Ella is a student at Auckland University studying for a Bachelor in Music and Commerce.

She is a current member of the New Zealand Youth Choir and Auckland Chamber Choir. Ella is working with her singing teacher Dr. Morag Atchison and enjoys singing under Dr Karen Grylls at ACC.

Ella joined Voices NZ in early 2018.

Warren was a member of the 2013 NZ Youth Choir. Warren is an enthusiastic madrigalist, a part time oboist, and he has had the opportunity to sing with a number of New Zealand’s leading choirs over the past decade.

Warren studied Music and Accounting at the University of Auckland, graduating in 2008. He has sung with the Auckland Chamber Choir, Bach Musica and many small ensembles. He is a Chartered Accountant.

Michael was a member of the Bass section of the New Zealand Youth Choir. In 2003-2004, he was a member of the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir. In these choirs, he has travelled to North America, Europe, South-East Asia and Australia.

Michael completed an Honours Degree in Music at the New Zealand School of Music in 2008, majoring in Composition; and subsequently trained as a Secondary Music teacher at the University of Canterbury. In 2011, Michael returned home to Invercargill, and has since taught classroom Music at James Hargest High School, itinerant piano and voice at Southland Girls High School, and Music Therapy at Ruru Specialist School.

Outside of music, Michael enjoys a variety of sports, particularly cricket, travelling the world and reading.

Michael is from Wellington and currently lives in Auckland.

He is a school teacher.

Nigel Tongs is a primary school educator in Palmerston North, teaching classroom, choral and instrumental programmes. He directs the Saturday Music programme and the Music Ministry at St Alban’s Presbyterian Church. Nigel performs as a tenor soloist in the central North Island as well as being a member of the Renaissance Singers choir, conducted by Guy Donaldson. His most recent performances have been in Wanganui, Hastings, Palmerston North and at the 2017 New Zealand Singing School.

Ben is an Auckland-based singer, and has sung with several choirs, including the New Zealand Youth Choir, the Auckland Chamber Choir, Viva Voce, and the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir. He currently conducts a training choir at his former school, Westlake Boys High School, and also occasionally dabbles in composition.

Outside of music, he is currently working towards a PhD in Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Auckland.

Jared is a choral director, itinerant voice teacher, and part-time General Practice Registrar, originally from Ashburton. Alongside his medical training, he has pursued a career in music, studying Piano with Professor Terence Dennis at The University of Otago, accompanying then directing the Wellington Youth Choir, then completing Graduate and Postgraduate Diplomas in Choral Conducting with Dr Karen Grylls at The University of Auckland, while directing the choirs at Saint Kentigern College. Since relocating to Christchurch, Jared has been a conducting intern for the Korokoro Tūī Ngāi Tahu choir project, Assistant Director of Epiphony choir directed by Naomi Hnat, director of The Cecilian Singers, and is currently the director of the Christchurch Youth Choir and the senior choir at St Andrew’s College. He also serves as an itinerant voice teacher at The Cathedral Grammar School and St Andrew’s College, and as the Regional Representative for the Canterbury/West Coast region of the New Zealand Choral Federation. Jared is an alumnus of the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir, the New Zealand Youth Choir, and the University of Otago Capping Sextet.

Benjamin Madden is a proudly born-and-bred Dunedin tenor trained by Pat Scally-Richardson and Judy Bellingham. Since finishing a Bachelor of Music in Classical Music Performance (Voice) and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Otago in 2014, Benjamin has been working as a choral director and private singing teacher in Dunedin. Benjamin is an alumni of the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir, the New Zealand Youth Choir, and a current member of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir. Benjamin attended the 2016 New Zealand Opera School and the 2017 IFAC Handa New Zealand Singing School. Benjamin currently directs choirs for Otago Boys’ High School and Otago Girls’ High School, and teaches instruments (guitar, drums, keyboard, ukulele and singing) at Abbotsford Primary School and Mornington Primary School. Benjamin works with the New Zealand Choral Federation as a mentor for primary school singing leaders as part of their Singing Matters programme, and is Assistant Music Director and Vocal Consultant for the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir.

Benjamin has played a number of operatic roles with Opera Otago. Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro, Monostatos in The Magic Flute, Dr. Ivor Chale in Dearest Maurice (John Drummond), Bob Cratchitt in A Christmas Carol (Phillip Norman, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni) and most recently as Jo in The Woman at the Store by Dorothy Buchanan. He has appeared with the Freemasons NZ Opera Chorus in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly.

Benjamin’s concert performances as a soloist include Ich freue mich in dir (Bach), Evangelist, St John Passion (Bach), Mass in B minor (Bach), Mass in C Major (Beethoven), Messiah (Handel), Mass in C minor (Mozart), Misa Criolla (Ramirez), The Crucifixion (Stainer) .

Outside of singing and teaching music, Benjamin is a big fan of Formula 1, an avid rock climber and a keen runner, enjoying running distances up to and beyond the marathon.

Rebecca is from Wellington.

Michelle is from Wellington.