Concerts.

Follow us as we rove around The Arts Centre presenting 30 minutes of festive songs.

This free event is suitable for all ages. No bookings are required. Entrance is free.

Date: Saturday 14 December 2019
Time: 2.00pm to 3.00pm
Venue: Throughout The Arts Centre. Meet in the North Quad, 2 Worcester Boulevard.

Risingholme Orchestra in collaboration with Jubilate Singers present:

THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Music from London to Istanbul, including Coates, Honegger, Fauré, Orff, Brahms, Bartok and Borodin.

Conductor: Philip Norman

Sunday, 10 November 2019, 2.30 pm
The Piano, 156 Armagh St, Christchurch

Door sales, cash only
Adults $15, Children $5

Sorry - Concert is sold out.

Concert times: Saturday 22nd June at 3.30pm and again at 7.30pm.

Conducted by Philip Norman, with Hamish Smith acoustic bass, Ted Meager brushes, and folk guitarist Tony Hale 

in a finger clicking good tapas of Swingle Singing from the 60s, funkadelic folk from the 70s and, like totally tubular a cappella from the 80s.

See you there: ‘A Rolling Stone’ (restaurant and bar) 579 Colombo St, Christchurch.

Tickets/door sales $10.00.  Make up a table, purchase food and drinks, and enjoy our cool music.

Advance bookings: phone Vivien Hicks 0278428236: email vivienhicks@gmail.com

7.30pm, Saturday 6 April 2019, Knox Church, 28 Bealey Avenue, Christchurch 8013.

Music Director: Philip Norman

with Daniel Cooper (Knox Church organist), Matthew Harris (Double Bass) and soloists Sarah-Jane Rennie (soprano) and James Baines (baritone).

The Simply Divine music includes

Bach’s finest motet Jesu Meine Freude

Eric Thiman’s tender cantata The Last Supper

Mozart’s glorious Laudate Dominum

Antonio Caldara’s all-embracing Crucifixus  a 16 voci

David Griffiths’s soaring Beata Virgo

Two vocal versions of the orchestral masterpieces

Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ from Enigma Variations (Lux Aeterna) and

Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings (Agnus Dei)

And medieval musical aperitifs by

Hildegard von Bingen and Guillaume Dufay  

Advance bookings: phone Vivien Hicks 0278428236: email vivienhicks@gmail.com to order tickets.  Tickets $25 includes a post-concert light supper. Door sales (cash only).

“Have you ever wanted to burst into song at a Handel’s Messiah concert?  Here’s your big chance! Join in with the Jubilate Singers to sing all your favourite choruses and enjoy our line-up of popular soloists. (limited scores available so bring your own, or download choruses below.) ”

A Fundraising concert for the Restoration of the Christ Church Cathedral.

Date & venue details:

2.00 pm until 5pm, Sunday 18 November, 2018, Christchurch Transitional Cathedral

Guest Music Director: Grant Bartley

With: David Burchell, Dunedin City Organist

Soloists: Susan Densem – Soprano

Margot Button – Alto

Frank Carter – Tenor

Robert Tucker – Bass

Riley Payne & Nina Noble - Trumpets

Sam Gibbs - Percussion

Ticketing details:

Advance bookings: phone Vivien Hicks 0278428236: email vivienhicks@gmail.com to order tickets.  Tickets $25/$20 (unwaged). Children under 12 free.  Door sales (cash only).  Cash donations gratefully received.

 Click here to download sheet music:

While our regular Musical Director, Susan Densem, has taken sabbatical leave for the year, the Jubilate Singers has taken the opportunity to offer this role to special guest musicians.  First up is Matthew Everingham, Christchurch based musical director, conductor, composer and pianist, who has put together a delightful programme of choral music written for, by and about mothers from the Renaissance to the present day.

Matt attended St Bede's College, the University of Canterbury  and Trinity College, London.  Matt's first encounter with the Jubilate Singers was with the Court Theatre's production 'The Events' in 2016.  He recently completed a successful season at the Court as Deputy Musical Director for 'Chicago', and is currently in rehearsals for the Showbiz production 'Wicked'.  Read more about Matt at www.everinghammusic.com or www.facebook.com/matt.everingham.pianist

Songs my Mother Taught Me will be performed at 2.00pm on Sunday 6 May, 2018, at the Piano, Centre for Music and the Arts, 156 Armagh Street, Christchurch.

Advance bookings: phone Steve French 3586161 or email srjfrench@xtra.co.nz .

Tickets $25/$20 (unwaged), includes afternoon tea.  Children free.  Door sales (cash only).

Diary this event now and make up a family party, including your Mum, to attend this special feast of music!

It’s nearly 40 years since Martin Setchell established the Jubilate Singers. Since then the choir has had a regular annual concert programme and performed with other choirs, orchestras such as the CSO and NZSO and dance groups. The choir has recorded CDs of music by New Zealand choral composers and music for television. The choir plans to celebrate our 40th anniversary over the weekend of 25/26 November 2017 with a concert and social programme. The concert will be directed by Sue Densem, our current Music Director, and will also involve her predecessors Martin Setchell, John Pattinson and Grant Hutchinson.

The Jubilate Singers present a concert of home-grown choral music featuring seven of New Zealand's finest composers. We are proud to present the world premiere of a work for choir, soprano and flute by Janet Jennings, Magnificat from a Garden in the Antipodes, featuring poems by Christchurch poet Ursula Bethell.

The programme also includes evocative compositions by David Childs, Diane Cooper, David Hamilton, Richard Oswin, John Ritchie, and Patrick Shepherd, all inspired by poetic texts.

Music Director: Susan Densem, with Carolyn Johnson (Piano), Matthew Lee (Flute), Anna Hoetjes (Soprano).

St Michael and All Angels Church, Oxford Terrace
 
Please join the Jubilate Singers as they celebrate the joy of Christmas.

A festive first half is framed by three versions of the beautiful text, O Magnum Mysterium, spanning 6 centuries by choral composing superstars Victoria, Poulenc and American Morten Lauridsen.

Martin Setchell, one of New Zealand’s foremost organists, will play some exquisite French Christmas organ music.

We also feature Christchurch’s foremost harpist Helen Webby, in the beautiful Spanish song El Rorro.

In the second half you will be entranced by Saint-Saens’ Oratorio de Noël. We will be joined by five esteemed soloists from throughout New Zealand and the Jubilate Chamber Orchestra.

It is a festive feast of beautiful choral music for all to enjoy.

7.30 pm concert with a pre-concert talk by Patrick Shepherd at 7.00pm

Concert Hall of The Piano - Centre for Music and the Arts

165 Armagh Street, Christchurch

The Jubilate Singers are celebrating the wonderful talent of our home-grown composers by performing a concert of New Zealand works.  Come and hear the evocative sounds of New Zealand and enjoy our history through song.

We feature the playful Plumsong by the Jubilate Singers’ patron, Phillip Norman, and the world premier of a new choral work by Christchurch composer Patrick Shepherd, setting three poems from Arawata Bill by Denis Glover.

From the haunting sounds of Helen Fisher’s Pounamu, to the sublime Lord When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace by former Jubilate Patron the late Professor John Ritchie, you will be treated to a programme of music to be proud of.

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“touches of sweet harmony”

 The Jubilate Singers are celebrating the life and works of William Shakespeare on April 23^rd 2016. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death we will perform some wonderful choral settings of his timeless texts.

Our programme covers songs from nine Shakespeare plays including the haunting ‘Come Away Death’ by Mἂntyjἂrvi and the playful ‘Oh Mistress Mine’ from Twelfth Night, to varied settings of ‘Who is Sylvia’, ‘It Was a Lover and His Lass’ and ‘When Daisies Pied’. A set of songs from Othello and ‘Caliban’s Song’ from the Tempest by New Zealand’s own David Hamilton. Compositions by Vaughan Williams and William Mathias complete our concert.

 We aim to delight and entertain you with music from the Bard and some instrumental interludes from Jonathan Le Cocq and friends.

 “But that’s all one, our play is done and we’ll strive to please you...”