Saturday 14 August 7.00pm Nelson Civic Choir’s mid-winter concert will open with excerpts from Haydn's Creation. As COVID locks New Zealand down yet again, our homegrown composers will be celebrated. Dorothy Buchanan's Tempo and Peace Song as well as Chris…
Erica Sims and Alison Cormack, two superb local sopranos will be singing a selection of pieces grouped under the heading "Upstairs, Downstairs." Nelson Civic choir Alto, Elizabeth Williams has written and commissioned "The Ladies Home Haiku Song Cycle," one of…
Review 10 April 2021 Local hero, conductor Nigel Weeks QSM proved once again just how essential he is to Nelson’s musical world with his ability to put together a very entertaining evening of music, blending local choirs, musicians, and guest…
Saturday 10 April 7.30pm. Nelson Civic Choir’s first concert of the year will be celebrated with the Nelson Youth choir and orchestra to present Rutter’s ‘Mass of the Children’ with guest Soprano soloist Lilia Caparnelli and Baritone/Tenor, Chris McRae. In…
Stuff Article: Jenny Snadden - Dec 14 2020. Real troupers won’t let a world pandemic crush their desire to perform and Nelson Civic Choir, with their tireless and encouraging musical director Nigel Weeks, are nothing if not that. Oratorios planned…
Date: 12 December, 2020. Time: 7.30pm. Nelson Civic Choir present a varied programme of music that celebrates choral singing and their 160th anniversary. The concert debuts the Nelson Youth Choir singing in their own right, and features the celebrated Italian…
Fauré Requiem and a selection of songs by New Zealand composers, Nelson Civic Choir and Orchestra, Nigel E. Weeks Conductor, Hunter Meek, soprano, Iain Tetley, baritone, Paul Rosoman, organ, Nelson School of Music Auditorium, NCMA, Sunday 24 November 2019, reviewed…
Nelson Civic Choir and Nelson City Brass. Review by Jenny Snadden. What a great idea it was to combine these two venerable Nelson music organizations (160 years since their respective inaugurations) in a concert of favourite opera hits. The city…