanity, heaven and love.

Renowned mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke returns to our shores to perform in this masterful work. Described as being “equal parts poise, radiance, and elegant directness” (Opera News), she gained particular acclaim for originating the female lead in John Adams’ opera Doctor Atomic. Comfortable singing everything from Mozart to Missy Mazzoli, she has made a specialty of gilding Mahlerian repertoire with her “bewitchingly lustrous” sound (New Zealand Herald).

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi
Soprano Kirstin Sharpin
Mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell
Tenor Manase Latu
Bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Combined choir from:

Voices New Zealand
New Zealand Youth Choir
New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir

The Graduate Choir New Zealand
Director Karen Grylls

Programme:

Beethoven Symphony No.8
Beethoven Symphony No.9

Beethoven’s genial Eighth Symphony is the work of an unrivalled artist revealing himself as a fellow human, laughing and joking like the rest of us. And our universal humanity is the explicit concern of his next symphony, but it’s on an entirely different scale.

For the heaven-storming Ninth, the orchestra alone wasn’t enough: voices were necessary for Beethoven’s ecstatic vision. ‘All men shall become brothers,’ they sing. ‘I embrace you, O you millions – this kiss is for all the world!’

With this concert, the APO finally completes its much-anticipated symphony cycle. Through the music, with its vast, elemental force, Beethoven speaks to us across the centuries and into infinity.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is New Zealand’s full-time professional Metropolitan orchestra, serving the country’s largest and most vibrant city with a comprehensive programme of concerts and education and outreach activities.

Presented in association with ICBC

The Melbourne Pasifika Festival is a chance to come together as a community, raise funds to support Global Development & Aid projects within the Island nations of the Pacific, and showcase the beautiful Pasifika culture.

We will also be doing a guest performance at the festival!

The Festival & charity walk is organised by the Women’s Federation for World Peace Australia.

Get down if you can whānau! ➡️ www.melbournepasifikafestival.org