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NZCF
- Governance Board election 2008
The
NZCF is delighted to announce that the following were elected to the Governance
Board at the AGM held on Sunday, 24 August in Wellington.
- Christine Argyle (Wellington)
- Karen Grylls (Auckland)
- Guy Jansen (Wellington)
- Di Lenihan (Invercargill)
- Michael Littlewood (Auckland)
They join the current chair John Rosser (Auckland) and Richard Madden
(Dunedin) on the Board. Their first meeting will be on Sunday 12 October
in Wellington.
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THE
BIG SING FINALE AWARDS
Three adjudicators selected the top award winners at THE BIG SING National
Finale Gala Concert on Saturday 23 August 2008 in the Wellington Town
Hall. Nineteen choirs competed for the five special awards and several
grades of overall performance awards during the three days of adjudicated
recital sessions.
The awards were announced to a packed Town Hall with 630 excited students
and their directors and supporters - and an enthusiastic audience, after
the twenty-one choirs had performed their Gala Concert items.
The Finale adjudicators were guest adjudicator Debra Shearer-Dirié
(from Australia), John Rosser and Peter de Blois (both from Auckland)
and Mere Boynton of Wellington.
Gareth Farr presented the awards to the choirs and the ceremony was followed
by the combined choirs singing an African/Reggae item, led by Julian Raphael.
BIG
SING NATIONAL FINALE 2008 - AWARDS LIST
Platinum Award
The Fundamentals, Rangitoto College, Auckland
Gold
Awards
Choralation, Westlake Boys and Girls High Schools
Craighead Chorale, Craighead Diocesan School, Timaru
Silver
Awards
Aurora Voices, Burnside High School, Christchurch
Bella Voce, Marlborough Girls College, Blenheim
Con Brio, Villa Maria College, Christchurch
Euphony, Kristin School, Auckland
The OK Chorale, Palmerston North Boys High School
Saints Alive, St Cuthbert's College, Auckland
St Cecilia Singers, Auckland Diocesan School for Girls
The Sweet Sixteen, Aorere College, Auckland
Wellington College Chorale, Wellington
Bronze
Awards
Belle A Cappella, Waimea College, Nelson
Christ's College Chapel Choir, Christchurch
King's College Chapel Choir, Auckland
Male Voice Chorus, Burnside High School, Christchurch
Queen Margaret Chorale, Queen Margaret College, Wellington
Seraphim, Chilton St James School, Wellington
Southern Hesperides, Otago Girls High School, Dunedin
Special
Awards
Hutt City Trophy for Best Performance of a New Zealand composition
The
Fundamentals, Rangitoto College, Auckland
BIG
SING National Finale Performance Prize
The OK Chorale, Palmerston North Boys High School
Auahi Kore - Maori Performance Award
The Sweet Sixteen, Aorere College, Auckland
The
Big Sing Youth Ambassadors Award
The OK Chorale, Palmerston North Boys High School
SOUNZ
Student Choral Composition Award
Arna Shaw, Christchurch Girls High School (Laudate Dominum)
Guest
Choirs
Coro Notabile, Karamu High School, Hastings
Femme, Southland Girls High School, Invercargill
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THE
NATIONAL CHORAL CLINICS:
SINGING & CONDUCTING OPPORTUNITIES
The New Zealand Choral Federation is providing special opportunities
in August and September 2008 for singers and conductors, in a series
of Choral Clinics in twelve weekend events from Invercargill to Whangarei.
Four outstanding overseas guest conductors will be heading up a "New
Zealand first," with up to 50 singers and 20 conductors taking
part in each centre.
Tone
Bianca Dahl from Norway, Rodney Eichenberger from Florida, Christopher
Kiver from Pennsylvania and Debra Shearer-Dirié from Queensland
will be introducing exciting new choral music to New Zealand over the
next two months. Those who have already enrolled range from established
conductors and choralists with good music singing skills, to senior
secondary school music students and other beginning conductors along
with less experienced singers.
The
weekends begin in Wellington on 1 August with Dr Christopher Kiver,
a double Grammy award winner in choral music who teaches at Penn State
University. There are still places available in these National Choral
Clinics. For further information, click here (will
take you to the Choral clinic page)
Fact
file
British research has indicated that 98% of choristers rated their quality
of life as good or excellent. The benefits were not physical alone.
Rather than singing in the shower it was only when singers were involved
with others - being together in a choir - that a strong sense of connectedness
and well-being was said to come.
Simon Carrington - Guest Conductor for Sing Aotearoa 2009
The
NZCF is delighted to announce that Simon Carrington has accepted an
invitation to be a guest conductor at Sing Aotearoa 2009. This will
be held in Rotorua over Labour Weekend, 23rd to 26th October, 2009.
Click here to visit our new Sing Aotearoa 2009
page.
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