Finale 2011
Videos from TBS Finale webcast– See edited video from the Finale in Wellington Town Hall. Click the choir’s name and enjoy!
Order the Finale Gala Concert 2011 DVD– download the form
The Big Sing Finale 2011 Awards:
CHORALATION WINS PLATINUM!
For the THIRD year in a row, Choralation of Westlake Boys’ & Girls’ High School has earned the top prize– the Platinum Award– at The Big Sing Finale.
The awards were announced at the end of the Gala Concert, after all choirs had presented wonderful performances of one piece each.
The New Zealand Choral Federation is pleased to announce the full list of awards from this year’s Big Sing Finale. Congratulations to all choirs involved for their superb performances.
The Big Sing Finale Awards 2011:
PLATINUM
Choralation–Westlake Girls’ & Boys’ High Schools
GOLD
Bel Canto–Burnside High School
Choralation–Westlake Girls’ & Boys’ High Schools
Craighead Chorale– Craighead Diocesan School
SILVER
Bella Voce– Marlborough Girls’ College
Bellissimo– Whangaparaoa College
Euphony–Kristin School
King’s Voices– King’s College
Macleans College Choir–Macleans College
Resolutions– Rangi Ruru Girls’ School
SOS– Rangitoto College
Teal Voices– Wellington Girls’ College
Voicemale– Westlake Boys’ High School
BRONZE
Barock– Otago Boys’ & Girls’ High School
Front Row–Aorere College
Otago Boys’ High School Choir 2011– Otago Boys’ High School
St Cecilia Singers– Diocesan School for Girls
Southern Hesperides– Otago Girls’ High School
The Sweet Sixteen– Aorere College
AUAHI KORE AWARD
The Sweet Sixteen– Aorere College
HUTT VALLEY TROPHY
Bel Canto–Burnside High School– for their performance of “The Lamb”
YOUTH AMBASSADORS AWARD
Bellissimo– Whangaparaoa College
GUEST CHOIR AWARD
Bella– Freyberg High School
Crescendos–Middleton Grange School
Stella Collegians– Nelson College for Girls/Nelson College
Petra Voce–St Peter’s School, Cambridge
Well done Freyberg high school so very proud of the girls in Bella and Kirsten top effort.
Can you tell me how we can watch the live feed if we missed it?
Have family overseas that want to watch it.
Many thanks and what a fabulous live concert it was. Some very talented young children.
You can revisit the vids at the same site as the live feed. Link at the top of this page, and here! Finale vids 2011 (they will not appear until Monday)
You will be able to start watching tonight. The last videos are loading now as we have been called away for a funeral. The videos should start to appear in about 30 minutes and will cover all sessions and the Gala. The missing videos are the individual songs for possible mash-ups. Mp3s will come later in the week.
The final batch of audio and video files are now online. All sessions are now available by choir and each song is individually available as both video and audio.
Watch Freyberg HS here http://www.r2.co.nz/20110822/session-5-3.htm
Thank you to the organisers of the NZCF Big Sing. As usual, the event was an outstanding tribute to you…resulting from the gifting of expertise and of countless volunteer hours of labour. Congratulations also to the students, staff, old boy and girl volunteers and caregivers of each college. All of the choirs showed tremendous maturity and focus, as well as having sung beautifully. It was an experience that the students of Aorere College will never forget. Thank you.
The negative comment from Muriel about the camera work was uncalled for. It is completely unrealistic in a competition of this size to expect the camera operators to know where their camera should be pointing (e.g. soloists) at different moments in the music. Think about it – this would require every choir to rehearse the 100+ songs for the camera crew and producer. The live web stream was a fantastic service which I was lucky to be able to make use of.
Thank you Andrew, you understand the issue.
I was the Director for the event. As well as directing 6 cameras, I was monitoring audio,, doing the graphics – and monitoring the Internet webcast (the encoders, and the connection). I also controlled 3 cameras remotely. I was also monitoring the 2 recorders of the feed, which later get edited for the videos and DVD.
There were 6 cameras in the hall. 3 with opertators and 3 robots (remote controlled cameras).One camera was operated by a student from Tawa College.
In the break between sessions, we tried to watch the sound checks, but we also needed food and water and maybe 40 winks. We also used that time to prepare the captions for the next session.
Our guidance was a spreadsheet listing what each choir would sing. We did get a score reader on tuesday and wednesday that made life ,much easier. Otherwise it was guesswork trying to work out where a soloist would appear from. The “action” songs are a nightmare to predict. Our score reader on Wednesday (James) was brilliant and Murray Cameron sat alongside me and gave extra hints on wednesday.. That was a huge help.
It would be nice if Music Directors provided us with a map of where soloist will be, just as it would be handy if the music submitted was what they actually sing, not the original composition. In the real world these things don’t happen. Equally in the real world, even with intercoms, programme monitors,and tally lights, a director will catch a camera moving (repositioning). Thats just real life. We work hard to avoid it, but fatigue, bad luck, limited info about a song, etc all comes in to play. The camera guys were on their feet concentrating 100% for 3 days. I think we did a reasonable job with what we had.
And we thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you for the live feed – it was fantastic! There were lots of aunts and uncles, grandparents etc in different parts of the world as well as families of choir members watching around NZ. It was the talk of our choir parents yesterday as we welcomed them home and greatly appreciated by all! Thank you!
Once again Wellington put on a wonderful week for all choirs and visitors. Thankyou. Was great catching up with old friends and family.Especilally all the original National Youth choir singers that we all came from Burnsilde High. Stephen Rowe. Sue Buchanan (me) Susan Chrome and others. Wow Bel Canto you did it again. Hutt valley trophy. Go you girls. Congrats on the gold award too. Big hugs for Sue Densem. You are amazing.
WELL DONE EUPHONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M PROUD OF U ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Otago Girls and Otago Boys – your sang your hearts out and did us proud – so many watching you from around the world and around NZ and a flood of wonderful comments about your singing and demeanor. We are very proud! To Karen Knudson – with three choirs at Nationals you deserve our admiration and heartfelt thanks for all you have done for these students. Well done to you all!
Yes Congrats to all of you. Bel Canto- Christchurch is proud of you. You have had a tough year, with shakes, site sharing and snow and you still managed to get a Gold Award and the Hutt Valley Trophy. Looking forward to having you home tomorrow Charlotte
Congratulations Bel Canto!! So thrilled for you all and special thanks to Sue Densem for the marvellous job she has done. Proud as can be of your accomplishment girls. Olivia, love you and look forward to celebrating tomorrow.
Maybe next year the cameraman will know where to point the camera
Dee Vosper Huge congratulations to Rangi Ruru-your singing was superb-your faces showed us just how much you were enjoying your music. One very proud Grandmother of Georgia Vosper and of her choir friends.
Well done to Otago Boys, Otago Girls & Barock
All the best from Dunedin fans
Well done Choralation Choir(Westlake Boys & Westlake Girls) and also Voicemale (Westlake Boys)! We are cheering for you from Auckland
Good luck to Craighead Chorale. Have a great time tonight!
All the best for the Aorere College choirs for their performance tomorrow morning. Make us proud.
ancho!!…lol
Se malo Patricka ….
Wow! So good to be able to see this. Thank you so much!!! Rangitoto College and Westlake choirs were just outstanding. Can we see the Finale please?
Are we able to see the Gala Concert streamed tomorrow night? This has been a delightful experience.
Yes, Kat. The Gala Concert will be available to view online tonight. Concert starts at 6.30pm.
It has been fabulous watching the individual choirs. Will the gala concert be webcast as well?
Thank you for sharing this wonderful event and opportunity with all of us who couldn’t join you in Wellington. The experience is and has been most uplifting! The talent on show at this one event is unbelievable. My congratulations to all concerned!
Big Sing… Thank you so so much for allowing us to stream in and enjoy BELLISSIMO from here in Germany. It was so incredible to see such talent.
Well Done Bella Voche
Well done Bellissimo what a pleasure to listen too…Wish I was there..
What time today will the webcast begin. Any tips for successful access to the webcast?
Chris
The next broadcast begins with the recital at 4.30pm today.
If you have trouble viewing, try the “alternative bit rates” link where you can choose the level that corresponds to your situation– from ‘good broadband’ to ‘audio only’ [not-so-good internet connection]
Thanks for that – figured out and there are lots of parents listening – the support team for Otago Girls and Otago Boys! It was just like being there and choirs all sound fantastic!
Is the programme available? I would like to know how is singing at each session?
Here you go, Mary (and everyone else). Session times now list which choirs are singing when. Come along to the Wellington Town Hall and support these wonderful choirs.
Don’t forget you can watch the sessions live online as they happen, from anywhere in the world. Here’s the link