Lunchtime Concert – New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir

Lunchtime Concerts

Lunchtime Concerts are a monthly returning event with different musicians each time. Jill Cottle programmes these well-loved concerts.

Entry is by donation, the profits are used to support community events.

The doors will open at 11am, so come in early and order yourself some lunch and a hot or cold drink from the bar. The performance will commence at 12:30pm. Running time is around 60 minutes.

New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir

The New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir is the youngest of the three national choirs under the Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand umbrella. They bring their “infectious joy for music-making” to Kerikeri for the first time ever!

The choir is made up of 56 nationally auditioned secondary school students, including one from Northland, who join the NZSSC for a two year programme of education and performance, under the leadership of Music Director Sue Densem.

The concert will include songs from New Zealand and the Pacific, kapa haka, and a wide range of music from the choral canon.

This will be the choir’s first concert of 2022 as they build up to (fingers-crossed) a trip to Australia and other parts of New Zealand later in the year.

“The audience was enthralled and totally absorbed in everything they heard and saw, from start to finish. … Little wonder that the audience was on its feet at the end in a prolonged standing ovation in appreciation of a superb concert where all the singers continually projected the pleasure they gained from singing and sharing this with an appreciative audience.” – Hawke’s Bay Today