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World Choir Games 2024: A guide for NZ choirs

04 Nov 2022

Established in 2000, the World Choir Games is the largest choral festival and competition on the globe and has been called the Olympics of choral singing. It is renowned for its ability to bring...

Catch up on Choral Connect '21: Cristian Grases

01 Nov 2022

A year on from our highly successful Choral Connect conference in Auckland, we’re delighted to release a series of videos recorded at each of the sessions. Choral Connect is the Association of...

The New Zealand Children's Choral Academy

31 Oct 2022

An exciting new choral venture was launched last month in Auckland: The New Zealand Children’s Choral Academy. We invited the project’s two Artistic Directors, Elise Bradley and Karen Grylls, to...

Kids Online Singalong 2022 - a video project for primary and intermediate school choirs

20 Oct 2022

NZCF is delighted to partner again with MENZA (Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa) and the New Zealand Music Commission for the third year of our virtual choir project, Kids Online...

John Rosser reports on the 2022 IFCM General Assembly

07 Oct 2022

NZCF’s inaugural Chair, John Rosser, recently travelled to Lisbon to attend the General Assembly of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) and the 2022 World Choral Expo. John was...

Choirs and Covid-19 – Beyond the restrictions

06 Oct 2022

On 13 September 2022, New Zealand moved out of the COVID-19 Protection Framework, also known as the ‘Traffic Light System’. This change has meant that: – the government’s previous Events and...

The Big Sing Cadenza and Finale wrap-up

01 Sep 2022

The month of August was very much dominated by high school choral singing – and what a celebration it was after two years in a row without being able to carry out the full Cadenza and Finale...

The Big Sing Finale 2022 awards

29 Aug 2022

Congratulations to all the participating choirs in The Big Sing National Finale 2022! Our adjudicators were hugely impressed with the high standard of performance and were blown away by the passion...

Online upskilling for choral leaders

03 Aug 2022

Choral directors and leaders of children’s singing can now hone their skills from the comfort of their own home in Zoom sessions with an ACD advisor. Continuing our successful series of Zoom...

Miriama Kamo to compère The Big Sing Finale

03 Aug 2022

We’re thrilled that celebrity TV presenter Miriama Kamo will compère The Big Sing Finale this year in the Christchurch Town Hall. Miriama has a distinguished career as a broadcast journalist and...

Register for the IRMTNZ mini-conferences

01 Aug 2022

EMPOWERING MUSIC TEACHERS IRMTNZ Regional Mini-Conferences Empowering Music Teachers is a set of two consecutive conferences the Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand is holding in...

Catch up on Choral Connect '21

30 Jun 2022

A year on from last year’s highly successful Choral Connect conference in Auckland, we’re delighted to release the first in a series of videos we recorded at selected conference sessions. Choral...

Member Choir Spotlight: Music Association of Auckland

30 Jun 2022

We’re always pleased to welcome new Member Choirs to our NZCF community, and this year we’re thrilled to say “nǐ hǎo” to the Music Association of Auckland. MAA was founded back in 2002 with...

Juliet Dreaver awarded Life Membership

02 Jun 2022

Juliet Dreaver, our dedicated Governance Board Chair of the past four years, was awarded Life Membership last month at our Annual General Meeting. Juliet has worked tirelessly to further NZCF’s...

Introducing our new NZCF Chair

02 Jun 2022

Last month’s AGM saw the completion of NZCF Chair Juliet Dreaver’s third and final term on the Governance Board and the retirement of fellow Board member Toby Gee. Both were thanked for their...

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