Choral Vacancies
Is your choir looking for a music director, accompanist or more singers?
NZCF can help in a number of ways:
- Paid advertising on our website under this section in eBreve
- Concert and Events listings for member choirs (list your event)
- Our 'Find-a-Choir' facility on our home page which is connected to your choir's own online profile: a good reason to keep it updated
- Download information about remuneration for choir directors
Advertisements for vacancies for choir directors, or other key roles, may be placed here for up to three months at a cost of $85 (NZCF member choirs) or $170 (non-members) - this includes up to three insertions in our monthly NZCF eBreve newsletter and the relevant regional events newsletter. Click here for more information or contact office@nzcf.org.nz to place an advertisement.
We are seeking the new artistic leaders for our 3-year old Aotearoa Choral Academy progamme. Working in the same artistic space of the New Zealand Youth Choir and the New Zealand Secondary Student’s Choir, the Academy provides training for singers 14-25 years of age in the proven tradition of excellence of our national choirs. Those singers may be on the pathway to successfully audition for NZYC or NZSSC. With past memberships of over 80 singers for the annual programme, the Academy is an important building block in Choirs Aotearoa’s choral pathway.
If you are experienced at working with young people and passionate about a diverse choral repertoire including waiata from Aotearoa and the Pacific, we would love to hear from you. Our new MD(s) would have worked in a similar aspirational choral environment as a leader and can deliver a programme in line with our national choirs’ pedagogy.
The MD(s) are supported by and contribute to a professional team and will benefit from a supportive partnership with the artistic team of the other national choirs.
It is envisaged that the Academy works in an annual cycle and meets 3–4 times per year during school holidays.
We welcome applications that are open to a co-leadership model, even joint applications. Although not mandatory, a co-leadership model suits the large size of the programme.
Interviews for this position will take place in November this year for a first course in April 2026.
Applications
Please include cover letter, CV, alongside any links to audio and video material of your previous conducting work and send to joinus@choirsnz.co.nz
For more info, view this Candidate Information Pack at https://www.choirs.nz/jobs/ or contact us at the above email.
Applications close 21 November 2025
Established in 2009 as a non-auditioned community SATB choir, we comprise 40-45 members who meet weekly on a Tuesday evening at the Albany Holy Cross Church to improve our personal singing and to perform a wide variety of music for the enjoyment of ourselves and the community, with two concerts per year.
For the past three years, we have been ably led by Margaret Wright LTCL in Piano and LTCL in Singing, who will be leaving us as MD at the end of 2025, and have recently been joined by accomplished pianist Erin Fagan.
We are now looking for someone to lead us on our next journey.
This position is open to an experienced director or highly skilled musician who is able to lead rehearsals and concerts, be able to step in as rehearsal accompanist if required, select a fun repertoire in conjunction with the committee, and inspire our community choir to give its best.
If this sounds like you, or you know someone who would fit the bill, please contact choir chairman John Wright via text or phone call in the first instance for further information. Ph: 0272 808 172 or email: jamwright777@gmail.com
Formed in 2010 the Albany Women’s Choir is a multi-cultural community choir which has been under the musical directorship of Margaret Wright, LTCL in Piano and Singing, for the past 15 years. Margaret will be leaving us as MD at the end of 2025.
As a non-auditioned community choir who sing with music in hand we comprise of 20-25 ladies who meet weekly on a Thursday afternoon during school terms at the Holy Cross Church in Albany. We sing with an aim to improve our personal singing, to foster friendships, and to perform a wide variety of music for the enjoyment of ourselves and the local community by way of one or two concerts and various off-site visits to retirement villages each year.
We are now looking for someone to lead us on our next journey.
This position is open to an experienced director or highly skilled musician who is able to lead rehearsals and concerts, be able to step in as rehearsal accompanist if required, select a fun repertoire, and inspire our community choir to give its best.
If this sounds like you, or you know someone who would fit the bill please contact Margaret Wright via text or phone for further information. Ph: 0272 040 402 or email: jamwright@maxnet.co.nz
We're on the lookout for a talented and reliable piano accompanist to join our treble voice boys' choir. You'll be working alongside an accomplished and inspiring musical director, supporting a group of passionate young singers as they rehearse and perform choral music, ranging from classical repertoire to modern pieces such as Electricity from “Billy Elliot”.
The role involves playing for weekly rehearsals (Monday evenings in school term time from 5 pm to 6 pm), as well as 5 to 6 short performances per year and a tour; all at a convenient time in weekends.
We’re after someone who plays with sensitivity, can follow a conductor confidently, and enjoys collaborating in a creative, energetic environment.
If you haven’t experienced accompanying choirs before, that is fine with us — what matters most is your musicality, flexibility, and ability to bring out the best in young performers.
Our patrons are the renowned international operatic tenor Simon O’Neill and the widely performed and NZ-based composer David Hamilton.
This is a paid position, with details open to discussion. You will benefit enormously from building your accompanist skills in a supportive, encouraging environment working with the best boys’ choir in Auckland. Several of our previous accompanists have gone on to significant musical careers within NZ and overseas. You may currently be looking to fulfil a service requirement as part of your music studies. Alternatively, you may have recently retired from music and would like to give back to a worthy purpose like ours. Either way, this role would be well placed to meet that need.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with Christina Bevan at musicdirector@aucklandboyschoir.org.nz to apply or to find out more.
Based in St Georges Anglican Church, Epsom, Auckland
Harbour Voices Inc Takapuna is looking for a new Musical Director commencing February 2026. Based in Takapuna, we are a SATB auditioned choir with more than 60 members ranging from early twenties to late seventies. We are an open, welcoming and inclusive group providing choristers with opportunities to develop as singers while performing diverse, challenging choral music in three concerts each year.
Each June, we also sing in Auckland Symphony Orchestra's
"The Last Night of the Proms" at the Bruce Mason Centre. We also perform at both Takapuna's ANZAC Day service and another Christmas engagement.
Rehearsals are at St. George's Presbyterian Church in Takapuna and run February to November on Wednesdays from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm.
If you are up for the challenge of leading a hard-working choir that is continually striving to improve the quality of its performances, then call Bron 027 571 0030 or send your CV to Harbour Voices Chair, Bron Roberts, at bts3@xtra.co.nz
Cantando Choir is a community choir in the Waikato Region with over 60 voices. The Choir will celebrate its 40th year in 2028.
The Choir aims to build and maintain high standards, and to achieve musical excellence in all aspects of choral performance. The Choir is seeking a rehearsal pianist/repetiteur to work with Musical Director Kolitha Jayatunge in achieving these aims.
The successful candidate will possess excellent piano and musical skills, including excellent sight-reading, and have the ability to play both the written choral accompaniment, and from the SATB vocal parts when needed.
Ideally, they will have experience at accompanying large choral groups. There will also be the opportunity to accompany the Choir in performances. The selection of repertoire is art choral music with a mix of symphonic choral and acapella choral pieces.
The Choir meets regularly for rehearsals on Tuesday evenings in Hamilton from 7pm to 9pm, and there are the occasional additional weekend rehearsals and workshops. We produce at least three weekend concerts each year.
The successful candidate will initially be appointed for the full calendar year of 2026 with review for extension.
Remuneration will be negotiated and commensurate with experience.
Closing date is 23rd November 2025
For further details contact:
president@cantando.org.nz
The Harmony Singers Christchurch is seeking a new accompanist, as our much-loved Jean Rutherford is now needing to retire at nearly 89.
We also warmly welcome more choristers to join us! Whether you’ve sung in choirs before or simply love to sing for enjoyment, you’ll find a friendly and supportive group of women who enjoy making music together.
We are a women’s choir and we practise on a Wednesday morning and sing out at rest homes on an average of once a month. Our Musical Director is the wonderful Courtney Hickmott, and we sing an eclectic assortment of songs from madrigals to the Beatles songs to show tunes, folk songs and those of New Zealand composers. Our present rehearsal venue is the North Methodist Church in Chapel Street, Papanui.
Interested parties can contact the secretary, Irene Frost, by email: irenefrost@xtra.co.nz
For 40 years, under the leadership of Master Director 700 Virginia Humphrey-Taylor, we have built a proud legacy as one of Aotearoa’s most successful barbershop and performing ensembles. Our journey includes:
- Winning Sweet Adelines New Zealand regional championships in every year we have entered since 1990
- Reaching the Top 10 at Sweet Adelines International five times since 2007
- Most recently, achieving 5th place internationally in 2024
- Being named Pan Pacific Women’s Chorus Champions and New Zealand Women’s Chorus Champions at the 2023 Barbershop Harmony New Zealand Pan Pacific contest
- Creating shows and performances that engage audiences across Ōtautahi Christchurch and beyond
Now we are looking for someone new to guide us into our next era. This opportunity is open to experienced directors as well as highly skilled emerging musicians who have the passion, vision, and ability to inspire singers at the highest level.
Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand, offers not only a world-class chorus to lead but also a creative, welcoming city with mountains, beaches, and parks close by. It is a place where you can enjoy a great lifestyle while directing a chorus with an international reputation.
If this sounds like you, or like someone you know, we would love to hear from you. Find out more about the role here: https://ccchorus.co.nz
Rotorua District Choir is a non-auditioned community SATB choir of around 30 members. Our aim is to perform and foster the performance of choral music in the Rotorua district. The choir normally prepares three concerts each year, as well as participating in Rotorua and district events, and also regularly collaborates with local ensembles. We enjoy a wide variety of music, from the Messiah to David Hamilton, and plainchant to contemporary waiata, and practise every Tuesday from 7.00pm to 9.00pm at the Rotorua Methodist Church (Bainbridge Centre), 187 Old Taupo Rd, Rotorua.
In recent years, we have been led by a group of three to four conductors who prepare one concert each per year. Due to recent changes in personnel, we are currently looking for expressions of interest from choral conductors in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty who might be wanting to join a team such as ours.
As a member of our conducting team, you’ll be required to:
- Lead the rehearsal and performance of at least one concert every year
- Select and programme your repertoire consultation with other members of our conducting team and our committee
- If you have a high level of experience, be willing to share your expertise and mentor other members of the conducting team
If you are interested, please get in touch with our secretary, Sandra Smaill, at rotorua.district.choir@gmail.com