REVIEWS
Sunday 21 July 2019
Same sounds, different ears: The universal joy of classical music
by Anna Knox
Orchestral music performance is an art form, but how do you engage with something you’ve never experienced before? Samiyah Alghamdi and Anna Knox attend NYO Celebrates in Wellington and unpack what they hear.
READ MOREMonday 8 July 2019
Classical review: NYO Celebrates
The coming together of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra and the New Zealand Youth Choir was a just celebration of our country’s finest young musicians – a fitting culmination of a century’s nurturing, marking the orchestra’s 60th anniversary and the choir’s 40th.
READ MORESunday 9 September 2018
Excellent choral concert from three young Wellington choirs and the New Zealand Youth Choir
By Lindis Taylor
READ MOREThursday 15 February 2018
Review by Hanno Fairburn for the Daily Post, Rotorua of the New Zealand Youth Choir
Rotorua was fortunate to have such a renowned choir, here for workshops and concerts.
READ MORESunday 27 March 2016
Middle C – Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs of Shakespeare Review
Middle C Review
READ MOREWednesday 29 April 2015
Concert Review: Spirit of Anzac
Last Thursday’s Spirit of Anzac concert came with Trans-Tasman connections, being played by Sydney Symphony Orchestra a day before the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra delivered it to us.
READ MOREFriday 24 April 2015
Anzac symphony is powerful without a hint of triteness
This is the third time the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has marked the importance of Anzac Day with a concert and, thankfully, on the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli, a sizeable audience was in attendance. And they were very well rewarded, as this concert was centred on two new works – one New Zealand, one Australian – of real quality and power.
READ MOREWednesday 25 March 2015
Peter Hoar: APO Child of Our Time review
Peter reviews the Auckland Festival production of Tippet’s Child of Our Time performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Voices NZ and the NZ Youth Choir
READ MOREWednesday 25 March 2015
Auckland Arts Festival review: A Child of our time, Auckland Town Hall
In festival’s homegrown highlight, orchestra and voices give rich offering of oratorio’s message of peace.
READ MORESunday 22 March 2015
Choristers revel in celebration of light
In a nutshell, as the Festival brochure put it, Ata Reira promised an evening of award-winning choirs, majestic voices and Te Reo Maori in song. Both separately and together, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir and the New Zealand Youth Choir delivered all this in a choral celebration of light … and much more.
READ MORESunday 22 March 2015
NZ Youth Choir and the Rolling Stones
NZ Youth Choir with the Rolling Stones at Mt Smart Stadium, Saturday, 22 November.
READ MORETuesday 3 March 2015
NZ Festival Review. Sounds and Sweet Airs: Songs of Shakespare
Dominion Post Review
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