Join Nelson Civic Choir and soloists for an entertaining musical romp through the fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan in an afternoon of costumed frivolity with excerpts from The Gondoliers, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe and many more.

Presenting at the Theatre Royal Nelson for the first time in many years, members of the Nelson Civic Choir pull out all the Victorian stops. Gilbert and Sullivan created a world where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion: fairies rub elbows with British Lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates emerge as noblemen who have gone astray.

Choral Comedy presents an afternoon of memorable melodies with perfectly outrageous storylines performed in a completely deadpan way.

The 2024 Gala Concert is the culmination of a jam-packed year of performing at Nayland College.

This celebration of the Arts features items from Vast Dance Festival, the Solo Performing Arts Competition, The Addams Family, the Contemporary Music showcase, Rock Quest, the KBB Music Festival, the NZCF Big Sing and the Dance Showcase.

Join our instrumental groups, choirs, dancers and actors for this wonderful celebration of the Arts.

The New Zealand Male Choir celebrates its 20th Anniversary on the weekend 27-29 September, the highlight of which will be a Gala Concert at Nelson College for Girls. The Choir repertoire is broad, ranging from formal choral works, popular, shows, folk, New Zealand Waikato, sacred and gospel.

The Choir will be supported in concert by the Nelson Male Voice Choir, local well-known soprano Allison Cormack and visiting Scottish cornet player, Douglas Couchman. The Choir will also be taking part in the Sunday morning service at Christchurch Cathedral, Nelson as well as visiting the Whakatu Marae as it did when it departed New Zealand on its first tour to Wales in 2000

The New Zealand Combined Choir and Orchestra meets at Teapot Residential Centre for its Annual Summer School of Music in January 2018.

The Teapot Summer School Choir concert "Choral Sounds of the Enlightenment" will be conducted by Ebbe Munk (Conductor of the Royal Chapel Choir in Copenhagen) and accompanied by Jonathan Berkahn.

The choir performs:
Mozart Mass in C Minor
Bortnjanskij concerto for Choir No. 24
Morten Lauridsen Shining Night

Tickets are $25 plus service fees. Cash door sales - $30

Following their participation in the US premiere, the Nelson Civic Choir present the latest work by Sir Karl Jenkins, one of the most performed contemporary choral composers: Cantata Memoria: For the children of Aberfan. The Nelson concert, under the direction of Chris Lukies, will be the first New Zealand performance of this work.

Cantata Memoria commemorates the tragedy in Aberfan, South Wales 50 years ago, where a mining tip engulfed a primary school, killing 116 children and 28 adults. Through the power and beauty of Karl Jenkins' music, the work depicts the story of that day, together with the process of grieving and finding meaning in life after tragedy.

With singers and instrumentalists from the Top of the South, Christchurch and Wellington, a youth choir, full orchestra, and a specially commissioned video to complement the music, this promises to be an emotional and memorable event. The soloists are Sarah-Jane Rennie (Soprano) and Joel Amosa (Baritone).

Please note the venue has changed to Old St John's Church (320 Hardy Street).

The Nelson Civic Choir opens their 2017 season with Rossini's sparkling Petite Messe Solennelle, in the wonderful setting of Nelson Cathedral.

The choir is complemented by four accomplished local soloists: Zoe Bennett (Soprano), Erica Sim (Contralto), Ewen Griffiths (Tenor) and Graham O'Brien (Bass), and conducted by their musical director, Chris Lukies. They are accompanied by James Thomas (Organ) and Lizzie Peacock (Piano).

Rossini is well known for his lively comic operas. The Petite Messe, written 30 years after his last opera, is a serious piece (Solennelle), yet it lacks none of his earlier vivacity, with some of the passages sounding as though they might have come from light opera.  The structure of this late masterpiece is that of the Catholic Mass, with major solo parts intertwined with substantial passages for chorus. Compared with Rossini's operas, this work is not often performed, and this concert gives audiences a rare chance to hear a sacred (but not too solemn) work by Rossini in a glorious Cathedral setting.

The Big Sing is a dynamic, national group-singing competition for secondary school students.

Festivals are held in June in eleven New Zealand regions and The Big Sing has grown into a major highlight of the secondary school music calendar. This year, more than 8000 young people are taking part in regional festivals nationwide, and the number continues to grow.

Come and hear talented young singers from schools across the region as they compete for a place in the Grand Final held later this year!

With one heart and mind, the Sydney Male Choir produce one beautiful sound of song, strong, vibrant and lyrical that stirs the heart and emotions. The Sydney suburb of Petersham in 1913 was where one group of men first joined together to sing in harmony and for pleasure, leading soon after to the foundation of the Sydney Male Choir. From very humble beginnings and for over a century, the choir has become one of the finest and most respected male voice choirs in Australia.

The Choir seeks to take its music far and wide and this year we will be undertaking an 18 day tour of the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

Teapot Summer School presents its 17th concert ' Singing for Joy' at Old St. John's Nelson on Sunday 22 January at 2pm. Ben Parry, director of The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, is the conductor.

The program includes Requiem by Faure, the mood being one of peacefulness and serenity. Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten, who movingly encapsulates the poem's half-mad and delightfully religious spirit. Seven Goodly Reasons to Sing by Ben Parry, " and if, at last, your voice take wing, this noisy world may hear the song you sing".

Teapot Summer School has over its 17 years attracted singers from all over NZ  who come together for a week of an intensive singing course directed by highly respected overseas conductors, including Sir David Willcocks, Brian Kay and Ebbe Munk.