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Manawatu-Wanganui Regionals
WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE.
Morning Session Commences 10.30am.
10.40am Palmerston North Boys’ High School PMU (Performance Music Unit)
10.53am Palmerston North Girls’High School Senior Choir
11.06am Feilding High School Chamber Choir
11.19am St Matthew’s Collegiate Altanosz
11.32am Freyberg High School Bella
11.45am Palmerston North Girls’ High School Junior Choir
11.58am Palmeston Noth Boys’ High School Son of a Pitch
12.15pm Massed Choir Rehearsal with Adjudicator, Timothy Noon
Lunch 12.30pm - 1.50pm
Afternoon Session Commences 2pm
2.10pm Feilding High School iTensifyd
2.23pm Rathkeale/St Matthew’s Senior College Jabulani
2.36pm Palmerston North Boys’ High School The OK Chorale
2.49pm Nga Tawa Diocesan School Chapel Choir
3.02pm Rathkeale College Junior Boys
3.15pm Palmerston North Girls’ High School Cantatrices
Adjudicator’s comments on the day sessions.
Gala Concert & Awards Presentations. Commences 7pm.
All choirs will present one piece from the bracket they sang during the day sessions.
The concert will end approx 8.30pam
Admission: $12. day and/or evening. One ticket admits to all sessions.
School children free. General admission. Tickets from TicketDirect outlets
and Regent Theatre ticket office. Usual transaction fees apply.
East Coast Regionals
Nelson/ Marlborough Regionals
Church of the Nativity, Blenheim
Nelson/Marlborough 6th June
Church of the Nativity, Blenheim
The recital begins at 1pm and is FREE.
Gala Concert:
7pm (same venue)
Tickets: $15 from Ken Ham Music Works, Blenheim
Recital Performance Order:
- Camerata Choir from Waimea College
- Cabaletta Choir from Marlborough Girls’ College
- No Girls Aloud from Marlborough Boys’ College
- Nelson College for Girls Junior Choir
- Suono Bellissimo from Motueka High
- Bella Voce from Marlborough Girls’ College
- Stella Nova from Nelson College for Girls
- Belle a Cappella from Waimea College
- Collegians from Nelson College
Canterbury Regionals
Here are the times for the Canterbury region. Very exciting that this year Christchurch is able to reinstate their Gala Concert at CBS Arena!
Sessions at St Marks Presbyterian Church, Withells Road
Wednesday 30th May
9.45 Avonside Girls’ High Avonside Chorale
10.00 Riccarton High School Stella Cantare
10.15 St Andrew’s College Stactastics
10.30 Lincoln High School LHS POPS
10.45 St Andrew’s College Staccoro
Morning Break
11.25 St Bede’s College The Bedean Choir
11.40 Christchurch Girls’ High Cantabile Singers
11.55 Mount Hutt College Mount Hutt College Choir
12.10 Middleton Grange School Crescendos
12.25 St Bede’s College Obedeance
12.40 Christchurch Girls’ High Cantrices
Lunch Break
1.55 Mairehau High School Mairehau High School Choir
2.10 Shirley Boy’s High The Shirley Men
2.25 Hagley Community College Eklectikly Us
2.40 Marian College Marian College Singers
2.55 Hagley Community College Hotmail
Thursday 31st May
9.15 St Margaret’s College Chamber Choir
9.30 Burnside High School Burnside High School Junior Performance Choir
9.45 Villa Maria Spiritoso
10.00 Burnside High School Burnside High School Senior Chorale
10.15 St Margaret’s College Musica Bellisima
Morning Break
10.55 Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Resolutions
11.10 Burnside High School Malestrom
11.25 Villa Maria Con Brio
11.40 Christchurch Boys’ High Christchurch Boys’ High Choir
11.55 Burnside High School Bel Canto
12.10 Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Rangi Ruru Junior Chorale
Lunch Break
1.25 Christ’s College Chapel Choir
1.40 Burnside High School Magna Voce
1.55 Papanui High School Papanui Chorale
2.10 Rangiora High School Rangiora High School Choir
2.25 Burnside High School Aurora Voices
2.40 Geraldine High School Colla Voce
2.55 Ashburton College The Orpheus Singers
3.10 Christ’s College Schola Cantorum
3.25 Ashburton College Phoenix Chorus
Meet Your Adjudicators
With The Big Sing Regionals rapidly approaching, you may be wondering who will be sitting at the big desk determining whether or not your choir will advance to the Finale.
Check out the Adjudicator’s page to find out more about each of them.
Wellington Regionals
Here are the details for the Wellington Regionals. Come along and hear some great music from young Wellington choristers.
Your best chance to hear all the choirs at their best is the Gala Concert each night. All the choirs from that day will perform so you’ll get a sampling of the whole day.
Gala Concerts 7pm Weds 6 & Thurs 7 June
Tickets through Ticketek – $15 / $8.
Doors open 30 minutes before Gala Concert
Recital Sessions
Entry $2 programme
Sessions start 10:30am and 2pm each day
You’ll find the full list of Big Sing Regional Festival dates, venues and coordinators here.
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| WEDNESDAY 10:30 AM SESSION | ||
| Wellington Girls’ College | Teal | |
| Chilton St James School | Contempora | |
| Wellington College | Coll Boys Collective | |
| Queen Margaret College | Queen Margaret College Chorale | |
| St Catherine’s College | Belles Voix | |
| Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Nga Mokopuna | Nga Mokopuna | |
| Wellington Girls’ College | Year 9 Choral Class Choir | |
| Chilton St James School | I See Red | |
| WEDNESDAY 2:00 PM SESSION | ||
| Sacred Heart College | Prima Voce Choir | |
| Hutt Valley High School | Volante | |
| Kapiti College | Nga manu tioriori o Kapiti | |
| Naenae College | Te ropu rangimarie (Sr Choir) | |
| Chilton St James School | Seraphim | |
| Porirua College | Porirua College Choir | |
| Queen Margaret College | QMC Glee | |
| St Patrick’s College, Wellington | Con Anima | |
| THURSDAY 10:30 AM SESSION | ||
| Tawa College | Dawn Chorus | |
| Onslow College | Onslow Chamber Choir | |
| Wellington East Girls’ College | Senior Choir | |
| Wellington Girls’ College | Teal Voices | |
| Wairarapa College | Pogonoligists | |
| Tawa College | Early Birds | |
| Rathkeale College / St Matthew’s Collegiate | Viva Camerata | |
| Wellington East Girls’ College | Junior Choir | |
| THURSDAY 2:00 PM SESSION | ||
| Onslow College | Onslow College Choir | |
| Samuel Marsden Collegiate School | Ad Summa Chorale | |
| Wellington College | combined w Wellington Girls’ | |
| Wellington East Girls’ College | Multi Choir | |
| Samuel Marsden Whitby | Viridi Vocem | |
| Wairarapa College | Cantate | |
| Samuel Marsden Collegiate School | Senior Chamber Choir | |
| Tawa College | Twilight Tones | |
| Wellington East Girls’ College | Cantala | |
| Wellington College | Wellington College Chorale | |
NZCF / SOUNZ Composition Competition 2012
Will your winning score be performed at TBS Finale 2012? Perhaps if you enter by 25 May
It’s not too late to get your entry in for the NZCF / SOUNZ Composition Competition 2012– entries now close 25 May.
DOWNLOAD all the info and entry form here
Hear your original piece of choral music performed at The Big Sing National Finale, receive a trophy (presented by NZCF Auckland Region) and receive feedback from a real, live New Zealand composer.
The 2012 adjudicator is Philip Norman, Christchurch.
Read the article in SOUNZ about the 2010 winner, Awhina Waimotu
Remember, the deadline has been extended to 25 May so get your composition in quick!
