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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
We are delighted to announce that four incredibly committed NZCF members have recently been awarded NZCF Distinguished Service Awards for service to choral music in their respective regions:
Ann-Elise...
We love welcoming new Member Choirs to our choral community, and this year we’re thrilled to welcome the Medena Ensemble from Auckland. TUi MAMAKi leads the ensemble, which explores vocal tone,...
In April 1972 the Auckland University Festival Choir, a newly formed choir of students and recent graduates of the University of Auckland conducted by Peter Godfrey, set off to participate with choirs...
You are warmly invited to NZCF’s Annual General Meeting at 2.00pm on Sunday 8 May 2022 at The Ship Hall, Hawke Sea Scout Club, 55 West End Road, Herne Bay, Auckland. Please note the start time is...
On Friday 3 December 2021, New Zealand moved out of the Covid-19 Alert Levels and into the new 3-level ‘traffic light’ COVID-19 Protection Framework. The traffic light settings were last reviewed...
We love hearing from our members and were delighted to receive a clever poem from Julia Banks of Cockle Bay, Auckland, about the current reality of rehearsing on Zoom. We asked Julia to tell us a...
Our recent Membership Survey revealed some of the top reasons people value their NZCF membership… and also revealed that many respondents didn’t know those benefits were on offer. Clearly we need...
Tim Wayne-Wright was a member of the Grammy-winning a cappella vocal ensemble The King’s Singers for 10 years. He was fortunate enough to tour the world, singing over 1500 concerts in some of the...
