Experience two masterpieces in one exceptional concert as Orpheus Choir Wellington present Christopher Tin’s To Shiver the Sky alongside Mozart’s Requiem. This concert spans five centuries of imagination and purpose, from the earliest dreams of flight to one of the greatest choral masterpieces ever written.

Orpheus Choir Wellington hits the road with Vivaldi’s Gloria, bringing this landmark choral work to Carterton and Kāpiti, as well as a second, widely recognised choral masterpiece in a full concert programme.

These performances also feature Orpheus Scholars, emerging singers studying classical voice at Te Kōkī, the New Zealand School of Music, as soloists.

Orpheus Choir Wellington hits the road with Vivaldi’s Gloria, bringing this landmark choral work to Carterton and Kāpiti, as well as a second, widely recognised choral masterpiece in a full concert programme.

These performances also feature Orpheus Scholars, emerging singers studying classical voice at Te Kōkī, the New Zealand School of Music, as soloists.

We are proud to be part of Orchestra Wellington’s largest collaboration of their 2026 season, joining an extraordinary assembly of Wellington musical forces for Berlioz’s monumental Requiem. With tenor soloist Kyle Stegall, Te Kōkī Orchestra, and four Wellington Region brass bands, this vast ensemble will make the Michael Fowler Centre truly resound.

While famed for its overwhelming power, from the fearsome Dies Irae to its thunderous brass and timpani, Berlioz’s Requiem is also full of surprising delicacy and restraint. Expansive, immersive, and profoundly moving, this is a rare chance to experience one of the great choral masterpieces at its full, awe-inspiring scale.

We are delighted to collaborate once again with Orchestra Wellington in a concert that showcases the choir’s remarkable range and versatility. Our sopranos and altos feature in Claude Debussy’s Nocturnes, where wordless voices rise delicately from shimmering, moonlit orchestral textures. In striking contrast, the choir’s lower voices join the orchestra for Ferruccio Busoni’s monumental Piano Concerto — a work described by Gramophone Magazine as “a thundering vehicle for virtuosity,” performed with acclaimed pianist Jian Liu.

We are honoured to collaborate with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in a concert that pairs two powerful works shaped by ideas of connection and community. Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9, revolutionary for its inclusion of a choir, remains one of the most emotionally charged and transformative works in all of music.

The programme also features Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead’s Hoata, a haunting and atmospheric work named for the Māori lunar phase when the moon is barely visible. Written during a northern winter, it evokes isolation, stillness, and the quiet pull of human connection.