Welcome Alumni!
Welcome to the Alumni of the New Zealand Youth Choir and Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir. These pages contain a blog and they are for you to share stories, pictures, ask questions, make suggestions, and help us find our lost Alumni members. We currently have some 640 Alumni and there are about 120 people we have lost. We will post the names on this site and if you know where they are, or even think you know where they are, please email us at janice@nzyc.co.nz and let us know how to contact them.
We are slowing coming back down to earth now after the fantastic reunion of a couple of weeks ago. We have all caught up on sleep, gotten over the flu (swine or otherwise), and the stories and photos are coming in. I did try and talk to many of our 120 Alumni who attended and it became clear to me that having opportunities to get together and sing - more than just once every 10 years - would be a fantastic way to move forward. So I am interested in your views on this. For example, would you like to attend a residency weekend somewhere - learn some more challenging repertoire (than repeating what we all sang all those years ago) and have a couple of performance opportunities? Just off the top of my head, I think we could manage to organise this every couple of years - if not a little more frequently. We all love our three conductors - Karen, Prof and Guy - but I did also hear some people ask for some new international conductors - perhaps we all remember Sir Charles Groves conducting the Mozart Requiem?
It was great to see many of you again and get to know a few more. The reunion was a huge success and thank you to everyone who made it possible. Please use this blog - and please email me directly if you would care to: bgeorge.aotearoa@gmail.com
We need the Alumni and we need you to support us. We have now added a fundraising online facility so that you can pay your annual subscription (just $20) by credit card from anywhere in the world and you can also donate to either our current activities or our endowment. We urge you to do this and help us keep this very important New Zealand icon alive, in more than just our memories and our hearts.
And ... watch this space for more news!
