On Tuesday 2 June, our Events Centre was ringing with the music from the Westlake Choirs, performing their Big Sing programs for a packed and enthusiastic audience. Westlake Girls has four auditioned choirs – Nota Bella Junior Choir, Cigno Voce Senior Choir, Cantare Premier Treble Choir and Choralation Premier Mixed Choir. Joining the program from Westlake Boys were Momentum Training Choir and Voicemale Premier Lower Voice Choir. These six choirs have been working towards competing next week at the Auckland Regional of NZCF’s The Big Sing – the largest high school choir festival in the Southern hemisphere. Each year, around 10,000 singers from around the country compete in their region, after which the top 24 choirs are invited to participate in the national Finale in August. Our choirs are performing at the Auckland Town Hall on Tuesday 16 and Thursday 18 June.
There were more special items for the audience to enjoy during the concert – performances from the two Barbershop ensembles from WBHS ‘Ken and the Men’ and WGHS’s newly formed ‘Swanderful’. Both groups will be competing in the Young Singers in Harmony at the end of the month. Finally, two Westlake alumni singers – Alanah Jones and Blake Scanlan – returned to perform as soloists and inspire our current students. Alanah Jones (graduate 2021) is completing her singing degree at Auckland University and has been offered a place at Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London to embark on her Masters in Opera. We are very proud of our music graduates and wish her all the best!
