Kiwi choirs excel at World Choir Games
27 Jul 2024
That's a wrap on the World Choir Games 2024! We're taking a moment to celebrate our choirs from Aotearoa New Zealand who shared their music on this world stage.
Our choirs performed with warmth, generosity and an excellent standard of artistry, and we couldn't be prouder of them for proving to our country — and to the world — what so many of us already know: that Aotearoa is a nation full of song.
A total of around 250 choirs made their way to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland from around the world to take part in the Games from 10-20 July. Amongst them were almost 50 choirs from Aotearoa New Zealand who competed across the Open and Champions Competitions, taking away a total of 39 diplomas and 13 medals. New Zealand made it to third place in the total medal rankings, behind only China and the USA, who made for some pretty formidable competition!
In the Champions Competition, Vocal FX (pictured at the top of this article) was victorious in the Pop Choirs category. Three choirs from Aotearoa were Category Winners in the Open Competition: Sitting Room Singers in the Mixed Chamber Choirs category, United Auckland Gospel Choir in the Gospel category, and Nota Bene in Vocal Ensembles. We'd also like to give a shout-out to He Tangata Voices, the top scorer in the Pop with Choreography category of the Open Competition. Five of our choirs won a total of seven gold medals in the Champions Competition, and in the Open Competition, twelve received golden diplomas.
Below, you'll find the full list of Aotearoa choirs and their awards from the Games. We'll be reflecting on the World Choir Games 2024 over the weeks to come, highlighting the many facets of the Games that took place alongside this competitive element. But for now, we're thrilled to congratulate our medal, diploma and category winners. We commend them not only for these awards, but for their many hours of hard work, and their passion for collective music-making that shone through in their performances at the Games.
World Choir Games 2024: Results for Aotearoa New Zealand
Champions Competition
Pop Choirs
Vocal FX – GOLD and Category Champion
Youth Choirs
Auckland Youth Choir – GOLD
Choralation (Westlake Boys and Girls High Schools) – GOLD
Folklore and Indigenous Music with Accompaniment
Vocal FX – GOLD
Female Chamber Choirs
Luminata Voices – GOLD
Sacred Choral Music a cappella
Choralation – GOLD
Secondary School Choirs
Leonessa (Takapuna Grammar School) – GOLD
Rewaken Polycation Choir (Manurewa High School) – SILVER
Paradisum (Epsom Girls Grammar School) – SILVER
Takapuna Grammar School Chorale – SILVER
Children’s Choirs
Voces Luce (Queen Margaret College) – SILVER
Mixed Choirs
The Graduate Choir – SILVER
Pop with Choreography
Voces Luce – SILVER
Open Competition
Mixed Chamber Choirs
Sitting Room Singers – GOLD and Category Winner
Opera North Chamber Choir – GOLD
The Cloud Chamber Singers – GOLD
Kaitaia Community Voices – SILVER
Gospel
United Auckland Gospel Choir – GOLD and Category Winner
Otara PIC Youth Choir – SILVER
Kāpiti Gospel Choir – BRONZE
Vocal Ensembles
Nota Bene – GOLD and Category Winner
The Voice of Fragrant Rhythm Choir – BRONZE
Secondary School Choirs
Macleans College Chorale – GOLD
Toka Tu Moana (Tangaroa College) – GOLD
Marcellin College Voices – GOLD
Stella Voce (Long Bay College) – SILVER
Ngā Manawa Tītī (Green Bay High School) – BRONZE
Young Children’s Choirs
The Cloud Children’s Choir - Junior – GOLD
Wings of Song Children’s Choir – SILVER
Dunedin Children’s Choir - Chamber Choir – SILVER
Puhinui School Choir – SILVER
Te Korihi o te Tūī – BRONZE
Children’s Choirs
NZ Children’s Choral Academy Senior Choir – GOLD
Con Brio Choir – SILVER
Youth Choirs
Aotearoa New Zealand Academy Choir – GOLD
Music of Spirit and Faith
Ascension – GOLD
Contemporary Music – Mixed Voices
Sitting Room Singers – GOLD
Pop with Choreography
He Tangata Voices – SILVER
Six to Sixty – SILVER
Mixed Choirs
All Together Now – SILVER
Auckland Chinese Philharmonic Choir – SILVER
Stonefields Choir – SILVER
Mixed Senior Choirs
Music Association of Auckland – SILVER
White Cloud Choir of Auckland – SILVER
Pop Ensembles
Ombré – SILVER
Sounds of the Shore – SILVER
The Doubtful Sounds – SILVER
Pop Choirs
City of Sails Barbershop Chorus – SILVER
Folklore and Indigenous Music a cappella
Medena Ensemble – SILVER
All Together Now – SILVER
Folklore and Indigenous Music with Choreography
Tuaikaepau – SILVER
Auckland Pasifika Voices - SILVER
For the full list of results from the World Choir Games 2024, visit the INTERKULTUR website.