The Civic Choir and the Male Voice Choir are singing in the new day with their Dawn Chorus set, bringing all your favourite anthems and choruses.  Complimentary bubbles to add to the fun - Hallelujah!!!

The Nelson Civic Choir welcomes you to its 2016 programme with Mozart's Requiem, conducted by Carl Browning, with organist Michael Bell accompanying. The soloists are soprano Helen Charlton, alto Erica Sim, tenor Ewen Griffith, and bass Robert Tucker; the choir is joined by singers from Golden Bay and Motueka.

The story of the Requiem's composition has an eerie quality, which has been much embroidered. In his final weeks, Mozart was working on a Mass for the Dead, an anonymous commission delivered by an unknown visitor - like a messenger from another world. The work was unfinished at his death, and the Levin completion sung here is one of many. In the 1960s a sketch for an Amen fugue was discovered, which Levin developed for this version. The Requiem's musical themes are lyrical and memorable, and the work serves as an appropriate tribute to the great composer himself.

The Nelson Civic Choir welcomes you to its 2016 programme with Mozart's Requiem, conducted by Carl Browning, with organist Michael Bell accompanying. The soloists are soprano Helen Charlton, alto Erica Sim, tenor Ewen Griffith, and bass Robert Tucker; the choir is joined by singers from Golden Bay and Motueka.

The story of the Requiem's composition has an eerie quality, which has been much embroidered. In his final weeks, Mozart was working on a Mass for the Dead, an anonymous commission delivered by an unknown visitor - like a messenger from another world. The work was unfinished at his death, and the Levin completion sung here is one of many. In the 1960s a sketch for an Amen fugue was discovered, which Levin developed for this version. The Requiem's musical themes are lyrical and memorable, and the work serves as an appropriate tribute to the great composer himself.

The New Zealand Combined Choir and Orchestra Trust organises an Annual Summer School of Music at The Teapot Valley residential centre. It invites international conductors and this year Ebbe Munk, conductor of the Danish Royal Chapel Choir will direct the choir to perform Donizetti's Messa di Requiem at Old St John's on Sunday January 24 at 2pm.

Soloists this year are Olivia Sheet (soprano), Helen Charlton (mezzo), Manase Latu (tenor), Graham O'Brien (bass) and Robert Tucker (bass).

The concert commemorates the life of St David Willcocks (1919-2015)

After successful performances in 2007, the Nelson Civic Choir is again staging a full orchestra version of Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace. The work was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. It is an anti-war piece and although it is based on the Catholic Mass, the text incorporated words from other religious and historical sources, including the Islamic Call to Prayer, the Bible and the Mahabharata as well as the works of secular writers including, for example, Sankichi Toge, who survived the Hiroshima bombing but died some years later of leukaemia. The work will be performed with a full orchestra and with a video backdrop with historic footage as well as scenes shot by a local filmmaker. This major event is intended to commemorate the centenary of World War One and the 100 year anniversary of Anzac.

The Nelson Civic Choir will be joined by singers from Motueka and the Golden Bay as well as from the Blenheim Choral Society. It will be a performance with full orchestra formed by members of the Nelson Symphony Orchestra and players from Wellington and Christchurch.

It will be more than just a concert, but a total experience not to be missed!

Please note the Theatre Royal box office is closed on Labour Day - the day of the concert. Door sales are available at the venue and tickets can be purchased online or at the Richmond Mall or Nelson iSite.

Following 'house full' performances of Elijah last year, Nelson Civic Choir returns to the stage with Motueka singers to present Haydn's Creation. The performance is conducted by Chris Lukies and accompanied on the organ by Michael Bell. The soloists are Zoe Bennett and Amanda Crehan (sopranos), Ewen Griffith (tenor) and Graham O'Brien (bass).

The Creation is one of the most lyrical pieces in the choral repertoire. Soloists and chorus present the Old Testament account of creation, with the world moving from chaos to light and the emergence of plants, fish, birds and animals - lions, tigers, cattle, sheep and the sinuous worm! We hear Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, singing of their gratitude to God and their love for each other. The well-known choruses offer joyful comment on the unfolding story: 'The heavens are telling the glory of God', 'Achieved is the glorious work', 'Sing the Lord, ye voices all'.

There has been a choir at Christ's College, Cambridge since its foundation in 1505. Female voices were introduced when the college became mixed in 1979 and the choir is one of Cambridge's finest ensembles.

The choir sings Anglican services in the College Chapel and at feasts and weddings, in addition to pursuing an exciting range of activities outside college. These include concerts around the UK, recording CDs, broadcasting and undertaking a major international tour each summer, this year to Singapore and New Zealand. Conducted by Professor David Rowland, the choir sings a selection of music from the English and European choral traditions from the 16th Century to the present.

This concert will feature Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, Warum ist das Licht gegeben by Brahms and other wonderful choral music including some of the choir's favourite pieces by Thomas Tallis and Henry Purcell.

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"Music of praise" is Chroma Chamber Choir's theme for this concert, which begins with Haydn's Te Deum Laudamus in C. Confident and joyful, the music reflects the sunny certainty of its composer's faith in this setting of the oldest Christian prayer. With Alan K Gray conducting, they are joined by Douglas Mews accompanying the choir on the Cathedral organ as well as performing solo organ works. Excerpts from JS Bach's Easter Oratorio will again feature organ accompaniment and local soloists. Exploiting the magic acoustic of the Cathedral, the choir will additionally present Josef Rheinberger's a cappella Mass in Eb, op.109 for double choir.

Cathedral choirs and their choir schools are among some of the oldest European musical traditions.

Denmark's Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir brings their glorious voices to New Zealand in April and May for a five-centre tour 'Ascension - Nielsen, Lauridsen & Palestrina'.

The 46-strong choir including 30 boys aged 13-16 years, is rated as one of the finest in Europe with Le Figaro placing them alongside the Vienna Boys Choir and Kings College Choir.

In Denmark the choir performs at major state and royal occasions and featured at the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary in 2004, and at the christening of their children.

Directed and conducted by Ebbe Munk, the choir's repertoire consists of classical, contemporary and modern music. The award-winning choir tours to concert halls, cathedrals and festivals around the world.

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