The Auckland members of the New Zealand Youth Choir are delighted to present Tō Mātou Haerenga | Our Journey, a concert series by NZYC Auckland. We invite you to experience our European journey with us, as we present a selection of music from a variety of genres that closely follows our European tour destinations.

On this journey, we explore the Scandinavian territory with works from Alfvén and Pedersen. With Mendelssohn and Gjeilo, you’ll be transported further into Europe. On our journey, we do not forget about home – Puanaki and Komene remind us of our roots, and a surprise feature from Lim reflects our excitement about stopping over in Singapore.

Tō Mātou Haerenga | Our Journey is a concert series fundraising for the New Zealand Youth Choir’s European Tour in July this year. The choir will be competing in two of the world’s top choir competitions: the European Choir Games in Denmark, and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in Wales. Ticket proceeds will go directly to our equity-based hardship fund to ensure no singer is left behind.

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After the resounding success of ‘The Firefly Wakens’, local members of NZYC are thrilled to present a novel programme celebrating the spirit of childhood!

From South Africa to Singapore, we step into the bright-eyed lives of children across the globe. Stumbling through the coltish joys of youth, we are thrust to the cusp of adulthood and confronted with the wider questions of the world – what it means to love, to long for, when to turn, and when to keep going.

From percussion driven folk songs to tender lullabies, virtuosic solos to lush harmonies suspended in time, this concert will bring together the novel and the nostalgic. Featuring John Tavener’s ‘Svyati’, Eric Whitacre’s ‘A Boy and a Girl’, songs from NZ composer Jenny McLeod’s ‘Childhood’, and three Aotearoa premieres by contemporary composers Maria Kõrvits (Estonia), Toh Ban Sheng (Singapore), and Jacob Narverud (USA), Childhood is a tender tribute to youth, the growing pains of adolescence, and carrying childlike wonder into adulthood.

We are joined by acclaimed cellist Tomos Christie, who is fundraising to pursue further study in Europe in 2025.

We are thrilled to be touring Asia and Europe in 2025, including representing New Zealand at the Grand Prix of Nations in Denmark and Choir of the World competition in Wales. All proceeds will go towards establishing an equity-based hardship fund to ensure that no singer is left behind due to financial strain! 

This event is hosted by the Lower North Island members of the New Zealand Youth Choir and joined by special guests from Wellington!

Our ANZAC Day performance will be held at Wirinaki Whare Taonga in Upper Hutt!

Join us for a concert featuring songs of remembrance and commemoration!

In this concert, you’ll hear the stellar voices not only of the NZ Youth Choir, but our newest cohort of Academy Choir singers!

Multiple members of the academy choir have successfully transitioned into NZSSC and NZYC, and we are so excited to sing with them in this concert!

Join the NZ Youth Choir in their last Wellington Performance ahead of their 2025 international tour!

This concert will be particularly special as the choir performs the entire ‘Passing of the Year’ by Jonathan Dove.
Jonathan Dove is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, and his writing for choral forces is charged with intensity and beauty. The Passing of the Year is dedicated to the memory of his mother and sets seven texts with moving directness and a beguiling sense of the seasons’ passing.
Though NZYC will be performing selected movements across their international tour – this concert is the only time the choir will be singing the work in its entirety.

Tinā is the story of Samoan teacher Mareta Percival. Struggling after the death of her daughter in the Christchurch earthquakes, Mareta reluctantly takes on the role of substitute teacher at an elite, wealthy private school and is surprised to find children crying out for guidance, inspiration, and love. Using the symphony of her culture to empower her students, she forms a choir, bringing them together while unexpectedly rediscovering her passion for being a teacher and mother.

This event is hosted by the Auckland members of the New Zealand Youth Choir.

This event is hosted by Bronte and Dan your Palmy members of the New Zealand Youth Choir.

 Message Dan or Bronte on Facebook, or email daniel.hodgetts@outlook.com to purchase tickets and support us!

TICKETS: Email daniel.hodgetts@outlook.com to purchase tickets and support us!

NZYC Wellington also have another fundraising concert in the works, so follow us to stay tuned! 

 Message us on Facebook, Instagram, or email kassandrawmusic@gmail.com to purchase tickets and support us!

 Message us on Facebook or email courtney.hickmott@outlook.com to purchase tickets and support us – and you will want to be in quick, there are only a select number of seats available!

$30 General Admission, inc. a non-alcoholic drink
Optional upgrade of house wine, let us know when booking

Join the NZ Youth Choir in their first concert performance of 2025!
In the beautiful Whangārei, we’re excited to bring you our signature mix of choral works – from choral canon to contemporary, waiata to pese, you’ll be humming your way home with new favourite pieces stuck in your head!

This year the choir is getting ready for it’s international tour to compete in two major choir competitions. The choir is now in its third and final year of its training and performance programme, so what you hear is the ‘best of the best’!

Music Director: David Squire
Deputy Music Director: Michael Stewart
Vocal Coach: Dr Morag Atchison

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Help support New Zealand’s finest young singers and indulge in a rich and innovative Christmas experience!

We begin in the deep winter with Velja Tormis’ striking Autumn Landscapes and Philip Stopfords Lully, Lulla, Lullay, unfurling into the awakening spring through Paul Mealor’s Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Reena Esmail’s The Unexpected Early Hour. The programme bursts into the festive summer season with classics including by Eric Whitacre, Dobrinka Tabakova, and Felix Mendelssohn. This concert also centres local composers, including Igelese Ete, Anthony Ritchie, and Reuben Rameka.

We are thrilled to be touring Asia and Europe in 2025, including representing New Zealand at the European Choir Games in Denmark and Choir of the World competition in Wales. All proceeds will go towards establishing an equity-based hardship fund to ensure that no singer is left behind due to financial strain! 

This event is hosted by the Lower North Island section of the New Zealand Youth Choir.

Two magical evenings at Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre featuring the power and passion of kapa haka and the lyrical beauty of choral music. Each concert, held in conjunction with and supported by Te Matatini, will begin with a spellbinding performance from one of Auckland’s, and indeed Aotearoa’s, most celebrated kapa haka rōpū. Anyone wanting to see the very best of this wonderful art form should secure their tickets now!

Concert Two on Thursday 18 July opens with Ngā Tūmanako, much-fêted overall winner at the Te Matatini festival in 2019. The group was established to continue and fulfil the aspirations of its past community leaders at Hoani Waititi Marae. Its current leaders are graduates of the marae’s Kōhanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa Māori – a full-immersion educational pathway established to ensure the survival of Māori language and culture.

The second half features a performance by the New Zealand Youth Choir, conducted by David Squire. Founded in 1979 and now counting many renowned singers, conductors and other musicians among its alumni, NZYC needs no introduction in this country or in many other parts of the world. Expect superb singing and a varied, highly entertaining programme!

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Mānawatia a Matariki!

No fewer than eight choirs, five composers, three lyricists, and a kapa haka rōpū will all feature in Matariki He Kāhui Reo (Matariki, a constellation of voices), the ground-breaking choral work that is Aotearoa New Zealand’s signature offering at the World Choir Games 2024.

Devised by creative team John Rosser, Robert Wiremu and Ataahua Papa, the work celebrates the nine identified whetū (stars) of the Matariki cluster.

A group of the country’s most eminent choral composers – David Hamilton, Anthony Ritchie, Chris Artley, Rosa Elliott and Reuben Rameka – has set to music texts by Tuirina Wehi, Ataahua Papa and Māori star lore expert Rangi Mātāmua, who advised the creative team throughout the writing process.

The world première at Holy Trinity Cathedral will be an immersive experience for the audience, with the choirs (each embodying a single whetū) arranged right around the glass-walled cathedral to suggest a separated but connected cluster. Matariki herself will move in among her ‘star children’ as they perform.

In line with the importance of this event in the choral history of Aotearoa, the choirs chosen to sing in Matariki He Kāhui Reo are among the finest in the country: Voices Of New Zealand Chamber Choir, Viva Voce, New Zealand Youth Choir, The Graduate Choir New Zealand, Auckland Chamber Choir, Choralation and Fortissimo.

The work will be sung entirely in te reo Māori, with narration and screen translations in English.

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See Matariki He Kāhui Reo – Concert Two here