FAURE REQUIEM – A Gift To The City
Sunday December 6th 2020, 2-3pm
The Aldersgate Centre, 309 Durham Street North, Christchurch CBD, 8013. Entrance is free to the public. Koha suggested at the door.
After several postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Atlas Voices is thrilled to finally present the Canterbury Secondary Students Honour Choir, formed by many of the region’s top secondary school singers as nominated by their schools. Performing Faure’s beautiful and emotional Requiem, accompanied by Maestro John Linker on organ. This concert is being offered to the community with entry by koha (cash donation only).
COVID-19 Update – 20 November 2020
Dear patrons,
It is with great pleasure that we can now present the Faure Requiem featuring the Canterbury Secondary Schools Honour Choir and Atlas Voices. Due to the many postponements we have all suffered through this year, we have decided to present this concert with Maestro John Linker at the organ and to make this concert free to the public. We hope you can support us with a koha donation but mostly we’d love to sing this great work for you.
ATLAS VOICES
Atlas Voices began in 2011 as a collection of Christchurch’s best vocal talent dedicated to presenting exciting vocal music performances to audiences in Canterbury. The ensemble continues to sell-out their shows and receives regular standing ovations while they continue to push the boundaries and expectations of choral and vocal music Our dedication to cutting-edge works and productions continues in 2021 with Considering Matthew Shepard in April. We also continue our successful collaboration with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra as the core contracted choir for the amazing Symphonic Chorus.
Ravil Atlas
The founder and artistic Director of Atlas Voices is Ravil Atlas. he is currently the chorus master for the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Chorus and the New Zealand Opera in Christchurch.
2020 HONOUR CHOIR
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AMAHL (Dress Rehearsal – photos by Clinton Lloyd, with thanks to The Piano)
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New Zealand dramatic soprano Amanda Atlas embarked on her international career in 1999, spending ten years singing for various opera companies and orchestras in the US and Europe. Role highlights include Verdi’s Amelia, Alice Ford
William O’Brien is a New Zealand Bass who began private vocal tuition with voice teacher Margot Button in 2011. Graduating from the University of Canterbury in 2015 with a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce (Econ) William has continued his private voice tuition following his undergraduate studies and is also an alumnus of both the New Zealand Singing School (2015) and New Zealand Opera School (2018).
Thomas has been involved in productions and musical performance from a young age.
Having been involved in plenty of singing while growing up in Christchurch, Alex was interested in becoming a jazz crooner and took the logical step of studying for a commerce degree. While at university he discovered that the established genre for singing accountants was opera, and thus joined Southern Opera’s chorus for Il Trovatore in 2008. From there he was hooked and has sung with opera choruses for the last 10 years (Southern Opera, and then New Zealand Opera), along with singing a variety of solo and small group work in local concerts and with his opera entertainment group, The Operatives. Alex gained his LTCL in singing in 2014, and also undertook a period of private opera studies in Adelaide with his partner Katherine in 2015, before settling back in Christchurch and starting a family.
Grant is 13 and is living with his family in Christchurch during 2018 while his father is on sabbatical here from the US. He started his singing career with an Anglican boy’s choir several years ago. He has also sung with choirs at his schools, both in the US and in Aurora Voices and Malestrom at Burnside High School here in Christchurch. He has played piano, flute, recorder, steel drums, drums and has recently started the trombone.