The CBS Choir & Orchestra present a typical programme of sacred music they have performed in Venice and Vienna.
Expect aural splendour in the magnificent Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.

This annual Christmas performance has continued to attract a crowded cathedral. Messiah proved a popular choice in the Middle East on the group’s 2000 world tour, and through South and North America in 2005. Substantial sections of the work were performed on their 2009 - 2010 international tour, including cathedrals and major churches in San Francisco, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Seville, Granada and Malaga.

Written for Good Friday in 1723, the Passion is a compact and intensely dramatic setting of St John’s description of Christ’s last hours. The CBS Junior Choir will join the cathedral choir during the chorales. On Easter Sunday morning, the liturgy of the 10.30 a.m. Solemn Mass will include Handel’s Worthy Is The Lamb & Amen chorus, the Byrd motet Haec Dies, and Mozart’s Coronation Mass.

... that moment when the first light is reflected in the eastern sky before the sun rises, that moment after darkness, that moment of clarity after being in a dark place...
Recital by Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir and New Zealand Youth Choir.

The Magnificent, Melodious and Magical Music of the Spheres
Shakespeare was harking back to an older tradition when he suggested that the orbs of heaven sing like choirs of angels in sweet harmony. But even today choral writers like to evoke this ‘music of the spheres’, and we'll be singing beautiful works by Ešenvalds, Lauridsen and Hamilton that use bowls, tuned water glasses, pianistic effects and – yes – human voices to capture something of the wonder of the cosmos. We then enlist the aid of Haydn, Debussy, Poulenc, Kalinnikov and some lighter composers to show how the light, inspiration and stories that emanate from our heavenly relatives influence our lives.

It’s always good to go somewhere special on your anniversary, but we strolled down Broadway several years ago and we couldn’t find an arrangement of “When you wish upon a star” for Disneyland. So we’ve decided to take a trip to Tinsel Town, the home of the silver screen. We’ll be scouring disused sets and fossicking through old film canisters to find all the great music of the movies – or at least the pieces sung by choir … and the pieces we feel choirs should have sung! Join us at Auckland’s red-carpet venue for an evening of choral variety, glamour and fun, but watch out for paparazzi.

CHARPENTIER
Denial of St Peter
Judgment of Solomon

FAURÉ
Requiem

Reservations essential! Phone Cathryn Wyllie on 0800 VIVAVOCE.

The Camerata sings folk songs from New Zealand, British Isles, Scandinavia, Philipines, Israel, America and the Bahamas.

The City of Dunedin Choir are pleased to present Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” in what is promising to be a top-class performance.

Rossini, the 19th century Italian composer, was known for his sense of humour. So it is that his “Petite Messe Solennelle” is neither little, nor solemn. Although of a sacred nature, it is unmistakably operatic in style, abounding in memorable tunes and rhythmic vitality. It is an elegant and refined work.

The soloists are soprano Emma Fraser, mezzo-soprano Amanda Cole, tenor Matthew Wilson, and bass Julien Van Mellaerts. Accompaniment is by pianists John Van Buskirk and Sandra Crawshaw, and organist Simon Mace. The conductor is David Burchell.

Venue: Knox Church, 449 George Street, Dunedin, New Zealand

Admission vouchers are available from:
Beggs MusicWorks Dunedin, c/o Lower Stuart Street and Moray Place
Or phone Clare 476 2426
(Cash or cheques only)

Admission: Adult $30; Unwaged $20; Student with ID $10; Accompanied school children free

Brumel – Missa Ecce terrae motus (The ‘Earthquake’ Mass)

Singing for joy is something Camerata really takes pleasure in. We are having fun preparing these uplifting works to warm your hearts on a winter’s evening.

Vivaldi’s Gloria is one of his best-known compositions and one of the most frequently performed examples of sacred music from the Baroque era. The work ranges through the boisterous and jolly, with strongly articulated rhythms, to the reflective and lyrical, with music for soloists and choir.

Both Parry and Handel’s works – I Was Glad and Zadok the Priest – were composed to be sung in the presence of royalty or indeed at the crowning of kings. These are songs of majesty and joy.

Also on the programme are two short a capella works: Mendelssohn’s Above All Praise and All Majesty and Victoria’s O Quam Gloriosum – O how glorious is the Kingdom...

Our new gem for you, Te Deum, is by a composer not well-known in New Zealand, Otto Olsson. This Swedish composer was one of the greatest virtuoso organists of his time and composed organ, instrumental and choral music with a late Romantic feeling. His Te Deum is his best-known work.

We are fortunate to be accompanied by one of Auckland’s finest organists, Janet Gibbs.

Paul McMahon (Evangelist), Michael Leighton Jones (Christus), Jenny Wollerman - soprano, Claire Barton - alto, Andrew Grenon - Tenor, Daniel O'Connor - Bass.
Conductor Michael Fulcher and The Orpheus Choir of Wellington are joined by Vector Wellington Orchestra.

We return to the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul for our annual presentation of music for Holy Week, this year featuring selections from Victoria’s monumental Tenebrae Responsaries alongside Lotti’s Crucifixus à 8 and Brahms’ last choral works, the Drei Motetten Op.110.

This concert is part of the 2011 Subscription Series.

Comprising choral music based largely on poetry evocative of our Island’s special terrain and way of life, Voices of the South is a unique collection of especially commissioned and existing works by some of the South Islands most prominent composers, including Philip Norman, Anthony Ritchie, John Ritchie, Richard Oswin, Martin Setchell, Richard Madden and Christchurch organ scholar Jeremy Woodside.

Comprising choral music based largely on poetry evocative of our Island’s special terrain and way of life, Voices of the South is a unique collection of especially commissioned and existing works by some of the South Islands most prominent composers, including Philip Norman, Anthony Ritchie, John Ritchie, Richard Oswin, Martin Setchell, Richard Madden and Christchurch organ scholar Jeremy Woodside.

Featuring:
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Renhart: Requiem
Hamilton: Anthem for Doomed Youth
Haydn: Mass in Time of War

MORAG ATCHISON, soprano
BIANCA ANDREW, mezzo soprano
DEREK HILL, tenor
JAMES CLAYTON, bass baritone
JOHN WELLS, organ
AUCKLAND CHORAL
PIPERS SINFONIA

One hundred years after the start of WWI Auckland Choral presents a moving programme entitled ‘War and Peace’. The concert opens with the powerful and famous Toccata and Fugue by JS Bach. Haydn’s Mass in Time of War, his most popular mass, was composed as a cry for peace, and portrays an era of unprecedented political and military unrest in Austria. German composer Michael Renhart reflects his deep wish for peace in the pure structure of his Requiem, a work unfinished at the time of his death in New Zealand. Similar sentiments are found in Wilfred Owen’s revered Anthem for Doomed Youth, which is set to music by David Hamilton for this special Anzac Day Commemoration.

Wellington Youth Choir will be making an appearance in Eastbourne this October for the final performance of its ‘Storytime’ concert series. First formed in 1989, the choir is known for its unique, exuberant voice and a repertoire that embraces a wide range of cultures and genres, from requiem masses to gospel pieces, art songs and traditional world music. Members are university students and young professionals between the ages of 18 and 25, and many are also involved with the New Zealand Youth Choir and New Zealand School of Music.

In 2013, the choir is led by Isaac Stone, a music educator who has been involved with Wellington Youth Choir as a singer, accompanist and acting music director over a number of years. This concert is a culmination of the year’s work, which is titled ‘Storytime’: songs that tell a story or evoke a strong message. Included in the lineup are English folksongs, contemporary choral works, and film soundtracks, all designed to take our listeners on a unique musical journey

On Sunday 18th October, at St George's Presbyterian Church, Takapuna, the North Shore Male Choir backed by an impressive list of professional Instrumentalists and Vocalists will perform before a packed audience. This event is guaranteed to fill the venue and is one not to be missed.
Keep watching here for details .

Reno-Tahoe will play host to some of the world’s best choirs in May 2011, when the American International Choral Festival comes to the beautiful Sierra Nevada in the western United States. The festival is one of the worldwide series of INTERKULTUR choral events. This international choral festival will include choral competitions in multiple categories as well as a series of festival
concerts. The competitions use the MUSICA MUNDI evaluation system.

Interkulture International Choral Festivals: see the website for more information

Mt Albert's traditional Biennial - Nov 14, 2010, 7pm.

Conductor: Mark Rosser
Organist: John Wells
Soprano: Emma Roxburgh

$15.00 (net proceeds to CWS Christmas Appeal)
Bring your own Messiah copy (or 2) and sing.

It's a Fantastic event!

To provide the opportunity for these artists and the members of Opera North to experience the atmosphere of performing in front of a theatre audience it was decided to establish an annual concert called Showcase. For many of the young students Showcase is the first opportunity to sing on stage to a “real” audience.

The format of this concert is to “Showcase” soloists and ensembles performing a wide range of musical genre, together with Opera North singing Musical Theatre (Show Music) songs and medleys.

Today Showcase is an annual component of the Opera North singing commitment to the Northland community, held in the Capitaine Bougainville Theatre at Forum North

With the organization of CIC Foundation, with the support of the the Federate Organization of Choral Activities of Argentina and of the Association of Choir Conductors of Argentina, and sponsored by the Municipality of Puerto Madryn, the Symposium will take place in this city on August 3-10 2011. See http://www.wscm9.com/en/index.php for more information.

Combined concert. Stainer - Crucifixion

The Northern Chorale presents an exploration of music about Mary, the mother of Christ, from plainchant to a new piece by Johnathan Berkahn.

This is our Christmas concert for 2015. We are performing two works by David Hamilton - Christmas Crackers and Christmas Here and There. Our guest soloist is Diane Abraham. There will also be a bracket of well-known Christmas carols to which the audience will be invited to sing with us.

with organist Martin Setchell

Why not learn our own National Anthem and anthems from visiting countries so you can sing with a bit of enthusiasm?
Join us for a 1 hour run through of the anthems of teams visiting Wellington for a significant competition involving an oval ball.
No charge.

Tuesdays, 13, 20 and 27 September

The City of Auckland Singers (formerly The Bruce Murray Singers) present a fundraising concert featuring Aorere College's "4 Elements" quartet, "Sweet Sixteen", "Doxlocks" and the "Front Row". Refreshments will follow the concert. Cds of both choirs will be on sale. Tickets available at the church Ph575 6098. If you wish to donate to Aorere choirs, please contact Doug Nyce, Aorere College Dpet of Music, PO Box 23084, Papatoetoe, Auckland 2155

This year’s performance, with a stellar group of international New Zealand soloists and a top choir and orchestra, will uplift a full Town Hall audience with its power and beauty.
Ana James (soprano), Helen Medlyn (mezzo), Keith Lewis (tenor), Martin Snell (bass), Vector Wellington Orchestra

The internationally awarded national choir, including members at Hamilton schools, presents a one hour concert with repertoire including Schutz, Mendelssohn, Cole Porter, Morten Lauridsen, David N. Childs, Michael McGlynn, Chris Artley.

The Christchurch Pops Choir presents its annual major concert for 2015
- "We've Only Just Begun - the Christchurch Pops Choir in concert" -
on Saturday August 1st at the Charles Luney Auditorium at St
Margaret's College, Christchurch at 7.30pm.

Fresh from a highly successful South Island Tour, the choir will
present its usual mix of pop, rock, gospel and jazz music in its usual
way - with energy, panache and an excellence you will have rarely
heard in Christchurch before. As well as Pops Choir regular pieces
from Lady Gaga and Adele, there's a whole raft of new repertoire from
Coldplay to the Carpenters.

The concert will be a special and bittersweet occasion for the choir
as the last performance with founder Artistic Director Luke Di Somma.
Di Somma has led the choir since its inception in 2011 and this
September moves to London to pursue the next phase of his career.

"We've Only Just Begun - the Christchurch Pops Choir in concert" -
don't miss this exciting and dynamic evening of music you know and
love!

Join the choir to enjoy the music of Christmas

Celebrate Christmas with The Tudor Consort! Following on from their hugely successful and critically-acclaimed performance of Messiah in 2008, The Tudor Consort is delighted to present JS Bach's popular Christmas Oratorio.

The Christmas Oratorio tells the Nativity story through music of great joy and virtuosity, the work famously opening with powerful strikes of the timpani.

Once again, The Tudor Consort will perform with forces close to those that Bach would have written for.

Michael Stewart leads the performance with the Vector Wellington Orchestra and soloists Anna Leese (soprano), Kate Spence (alto), David Hamilton (tenor), and Jared Holt (bass). “The Christmas Oratorio is one of those works that I have always wanted to tackle,” says Stewart. “We are very much looking forward to performing this exciting and uplifting work with such a stellar line-up of soloists.”

A choral concert presented as part of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks Series.
Repertoire:
Poulenc Gloria
Charpentier Te Deum
Faure Requiem

Soloists Lois Johnston - soprano
Sarah Court - mezzo
Paul McMahon - tenor
Jared Holt - baritone
With Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

Handel's Messiah

Soloists
Dorothee Jansen - soprano
Anna Pierard - mezzo
Andrew Grenon - tenor
Jared Holt - bass

With Christchurch Symphony Orchestra

The BOI Singers will be joined by singers from other choirs north of Auckland to present Messiah, with guest soloists and orchestra.

The Christchurch Pops Choir is now a permanent fixture on the Christchurch entertainment scene, in much demand, and continually aspiring to produce great music. The choir is known for its ethos of musical family - striving to provide an inclusive, fun, and creative environment for its members.

Now into its fourth year the choir boasts around 50 members, under the newly appointed Artistic Director, Ravil Atlas. “Pops” sings contemporary and ‘popular’ repertoire from gospel to jazz, from pop to musical theatre. They perform at corporate, civic, and community events, and have recently returned from a successful South Island tour. They are very fortunate to be sponsored by the Christchurch International Airport.

If you are interested in becoming a "Popper" please contact auditions@christchurchpopschoir.co.nz for details.

100-voice choir performs Handel's Messiah

Organist: Dr Indra Hughes

Soloists:
Soprano - Susan Hayday
Mezzo-soprano - Beverley Hicks
Tenor - Iain Tetley
Bass baritone - Peter Stewart

Musical Directors - Norman Firth & Peter Cammell

Held in the Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, Bunbury Lyric Theatre and other venues from
2-4 September 2011, the festival is open to:
• Speakers
• Instrumentalists
• Choirs/Ensembles
• Delegates/Singers

This is the fourth International Choral Festival to take place in Western Australia, and we are delighted to extend the invitation to all choirs/chorales/ensembles in New Zealand. Some help with transport can be arranged from the airport to Bunbury. Several concerts are scheduled during the festival, as well as practical sessions on different topics.

Has your choir repeatedly proven itself artistically?
Have you already achieved extraordinary results at INTERKULTUR competitions? Have you participated with success in other international competitions or festivals? Then join us in Graz 2011 on the occasion of the 2nd Grand Prix of Choral Music and meet other top class choirs. See website for more.

Sing 'Spiration Soirees 5-6 and 7-8 with Drinks and nibbles 6-7pm

One hour recital by mixed a capella group Accord; New Zealand's Seattle bound international competiting quartet Sing Spiration; a capella groups,Tonic and Hi Jinx and Notoriety.

A collection of musical songs mainly from the 50's, 60's and 70's

The Schola Cantorum sings the Nine Lessons and Carols Church Service with the choir of St Barnabas.

A Rising Tide – works by Reinberger, John Ireland and Jonathan Berkahn.

The Jubes will spread Christmas Cheer around the Christchurch Hospital, singing traditional and new christmas carols around the various wards.

The Graduate Choir, NZ is honoured to be invited to sing at a Festival of Sacred Music in Hamilton.

Faure Requiem- to celebrate All Souls day.
St Peter's church choir combining with other choristers.
Conductor- Barry Golding.
Organist- Philip Smith. ( Auckland Anglican Cathedral organist.)
Soloist- two trebles from the Anglican Cathedral Boy's Junior choir.

First performed in 1944, Sir Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time is a unique anti-war oratorio, the composer's moving response to a Jewish boy's desperate murder of a German official in Paris. It's a stirring, dramatic and astonishing live-concert experience.

... that moment when the first light is reflected in the eastern sky before the sun rises, that moment after darkness, that moment of clarity after being in a dark place... Ata Reira is a choral celebration of light. Members of the New Zealand Youth Choir, Voices New Zealand, Kristin School's Euphony and James Tibbles (organ) join forces for this concert.

NZ Choral Music

Northern Chorale with Festival Singers of Wellington. Franz Xaver Schnizer Missa in C

The Oratia Singers present a selection of your musical favourites for an evening of entertainment.

The Oratia Singers present an afternoon's entertainment of your musical favourites.

The Jubilate Singers presents their end of year concert B3 which includes music by three 'big men' of the choral world - Bach, Bruckner and Brahms.

B3 comprises music for Advent by J S Bach: Cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; motets Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen? & Es ist das Heil uns kommen her by Brahms. The concert, which also features contributions from well-known Christchurch instrumentalists, concludes with Bruckner’s well-loved motets Christus factus est, Ave Maria and his monumental Ecce Sacerdos.

The Jubilate Singers, directed by Grant Hutchinson, will be joined by organist Martin Setchell and a string ensemble led by Cathy Irons. Tickets ($15/$10 concession) will available at the door.

New Jubes CD
At the beginning of 2010, the Jubilate Singers first had the idea of recording a collection of choral works by South Island composers, featuring poetry and other text evocative of life in the South Island. They approached nine of the region’s most prominent composers – Chris Archer, Richard Madden, Philip Norman, Richard Oswin, Anthony Ritchie, John Ritchie, Martin Setchell, Patrick Shepherd and Jeremy Woodside – for a suitable piece for Southern Landscapes. To the Jubes’ delight, all offered to write a new piece for the project or provided a composition that had not previously been recorded. The result is a unique collection of choral music from the South Island of New Zealand, which will on sale at the concert for $25 (includes a complimentary copy of the choir’s previous CD Winter and Rough Weather - choral music of John Ritchie).

Audio excerpts are available (adjacent) as well as some Youtube of several pieces (below)

Enquiries: Contact Kelvin Lynn on tel 355 3670 / 0274 376 542 or email k-c.lynn@xtra.co.nz.

Tuesday 9 August, 6.30pm

Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

New Zealand Choral Federation's (NZFC) The Kids Sing is an annual Auckland event for primary and intermediate school choirs.

19 Auckland choirs will perform in the two-day Auckland Region event on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 August. All choirs will perform at the Gala Concert on the evening of Tuesday 9 August. This event is suitable for all age groups.

Ticketing information
Adult $17.00, Senior $15.00, Child $14.00

Running time
Start 6.30pm
Interval 7.30pm
Finish 9.00pm
(Times are approximate and subject to change)

Fundraiser for the Dame Malvina Major Trust.

Anniversaries. Works of Britten, Poulenc and Hindeminth featuring 'Rejoice in the Lamb' and 'St Cecilia Mass'.

Sunday 3rd July, 2pm, St Joseph’s chapel, Tennyson Street (entrance through Kavanagh College gates)

Entry by programme ($15/$10 concession)

Southern Consort of Voices presents a program of medieval and modern pieces including works by Francis Poulenc, Zoltán Kodály, John Ritchie … and of course good olde Anon!

Featuring guest artists Rare Byrds.

Manawatu-Wanganui Region are arranging a SingFest for March 2014 and invites interested choirs to register their interest in taking part. Each choir sings a bracket of pieces not exceeding 12 minutes in total of their own choice. Rosemary Russell of Wellington is the commentator for the Festival and will provide a written report (optional) on each choir's performance. There will be a massed sing (details to be notified). Primarily this is a fun day giving the opportunity for choirs to listen to their peers and to network with other singers. Choirs intending to take part are asked to confirm as soon as convenient e-mail contact for later mailing of brochure and registration form. Final commitment and registration by 8 March 2014. There were ten choirs in our 2012 SingFest making it an enjoyable day.

Handel’s Messiah is appreciated, admired and enjoyed worldwide and is the best known and best loved work in the classical choral repertoire.

The City of Dunedin Choir and the Southern Sinfonia, conducted by David Burchell, are pleased to perform this oratorio. Together with soloists Anna Leese (soprano), Wendy Doyle (mezzo), Cameron Barclay (tenor) and Chalium Poppy (bass), it will provide a fantastic opportunity to experience a world-class live delivery of this dramatic and passionate work. This will be a performance to inspire, uplift and enrich the soul.

Messiah is probably Handel’s most famous work. It has seen countless performances, seemingly always in fashion. The fifth of Handel’s English oratorios was composed in the space of three weeks during the summer of 1741, and received its first performance in Dublin on 13 April 1742. The work was an immediate success, but was not heard in London until the following year, when it was again greeted with public acclaim.

The principle item is a suite of choruses from Carl Jenkins's 2002 highly successful The Armed Man, a Mass for Peace. Other items are choruses and solos from opera and oratorios.

Please note the date and venue of this concert is yet to be confirmed.

The City of Dunedin Choir, conducted by David Burchell, presents this concert which will include Zimbe! by Alexander L'Estrange, and excerpts from Tippet's oratorio A Child of our Time.

THE KIDS' SING is an opportunity for Primary and Intermediate choirs to perform and receive valuable feedback from an adjudicator. Choirs may choose to enter the competitive aspect, or not.

* Dates: Monday 8 – Tuesday 9 August
* Venue: Auckland Town Hall
* Gala Concert: Evening of Tuesday 9 August at Auckland Town Hall. Further details to be forwarded at a later date.
* Test Piece: “To Be Or Not To Be”; words by Jari Houston, music by Stephen L. Lawrence. (Youth Sings Out series published by Hal Leonard)
* Workshop: Presented by Mary Cornish For Primary and Intermediate choir trainers on the morning of Friday 13 May at Somervell Presbyterian Church, Remuera.
* Repertoire: Four pieces including:

1. The test piece (compulsory)
2. An unaccompanied unison song – one line melody (not a round)
3. A New Zealand composition/arrangement
4. One other choice (see note below)

* Adjudicator: Vanessa Kay

Note: with regard to repertoire, you may wish to combine items 2 and 3 in one piece, leaving you two free to choices to make the required total number of four.

The coordinator is Catherine Blomfield. Email: cath.blomfield@actrix.co.nz

Click here for the registration form

Schola Cantorum is singing, as the guest choir, while the Cathedral choir is away. We will sing parts of the Mass and suitable motets/anthems.

RUTTER Mass of the Children
MOZART Piano Concerto in C minor
FAURE Cantique de Jean Rancine

RACHMANINOV Vespers Op 37
BOCCHERINI Cello Concerto in Bb Major

J S BACH Christmas Oratorio

The Auckland Boys’ Choir and Auckland Girls’ Choir, with the support of The Lion Foundation are looking forward to celebrating Christmas with their annual concert, showcasing the very best of Auckland’s young choral singers.

The Youth Celebrates Christmas concert, jointly hosted by the Auckland Boys’ and Auckland Girls’ Choirs and involving a number of award-winning primary and intermediate school choirs across Auckland, will appeal to the whole family, and is expected to attract a full house.

“This event is an opportunity for families to come together and enjoy an evening of festive choral music,” says Mrs Leonie Lawson, MNZM and Director of Music for the Auckland Girls’ Choir. “Each of the children singing, and our audience at the event is asked to bring a small present to place under the tree, which will be donated to the patients at Kidz First Children’s Hospital at Middlemore.”

Concert performing Jonathan Berkahn's "Te Deum" with Irish Band, and Schubert's "Mass in G" with organ accompaniment, plus a handful of small treats for the ear!

Fundraising concert for Hospice in conjunction with the Wanganui and District Choirs at Central Baptist Church, Dublin Street, Wanganui, at 7:00PM.

Concert in conjunction with New Plymouth choir "Ars Nova". The combined choirs will perform Puccini's "Gloria" accompanied by Roy Tankersley on organ, and Haydn's "Gloria" from the Nelson Mass, accompanied by the Wanganui Sinfonietta and New Plymouth Orchestra members. Plus a short bracket from each choir and the orchestra.

Schola Sacra will augment the St Andrew's Church Choir singing Jenny McLeod's "Sun Festival Carols" at St Andrew's Church, Palmerston North.

Second of two concerts:

1) Saturday 14th December, 7.30 pm, Matakana Village Hall, Matakana Valley Road, Matakana
Tickets available from Gull Service Station Matakana

2) Sunday 15th December, 2.30 pm, Mahurangi Presbyterian Church, 5 Pulham Road, Warkworth
Tickets available from Lee & Hart Pharmacy Warkworth

Concerts are fundraisers for Homebuilders Family Support Services, Warkworth.

Door sales available, or phone Jenni on 09 423 0094

Four Seasons in One Night

This concert which will include "Zimbe!" by Alexander L'Estrange, and the Negro Spirituals from Tippet's oratorio "A Child of our Time". "Zimbe!" is a vibrant sequence of twelve African and gospel songs charting a day in the life of an African village. The City of Dunedin Choir is joined for this performance by St Paul's Cathedral choristers and Southern Children's Choir. The conductor is David Burchell.

Forget your Blues and Swing to the Rhythms of Broadway

International Summer School in Choral Conducting
Directed by Karen Grylls and Guy Jansen
Guest Conductors: Jo-Michael Scheibe, Mary Hopper, Christopher Kiver.
Download a full brochure, visit www.isscc.org.nz or email gjjansen2003@yahoo.com.au for further information

Roger Wilson sings the solo role in this concert which features some of the best choral works in the Hebrew tradition, the centrepiece being Ernest Bloch's masterpiece Sacred Service.

Our very popular Christmas Concert returns this year to a bigger venue, so we won't have to turn so many away! A selection of sacred, gospel, contemporary and traditional songs.

A concert featuring music relating to spring, love etc

The Kapiti Chorale mid-year concert on Sunday August 19th features Stabat Mater by Welsh Composer Karl Jenkins. Jenkins has pitted his compositional skills against one of Christendom’s most unforgiving texts, based on a 13th Century Roman Catholic poem, which literally translates as ‘the sorrowful mother was standing’. It has previously been set to music by a number of composers, the most accessible probably being Rossini’s version, first performed complete in 1842.
Meditating on the sufferings of Mary during Christ’s crucifixion, it is a text of woeful power and passion, and Jenkins has done a masterly job weaving the myth with a mixture of contemporary and more traditional choral style. He has included an additional six texts that lie outside of the original poem with verse sung in English, Hebrew, Latin, Aramaic and Greek, adding wider cultural perspective to the central theme of a mother’s grief.
It is scored for ancient instruments and modes, and with soloist Ellen Barrett, organist Peter Averi, and a 14 piece orchestral ensemble including percussionists Jeremy Fitzsimons and Tim Whitta, this epic work promises to move and excite.
The programme is supported by the music of Handel and Gustav Holst.

Combined Chamber Choir and Kapiti Chorale, with orchestra, present an all-Mozart concert,and performing the New Zealand premiere of Duncan Druce's completion of Mozart's Requiem.
This new completion has taken Europe by storm since its debut 20 years ago.
To be performed in the Nga Purapura complex at Otaki.

Christmas concert with Kumeu Blend as guest Choir. Sunday Dec 5th 2010. Refreshments to follow

Jump into the festive spirit! Come and listen some of your favourite funked up christmas music plus a sneak preview to PoA's season 5 material. Also featuring quartets the Shore Boys, B4 and the debut of the Stella Singers.

Come and enjoy a sample of the delights that Auckland Choral has on its menu this year. This hour-long concert will be an enjoyable mix of many different styles of music, just like a kaleidoscope, which in Greek implies the words ‘beauty’ and ‘shape’, creating colourful patterns. Alongside excerpts from favourites by Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart you will find some musical surprises. Following our tradition to include tasty morsels from other cultures on our musical journey, you will hear the thrilling sound of taiko drummers as well as folksongs from China and Japan. We will all unite and end the concert with Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” from our perennial Christmas favourite Messiah.

Lilia Carpinelli, soprano | Philip Griffin, tenor | Priscilla Scanlan, piccolo | John Wells, organ | Elizabeth Lau

The Music Association of Auckland conducted by Elisabeth Lau
Sakura no Kai conducted by Setsuko Lichtnecker
Taiko Drummers
Pipers Sinfonia
Auckland Choral

Formed in 2001, The Graduate Choir NZ celebrates its 10th anniversary in style with a celebratory recital at Parnell's Holy Trinity Cathedral. Directed by Terence Maskell and presenting a mix of old favourites and new repertoire, the choir will remind everyone why it has long been considered one of New Zealand's best mixed-voice choirs. The recital will also feature the world premiere of a significant newly-commissioned work by New Zealand composer Christopher Marshall. A concert for young and old alike, this will certainly be an occasion to remember.

On the same day the choir will also be singing at the 10am Eucharist in Holy Trinity Cathedral (service music will include Vierne's wonderful Messe Solennelle); this is free to all members of the public and will nicely complement the afternoon recital.

This year's TBS Gala Concert is being broadcasted next Sunday (5 Dec) at 8pm in 'Young New Zealand' on Radio New Zealand Concert FM.

First performed in 1944, Sir Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time is a unique anti-war oratorio, the composer's moving response to a Jewish boy's desperate murder of a German official in Paris. It's a stirring, dramatic and astonishing live-concert experience.

Christmas is a time for sharing the most joyfully resplendent music. Join the NZSO, Aivale Cole, NZYC Alumni and Jubilate Singers in Christchurch for an inspiring start to the Yuletide season.

Composers have responded to the sentiments of the season with music of soaring beauty, from the gentle pastoral dance of Corelli’s Christmas Concerto to Respighi’s exquisite, impressionistic portrait of the Nativity in his Trittico Bottecelliano. And providing some vocal fireworks in Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate is the rising star soprano, Aivale Cole. The young New Zealander was the sensational winner of the Song Quest in 2009.

What would Christmas be without a choir of carollers with the NZSO? The gorgeous voices of these leading choirs will sing a selection of favourites, old and new, filling the atmosphere with the sounds of rejoicing from across the centuries.

The Graduate Choir NZ presents a recital for Easter at Parnell’s Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.  Titled "Et resurrexit" ("And He arose"), it will feature the Bach masterpiece "Easter Oratorio" a seldom-heard work of exceptional beauty - with New Zealand’s premier Baroque ensemble AK Barok using original instruments, and a wonderful line-up of soloists: Jayne Tankersley (soprano), Dean Sky-Lucas (countertenor), David Hamilton (tenor) and Chalium Poppy (bass).

The programme will also include the celebrated and exuberant motet of Bach "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied" and Britten's famous Festival Cantata "Rejoice in the Lamb" with Timothy Noon (organ).

This is a not-to-be-missed recital of glorious music for Eastertide by one of New Zealand’s top choirs.

Tickets available from iTICKET
More about The Graduate Choir NZ: www.graduatechoir.co.nz
More about AK Barok: www.akbarok.org.nz

Supported by Pub Charity and The Lion Foundation

The Dunedin RSA Choir presents its end of year concert in the Town Hall.

Concert on Saturday 30 April, St Andrews in the City, Palmerston North, 7.30pm

Camerata will be hosting the 54th Molly Atkinson Ladies Choral Festival on 12 September 2012 at St Peter's Church, Ruahine St, Palmerston North. If you would like to receive more information as it comes to hand please contact Susan Adams susan_adams@xtra.co.nz.

Mozart’s Requiem comes veiled in mystery and evokes in the listener a sense of wonder at the brilliance of its creator. The Requiem combines the luminous beauty of his last opera, The Magic Flute, with the stern solemnity of the great Viennese church music tradition. No Judgment Day has ever evoked a greater sense of terror nor have the grieving been afforded such consolation. Mozart began the work as the greatest composer of his time and left it incomplete as an immortal. Headlining this celebration of Mozart’s music are international soloists Susanna Risch, soprano from Germany and Lin Chung Guang, baritone from Taiwan. Joining them are Sarah Court and Kenneth Cornish, with Italian pianist Matteo Napoli and Emma Richards, horn.

Susanna Risch | Sarah Court | Kenneth Cornish | Lin Chung Guang

Pipers Sinfonia
Uwe Grodd, Conductor

Saturday 9 July, 7:30 pm
Auckland Town Hall

We very excited about hosting our second Melbourne Festival of Choirs on June 10-13, 2011 in the most magnificent venues we have on offer here - the Dame Elizabeth Murdoch recital centre, National Gallery of Victoria and BMW Edge Theatre are among some of Australia's most finest performing venues.

INTERKULTUR invites to competitions around the world
1. World Choir Championships for Youth and Young Adults in Austria / INTERKULTUR for the first time in Vietnam
In 2011 INTERKULTUR invites the choral community to choir festivals and competitions. Germany, Italy, Hungary, USA, Vietnam, Austria and Malta will be the host countries in this choral year when choirs from most different nations will meet worldwide.
Highlight of the INTERKULTUR events is the choir competition in Graz which takes place from July 10 - 17. Singers will meet in the former Capital of Culture and host city of the 5th World Choir Games in order to participate in the 1st World Choir Championships for Youth and Young Adults which takes place at the same time as the 2nd Grand Prix of Choral Music. „This combination looks set to become a week-long ‘pure experience of sound’! “, INTERKULTUR president Günter Titsch rejoices.
The INTERKULTUR events in 2011 will start in Vietnam. For the first time in the country’s history it will host an international choir competition. From March 16 - 20 INTERKULTUR offers choirs during the 1st Vietnam International Choir Festival & Competition a competition with six categories. The sound of music will travel from the coastal town at the South Chinese Sea up to the tradition-rich and International Choir Competition & Festival in Budapest. From April 17 - 21, 2011 the beautiful city at the Danube welcomes choirs for the 13th time. From April 27 to May 01, however, the motto in the lagoon city Venice will be „Venezia in Musica“ for the 9th time already.
The USA will attract choirs in the month of May, 04 - 08 on the occasion of the American International Choral Festival and Competition – Reno-Tahoe 2011. Afterwards we go back to Europe for the International Anton Bruckner Choir Competition & Festival which takes place in Linz from June 01- 05, and make a detour to Rome (July 02 - 06, Musica Sacra a Roma) and Wernigerode, Germany (July 06 - 10, Int. Johannes Brahms Choir Competition and Festival), which finally leads the singers back to Austria.
The 1st World Choir Championships for Youth and Young Adults will be a premiere in Graz – a new competition at an approved venue. From July 10 - 17 the World Choir Championships and the Grand Prix of Choral Music will create „a choral state of emergency“ in the beautiful city near the Mur. Sing together in Graz!
The INTERKULTUR year will conclude in fall. From October 13 to October 17, singers will meet at „In…Canto sul Garda“. During the International Choir Competition and Festival Malta the voices of the world will resound for the last time in 2011 from November 03 – 07.
INTERKULTUR has ties to 120,000 choirs made up of 4.8 million choral singers around the world. In over twenty years since it was established, more than 5,500 choirs and some 250,000 singers from 100 nations have taken part in the World Choir Games and The World Choir Games (WCG), which are dedicated to the founding Olympic ideal, take place every two years on a different continent. The next WCG will be held in 2012 in Cincinnati, USA.
Information on www.interkultur.com
Responsible person: Stefanie Vera Müller E-Mail: press@interkultur.com

‘Requiem for the Fallen’, commissioned by the Choirs Aotearoa NZ and New Zealand String Quartet Trusts with financial support from Creative New Zealand, this work by Ross Harris and Poet Laureate, Vincent O’Sullivan is a powerful and moving 35 minute dramatic work that pays homage to the many who surrendered their lives for our country particularly in the 1914 – 1918 Great War.

It’s Chinese New Year and Auckland Choral brings you a FREE event showcasing highlights of the year. This inspirational and varied one-hour concert features something for everyone: the spine-tingling opening chorus from Carmina Burana, ‘Spring’ from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and well-known music by Fauré and Mozart. A truly multicultural experience when we are joined by the Music Association of Auckland. Internationally renowned choral composer, David Hamilton conducts his Me he korokoro tui, a mix of Maori and English, contemporary and traditional. It speaks of being united together in song and refers to the tui, New Zealand’s most musical song-bird. Complete a balmy summer evening out with a visit to the Chinese Lantern Festival in nearby Albert Park!

Emma Roxburgh | Lilia Carpinelli | Lara Hall, Violin | Elizabeth Lau

The Music Association Auckland
Uwe Grodd, Conductor

The Journey was commissioned from Leonie Holmes for the Manukau Symphony Orchestra’s first performance in the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre, Manukau, in 2005. The inspiration comes from the two texts used – a traditional Maori blessing, and a text by Tessa Stephens focusing on the themes of connection and togetherness. We feature 200 singers on stage as The Music Association of Auckland choir, who sang at the first performance, join us. A special journey not to be missed. Commissioned by the Manukau Symphony Orchestra, Robin Toan’s Sinfonia Concertante will have it’s world premiere. Toan is one of New Zealand’s leading young composers, with her works gaining international attention and awards. A perennially favourite choral work is Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. This beautiful setting of the Mass uses sumptuous colours and beguiling orchestration to transfix the listener. At the centre is its most famous movement, the sublime soprano aria “Pie Jesu." Also part of the programme is Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine to complete this assortment of music that is, The Journey.

Emma Roxburgh | David Griffiths

Manukau Symphony Orchestra
Uwe Grodd, Conductor

Saturday 21 May, 7:30 pm
TelstraClear Events Centre, Manukau

Sunday 22 May, 5:00 pm
Auckland Town Hall

The NZCF SingFest initiative is the only opportunity when adult community singing groups in our region can get together to perform in a festival type setting in front of like minded participants; to be inspired, share ideas, form friendships, to network, and most importantly - to have fun! Based on The Classic Sing, (held in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008) SingFest takes on the same objectives as The Classic Sing, but in a non- competitive format, without specifying what is sung, and without public comment on performances or awards. A highly skilled commentator will be in attendance, providing each participating group with a written report if so desired.
If you took part in our previous Classic Sings you will remember that this was an exhilarating experience and your choir/singing group will want to take part in the coming SingFest 2011.

The objectives of SingFest are as follows:

INNOVATE: to bring something new and exciting to group singing – something that will excite other singing groups and most importantly, excite audiences
PARTICIPATE: join in and share in this event, and possibly share in other events such as joint concerts in future.
COMMUNICATE: get in touch with other like minded groups, to connect, to share their knowledge of group singing, and spread the good word about the joys group singing can bring.
ELEVATE: lift one’s spirit and lift up one’s standard
APPRECIATE: the wonderful singing; enjoy high standards and new music and a fresh approach.
CELEBRATE: the effort of coming together, the making of fine music, and making of new friends, the continual love of learning about group singing with a massed sing.

Commentator, Christine Argyle Wellington, is prepared to provide a written critique of each choir’s performance if requested. This is personal to each group and will not be made public.
Christine is currently conductor of Nota Bene of Wellington, a Concert FM announcer, BIG SING commentator, and NZCF Governance Board member.

Programme: Each singing group will present its own selection of pieces with a total of 15 minutes maximum, and there will be a massed sing at the end of the day. A digital piano is available for accompaniment.

Entry Fee: $5 for each group member taking part. $5 for non participants. Notify your Group's interest in participating by 18 February.

Further information from Co-ordinator John Love
Ph/fax 06-3579200. Mobile 025-3030569.

Three expert conductors will present and analyse the distinguishing features of Baroque, Jazz and Pacific music, demonstrating how to teach the style, outlining pitfalls and explaining how to produce a successful performance.

you can download a registration from https://www.nzcf.org.nz/news.php?id=123 or email Maryann Absolum absolum@xtra.co.nz

For many the Christmas season doesn’t start until Auckland Choral’s Messiah performance, an annual tradition for over 150 years. It was a ‘hit’ from its first performance and remains the most popular oratorio today. Top international soloists including the world-famous tenor Keith Lewis, and stylish Piper’s Sinfonia, join the choir to present Handel’s enduring popular oratorio under the baton of British conductor Brian Kay. Maestro Kay will be arriving direct from London where he will have conducted the Messiah with some 4000 musicians at the Albert Hall. Come and hear some of the greatest music of all time, telling one of the greatest stories of all time!

Katherine Wiles | Dean Sky Lucas | Keith Lewis | David Morriss

Pipers Sinfonia
Brian Kay, Conductor

Monday 12 December, 7:30pm
Tuesday 13 December, 7:30pm
Auckland Town Hall

A concert of Christmas Music performed by the Orlando Singers and invited guest choristers.

With Orchestra Wellington and Wellington Youth Choir. Soloists Anna Leese, Emma Fraser, Oliver Sewell and Keiran Rayner.

In 2011, we celebrate The Tudor Consort’s Silver Anniversary, and we are delighted to offer our subscribers the first concert as a free gift. The Tudor Consort presents an intimate concert of works written for the Sistine Chapel by Palestrina, Anerio, Allegri and Josquin. There will be no door sales for this concert – this is presented as a special offer to subscribers only.

Bach Motets and Organ Music for Lent. Directed by Dr Richard Marlow (Trinity College Cambridge). Organists Michael Fulcher, Richard Apperley, Thomas Gaynor.

Lassus: Prophetae Sibyllarum. This programme explores the theme of prophecy, featuring the wildly chromatic Prophetiae Sibyllarum by Orlando de Lassus, and the double-choir Teutsch Magnificat by Heinrich Schütz. This concert is presented by Chamber Music Hutt Valley.

The concert has been cancelled due to the Christchurch Earthquake. the new date is planned for 13 November 2011

Our Regional Big Sing Festival will be held in the Regent on Broadway,
Palmerston North on Tuesday 14 June. Secondary School Singing Groups from the Region, including groups from the Wairarapa, will present their competition bracket to John Rosser, Auckland, Adjudicator, during the day session commencing at 10am. Gala
Concert in evening 7pm to 8.30pm. Public welcome at day sessions and evening concert.

Soloists
Janey MacKenzie - Soprano
John Beaglehole - Tenor
Roger Wilson - Bass
Peter Averi - organ

Continuing the Wellington Choral Federation tradition which enables choral singers of all levels of experience to have the opportunity to perform one of the great choral works. This year it is to be 'Creation' by Joseph Haydn. Marie Brown will rehearse the work and conduct a public performance on the Saturday evening.

Enrolment form available online. Go to Wellington Region - News- May Workshop article

Part 1. Monteverdi Madrigals books 1 and 2

Ecce beatam lucem - Striggio; Spem in alium - Thomas Tallis

The Choir will perform favourites and a new repertoire. Featuring special guests:
Accordionist, Lionel Reekie
Pianist, Royce Creamer
Singing solos and an instrumentalist group

With The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The Orpheus Choir presents a concert of Cole Porter's greatest works especially arranged by Wayne Senior. Soloists Sarah Lineham and Chris Crowe.

Mozart's Kyrie & Ave Verum, and Cherubini Requiem

This will be a joyous programme with a Christmas flavour.

Vivaldi ranks among the most popular and widely recorded Baroque composers; most people know his "Four Seasons". His "Gloria” is one of the finest examples of sacred music from the Baroque era. Charpentier's "Messe de Minuit" (Midnight Mass), composed earlier, falls into a historically interesting category: while it is ostensibly religious music, it borrows from Christmas songs of traditional folk origin. There will be additional pieces by Shaw, Mozart/Muller, and Berlioz, as well as solo numbers performed by the principals joining the choir for this concert.

Peter Averi organ, Andrew Weir trumpet, and soloists from the New Zealand School of Music.

Paua Cantata is performing a new show at the Prebbleton Hall, Springs Road Prebbleton at 7:30pm. 10th December
We will be performing 3 and 4 part songs, soloists, musicians including a stunning Obo player from CHCH symphony, ukulele band,  balanced with great sound and lighting, trained by our very own professional musical director and voice trainer Judith Bylett. We encourage solo singers who will be performing, we have musicians in the choir who will be performing, from a young classical guitarist to a full ukulele orchestra to a professional oboist who has just finished playing for the Phantom Orchestra in ChCh!!!! I Know!!! It will be awesome!!! So a great variety of entertainment to suit a wide variety of audience. Our concerts now fill the venues which is really flattering and rewarding. Prebbleton Hall holds about 240. Our last show filled it to the max.

Due to the devastation caused by the Christchurch earthquake the National Finale can not be held there as scheduled. The Wellington regional committee has risen to the challenge so it great event will take place in the Capital.

Proceeds to go to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.

As the Vivace International Choir Festival – organized annually since 2000 – switched for biennial frequency, we are happy to announce, that the 11th edition of this unique festival will be held this August! We are aware of the fact, that it is quite late, but we strongly hope to find a few good choirs which are still interested to come to Hungary to celebrate music and the other joys of living. It might be even yours – or another good choir you know in your homeland.

Come and sing about the pleasures of life – paying tribute also to the great Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, joining in the United Festival Choir with a two movements of the magnificent Christus oratorio.

Deadline for applications: 15.04.2011

For details and application-form, visit the following website: http://www.vmkveszprem.hu/eng/fomenu.php?PHPSESSID=&k=2
or send e-mail to cszalai.agnes@chello.hu

The Greater Auckland Chorus is proud to present The Yale Spizzwinks(?) - America's oldest underclassman a cappella group, founded in 1914 as a satirical response to the Yale Whiffenpoofs. With a diverse repertoire ranging from traditional Yale songs and jazz standards to pop hits and rock n' roll, the Spizzwinks(?) continue to perform and entertain with the same musicianship and humour of their founding members 97 years ago.

Don't miss this opportunity to see and hear one of the finest a cappella groups to visit New Zealand, with opening performances from the Greater Auckland Chorus and guests.

The New Zealand Opera and Lautten Compagney have generously donated their time for benefit concert for the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal. Tickets are $35 + voluntary koha and Ticketek have waived their booking fee. See this Ticketek link for more details.

The concert is next Thursday, 17th March (6-7pm).

Join with other singers and the APO on the afternoon of Sunday 20 November at the APO's Open Day at Telstra Clear Pacific Centre in Manukau. The afternoon will begin with a rehearsal of Verdi's Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Handel's Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah and Mozart's Dies Irae from his Requiem. There will follow a rehearsal with the orchestra and then a performance. There are NO CHARGES TO SING AND NONE FOR THE CONCERT AUDIENCE. Bring yourself and invite your friends and family to the free performance. To register, see the news item of 28 August "Sing with the APO" and complete the form. If you wish to email it, please send it to catherineb@apo.co.nz

Who was Saint Nicolas? If the historical Saint Nicolas was magically transported into the present day, it is unlikely we would confuse him with the rotund, ‘yo-ho-ho’-ing figure of our modern Santa Claus. Yet the origins of the Santa Claus myth are unquestionably linked to the historical 4th-century patron-saint of children from Asia Minor.

Nota Bene’s Christmas concert with a difference presents Benjamin Britten’s treatment of the life of this historical figure, Saint Nicolas. The cantata was commissioned for a first performance in the non-festive month of July, 1948 for the centennial celebrations of Lancing College in Sussex. Based on a text written by Eric Crozier, Britten uses dramatic contrasts in vocal and musical styles to explore the legendary life of Saint Nicolas, Bishop of Myra. Written for a mixed choir, a tenor soloist, three solo boys and a small chamber orchestra, the cantata focuses on the character of this saint, and particularly on the many legends that have developed about him over the centuries.
Conductor, Michael Vinten, well-known in Wellington as the conductor for recent productions by Boutique Opera and Opera in the Bays, has assembled an orchestra of strings, piano and percussion especially for this performance. The tenor soloist is popular Wellington-born opera singer, Benjamin Fifita Makisi, winner of the Lockwood Aria Competition in Rotorua and the McDonald Aria Competition in the Sydney. To reflect the drama of the work, it will be semi-staged by Wellington-based opera and theatre director, Jacqueline Coats, who is also a member of the choir.
The concert will also feature the Simple Symphony Op 4 for string orchestra, dedicated by Britten to Audrey Alston, his childhood viola teacher, and a number of other Christmas choral works written by Britten.
This concert is part of a mini-Britten festival by Nota Bene and Tudor Consort, A Britten Christmas. Tudor Concert will be performing the Ceremony of Carols and A Boy Was Born on the evening of Saturday 10 December.

The NZCF SingFest initiative is the only opportunity when adult community singing groups in our region can get together to perform in a festival type setting in front of like minded participants; to be inspired, share ideas, form friendships, to network, and most importantly - to have fun! Based on The Classic Sing, (held in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008) SingFest takes on the same objectives as The Classic Sing, but in a non- competitive format, without specifying what is sung, and without public comment on performances or awards. A highly skilled commentator will be in attendance, providing each participating group with a written report if so desired.
If you took part in our previous Classic Sings you will remember that this was an exhilarating experience and your choir/singing group will want to take part in the coming SingFest 2011.
Each singing group will present its own selection of pieces with a total of 15 minutes maximum, and there will be a massed sing at the end of the day. Piano is available for accompaniment.

Soloists Amelia Ryman (soprano), Bianca Andrew (contralto)
Tom Atkins (tenor), David Morriss (bass) and Douglas
Mews (organ).

The piano recital is one of five in support of Christchurch earthquake victims, featuring internationally acclaimed Hungarian pianist, Endre Hegedûs, playing an all Liszt programme on the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. All proceeds are towards the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal. $20 or $10 (students/seniors) doorsales only

My Voice Is ...... My Voice Does.
22nd National Professional Development Conference of NEWZATS
Presenters Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher.

Download brochure in pdf format from: www.newzats.org.nz/conference.php?qid=anytime478b0c3894be6

The Armed Man will be performed by the choir and a small orchestral ensemble at St Andrews Presbyterian Church in Wanaka on Friday 26th April at 7.30, St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Queenstown on Saturday 27th April at 7.30 and at Dunstan High School Gymnasium, Alexandra on Sunday 28th April at 2.30. the performances will be conducted by John Buchanan.

Two day singing workshop at Wellington College Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd April

World Music concert Sunday 22 May (venue tbc)

Music about Music. Friday 19th August featuring Wellington region Big Sing Finalists

This festival which is promoted by NZCF and open to all choirs, will be held in Lindisfarne Methodist Community Centre, 2 Lindisfarne St, Invercargill at 2pm on Sunday 18th October. Each choir will present a programme not more than ten minutes duration and at the conclusion of the concert choirs will join together to sing the National Anthem. Afternoon tea will follow. There is a modest charge of a gold coin to defray costs.

Workshop for conductors

Wellington Male Voice Choir in conjunction with the Orange Male Voice Choir (New South Wales), and Nelson Male Voice Choir (NZ)
Songs from the stage! folk, traditional and 60’s to 90’s hits!

Wellington Male Voice Choir in conjunction with the Orange Male Voice Choir (New South Wales), and Nelson Male Voice Choir (NZ)
Songs from the stage! folk, traditional and 60’s to 90’s hits!

Two world premieres - works by Ross Harris and Jack Body.
Thomas Tallis's motet If ye love me is recontextualised by Harris in his work, Vobiscum in aeternum, while Body’s Hebrew setting of Psalm 137 takes the otherworldly strains of Orthodox Russian chant as its starting point. The composers share their thoughts about their new compositions in two exclusive interviews that can be viewed on our website.

The remainder of the home-grown programme includes works by Dame Gillian Whitehead, David Farquhar, Douglas Mews and Tudor Consort choir member Anna Griffiths. The performance is part of the REAL New Zealand Festival 2011.

100-voice choir performs Handel's Messiah

Organist: Dr Indra Hughes

Soloists:
Soprano - Susan Hayday
Mezzo-soprano - Beverley Hicks
Tenor - Iain Tetley
Bass baritone - Peter Stewart

Musical Directors - Norman Firth & Peter Cammell

The Jubilate Singers proudly presents Songs of the Soul, a free concert for Christchurch, comprising a selection of best-loved choral masterpieces directed by Grant Hutchinson. Join the choir and instrumentalists for an afternoon of inspiring choral and instrumental music.

The concert features sopranos Elizabeth Emeleus and Helen Charlton, a string ensemble led by Cathy Irons, accompanists Jeremy Woodside and Barry Brinson and several other instrumentalists. All musicians are giving of their time and talents in aid of the Christchurch Earthquake Fund, so please bring a donation ... and bring your friends!

Programme
Vivaldi - Gloria (1st movement); Bach - Jesu, joy of man's desiring; Mozart - Laudate Dominum; Händel - Violin Sonata in D major; Mendelssohn - Hear my prayer & O for the wings of a dove; Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine; Weber - Concertino for Clarinet; Durufle - Ubi Caritas; Lauridsen - O magnum mysterium; Beethoven - Cavatina; Vaughan Williams - Lord, thou hast been our refuge.

Workshop for secondary school teachers

NEED AN OUTLET FOR YOUR SINGING TALENT?

The Greater Auckland Chorus is having a membership drive on Tuesday 11th October from 7.00-10.00 pm at the Balmoral Bowling Club, Mont le Grand Road, Mt Eden.

For more information contact Membership Coordinator Dana Maton via e-mail: dana.maton@xtra.co.nz, or Team Coordinator Beth Houlbrooke phone 09 425 0092 / e-mail: gac@socialiq.co.nz.

JOIN THE CHORUS, JOIN THE FUN.

A Concert of Christmas and popular music with the Christchurch City Chorus, plus a massed women's choir, Accord mixed A Capella Chorus, Canterbury Plainsmen's premiere quartet, sensational Sweet Adelines' quartets and Christmas Carol singing for all present.

Emcee: Michael Gorman, Christchurch City Missioner

Entry is $20 adults, $10 unwaged, children, seniors, and doors will open at about 1:40pm and 6.40pm. Don't miss out. Call Melvena White 03 322 9393 or email melvena@xtra.co.nz for tickets. Tickets also on sale at Middleton Grange School Hall 7-10pm Wednesday evenings.

Please consider donating non-perishable foods (can's, packets), for the City Mission to use during the Christmas/New Year period. There will be bags to put donations into at the Geo Dome.

In 2016 the Finale will be held in the Dunedin Town Hall, from Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 August.

Tickets for the Gala concert (usually sold out) are on sale now: book here early to avoid disappointment.

The Big Sing Finale – the WHOLE event  – from the Opening Ceremony at 11.30am on Thursday to the Gala Concert on Saturday night – is being live streamed again this year, thanks to the University of Otago’s Music Department and their engineers, Tour Time, Creative NZ and Felicity Wong. See the NZCF home page for a direct link to the streaming.

During September/October the New Zealand Male Choir will undertake a three week tour of Canada, including Vancouver, Calgary, Banff, Kamloops and Whistler. The tour includes concerts with the Vancouver Welsh MVC and Arion MVC in the Wispear Centre, Sidney in Victoria. Amongst many non singing highlights will be the Rocky Mountaineer rail trip from Kamloops to Vancouver.

SingFest 2015 will take place at the CHB Municipal Theatre, Waipawa hosted by the CHB Concert Choir. The following groups will be taking part: Cantare; CHB Concert Choir; Choralairs; Four’s Company; Hastings Choral Society; Linden Singers; HB Community Choir; Rhythm and Soul; The Viking Choir. Other choirs "pencilled in” are: Camerata; Palmerston North Choral Society.

The commentator is to be Roy Tankersley QSM from Palmerston North.

A Capella Singers present a concert of music to herald the change of seasons. This is a light programme which will be performed twice, once at 2pm and again at 3pm. Musical Director Di Lenihan will introduce each item.

It is hoped to have The Kids Sing during the week 5 - 9 September as a fore runner to the Sing Out Festival. Details will be advised towards the end of term two. For further information please contact committee members, either Sarah Rae, Di Lenihan or Michael Buick

The mighty Austrian composer Anton Bruckner left behind one of the most loved Romantic choral works with his last Great Mass in F Minor. Commissioned by the Royal Chapel in Vienna the musicians refused to perform it and declared it as ”… too difficult and unplayable.” Subsequently, Bruckner hired the opera orchestra and the conductor Johann von Herbeck, who quit after the dress rehearsal; Bruckner had to conduct it himself. We are indeed proud to present this work with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and a magnificent quartet of soloists, including husband and wife team Amanda Winfield and Ravil Atlas in their Auckland debut. In the first half of the concert John Wells will thrill with the power of the restored Town Hall organ, Bruckner’s favourite instrument.

Also featuring:
J S Bach Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 542
Naji Hakim Rubaiyat
Andrew Carter Aria

Amanda Winfield | Sarah Court | Ravil Atlas | Grant Dickson

John Wells, organ
Auckland Choral
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt

Performance of Andrew Carter's 1996 work "On The Horizon" with soprano soloist Tizane McEvoy and pianist Somi Kim. An evocative work based on poetry about the ocean by Emily Dickinson, Bronte, Tennyson, Masefield, Kipling and Whitman. Other choral works by Parry, Brahms, Bernstein, David Childs (NZ).

The New Zealand Choral Federation (NZCF) Manawatu - Wanganui Region is holding another SingFest on Saturday 24 March 2012. NZCF SingFest presents an opportunity for adult community singing groups to get together to perform in a non-competitive festival – to be inspired, share ideas, form friendships, network and, most importantly, to have fun! Include SingFest in your 2012 programme.

Christine Argyle (Wellington) will be the commentator and will provide a written report on each choir’s performance, if requested. The report will be given to the choir and not be made public. Christine is a well-known presenter with Radio NZ Concert. She has been a member of numerous choirs, including the New Zealand Youth Choir, London Symphony Chorus, and the Tudor Consort, and currently sings with Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir. In 2004 she formed a new choir, Nota Bene, which quickly established itself as one of Wellington's finest chamber choirs. Christine is frequently an adjudicator at The Big Sing and a member of the NZCF Governance Board.

Programme
Each choir will present its own selection of pieces – a total of 15 minutes maximum. A grand piano and pipe organ will be available for accompaniment. A ‘massed sing’ will be performed at the end of the day and music for this will be distributed within a month of the event.

Lunch break will be from 12.00 to 1.00pm, followed by the second session and concluding at approx 3.30pm

Expressions of interest
To assist planning, please notify us of your choir’s interest as soon as possible. The entry fee will be $5 for each choir member taking part and $5 for non-participants. Final commitments will be sought early in March 2012. All choirs interested in taking part will be welcome.

Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams with Baritone Iain Tetley and Organist Michael Bell, choir conducted by Jenny Firth. The choir will also perform a selection of carols and Michael Bell has been invited to improviise at the organ on Vaughan Williams.

An evening open to all newcomers, prospective members, and the 'just curious'. Come along and find out what barbershop singing for women is all about.
This is a follow-up to our highly successful Open Day in February 2011 'A Taste of Something Greater'.
The evening will include voice placement, vocal exercises, a mini-show, introduction to learning and singing a song with current members, and a whole lot of laughter.

Finding Your Voice - producing a tension-free sound;
Inhalation: As it Relates to Resonance - identifying the spaces that enhance your sound;
Happy Voices - learning to warm up to last the whole day singing;
Kinesthesia and the Voice - how muscular involvement influences sound;
Elegant Diction - making music out of vowels and consonants;
"I want some softs, DYNAMIT!" - exercises to help the singer accomplish dynamic variance;
Expressive Singing - discussion and demonstrations of the expressive elements of the lyrics and music;
I've Got Rhythm (or do I?) - to clarify the meaning of pulse, rhythm and tempo;
Vocal Skills Quartet Style - vocal skill builders;
Happy Ears - singing in tune, exercises and insights to improve intonation;
Happy Hearts - Singing with Emotion - discussions of technique, mood, diction and stage presence and their impact.

Please contact Beth Houlbrooke for further details and a registration form. Registrations needed by 1 July 2011. Registration includes morning and afternoon teas - lunches by own arrangement.

This year's concert includes a cellist, saxophonist and Academy D Dance Group as well as a variety of pieces by the choir, with solos too!

Tea, Coffee and Juice, Christmas Cake and Mince Pies will be served afterwards.

Tickets also sold on the door!

Come and hear the secondary school choir's of the Auckland region sing their hearts out on the stage of the Auckland Town Hall.

Approximately 2000 students perform and the choirs come from schools all over the Auckland area and represent many cultures. The standard of singing is very high and a credit to the students and teachers who give up so much of their time to prepare for this annual event.

The adjudicator this year is Judy Bellingham, who is the senior voice tutor at Otago University.

Auckland can be proud of this example of positive youth in action.

Sessions run daily from Monday the 19th of June, through to Wednesday the 22nd of June and are open to the public.

Times are as follows:

Day One | Monday 19 June
Session 1: 10:00am - 12:45pm
Session 2: 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Day Two | Tuesday 21 June
Session 1: 9:30am - 12:45pm
Session 2: 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Day Three | Wednesday 22 June
Session 1: 9:30am - 12:45pm
Session 2: 1:30pm - 5:00pm

THE BIG SING GALA Concert is a showcase of 24 secondary school choirs, 59 of which have taken part in the previous 3 days of adjudication.

Approximately 2000 students perform and the choirs come from schools all over the Auckland area and represent many cultures. The standard of singing is very high and a credit to the students and teachers who give up so much of their time to prepare for this annual event. The adjudicator this year is Judy Bellingham, senior voice tutor at Otago University.

Auckland can be proud of this example of positive youth in action.

Two world premieres - works by Ross Harris and Jack Body.
Thomas Tallis's motet If ye love me is recontextualised by Harris in his work, Vobiscum in aeternum, while Body’s Hebrew setting of Psalm 137 takes the otherworldly strains of Orthodox Russian chant as its starting point. The composers share their thoughts about their new compositions in two exclusive interviews that can be viewed on our website.

The remainder of the home-grown programme includes works by Dame Gillian Whitehead, David Farquhar, Douglas Mews and Tudor Consort choir member Anna Griffiths. The performance is part of the REAL New Zealand Festival 2011.

The Capital Choir will combine with the Tawa Community Orchestra for a concert of works by Haydn and Borodin

World class entertainers and international silver medallists Musical Island Boys barbershop quartet will be joining Greater Auckland Chorus and men's City of Sails Chorus in a fantastic a cappella concert on Saturday 14 April at 7.30 pm at the Dorothy Winstone Centre, Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Howe Street.
Based in Wellington, the Musical Island Boys are four young gentlemen who have won accolades overseas as well as in NZ, have made many appearances on television and are now coming to
Auckland for this one-off show. They have a special charm, an amazing sound and their fun-filled programme continues to delight. You only need to look at their website ww.musicalislandboys.co.nz to be convinced.
Also have a look at www.cityofsailschorus.com and www.greateraucklandchorus.com and you will see that this is a concert not to be missed. We, GAC and two quartets, will be heading down to the National Competitions in Christchurch in May, so we hope you take his opportunity to come and support us and cheer us on our way. Epiphany, a 12-voice group from within the
chorus, and others will also be part of the show.
This is a very rare and special occasion with two top champion choruses and a champion quartet combining to present a Champions Concert.

Doors open 7.00 pm.

Mendelssohn's popular oratorio 'Elijah' will be performed with an orchestral group.

“Must be classified along with the choir of King’s College in Cambridge” - Le Figaro, Paris

Cathedral choirs and their choir schools are among some of the oldest European musical traditions. Denmark’s Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir brings their glorious voices to New Zealand in April/May for a five-centre tour.

Director and conductor Ebbe Munk says the concerts will span the Renaissance to modern times – “from deep reflection to exuberant joy and eternal light. This is a celebration of sublime choral music”.

The 46-strong choir, including 30 boys aged 13-16 years, is rated one of the finest in Europe with Le Figaro placing them alongside the Vienna Boys Choir and Kings College Choir.

In Denmark the choir performs at state and royal occasions and featured at the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary in 2004, and at the christening of their children.

Directed and conducted by Ebbe Munk, the choir performs classical, contemporary and modern music.

Come along and sing some of the great choruses from opera and oratorio.
A workshop followed by a concert at 4.30pm.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio (parts 4-6)

Soloists:
Soprano: Emma Roxburgh
Mezzo: Christie Cook
Evangelist/Tenor: Henry Choo
Bass: Nicholas Dinopoulos

Tickets:
- www.ticketmaster.co.nz (09-970 9700)
- sales at the door

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 5 Emperor
interval
Agostino Steffani - Stabat Mater (NZ premiere)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantata No 80 Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Soloists:
Piano: Jason Bae
Soprano: Jayne Tankersley
Alto: Sarah Court
Tenor: Kalauni Poulavu
Bass: Joel Amosa

Tickets:
- www.ticketmaster.co.nz (09-970 9700)
- sales at the door

NZCF East Coast Region The Kids Sing 2011 will be held on Wednesday 17 August at the Hawkes Bay Opera House Hastings.

To date there are 17 choirs from 12 schools who have applied for this year’s Festival. This covers the Hastings, Havelock North and Taradale areas. This is the largest number of children (approx 700) to have taken part in this event since it’s inception in 2006.

David Squire, from Auckland, is the adjudicator. The ‘set piece’ which he has chosen is ‘Chocolate’ from David Hamilton’s Song Cycle for young singers.

‘Voix de Femmes’ of Havelock North High School, who were the winning choir in The Big Sing East Coast held recently, are to be the guest artists at the Evening Concert. This choir is directed by Sue Melville.

This event is always well supported by the community and for the last 3 years the Opera House has been sold out for the Evening Concert.

What's a Pops Choir concert like, you ask? Well, it's joy and laughter, harmony and light.
You'll be so Happy to hear the Pops Choir you might even go Gaga over it! And If Ain't no Mountain High Enough, then we'll just have to Raise You Up like a Bridge over Troubled Water. But really you should come and Gimme Some Lovin' before you Shut Up and Dance.
It's Adele, Simon and Garfunkel, Toto, Abba, Elton John, Motown, Bruno Mars, Bette Midler, Lady Gaga and so much more! These are just some of the artists we enjoy. We promise you'll have one hell of a good time!
The Christchurch Pops Choir 2016 Tour...POPS GO WEST!

Our Annual Concert with Special Guest Artists (to be announced)

Experience REVOLUTION with the NZSO.

New Zealand’s proud tradition of producing great voices continues into the next generation, and four of our modern greats are assembled here to perform the magnificent Ode to Joy. Beethoven’s intensely emotional expression of hope for mankind is the apotheosis of Romantic optimism, a work which your soul needs to hear to gain replenishment and exhilaration. It is paired with a specially-commissioned new work by Gareth Farr, revered among today’s composers for his ability to conjure spectacular and magical sound-worlds. An evening of uplifting music you won’t want to miss.

“. . . on a sudden, like the fleeting pleasures of life, or the spirited young adventurer, who would fly from ease and comfort at home to the inhospitable shores of New Zealand, we are snatched away from such eloquent music, to crude, wild and extraneous harmonies” The Quarterly Musical Magazine & Review - 1825, 1st British performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony.

Madeleine Pierard | Sarah Castle | Simon O'Neill | Jonathan Lemalu

Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen, Conductor

Saturday 24 September, 2:00 pm
Auckland Town Hall

Bookings at The Edge; more information on NZSO.

* The special Events: Beethoven 9th Symphony and Orff Carmina Burana are not included in the Auckland Choral Subscription Series.

From Excalibur to Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, Carl Orff’s iconic and unforgettable Carmina Burana has featured in hundreds of movie soundtracks. Based on 24 medieval poems with themes of lust, love and excess, the first and final movement O Fortuna is the best known and there is nothing like hearing this stirring masterpiece live! Roy Goodman is the conductor with soloists including Penelope Mills (soprano), Benjamin Makisi (tenor) and Phillip Rhodes (baritone) with Auckland Choral and a specially assembled children’s choir. The concert will also feature Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony.

“Everything I have written to date, and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed. With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.” – Carl Orff

Penelope Mills | Benjamin Makisi | Phillip Rhodes

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Roy Goodman, Conductor

Thursday 6 October, 8:00 pm
Friday 7 October, 8:00 pm
Auckland Town Hall

Bookings at The Edge; more information on APO.

* The special Events: Beethoven 9th Symphony and Orff Carmina Burana are not included in the Auckland Choral Subscription Series.

Tickets to THE KID’S SING Gala Concert can be purchased from www.buytickets or 0800BUYTICKETS.

What's a Pops Choir concert like, you ask? Well, it's joy and laughter, harmony and light.
You'll be so Happy to hear the Pops Choir you might even go Gaga over it! And If Ain't no Mountain High Enough, then we'll just have to Raise You Up like a Bridge over Troubled Water. But really you should come and Gimme Some Lovin' before you Shut Up and Dance.
It's Adele, Simon and Garfunkel, Toto, Abba, Elton John, Motown, Bruno Mars, Bette Midler, Lady Gaga and so much more! These are just some of the artists we enjoy. We promise you'll have one hell of a good time!
The Christchurch Pops Choir 2016 Tour...POPS GO WEST!

After a first performance in Raumati, the Kapiti Chamber Choir, with Roger Wilson soloist sings Ernest Blosh's masterpiece Sacred Service in its intended setting - a synagogue.
Wellington Orthodox Synagogue, Webb Street, Wellington.

18 November Friday, 12.45pm. Cantoris. Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. . Director Richard Apperley

19 November Saturday, 7.30pm. Cantoris. Fortuna Chapel Karori. Tchaikovsky - Liturgy of St John Chryosostom. Director Richard Apperley.

Christmas music with audience participation.

with audience participation

December Saturday 7,30pm. Tudor Consort. Sacred Heart Cathedral.

Travelling to Bethlemen – a Journey in Poetry and Song.

Choir with brass

Faure Requiem, and works for Passiontide

Missa Ego flos campi

Missa Ego flos campi by Padilla

Renaissance Influences V: Le Jeune and Messiaen

The Wellington Regional 'Big Sing' takes place over two days. Two sessions daily - morning 10.30am, afternoon 2.00pm. Admission free.

There will be a concert on both evenings commencing at 7.00pm with each choir competing on that day presenting one item from their repertoire. Tickets for evening concert available from Ticketek

May Magnificat, settings of the Song of Mary by Finzi, Tavener, Pärt, Mews, Jennings, Stanford, conducted by Peter de Blois.

Come at 6pm. Drinks and bar food available.

Celebrate the start of Christmas with this contemplative and atmospheric service. The Cathedral Choir will sing seasonal music by Byrd, Wishart, Lloyd, Carter, Palestrina and others, as well as favourite Advent hymns, such as O come, o come Emmanuel.

The traditional and much loved service, which begins with 'Once in Royal David's City' and traces the story of the Nativity through readings, prayers, and carols. The choir sings music by Holman, Rütti, Rowley, Howells and Warlock, as well as arrangements of traditional Christmas melodies.

At 7.30 pm, on November 5, in St Peter’s Church, Ruahine Street, Palmerston North, the Renaissance Singers will be conducted by their musical director, Guy Donaldson, and Christine Argyle as they present the music of British composers. Christine has sung with the New Zealand National Youth Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Auckland Opera Chorus and The Tudor Consort. She studied conducting with Karen Grylls and Uwe Grodd at Auckland University. She has since founded Wellington’s Nota Bene chamber choir and the Wellington Young Voices children’s choir and was a foundation member of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir - she is still a member. Christine was Chair of the Governance Board for the NZ Choral Federation and was a well-known presenter with Radio New Zealand Concert. She now manages the New Zealand String Quartet. She is going to work with the Renaissance Singers in preparing for this concert and will conduct half of what will be quite a challenging programme.

The British composers featured range from the sixteenth and seventeenth century Renaissance period through to the present day.

The programme is:

William Byrd Ave Verum Corpus

William Byrd Laudibus in sanctis

Thomas Tomkins I heard a voice from heaven

Henry Purcell Remember not, Lord, our offences

Charles Stanford Quick, we have but a second

Charles Stanford Beati quorum via

Arthur Sullivan The Long Day Closes

Charles Wood Expectans Expectavi (with organ)

Gustav Holst I love my love

Gustav Holst Swansea Town

Interval

Benjamin Britten The Evening Primrose

John Rutter Sing a Song of Sixpence

John Tavener Song for Athene

John Chilcott The Shepherd’s Carol

John Rutter Gloria (with organ)

The Jubilate Singers presents their end of year concert B3 which includes music by three 'big men' of the choral world - Bach, Bruckner and Brahms.

B3 comprises music for Advent by J S Bach: Cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; motets Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen? & Es ist das Heil uns kommen her by Brahms. The concert, which also features contributions from well-known Christchurch instrumentalists, concludes with Bruckner’s well-loved motets Christus factus est, Ave Maria and his monumental Ecce Sacerdos.

The Jubilate Singers, directed by Grant Hutchinson, will be joined by organist Martin Setchell and a string ensemble led by Cathy Irons. Tickets ($15/$10 concession) will available at the door.

New Jubes CD
At the beginning of 2010, the Jubilate Singers first had the idea of recording a collection of choral works by South Island composers, featuring poetry and other text evocative of life in the South Island. They approached nine of the region’s most prominent composers – Chris Archer, Richard Madden, Philip Norman, Richard Oswin, Anthony Ritchie, John Ritchie, Martin Setchell, Patrick Shepherd and Jeremy Woodside – for a suitable piece for Southern Landscapes. To the Jubes’ delight, all offered to write a new piece for the project or provided a composition that had not previously been recorded. The result is a unique collection of choral music from the South Island of New Zealand, which will on sale at the concert for $25 (includes a complimentary copy of the choir’s previous CD Winter and Rough Weather - choral music of John Ritchie).

Audio excerpts are available (adjacent) as well as some Youtube of several pieces (below)

Enquiries: Contact Kelvin Lynn on tel 355 3670 / 0274 376 542 or email k-c.lynn@xtra.co.nz.

A concert to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War One. The programme is centered on the New Zealand premiere of Judith Bingham's "A Christmas Truce', with music from composers of the time and World War One songs, including those from New Zealand and Australia.

A Concert of Christmas and popular music with the Christchurch City Chorus, plus a massed women's choir, Accord mixed A Capella Chorus, Canterbury Plainsmen's premiere quartet, sensational Sweet Adelines' quartets and Christmas Carol singing for all present.

Emcee: Michael Gorman, Christchurch City Missioner

Entry is $20 adults, $10 unwaged, children, seniors, and doors will open at about 1:40pm and 6.40pm. Don't miss out. Call Melvena White 03 322 9393 or email melvena@xtra.co.nz for tickets. Tickets also on sale at Middleton Grange School Hall 7-10pm Wednesday evenings.

Please consider donating non-perishable foods (can's, packets), for the City Mission to use during the Christmas/New Year period. There will be bags to put donations into at the Geo Dome.

An annual tradition continues! The plainsmen have held an annual Christmas concert at the Cathedral since 1990. No to be deterred, they are back to raise funds for the cathedral and to share in the Christmas spirit with a concert at the La Vida conference center on Saturday December 10th at 7:30.

An annual tradition continues! The plainsmen have held an annual Christmas concert at the Cathedral since 1990. No to be deterred, they are back to raise funds for the cathedral and to share in the Christmas spirit with a concert at the La Vida conference center on Saturday December 10th at 7:30.

The World Choir Games, the world's largest international choral festival and competition built on the Olympic ideal that participation is the highest honour, is coming to Cincinnati, Ohio, USA from 4 to 24 July 2012

The City of Dunedin Choir, supported by the Southern Sinfonia and conducted by David Burchell, are pleased to present a concert of beautiful music from the Baroque era.

The programme includes the delightful 'Magnificat' composed by J.S. Bach originally for the Christmas vespers in 1723. The extraordinary impact of this great choral work derives essentially from Bach's remarkable ability to balance, yet at the same time to exploit to the full, the spiritual and dramatic elements of the concise text of the 'Magnificat'.

Other works on the programme are Handel's 'Utrecht Te Deum', Charpentier's 'Laetatus sum' (a setting of Psalm 121) and Handel's 'Organ Concerto Opus 4 No. 2 in B Flat'.

The soloists are soprano Pepe Becker, soprano Grace Park, mezzo-soprano Amanda Cole, countertenor Christopher John Clifford, tenor Stephen Chambers and bass Julien Van Mellaerts.

Lisa Harper-Brown - Soprano
Margaret Medlyn - Mezzo-soprano
Rosario La Spina - Tenor
Jud Arthur - Bass
City Choir Dunedin

The NZSO gathers together some of Australasia’s finest singing talent in this performance of Verdi’s moving and majestic Requiem. Composed to mark the passing of two great Italian heroes - the composer Gioachino Rossini and the author and poet Alessandro Manzoni - Verdi’s Requiem is an overwhelming expression of grief, and yet it is reassuring in its message of comfort.

Having wowed audiences in the 2012 performances of The Valkyrie, our very own Margaret Medlyn and Australian soprano Lisa Harper-Brown return to showcase again their stunning and sweeping vocal techniques. The acclaimed Australian tenor Rosario La Spina and the inimitable Jud Arthur complete our quartet of soloists.

Verdi’s Requiem is filled with recognisable musical moments, from the dramatic and despairing ‘Dies Irae’ with its thunderous percussion and brass to the imploring beauty of the ‘Lacrimosa’ that grows in its intensity with every phrase. Once considered too ‘operatic’ for the church, this work is filled with Verdi’s trademark glorious melodies. This is a work of great personal significance for the composer, and for many who have since come to know this passionate and glorious requiem.

Jazz Mass at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. All welcome to the service.

Missa Brevis in Jazz - a Choral Mass by Barry Brinson, with trio – Barry Brinson on piano, Nick Tipping (bass), Hikurangi Schaverein-Kaa (drums)

A relaxing and meditative programme of some of the most beautiful works of sacred choral music performed by candlelight. Predominantly featuring music written for the church’s offices of Compline and Vespers, the programme will include works by Howells, Monteverdi, Sheppard, Mozart and others, including solo items featuring members of the choir, and organist, Philip Smith. This will be the perfect way to unwind and shake off the mid-week winter blues.

Franz Liszt's setting of Via Crucis, the fourteen Stations of the Cross, is without parallel in the choral repertoire in its emotionally-charged depiction of Christ’s final walk to the Cross. The Via Crucis is the central work in this meditative concert, that will also include Allegri’s famous Miserere, Crucifixus (Bach), Christe, adoramus te (Monteverdi), Erbarme Dich (Bach) and William Walton’s Drop, drop slow tears. The performance will be augmented by organ music played by Martin Setchell as well as visuals of passiontide scenes.

The Way of the Cross, presented by the Jubilate Singers and directed by Grant Hutchinson, is offered to the people of Christchurch as an opportunity to reflect, while enjoying some of the finest music ever written for this time of the year.

7.00pm
Saturday 31 March 2012
Our Lady of Victories Church, 106 Main South Rd, Sockburn, Christchurch
Entrance by programme donation ($10/$15 recommended)

Elise was a primary school teacher who later became a secondary school music teacher. She was one of NZ’s most successful secondary school choir directors. Currently, Elise is the Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Toronto Children’s Chorus. She has achieved much more, so read her biography! Elise is a warm, humorous, entertaining, realistic and an empathetic speaker who loves to share aspects that can help us all take our choirs more effectively.

She will be covering aspects of conducting, repertoire, score preparation and performances for primary school choir directors.
Please return this form with the fee to: NZCF Auckland, P.O. Box 109 002, Newmarket, Auckland 1149

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SingFest in Palmerston North

Missa Solonelle by Vierne and other French romantic works for choir and two organs. Part of an event in cooperation with Wellington Organist Association during Wellington Region Organ Week.

These magnificent pieces come to life with a brass ensemble and organ. Venue and brass group tbc.

Joined by the Choristers of Holy Trinity Cathedral and King's School Chapel Choir

Be inspired at a choral conducting workshop. John Rosser will present Giving Direction, a workshop on choral conducting, as part of the NZCF Association of Choral Directors (ACD) new programme of professional development. Apart from the training offered, this is an opportunity for conductors to meet an established conducting mentor, who will be able to provide ongoing advice and support.

The Linden Singers of Hawke's Bay will be joining the Orlando Singers in presenting a programme of separate and joint items.

The Linden Singers of Hawke's Bay will be joining the Orlando Singers in presenting a programme of separate and joint items.

Current and former Orlando Singers join to celebrate 40 years of music making. Favourite work by Howells, Mendelssohn, Elgar, etc. Premier of a commissioned work by John Wells - "Wild Daisies" - settings of NZ poems. Guest solo tenor will be young emerging artist Chase Douglas. Supper to follow.

An Entertainment with songs and poems on animals, birds and insects.

The Hibiscus Coast Singers are pleased to announce their next concert on June 16th, 7.30pm and June 17th at 2.30pm at Red Beach Methodist Church. Tickets $15, under 12s free.
A very funny concert of poems by Ogden Nash set to music by Eric Whitacre, as well as many other animal-related pieces including El Grillo, the beautiful madrigal, The Swan and lots of other entertaining pieces. Tickets from Teri France 09 428 5623.

.United in Song, celebrating the HVS 80th Anniversary.

United in Song celebrating the HVS 80th Anniversary.

Handel's masterpiece
Soloists: Madeleine Pierard, Sally-Anne Russell, Simon O'Neill, Stephen Bennett with the CSO

The Cathedral Choir sings Passiontide music including Allegri's Miserere and works by Byrd, Tallis, Wesley and Walton, framed by readings from scripture and seasonal poetry.

Hear Pergolesi's beautiful Passiontide masterpiece sung as part of Holy Trinity Cathedral's observance of Holy Week, by two members of the Cathedral Choir accompanied by a string group and continuo. The performance is followed by the Office of Compline.

The Bay of Islands Singers join with the Whangarei Choral Society to form a 90 voice choir for this concert under the baton of John Jackets. Together with an instrumental ensemble of trumpets, trombones, tuba, percussion, timpani, flute, cello, piano and organ, they will present two exciting and stimulating contemporary works: John Rutter’s Gloria and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.

The concert opens with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. This piece was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. It was written in response to the US entry into the Second World War and inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same year where vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".

Since its premiere in April 2000, The Armed Man by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins has had an amazing impact on all who hear it. Its popularity among choirs, musicians and audiences has grown to make it one of the most significant works of the century.

John Rutter’s Gloria was written as a concert work and first performed in the US in 1974. The Latin text is drawn from the Ordinary of the Mass, and Rutter’s setting is based mainly on one of the Gregorian chants associated with the text. The three movements roughly correspond to a traditional symphonic structure, and the accompaniment is for brass ensemble with timpani, percussion and organ.

The Bay of Islands Singers join with the Whangarei Choral Society to form a 90 voice choir for this concert under the baton of John Jackets. Together with an instrumental ensemble of trumpets, trombones, tuba, percussion, timpani, flute, cello, piano and organ, they will present two exciting and stimulating contemporary works: John Rutter’s Gloria and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.

The concert opens with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. This piece was written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. It was written in response to the US entry into the Second World War and inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same year where vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".

Since its premiere in April 2000, The Armed Man by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins has had an amazing impact on all who hear it. Its popularity among choirs, musicians and audiences has grown to make it one of the most significant works of the century.

John Rutter’s Gloria was written as a concert work and first performed in the US in 1974. The Latin text is drawn from the Ordinary of the Mass, and Rutter’s setting is based mainly on one of the Gregorian chants associated with the text. The three movements roughly correspond to a traditional symphonic structure, and the accompaniment is for brass ensemble with timpani, percussion and organ.

SNAPSHOTS
"Every Picture Tells A Story"
Guests: Waitakere City Ladies Choir, Kumeu Blend and Guest Artists

Tickets may be purchased at the door.

A delicious afternoon tea will be provided.

This promises to be our best concert ever performed in a wonderful venue. See you there !

Wellington Youth Choir will make a rare appearance in Havelock North this July as part of its 2013 Hawkes Bay Tour! First formed in 1989, the choir is known for its unique, exuberant voice and a repertoire that embraces a wide range of cultures and genres, from requiem masses to gospel pieces, art songs and traditional world music. Members are university students and young professionals between the ages of 18 and 25, and many are also involved with the New Zealand Youth Choir and New Zealand School of Music.

In 2013, the choir is led by Isaac Stone, a music educator who has been involved with Wellington Youth Choir as a singer, accompanist and acting music director over a number of years. The Hawkes Bay Tour is the highlight of many months of dedicated work, and this concert in particular will feature a colourful selection of pieces following a Storytime theme: songs that tell a story or evoke a strong message. Included in the lineup are English folksongs, contemporary choral works, and film soundtracks, all designed to take our listeners on a unique musical journey

In anticipation of regional involvement in the Verdi Requiem Performance at New Plymouth on 1 September 2013, the Manawatu-Wanganui Region Workshop this year will feature the choruses from the Verdi Requiem. Christopher Luke, Director of Music for Ars Nova and at Taranaki Cathedral of St Mary is the conductor of the New Plymouth venture being held as the final event of the Taranaki Arts Festival. The event will feature the New Plymouth Ars Nova Choir, and Wanganui Schola Sacra with the New Plymouth Orchestra.
Christopher will be the workshop presenter.
The Regional AGM will be held during the luncheon break from 1pm to 2pm. Shared lunch.
The workshop is open to all interested. Registration form available from Stanley Barnes.

Organist, Douglas Mews, Marian Hawke (sop), Emily Simcox (alto), Daniel Dew (tenor), Thomas Barker (bass), Graeme McArthur (trumpet)

Organist, Douglas Mews, Marian Hawke (sop), Emily Simcox (alto), Daniel Dew (tenor), Thomas Barker (bass), Graeme McArthur (trumpet)

The City of Dunedin Choir and the Dunedin Youth Orchestra, conducted by David Burchell, are pleased to present a concert of romantic music ranging from somewhat melancholy to excitingly vibrant moods and soaring melodies.

The programme will include Rossini's “Overture: The Thieving Magpie”, Brahms' “Song of Destiny”, Borodin's “Polovetsian Dances” (from Prince Igor), Sibelius' “Karelia Suite”, and Mozart's “Concerto in A for Clarinet” with young clarinet soloist Nicole Batchelar, who is now in the third year of a B.Mus. focusing on conducting and composition.

The sounds of Notre-Dame de Paris will be evoked in Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell during May and June as the Cathedral Choir embarks on an exciting season of music inspired by the French capital. The Mass settings at the 10am Choral Eucharist each week will be those composed for the vast space in Notre-Dame over the past hundred years. An extra organ has been generously loaned (by Ralph Cullen of Keyboard Music Stystems Ltd) to allow the antiphonal ‘double organ’ nature of the works to be realised in spectacular fashion, with guest organists Myles Hartley, and, on 10 June, internationally renowned organ virtuoso Olivier Latry – currently organist at Notre-Dame itself. The cycle begins on 13 May with the Mass for Two Choirs and Two Organs by Charles-Marie Widor (the composer of the famous Toccata), and the following week, the monumental and thrilling Messe Solennelle by Jean Langlais will be performed. On 27 May, the Missa Parisiorum for upper voices by Holy Trinity’s music director, Timothy Noon, will receive its world premiere, performed by the Cathedral Junior Choristers with the women’s voices of the Cathedral Choir. On Trinity Sunday (3 June), the Cathedral’s patronal festival, the choir will perform the New Zealand premiere of the sensational Mass for Notre-Dame by David Briggs. The season closes on 10 June with the most famous work in the set, the Messe Solennelle by Louis Vierne, who was organist at Notre-Dame in the early twentieth century. As it is rare to find two organs together in this country, these exciting works are seldom heard in New Zealand, especially in their original liturgical context.

Fabulously sensual and scintillating madrigals (from Book 2 & Book 9) by the great Renaissance-Baroque innovator and master musician Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Saturday 26 May 2012, 7.30 pm
St Georges Presbyterian Church, 2 The Terrace, Takapuna

Sunday 27 May 2012, 3.00 pm
Holy Trinity Church, Devonport

The North Shore Camerata Chamber Choir presents a wonderful selection of Tudor Anthems and Madrigals - both uplifting and enlivening music by such Tudor composers as William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tallis.

Tickets $20 will be available at the door or can be obtained in advance by phoning 09 445 1881 or emailing tickets@camerata.co.nz

Saturday 26 May 2012, 7.30 pm
St Georges Presbyterian Church, 2 The Terrace, Takapuna

Sunday 27 May 2012, 3.00 pm
Holy Trinity Church, Devonport

The North Shore Camerata Chamber Choir presents a wonderful selection of Tudor Anthems and Madrigals - both uplifting and enlivening music by such Tudor composers as William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tallis.

Tickets $20 will be available at the door or can be obtained in advance by phoning 09 445 1881 or emailing tickets@camerata.co.nz

SOLOISTS Lois Johnston (soprano), Claire Barton (mezzo-soprano), James Adams (tenor), Matthew Landreth (bass)
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
DUNEDIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Joseph Haydn: “Theresienmesse”
CPE Bach: “Magnificat”

Haydn’s “Theresienmesse” was composed late in his life, after his final ‘London’ symphonies, and a year after he completed both “The Creation” and the “Missa in Angustiis” or ‘Nelson Mass’, and it possesses similar qualities of tunefulness, variety, rhythmic energy, contrapuntal skill and colourful orchestration. It is a joyful festive work, written to celebrate the name-day of the wife of his patron Prince Esterhazy, and to demonstrate the high status of the Prince’s court at a time when Haydn was at the peak of his fame and creative powers.

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach’s “Magnificat” is an extended setting of the Hymn of Mary, which is an integral part of the service of Vespers in both the Roman Catholic and Lutheran church. Composed for a festal occasion, this is an exuberant and tuneful work, with extended virtuosic and dramatic arias for each of the four soloists. It was his first major choral work, and was clearly inspired by his father Johann Sebastian’s setting of the same text; Bach returned to the work towards the end of his life, enhancing the orchestration and performing it several times.

Soloists: Madeleine Pierard (soprano), Anna Pierard (mezzo-soprano), Simon O'Neill (tenor) and Andrew Collis (bass)

Brumel – Missa Ecce terrae motus (The ‘Earthquake’ Mass)

Orlando Singers present 50 minutes of WW 1 music ranging from popular songs (Tipperary etc.) to David Hamilton’s poignant ‘A Call to Arms’ – wonderful music set to WW 1 poetry.
Accompanied by John Wells, the choir is featured as part of an hour and a half service including readings, hymns of peace and letters from the battlefield.

A free concert of contemporary US composers including Glass and Lauridsen.

Voices NZ Chamber Choir and Vector Wellington Orchestra. Mozart’s Requiem. Soloists: Morag Atchison soprano; Bianca Andrew mezzo soprano; Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua tenor; Shane Lowrencev bass

Christchurch's male voice choir has performed in many of the now damaged or lost churches and concert venues during their unbroken 127 year history of performance.

Special guests, Martin Setchell, Christchurch's internationally acclaimed organ virtuoso and Jeni McKinnon, Soprano, will join the
45 member choir.

The concert will include a range of traditional and modern songs, from opera favourites and spirituals to original arrangements from three of Christchurch's leading composers.
Featured will be compositions by Martin Setchell and Richard Oswin, plus Phillip Norman's setting of A.K. Grant's poem Love Song, together with sacred music and songs ranging from Vive L’ Amour and Unchained Melody to The Day the Pub Burned Down.

The first of two concerts, the second being on Sunday 6 July in Warworth (see separate event details)

Christchurch Liedertafel Male Voice Choir presents Partners in Harmony.

$20 programme entry (superannuitants and school pupils $10).

Christchurch's male voice choir has performed in many of the now damaged or lost churches and concert venues during their unbroken 127 year history of performance.

The Christchurch Liedertafel Male Voice Choir has continued to operate in Christchurch despite the earthquakes, and is giving this special performance to raise funds for St John.
Money raised from the event will be donated to St John.

Special guests, English organist Edward Picton-Turbervill and soprano, Jeni McKinnon, will join the
45 member choir.

The concert will include a range of traditional and modern songs, from opera favourites and spirituals to original arrangements from three of Christchurch's leading composers.
Featured will be compositions by Martin Setchell and Richard Oswin, plus Phillip Norman's setting of
A.K. Grant's poem Love Song, together with sacred music and songs ranging from Vive L’ Amour and Unchained Melody to The Day the Pub Burned Down.

Choir president Graeme Downie says “The loss of so many major venues has been devastating for the performing arts community, particularly those requiring quality organ accompaniment. ln the past,
the Christchurch Liedertafel has performed in locations such as Christ Church Cathedral,
Durham Street Methodist Church, Knox Church, St Marks Church Opawa, the Salvation Army Citadel
and the Christchurch Town Hall. This concert was considered to be the ideal way by which
Liedertafel could show their practical recognition of the enormous contribution
of St John to Christchurch's relief efforts”

Customer and Services Manager South lsland, Christine Prince thanks the members of the choir for their melodious efforts in support of St John. “The Christchurch Liedertafel Male Voice Choir has performed at so many venues that were badly damaged in the February 2011 earthquake. We're thrilled that they are carrying on with their performing, and especially that they've chosen to fundraise for us at this special concert "

This event involving 13 secondary school choirs from 6 schools will be held in the Regent on Broadway, Palmerston North on Wednesday 13 June. The competitive festival commences at 10.30am and goes through to approx 4.30pm Gala Concert in evening from 7pm-8.30pm
features an item by each choir and the presentation of festival awards.

An all-Mozart programme centered around the performance of the ever-popular 'Requiem in D Minor'. This will be a joint concert with the Kapiti Chamber Choir.

Hutt Valley Singers, combined with the newly-formed Major Minors Children's Choir, are giving two "Look at the world and sing' concerts.

On Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 May, the New Zealand Choral Federation (Canterbury/West Coast Region), will hold The Big Sing Festival for Secondary School students. More than 1,100 Canterbury students will take part over the two-day festival in what is New Zealand largest musical competition, with over 8,500 participants taking part nationally this year.

The daytime sessions over the two days will be held at St Mark’s Presbyterian Church (150 Withells Road, Avonhead), from 9.30am to 3.30pm, and members of the public are very welcome to come along to enjoy the superb singing.

Music for a Great Space: Choral music by the Jubilate Singers (Christchurch) and Chroma Chamber Choir (Nelson)
7.30pm Saturday 19th May at Nelson Cathedral. Tickets available from the Chroma Choir, or at the door.

The Jubilate Singers join with Wellington’s Baroque Voices in one the best-loved compositions of the choral repertoire and Monteverdi’s largest work, his 1610 Vespro della Beata Vergine. Part of a larger 1610 Venice publication, the Vespers comprises large psalm settings, smaller-scale motets, a lavishly scored sacred concerto, and a setting of the Magnificat. The Vespers is courtly and majestic in places, touchingly intimate in others. A pinnacle of Renaissance music, it contains elements that look forward to the Baroque style to come, and spectacular vocal and instrumental effects that are still capable of thrilling audiences four centuries later.

Here is part of a concert performance; more video is also available on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWl0oZOSMnM

The USC Chamber Singers is conducted by Jo-Michael Scheibe, president of the American Choral Directors’ Association. Since its inception over a half-century ago, the choir has been consistently hailed as a model for excellence in choral performance. The Jubilate Singers will join the USCS in the joint performance of several choral works, as well as hosting this fabulous choir visiting Christchurch...

The Hibiscus Singers Beijing Group will perform their competition pieces for the 11th China International Choir Festival, as well as the songs they will sing at Beijing schools and parks.

There also will be a variety of acts: The Show Stoppers (a comedy group), Westlake Girls High String Quartet, Olivia McNeill on violin, Roger Clarke (baritone), Ken Brown (tenor), Wendy Probert (alto) and Helga Jurgeleit (soprano) as soloists. Chris Wyatt on guitar and Jo Evans will 'do' Flanders & Swann.

Concert is at Hereworth School Chapel.

Enter through main entrance off Te Mata Rd Havelock North and park in front of Hereworth School.

Alternatively, there will be parking in Hereworth Grove off Simla Ave. Park on grass verge and walk up the hill to the Chapel

Embark on a fascinating choral journey, examining life’s diverse pathways.

The Jubilate Singers' Pathways programme begins with the first polyphony to be published in a native language in the New World (the Quechuan language from Peru), the haunting Hanacpachap Cussicuinin. This is followed by the fiery Suite de Lorca, with words by by the Spanish poet Frederico Lorca and music composed by the celebrated Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. We continue our journey with Eric Whitacre’s heart-breaking When David Heard. The centre-piece of Pathways is the astonishing 17-part Roncesvalles from Joby Talbot’s iconic Path of Miracles. Featuring the crotales and counter tenor Christopher Warwick, it is arguably one of the most challenging works in the choral repertoire. We conclude with Richard Oswin’s exhilarating and rhythmic Sanctus. In addition to the choral offerings, there will also be instrumental works by Jonathan Le Cocq (archlute), Ian Thorpe (oboe) and Barry Brinson (organ).

The Jubilate Singers
Directed by Grant Hutchinson

Charity Concert for the Trinity Church, Darfield.

Programme:
I saw the Lord (Stainer)
Christus factus est (Bruckner)
Solo (Regan)
Adoramus te (Monteverdi)
Elegy for a fallen city (Shepherd)
Cantus omnibus unus (Sakamoto)
Erbarme Dich from St Matthew Passion (Bach)
Lord, when the sense (Ritchie)
O Nata Lux (Lauridsen)
Solo (David)
Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Hamilton)
Coelos ascendit hodie (Stanford)

A concert presented by all 3 choirs of the Auckland Children & Youth Chorus of delightful choral music for young voices

Featuring all 3 choirs and bringing a programme of choral music from the entertainment world

A Christmas concert presented by all 3 choirs of the Auckland Children & Youth choir. Great family entertainment and of course with a special red suited guest!

150 years ago, "Messiah" was the first oratorio to be performed in Dunedin, on Christmas Eve 1863. So Handel's masterpiece provides a fitting finale to City Choir's 150th anniversary year. Performed around the world during the Christmas season, "Messiah" is the most-performed major choral work of all time. It is greatly appreciated, admired and enjoyed.

City Choir Dunedin with the Southern Sinfonia, conducted by David Burchell, is pleased to perform this oratorio again this year. We are delighted to welcome home Jonathan Lemalu (bass) for this performance and together with Lois Johnston (soprano), Amanda Cole (mezzo), and David Hamilton (tenor), we will provide a fantastic opportunity for you to experience a world-class live delivery of this dramatic and passionate work. This will be a performance to inspire, uplift and enrich the soul.

One of two upcoming Christmas concerts:

1) Saturday 14th December, 7.30 pm, Matakana Village Hall, Matakana Valley Road, Matakana
Tickets available from Gull Service Station Matakana

2) Sunday 15th December, 2.30 pm, Mahurangi Presbyterian Church, 5 Pulham Road, Warkworth
Tickets available from Lee & Hart Pharmacy Warkworth

Concerts are fundraisers for Homebuilders Family Support Services, Warkworth.

Door sales available, or phone Jenni on 09 423 0094

A concert celebrating 50th anniversary of the dedication of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. Accompanied by brass, percussion and organ. Works by Christopher Marshall, Katherine Dienes-Williams and Andrew Baldwin.

In November this year, it is a century since Benjamin Britten was born.

Our choir is taking the opportunity to celebrate this on 16 November with a performance of his wonderful setting of Hymn to St. Cecilia - the patron saint of music. (Britten was born on 22 November, St. Cecilia's Day). We will also feature several of the Five Flower Songs.

To get you early into the spirit of Christmas, we are excited to sing
John Rutter's delightful setting for women of traditional carols,
entitled "Dancing Day". We are fortunate to have Yi Jin play the harp accompaniment too for this twenty minute work.

We will also be performing a selection of Christmas carols.

The NZCF Association of Choral Directors’ Inaugural Convention, Choral Connect, will be held from 11 to 15 July 2012 at Wellington College, Wellington. Choral Connect is for all choral directors, whether beginners or experienced, and will be hosted by the NZCF Association of Choral Directors (ACD). If you conduct a children's, secondary students', youth, community, chamber, church choir or specialist vocal group, then this convention is for you!

Two performances of this choral masterpiece- the first in Pukekohe accompanied by John Wells,organist, the second in Auckland with full orchestral accompaniment.
Both performances feature soloists, Elizabeth Mandeno(soprano), Iain Tetley(tenor) and Anthony Schneider (bass).arah

'Piano Fundraising Concert' for St Mary's Anglican Church, Karori.

Country and gospel music fans are promised an evening of songs ranging from heart-throbbingly beautiful to joyously foot-stomping when internationally acclaimed country diva Donna Dean returns to Auckland for a one-off gig with Auckland’s Heaven Bent Gospel Choir on 27 October.

As well as being the launch of Donna’s new album, 'Tyre Tracks & Broken Hearts', the concert will premiere the gospel choir arrangement of 'Pray', one of the songs from Donna’s 2011 RIANZ awarded Best Country Album 'What Am I Gonna Do?'

Donna Dean’s arresting blend of intelligent lyrics, folk-country-blues-rock-bluegrass rhythms and her deep rich voice, has won her fans all over the world particularly in Germany and the United States where she regularly tours.

When: 8pm Saturday, October 27
Ticket price: $30 ($22 unwaged)
Bookings: Phone/Text 027 222 9049 or email info@heavenbent.org.nz
More about Donna Dean: www.donnadeanmusic.com
More about Heaven Bent: www.heavenbent.org.nz

Music featuring Haydn's Little Organ Mass, with Michael Bell, organist.

Composers include Vivaldi, Pitoni and Handel and the concert concludes with the wonderful Rheinberger Abendlied and Brahms' Geistliches Lied, which has one of the most beautiful 'amens' ever written.

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