The Sheep Detectives - Movie Fundraiser
Cinema’s smartest detectives are here – and they’re wearing woolly jumpers. The Sheep Detectives is a ‘herder-mystery’ – a hilarious original whodunnit featuring an all-star cast.
Just what ewe need in times like these!
Don’t be sheepish. Come support the Bach Choir of Wellington! Join us for a movie fundraiser at 5.30pm, Sunday 24 May, at the Penthouse Cinema & Café, Brooklyn.
Tickets available on eventfinda for $25 and includes a glass of wine or juice.
In Stillness, Peace
In Stillness, Peace traces a musical journey through different kinds of stillness and the ways peace can emerge from them. The programme brings together choral music that approaches stillness not as silence or withdrawal, but as an active state shaped by restraint, attention, balance, and trust.
The first half moves from clarity and simplicity towards deeper inward listening. Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus opens the programme with music of balance and transparency, where calm arises through proportion and flow. At the centre of the first half, Ēriks Ešenvalds’ Lux Aeterna invites quiet listening of a different kind, creating a sense of spaciousness in which light and stillness feel closely connected.
The second half is shaped around Michael John Trotta’s For a Breath of Ecstasy, a seven movement cycle for choir, string quartet, and oboe, setting poetry by Sara Teasdale. Written as a sequence of reflections, and heard here in its New Zealand premiere, the work traces fleeting moments of attentive calm and inward stillness, offering peace not as certainty or arrival, but as something brief, fragile, and deeply felt.
Performed in the resonant space of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, this midwinter programme invites listeners to experience how stillness can deepen, shift, and open into peace through sound.
Come and join the Bach Choir of Wellington for an invitation to stillness and peace on Saturday 25 July at 2pm at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.
Sounding Boards - echoes of friendship | spheres of influence
Sounding Boards celebrates the musical friendships that changed history. From Mozart and Haydn trading ideas around a quartet table to Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms inspiring one another across generations, these relationships sparked creativity that continues to resonate today.
Across Europe and beyond, composers shaped each other’s voices through mentorship, collaboration, and shared curiosity. Fauré and Saint‑Saëns sustained a lifelong artistic partnership, Bartók and Kodály transformed folk research into modern composition, and Copland, Bernstein, and Barber forged a distinctly American sound. Holst and Vaughan Williams, trusted companions in craft, helped define English music for a new century.
Join the Bach Choir for Sounding Boards, a concert woven from these remarkable connections. This programme brings together music born from friendship, respect, and shared artistic vision, inviting audiences to hear how great composers shaped one another and the worlds they lived in.
Tickets available on Eventfinda
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
The Bach Choir of Wellington, in collaboration with Nota Bene, and the Chiesa ensemble are joined by Georgia Jamieson Emms (soprano), Maaike Christie-Beekman (mezzo soprano), Iain Tetley (tenor), and Robert Tucker (baritone) in a festive performance of Bach magnificent Christmas Oratorio (Parts I, II, III & VI).
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, is a spiritually rich masterpiece composed during 1723 and 1724 and first performed in its entirety during the Christmas season of 1734–1735 while Bach was serving in Leipzig. Drawing on earlier secular cantatas and a now-lost church cantata (BWV 248a), this oratorio weaves together a vibrant tapestry of sacred music celebrating the birth of Christ.
Though beloved internationally, Christmas Oratorio is rarely performed in Wellington, making this a special opportunity to experience one of Bach’s most joyful and profound creations. We hope you will join us for an evening of radiant music and festive spirit.
French Impressions
French Impressions – The Bach Choir of Wellington presents a programme of French sacred music on Saturday, 19 July 2025, at St Mary of the Angels Church. The concert features Vierne’s Messe Solennelle and Fauré’s Requiem, two contrasting works that highlight the richness and lyricism of the French choral tradition. With Douglas Mews on organ, and soloists Rowena Simpson (soprano) and Joe Haddow (baritone), this afternoon performance offers a exciting and moving musical experience in one of Wellington’s most beautiful acoustic spaces.
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