2025 Cadenza and Finale Choirs
2 Jul 2025
We are thrilled to announce the choirs that will take part in The Big Sing Cadenza and Finale 2025.
Our regional adjudicators and audiences around Aotearoa enjoyed a series of varied and uplifting performances, and we warmly congratulate every choir that participated in The Big Sing this year.
Please find below the list of choirs selected for the Cadenza and Finale festivals, listed in alphabetical order.
Please note that these final lists have incorporated the updated reserve choirs who moved into Cadenza and Finale following the RSVP deadline.
We also wish to congratulate the following choirs who were selected for Cadenza but have been unable to accept their invitations:
- Colla Voce — Havelock North High School
- HIBS & St Patrick’s College, Silverstream Combined Choir — Hutt International Boys’ School and St Patrick’s College, Silverstream, Wellington
- St Dominic’s College Choir — St Dominic’s College, Whanganui
- St Margaret’s College Chamber Choir — St Margaret’s College, Christchurch
- Staccoro — St Andrew's College, Christchurch
- Synergy — Marlborough Boys’ College, Blenheim
Congratulations to all!
Dates and locations:
Lower North Island Cadenza (Whanganui, 10-11 August)
Royal Whanganui Opera House
South Island Cadenza (Timaru, 15-16 August)
Craighead Diocesan School & Sacred Heart Basilica
Upper North Island Cadenza (Rotorua, 18-19 August)
Sir Howard Morrison Centre
Finale (Dunedin, 28-30 August)
Dunedin Town Hall
FINALE
(listed alphabetically by choir)
| Choir | School | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Altissime | Samuel Marsden Collegiate | Wellington |
| Bel Canto | Burnside High School | Canterbury - West Coast |
| Bel Suono | Waikato Diocesan School | Waikato - Bay of Plenty |
| Blue Notes | Tawa College | Wellington |
| Cantare | Westlake Girls High School | Auckland |
| Cantus Columba | Columba College | Otago - South Canterbury |
| Choralation | Westlake Boys High School and Westlake Girls High School | Auckland |
| Con Anima | St Patrick's College, Wellington | Wellington |
| Euphony | Kristin School | Auckland |
| FEMME | Southland Girls' High School | Southland |
| Fortissimo | Dilworth School | Auckland |
| King's College Kappella | King's College | Auckland |
| Leonessa | Takapuna Grammar School | Auckland |
| Macleans College Chorale | Macleans College | Auckland |
| MANifesto | Palmerston North Boys' High School | Manawatū - Whanganui |
| Ngā Korimako | Wellington College and Wellington Girls' College | Wellington |
| Paradisum | Epsom Girls Grammar School | Auckland |
| Resolutions | Rangi Ruru Girls' School | Canterbury - West Coast |
| Saints Alive | St Cuthbert's College | Auckland |
| Seraphim | Chilton Saint James School | Wellington |
| Serenata | Rangitoto College | Auckland |
| St Cecilia Singers | Diocesan School for Girls | Auckland |
| Voces Luce | Queen Margaret College | Wellington |
| Voicemale | Westlake Boys High School | Auckland |
UPPER NORTH ISLAND CADENZA
(listed alphabetically by choir)
| Choir | School | Region |
|---|---|---|
| All The King's Men | King's College | Auckland |
| Avondale College Gospel Choir | Avondale College | Auckland |
| Black Watch Singers | St Cuthbert's College | Auckland |
| Confortare | St Paul's College, Ponsonby | Auckland |
| Grammar Voices | Auckland Grammar School | Auckland |
| Kentoris | Saint Kentigern College | Auckland |
| Luminosa Armonia Chorale | Tauranga Girls' College | Waikato - Bay of Plenty |
| Raukura Choir | Rotorua Boys' High School | Waikato - Bay of Plenty |
| Schola Cantorum | Baradene College of the Sacred Heart | Auckland |
| Takapuna Grammar School Chorale | Takapuna Grammar School | Auckland |
| The Fundamentals | Rangitoto College | Auckland |
| Unspoken | Manurewa High School | Auckland |
LOWER NORTH ISLAND CADENZA CHOIRS
(listed alphabetically by choir)
| Choir | School | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Ad Lucem | Napier Girls' High School | East Coast |
| Aotea All-Comers Choir | Aotea College | Wellington |
| Bella and the Fellas | Freyberg High School | Manawatū - Whanganui |
| Cantate | Wairarapa College | Wellington |
| Early Birds | Tawa College | Wellington |
| Jubilate | Queen Margaret College | Wellington |
| NIU Choir | Bishop Viard College | Wellington |
| PNGHS Pasifika Gospel Choir | Palmerston North Girls' High School | Manawatū - Whanganui |
| Rāwhiti | Wellington East Girls' College | Wellington |
| Schola Cantorum | St Matthew's Collegiate School | Wellington |
| Voxology | Napier Boys' High School | East Coast |
| Woodford House Chapel Choir | Woodford House | East Coast |
SOUTH ISLAND CADENZA CHOIRS
(listed alphabetically by choir)
| Choir | School | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora Voices | Burnside High School | Canterbury - West Coast |
| Bedean Choir | St Bede's College | Canterbury - West Coast |
| Cantabella | James Hargest College | Southland |
| Cantrices | Christchurch Girls' High School | Canterbury - West Coast |
| Craighead Chorale | Craighead Diocesan School | Otago - South Canterbury |
| Mandate | Otago Boys' High School | Otago - South Canterbury |
| Nautilus Chorale | Otago Girls' High School | Otago - South Canterbury |
| NayCol Chorale | Nayland College | Nelson - Marlborough |
| Ovation | Marlborough Girls' College | Nelson - Marlborough |
| Polyhymnia | Queen's High School and King's High School | Otago - South Canterbury |
| Suono Bellissimo | Motueka High School | Nelson - Marlborough |
| Vivace | Villa Maria College | Canterbury - West Coast |
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