2024 Concerts
Mid Year Concert
- with Cantabile Choir
Sunday 16th June, 3pm
Location: Aldersgate Centre, 305 Durham Street, Christchurch
Jean Sibelius - Karelia Suite #3 Alla marcia
Patrick Shepherd - Kitty’s three piece suite
Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 1 (selected movements)
Ottorino Resphigi - Antiche Danze ed Arie (Ancient Airs and Dances) Suite No. 2 Mvt 4. Bergamasca
Gabriel Fauré orch. Omar Letorey - Cantique de Jean Racine
Al Rinke arr. Tilân Dossogne and Bonnie & Iris Brookland - Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
- with Cantabile Choir
Sunday 16th June, 3pm
Location: Aldersgate Centre, 305 Durham Street, Christchurch
Jean Sibelius - Karelia Suite #3 Alla marcia
Patrick Shepherd - Kitty’s three piece suite
Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite No. 1 (selected movements)
Ottorino Resphigi - Antiche Danze ed Arie (Ancient Airs and Dances) Suite No. 2 Mvt 4. Bergamasca
Gabriel Fauré orch. Omar Letorey - Cantique de Jean Racine
Al Rinke arr. Tilân Dossogne and Bonnie & Iris Brookland - Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
2023 Concerts
End of Year Concert
- with guest group JBC Dance
Satuday 2th December, 7pm.
Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School
Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
Nicolai - Merry Wives of Windsor
Saint-Saens - Bacchanale
Faure - Dolly Suite (selected movements)
Ballroom dances
Mid Year Concert
- with Te Whānau Mahitahi from Beckenham Te Kura o Pūroto
Sunday 28th May, 3pm.
Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School.
Douglas Lilburn - Overture Aotearoa
Anthony Ritchie - Procession
Leonie Holmes - In the Lair of the Cave Wētā
Dave Dobbyn - Welcome Home
Te Rangi Pai - Hine e Hine
Six60 - Pepeha
2022 Concerts
End of Year Concert
- with Nor'west Brass
Sunday 4th December, 3pm.
Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School.
Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 (5th movement)
Bruch - Concerto for Clarinet and Viola (Iris Brookland and Margaret Hunt)
Vaughan Williams - ET Theme
Several great pieces by NW Brass
Respighi - Pines of Rome (4th movement)
Mid Year Concert
- with CSM's Intermediate Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday 2nd July, 3pm.
Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School.
Beethoven - Coriolanus Overture
Tribute to Ennio Morricone - arranged by Ryan Youyens
Goldmark - Rustic Wedding
Greig - Symphonic Dance No. 2
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - Montagues and Capulets
- with Nor'west Brass
Sunday 4th December, 3pm.
Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School.
Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 (5th movement)
Bruch - Concerto for Clarinet and Viola (Iris Brookland and Margaret Hunt)
Vaughan Williams - ET Theme
Several great pieces by NW Brass
Respighi - Pines of Rome (4th movement)
Mid Year Concert
- with CSM's Intermediate Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday 2nd July, 3pm.
Location: McCombs Performing Arts Centre, Cashmere High School.
Beethoven - Coriolanus Overture
Tribute to Ennio Morricone - arranged by Ryan Youyens
Goldmark - Rustic Wedding
Greig - Symphonic Dance No. 2
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - Montagues and Capulets
2021 Concerts
Mid Year Concert
- with the Christchurch Accordion Orchestra.
Sunday 20th June, 3pm.
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 (informal)
Thursday 9th December, 7:30p.
Location: Fendalton Community Centre
Copland - Rodeo
Strauss - Blue Danube
Shostakovich - Waltz
Hisaishi - Town with an Ocean View
- with the Christchurch Accordion Orchestra.
Sunday 20th June, 3pm.
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 (informal)
Thursday 9th December, 7:30p.
Location: Fendalton Community Centre
Copland - Rodeo
Strauss - Blue Danube
Shostakovich - Waltz
Hisaishi - Town with an Ocean View
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
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 Concerts2019- 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 |
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2018 Concerts
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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
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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 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
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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 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 |
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