Auckland's most versatile chamber choir!

If you’ve never been that fussed on choral music, and find the thought of a choral concert unappealing, then here’s a choir that should completely change your mind. Viva Voce, now in its 25th year, is one of the longest-lived and most popular chamber choirs in New Zealand. All three of its subscription concerts each year are heavily attended, and by a wide-ranging audience.

Thanks to all our wonderful subscribers and other audience members for a thoroughly satisfying concert. St Patricks was packed and its beautiful acoustic reverberated with wonderful singing and playing. William Dart was there and gave us a fantastic review in the NZ Herald. Some choice excerpts below ...

"The outstanding soloist was Emma Roxburgh, whose Real Mother was a living, breathing woman, even at the remove of three centuries. Here is a singer who knows how to illuminate a text in song, most beautifully in duet with David Garner's cello. The Denial of St Peter, a more compact score, was restricted to continuo accompaniment, with the exemplary James Tibbles on organ and harpsichord."

"The choir impressed with superb dynamic control and a profusion of airy cadential ornamentations."

"Faure's Requiem took on a new glow in the cathedral spaces. From the sumptuous six-part harmonies of the Introit to the ethereal beauties of the final In Paradisum, which composer Charles Koechlin placed on a par with Fra Angelico's frescoes, the choir excelled itself. The contrapuntal textures of the Offertoire were strong and confident."

"Again, it was Rosser's directorial skill, combined with the intimacy of the venue, which revealed the spiritual inner core of this piece, with the flowing viola lines being a particular joy."