Alex was a member of the NZYC in 1999. She has worked in the arts sector since 2002 and is currently New Zealand Opera’s Wellington Development Manager. Alex has very fond memories of singing in the New Zealand Youth Choir and continues to sing in choirs when she can.

Wendy was a founding member of Euphony at Kristin School, and from there she moved on to the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir (1999-2000) and the New Zealand Youth Choir (2002-2007). She also joined London’s Voce Chamber Choir for a couple of years when she lived in the U.K.

Wendy has been a member of the Auckland Chamber Choir on and off since 2000 and has sung with Voices since 2014. She is interested in baroque and renaissance polyphony and other small chamber ensemble singing, previously singing in the Voices of the Age of Discovery ensemble.

Originally from Hamilton, Rachel moved to Auckland to study performance piano with Tamas Vesmas. During this time, Rachel studied conducting with Karen Grylls and sang with the Auckland University singers. From there she studied performance piano at the Franz Liszt Academy in Hungary.

Rachel has been singing with Viva Voce for the last 8 years and was the Musical Director of the Auckland Youth Choir. Rachel now enjoys being a full time mum and performing with Viva Voce. She also works as an accompanist and teaches music privately.

Alison (nee Peak) is a busy freelance oboe player, based in Auckland. She obtained her LTCL in Oboe performance in London whilst studying with Sarah Burton in the UK in 1992, and a BSc from University of Auckland in 1995, majoring in Psychology and Mathematics.

Alison is principal oboe of Bach Musica and Pipers Sinfonia, and plays regularly with Auckland Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia and Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 she released the CD ‘Trinity’, a selection of Bach soprano arias with oboe obbligato, recorded on the Atoll label, featuring the Austrian soprano Ursula Langmayr.

Alison has sung with Voices New Zealand intermittently since 1999, and sang with Viva Voce prior to that.

When not rehearsing or performing, Alison enjoys a busy family life, raising her three young sons and keeping fit.

Katie is from Wellington.

She is a high school teacher.

Gabrielle Mutu-Grigg has been a longstanding member of NZ Youth Choir, Voices NZ and Auckland Chamber Choir. She is a doctor.

Virginia lives in Auckland.

She was a member of the NZYC in 1996.

Rowena lives in Wellington.

Michelle Walker has been a member of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir since 2013. She was conferred a BMus in Voice in 2010 from Otago University under the tutelage of Isabel Cunningham. She is a New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir alumni (2005-2006). She has performed with Opera Otago and with several musical theatre companies. Her previous roles include Narrator Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Westend to Broadway, Tonina First the Music then the words, Baroness Sound of Music, and Carlotta The Phantom of the Opera, for which she was nominated Best Supporting Actress at the Otago Southland Theatre Awards (2015). She was a soloist at the Southland Last Night of the Proms and recently performed in concert alongside Rebecca Ryan and David McMeeking with the Invercargill Symphonia (June 2017).

Maria Winder is a current member of the University of Auckland Chamber Choir, the choir she first joined as a student in 1983.

She sang with Voices NZ from 2001-2006 and has sung in several other celebrated NZ choirs, including The Auckland Dorian Choir and Viva Voce.

Maria co-authored ‘Hear Our Voices’, a new choral resource, published by NZ Choral Federation for leaders of children’s choirs. She is the music specialist teacher at Ellerslie School in Auckland and is the director of The Sound of Music Education, providing workshops and music education advice and management for teachers.

Maria has been conducting massed choirs for the APPA Music Festival since 2004. Maria formerly worked for Victoria University in Wellington and subsequently, The University of Auckland as the Music Advisor to Primary Schools. She is the Director of Music Education and a founding trustee of the NZ Ukulele Trust.