After a tough year which saw many of our events cancelled, including our international tour, we are incredibly excited that the 2019-2020 choir can come together one last time to present a week of concerts in Auckland and Wellington.

Join us for our favourite music from the last couple of years - including David N. Childs, Dan Davidson, Michael McGlynn, Stephen Rapana - as well as a few Christmas jingles for the festive season!

“The audience was enthralled and totally absorbed in everything they heard and saw, from start to finish. … Little wonder that the audience was on its feet at the end in a prolonged standing ovation in appreciation of a superb concert where all the singers continually projected the pleasure they gained from singing and sharing this with an appreciative audience.” Hawkes Bay Today, 2018

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All are welcome at this short concert at Te Papa Tongarewa, in the Wellington Foyer directly in front of the Gallipoli exhibit.

Virtuoso Strings will join us for this special appearance, adding some beautiful strings to old and new repertoire.

Free entry to Te Papa and concert (tickets not required). Limited seating will be available.

Broadcast in HD from the intimate setting of the VOCES8 Centre, this new online festival includes some of the world’s finest vocal ensembles. A portion of ticket sales through our website will go towards the NZ Youth Choir.

The festival will be broadcast every Saturday for ten weeks from the 1st August 2020. It has been designed to raise money for artists, venues and promoters to cover their COVID-19 losses, and to reunite the world’s many singers, and audiences with much needed live concerts.

The ensembles will be performing their favourite works, and pieces for which they’ve become renowned, singing repertoire from the Renaissance to contemporary A Cappella. The festival is a heart-warming display of vocal ensembles helping each other in a time of crisis. These concerts will be some of the first performances by the ensembles since the start of the lock-down restrictions at the beginning of the year. A portion of all ticket sales will be put towards funding for grassroots music education, and to addressing topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in choral music

The line-up includes VOCES8, I Fagiolini, Stile Antico, The Swingles, The Sixteen (from Kings Place), The Gesualdo Six, Apollo5, Chanticleer (from San Francisco), and a special guest appearance by The Academy of Ancient Music.

We guarantee a vibrant concert of wonderful music to farewell our young singers on the eve of the NZSSC’s first ever tour to Europe! Touring in Germany and Prague before attending the Dresden International Children’s Choir Festival as one of five invited international choirs, this will be a Farewell Concert to remember.

Music Director: Sue Densem

“The astonishing variety of the singing, the display of absolute confidence, freedom and easy interaction of all choir members, made this a concert which will live long in the memory – a wonderful music experience for both choir and audience, exhibiting the splendid culture in the choir, built up under the leadership of Music Director Sue Densem and her assistants, Brent Stewart and Rachel Alexander.”

Peter Williams for Hawkes Bay Today, January 2020

Reviews from our 2018 concerts in Napier and Palmerston North:

“The audience was enthralled and totally absorbed in everything they heard and saw, from start to finish. … Little wonder that the audience was on its feet at the end in a prolonged standing ovation in appreciation of a superb concert where all the singers continually projected the pleasure they gained from singing and sharing this with an appreciative audience.”
Peter Williams for the Hawkes Bay Today, January 2018

“Throughout their concert the choir sang with great commitment, magnificent tone and technique and a marvellous feeling for the style of each work. What was surprising, however, was the freshness and feeling of spontaneity, qualities that can only reflect the hours of hard work that have gone in to ensure the success of this concert”.
Stephen Fisher, reviewer for Stuff Palmerston North, January 2018

Free Community Events in Napier

Workshop for young singers - come and see how a national choir rehearses. Join us for vocal warm ups, rehearse a concert piece with us and stay to meet our members over morning tea!

Secondary School-aged Singers: Register to attend Student Rehearsal, Sunday January 19, 9am to 11.30am

Local choir conductors: come and observe our rehearsal processes in Napier. Come for a few hours...or a few days! Meet with Music Director Sue Densem for Q&A session.

Choir Conductors: Register to observe rehearsals, January 18-21

Open Rehearsal: All welcome to observe the choir at work under Music Director, Sue Densem. Sunday January 19, 4.30pm to 6.00pm. No registration required

This tour is supported by:

Unfortunately our tour has been cancelled due to the COVD-19 pandemic. However our Auckland concert is still going ahead!

 

Public concerts in this tour include the following:

 

Farewell Concert in Auckland, Sunday April 19, St Matthew-in-the-City

 

Friday April 24, St Gumbertus Church, Ansbach, Germany: 7.30pm, one hour programme plus host choir performance of 30 mins

Saturday April 25, Our Lady Victorious Church, Prague: 1.00pm, 30 minute programme

Sunday April 26, Museum of Music, Prague: 7.30pm, one hour programme

 

International Children’s Choir Festival Dresden 

28 April – 3 May, Dresden, Germany

It's that time again—practise videos, gear lists, billeting schedules and itineraries abound as we prepare for our October rehearsals and concerts in Dunedin, Timaru and Christchurch.

Let friends and family in the mainland know to get their tickets to the concerts in Dunedin  (4 October), Timaru and Christchurch (5 October). Don't miss out!

We'll also be performing as part of the SCAPE Public Art Festival at the Christchurch Art Gallery, 6 October, 11:30am before everyone heads home that afternoon.

This tour is supported by: