OVERVIEW

The NZCF provides a wide range of activities and initiatives designed to support, stimulate and extend choral singers and conductors throughout the country.

These include:

• The NZCF Association of Choral Directors
  An association within the NZCF, providing professional development for our choral directors and continuing to build a mentoring network for them;
  
  
• THE BIG SING
  The national secondary schools’ choral festival, with around 7,500 singers taking part in eleven centres throughout New Zealand each year;
  
  
• THE KIDS SING
  Primary and intermediate school choir festivals;
  
  
• The NZCF SingFest
  Community and chamber choir festivals;
  
  
• SOUNZ Choral Composition Awards 
  A competition for the best new choral piece composed by a New Zealand secondary school student;
  
  
• Workshops
  Regionally-based courses for singers and/or conductors;
  
  
• Sing Aotearoa Te Puna o te Wairua
  NZCF's national choral festival, celebrating our unique cultural heritage and featuring guest practitioners and performers, as well as our own top chamber choirs and a special commission from a NZ composer.