The award-winning New Zealand Youth Choir infuses indigenous Maori waiata (song) and New Zealand compositions into a spine-tingling programme of choral music.
Drawing from its unique cultural and geographic origins, the New Zealand Youth Choir (NZYC) has achieved considerable success since its formation in 1979. NZYC won the supreme title of ‘Choir of the World’ at the International Music Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales, in 1999, and the Grand Prix at IFAS 2016 in Pardubice, Czech Republic during their 2016 European Landmark tour. This 11th international tour of the choir included concerts in Singapore, Notre-Dame de Paris, Windsor Castle, Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Ely Cathedral, the Festival of Academic Choirs in the Czech Republic and St John's Smith Square in London.
Audiences were swept away by this uplifting and memorable performance, a mix of traditional choral repertoire together with music of the South Pacific. The programme starts with a traditional Maori welcome, a karanga, and traverses from Mendelssohn and Brahms to New Zealand Folk Songs of the Sea and the recently commissioned Maori waiata ‘Waerenga-a-Hika’.
Package includes CD and DVD versions of Live in London.