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Fall in love with the music of this exquisite new vocal ensemble made up of singers from Voices New Zealand.

Our singers will serenade you with music from the ages, romantic to contemporary weaving all matters of the heart into an entertaining evening of song.

Wellington’s brand new vocal ensemble 9Live are heading to the pub! Grab a pint and let some of Wellington’s most accomplished vocalists take you round the world – without leaving your barstool.

Witness the debut of this professional ensemble, singing jazz from Germany, Scandinavian folk, some gorgeous modern works and even taking a trip down ‘Penny Lane’. 9Live is made up of singers from New Zealand’s premier chamber ensemble Voices New Zealand, and with this programme called Encore, you’ll be thirsty for more.

Repertoire

Penny Lane – Lennon-McCartney arr. Bob Chilcott
Rest – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Earth Song – Frank Ticheli
This Marriage – Eric Whitacre
Ave Maris Stella – Edvard Grieg
Underneath the stars – Kate Rusby
Words – Anders Edenroth
Kaipaava – Finnish folk song arr. Essi Wuorela & Jussi Chydenius
Bardinerie – Orchestral suite no. 2 in B minor, J.S Bach arr. Ward Swingle
Lay a Garland – Robert Pearsall
Can’t Buy Me Love – Lennon-McCartney arr. The Kings’ Singers

Ensemble funding from Creative New Zealand

The final gala concert of the New Zealand Choral Federation’s biennial convention Choral Connect, celebrating the choral traditions of Aotearoa. Featuring a stunning line up of award-winning performers: taonga pūoro player Horomona Horo, the New Zealand Secondary Students Choir, Te Kapahaka ō Te Wharekura ō Hoani Waititi Marae and Auckland members of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir.

You can find out more about the Choral Connect conference here.

“When in doubt, sing loud.”

From playwright Ro Bright and director Kitan Petkovski, the team behind the multi-award-winning Kiwi heartbreaker Daffodils, comes a new uplifting small-town family story performed with the help of a mass choir, with songs composed by Pat Irwin (The B-52s, SUSS).

The Greer household is a battlefield, overflowing with ant armies, wine gums and decades of hoarded fashion. Alison’s universe is centred around caring for her daughter Billie and mother Tup. Surrounded by chaos, Billie discovers a YouTube video that sets the trio on a mission to find a choir big enough to make Tup’s eyes pop.

Premiering at the Festival of Colour in collaboration with Voices Aotearoa NZ and locally-sourced community singers, The Hall brings audiences and choirs together in a ceremonious and frank story about unconditional love.

The Hall from Bullet Heart Club on Vimeo.

With support from

A breathtaking musical and visual homage to the beauty and vulnerability of our oceans.

Celebrating our moana as precious taonga with uplifting music from around the globe, this beautiful concert accompanies the flight of the kuaka/godwit, from icy northern seas all the way down to a fragile sanctuary in Antarctica.

Starting in the north with a new work by eclectic Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi about the Arctic Ocean, we encounter whales, turtles and mysterious serpents on this musical journey following the great Māori navigator Ui-Te-Rangiora on his quest to save the oceans.

Travelling through Latvia, Canada, the US and Indonesia, we arrive at a sanctuary, the majestic Antarctic captured in a new work by New Zealand’s Warren Maxwell, inspired by his own, personal experiences on the ice.

Conducted by Karen Grylls, with elegant direction and choreography by Arts Laureate Sara Brodie, Taonga Moana is set to a stunning landscape of projected moving images.

This spectacular theatrical event is an ode to the power and poetry of oceans – essential, now more than ever, to survival on our planet.

This show comes to us straight from their high-profile performance at Auckland Arts Festival. See them in Wanaka!

“Moving, uplifting, and thought-provoking. A very special evening of music indeed.” – Otago Daily Times

“Impressions…. ranged from full blown despair to total joy and delight.” – The Hook

   

This immersive concert experience features breath-taking visuals from the multi-award winning BBC Earth television series on the big screen, with the original music score by Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea and David Fleming, performed live by the APO with Voices New Zealand.

Watch surfing dolphins, powerful killer whales, colourful clownfish and ethereal jellyfish. From icy polar seas to vibrant coral reefs, from the luminous deep sea to vast undulating kelp forests — Blue Planet II Live in Concert is an unforgettable exploration of the  awe-inspiring wonders of the deep.

Celebrating our moana as precious taonga with uplifting music from around the globe, this beautiful concert accompanies the flight of the kuaka/godwit, from icy northern seas all the way down to a fragile sanctuary in Antarctica.

Starting in the North with a new work by eclectic Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi about the Arctic Ocean, we encounter whales, turtles and mysterious serpents on this musical journey following the great Māori navigator Ui-Te-Rangiora on his quest to save the oceans. Travelling through Latvia, Canada, the US and Indonesia, we arrive at a sanctuary, the majestic Antarctic captured in a new work by New Zealand’s Warren Maxwell, inspired by his own, personal experiences on the ice.

Conducted by Karen Grylls, with elegant direction and choreography by New Zealand Arts Laureate Sara Brodie, Taonga Moana is set to a stunning landscape of projected moving images.

This spectacular theatrical event is an ode to the power and poetry of oceans – essential, now more than ever, to survival on our planet.

This Auckland premiere is part of the Auckland Arts Festival. We’re proud to be part of the ROHA KI TE TAIAO / CARING FOR OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT – AIR, LAND, WATER strand of events at the festival.

With support from

Internationally renowned tenor Simon O’Neill and rising star soprano Eliza Boom join the Orchestra for an evening of classics from Bizet’s Carmen, Puccini’s La Bohème and Verdi’s Otello.

A celebration of New Zealand wouldn’t be complete without our own music. Gareth Farr’s From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs and John Psathas’ ecstatic Tarantismo feature, while vocalist Maisey Rika and Taonga Pūoro specialist Horomona Horo perform music from the NZSO’s successful 2019 An Instrumental Voyage Pae Tawhiti, Pae Tata concert.

The full power of the Orchestra will be on show for Richard Strauss’ inspirational Suite from Der Rosenkavalier before all our guest soloists and singers from Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir join the Orchestra for a special finale, the beloved waiata Pōkarekare Ana.

This concert will also be streamed on the NZSO website and on social media. When booking you have the option to also make a koha contribution to the NZSO Foundation. The contributions will go towards community musical ensembles of all ages mentored by NZSO players.

The amps are unplugged, the drum kits pushed aside, the human voice takes centre stage. Bring your fav person into our bubble, ‘cause this set is about LOVE. Join six members of our national ensemble Voices NZ to hear the stories of some ancient and contemporary rockstar-composers and what they have to say about falling ‘head over heels’. For Monteverdi it was sweet, Whitacre feels like ‘moving as one’ – yep, this topic is infectious.