Our next concert

Under the Greenwood Tree

Old music for a new season

Choral music by:
Duruflé, Ford, Palestrina, Tallis,Morley & David Hamilton.

Also featuring:
Ingrid Schoenfeld – Piano:
Three Preludes on Gregorian Melodies by Respighi

2:30 pm Sat. 10 October 2020
St Andrew’s on the Terrace

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Tickets also available from Choir members.
Limited Door sales
(Cash only: no EFTPOS or credit cards)

$20

(Secondary & Primary School pupils free)

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The concert to launch our recording  has been delayed due to Covid-19

We will post a new date and time here when they are decided.

Come and celebrate with us the launch of our recording of the wonderful, inspired
A Hopkins’ Gloria
by Jonathan Berkahn.

“New Zealand choral music at its best.”

St James Anglican Church
71 Woburn Road, Lower Hutt.

Your $25.00 ticket package will include your personal copy of the digital album of the Gloria. We will give you a download link at the concert.

We will perform the whole Gloria accompanied by alto Eleanor McGechie, soprano saxophonist Genevieve Davidson and the composer Jonathan Berkahn on piano.

You will also see short videos by Alexander Garside about the making of the recording and our publicity video.

And we will serve afternoon tea.

Festival Singers 2020 plans

Thanks for visiting our website.

We have resumed Monday night rehearsals at Newlands Christian Assembly.

If you are looking for a choir to sing with in 2020 we’d love hear from you.

Here is a summary of our plans for the remainder of 2020:

• Video and Audio Recordings: 8 August 2020

• We will record audio at St James Anglican Church Lower Hutt, of the entire A Hopkin’s Gloria for commercial release.We will also be filming a promotional video of the choir performing a movement of Jonathan Berkahn’s A Hopkin’s Gloria, and a documentary video about the composition and the process of recording it.

• Launch Concert: Postponed.

• Early music concert – 2:30pm Saturday 1o October 2020 at St Andrews on the Terrace

• December 2020: Christmas Concert.

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  For more information, please contact:

• Ingrid Schoenfeld (Musical Director)
  ingrid.s@outlook.co.nz, 027 240 6669  or

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• Philip Garside (Secretary)
  bookspgpl@gmail.com, 475 8855

Our Last Concert

High Summer Holds the Earth

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Our Musical Director

We welcomed Ingrid Schoenfeld as our Musical Director in July 2019.

Ingrid Schoenfeld is a classical pianist and accomplished teacher. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Classical Performance with first-class Honours at the New Zealand School of Music.

She has learned primarily from Richard Mapp as well as Dr. Jian Liu, and has played in masterclasses for Diedre Irons, Janos Cegledy, Paul Rickard-Ford, Natalia Sheludiakova, and the New Zealand String Quartet, among others. In addition to piano, she also studied harpsichord for three years under prominent early music specialists Dr Erin Helyard and Douglas Mews.

She made her orchestral debut in 2016 with the Nelson Symphony Orchestra, playing Shostakovich’s 2nd piano concerto.

Ingrid studied conducting at the New Zealand School of Music under Kenneth Young, and has conducted and accompanied multiple choirs around Wellington, including the Northern Chorale, St. James church choir, and the St. Mary of the Angels Youth Choir.

She sang with the St. Mary of the Angels church choir for two years, was a reserve member in the New Zealand Youth Choir, and currently sings in the Wellington Cathedral Choir under Michael Stewart.

In addition to performing regularly in solo, chamber, and choral concerts, she runs a successful teaching studio.

Ingrid has many exciting, creative ideas and the choir has a bright future under her leadership.

Ingrid was Festival Singer’s Accompanist from the start of 2018 to mid-2019.

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