Announcing the Atlas Voices Ensemble 2020 season
Canterbury Secondary Schools Honour Choir Gala Concert
Dark Night of the Soul and Across The Vast Eternal Sky – Ola Gjeilo
Faure Requiem – Complete, with orchestra
Sunday March 29th 2.30pm, St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral
Tickets on sale February 1st
Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson – New Zealand Premiere
Sunday May 2nd 7.30pm, Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margarets’ College
One of the world’s foremost vocal ensembles, for the first time in New Zealand…
CHANTICLEER in Concert
2020 Christchurch International Choral Residency
Sunday July 26th 7.30pm, Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margarets’ College
Hansel & Gretel: A Christmas Opera
With Christmas favourites and carol sing-a-long
Saturday November 28th 2pm – Opera only, 7.30pm – Opera and concert, Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margarets’ College
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.