2021 CONCERTS

​Mid year concert
Sunday 20 June, afternoon (time TBC).
​Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School.

Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte overture
Ritchie - Albatross in flight
Beethoven - Romance No. 2
Khachaturian - Adagio from Spartacus
Bizet - L'Arle`sienne Suites (selected movements)


​End of Year Concert 
Saturday 4th December, evening (time TBC)
​Location: TBC

Repertoire TBC

2020 Concerts

​End of Year Concert 
Sunday 29 November, 3pm.
​Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School.

Beethoven - 1st Symphony
Debussy - Petite Suite
Vaughan-Williams - English Folk Song Suite
Guest group - Stringendo

​Mid year concert
Cancelled due to COVID-19


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2019 Concerts

​2019- End of Year Concert '20 Years of Music'

​Saturday 23 November, 7.00pm
Salvation Army Citadel

Borodin - Polovtsian Dance N°17
Gerswhin - Rhapsody in Blue
Coxon - Garden Sketches
Emeleus - Episodes
Shepherd - Under the Gingko Tree

Mid Year Concert 'Destinations'
- with Swarbrick Irish Dance

Saturday 29 June, 3pm
Villa Maria College Auditorium,
21 Peer Street, Upper Riccarton

Bernstein - Selections from West Side Story
Dvorak - Symphony No.8 Movements 3 & 4
Hardiman - Lord of the Dance
Offenbach - Orpheus in the Underworld

2018 Concerts

End of Year Concert 'Dance'
- with Nor'west Brass
- featuring SuuFei (Sophie) Tong (Piano) and the Garden City String Quartet
Saturday 24 November, 7pm
Salvation Army, Colombo Street

Beethoven - Fidelio Overture
Brahms - Hungarian Dances No. 1-3, 5-6
MacPherson - Devil May Care
Marquez - Danzon No. 2
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 22, Movement 1 


Mid Year Concert 'Pacific Overtures'
- with the Shiki-Japanese Traditional Music Group
and the CSM Concert Band
- featuring Christian Martin (French Horn)
Sunday 24 June, at 2pm
Avonhead Primary School

​Lilburn - Aotearoa Overture
Strauss - Horn Concerto No. 1, Movement 1 
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, Movement 2
Duke Ellington Medley
Spring Sea

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2017 Concerts

Mid Year Concert
~ with the North Canterbury Academy of Music & Kaiapoi Brass Band
Sunday June 25th, at 2pm
Avonhead School
55 Avonhead Road (see map)

​Schumann - Spring Symphony
Beethoven - Egmont Overture
Faure - Pavane
Sibelius - Finlandia

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End of Year Concert
~ with the CSM's ISO
Sunday October 29th, at 2pm
Avonhead School
55 Avonhead Road (see map)

Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto, Movement 2
Saint Saens - Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah


Christmas Concert
~ with the Canterbury Cellists and Jazzamatazz
Saturday December 9th, at 7pm
Church of St Michaels and All Angels
Oxford Terrace, Christchurch

Tchaikovsky - Movements from Swan Lake Suite
Dvorak - 4th Movement from the New World Symphony
Christmas Sing-a-long

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2016 Concerts

Autumn Concert
with the Christchurch Harp Orchestra
Sunday 29 May, 2pm
Rudolf Steiner School

Dvorak - Symphony No. 8 (1st movement)
Vaughan-Williams - Greensleeves


Halloween Day Concert
with the CSM'd Intermediate Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 30 October, 3pm
Avonhead School
55 Avonhead Road (see map)

Beethoven - Symphony 5 (1st & 4th Movements)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Danse Macrabre
Pirates of the Carribean

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2015 Concerts

Halloween Day Concert
October 31st, Saturday at 3pm
Avonhead School
55 Avonhead Road (see map)

Rossini - William Tell Overture
Bruckner - March in D minor
Shepherd - Kitty's 3 Piece Suite

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Massive Messiah Sing-Along
December 5th, Saturday at 7.30pm
St Michael and All Angels Church,
84 Oxford Terrace (see map)
Conductor Khin-Wee Chen

Garden City Orchestra, collaborating with University of Canterbury School of Music voice department and various community and church choirs, will perform excerpts from Handel's masterpiece. Bring your own score to sing along to favourites like Hallelujah Chorus, For Unto Us a Child is Born, and All We Like Sheep. Or just come and enjoy the fine music while soaking in the atmosphere of the historic building. 

For anyone who wants to sing with us in Dec, you can learn up the parts on your own using these MP3s.
A free score can be found here

Christmas Concert at Avebury House 
November 29th Sunday from 2 - 4 pm
Avebury House 
9 Eveleyn Couzins Avenue, Richmond {see map]

This will be our 10th year performing here. Come celebrate the season with us