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Our next Concert
A sparkling concert of music for Pentecost by Mews, Billings, Tallis, Stainer, Bekahn and others.
The music ranges from a 9th century hymn through to a new setting of a poem James K. Baxter, composed by our acting musical director Jonathan Berkahn this year.
We also feature celtic musicians Bernard Wells and Elisabeth Auchinvole.
2.30 pm Sunday 26 May 2013
at St John's Anglican Church
18 Bassett Road, JohnsonvilleDoor sales available
Click below to download your free programme booklet for this concert here:
Amazon eBook for Kindle (475kb)
ePub eBook for other eReaders (306kb)
Click here for our
2013 programme
2013 rehearsals start at 7pm on Monday 4 February
at Newland Christian Assembly, 126 Newlands Road, Newlands, Wellington.
Introducing the Choir
Festival Singers is a Wellington-based community choir of around 40 members, established in 1976. Our repertoire ranges from larger classical works with orchestra through to smaller art and folk songs.
We like to seek out music that is not often performed e.g. the masses for choir, soloists and two organs by Saint Saens and Widor and last year, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle. Most years we have collaborated with another choir - last year the Wainuiomata Choir, exposing some rarely heard works by Salieri.
We also believe our local composers are very important. In 2009 we commissioned Jonathan Berkahn to write a Cantata, The Third Day, for the choir. In 2011 we presented this 50 minute work for choir, soloists and band again, in Palmerston North and Waikanae, along with varied folk songs from around the world.
Our members joined the NZ Choral Federation workshop on 11 & 12 May 2012 to learn and sing Verdi’s Requiem.
The Festival Singers has a Christian basis and particularly enjoys singing music of a spiritual nature, although not exclusively of course. The choir is available to sing at weddings, funerals and in local churches.
If you are currently missing out on the joy of regular singing and musical friendship and would like to join an energetic, interesting choir, please email Committee member Heather Collins pen2rith[at]xtra.co.nz
(please replace [at] with @ to email)
Carols Around the Labyrinth
at Hutt Hospital on 14 December 2012.Festival Singers were delighted to sing at this public Christmas event.
Choir member Heather Garside choreographed dances to two pieces which were performed in Drama Christi's beautiful angel costumes.
Click the pictures or links below to view YouTube videos of these dances, filmed by Alexander Garside.
O Holy Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ato3gMiDncg
This Holy Christmas Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jk87aEnl8mY
Our Last Concert
From Shadow to Light
Director: Rosemary Russell
We journeyed through 400 years of music from Henry Purcell to John Rutter.
This varied programme moved from the sombre, hauntingly beautiful Funeral Sentences composed by Purcell on the death of Queen Mary, through Purcell duets and recorder music and on to the joy of Christmas captured by Rutter's Gloria.
We were also delighted to premiere a new Christmas composition by choir member Evan Dumbleton.
Click here to download a 230kb PDF of the
Programme Booklet
Jonathan Berkahn: Organ
Barbara and Lesley Graham: Sopranos
Bernard Wells recorder ensemble
4.00- 5.30pm Saturday 1 December 2012
St Ninians Uniting Church,
208 Karori Road, Wellington
Our latest CD - Spirited People
Click this link for
info about the
CD project,
a track list
& mp3 sound samples to download
Click here for Reviews
To order the CD, please either:
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download the PDF CD order form (21kb) and post to Festivity Productions, or
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purchase securely online with PayPal at www.pgpl.co.nz
The choir is registered under the Charities Act
2005.
Donations made to the choir are tax-deductible in New Zealand.
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