ANZAC Concert 2026

Name: ANZAC Concert 2026
Start: 2026-04-25T14:30:00+1200
End: 2026-04-25T16:30:00+1200
Location: Nelson Cathedral

Sat, 25 Apr, 2:30pm - 4:30pm NZST

Nelson Cathedral

Nelson, New Zealand

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Nelson Male Voice Choir

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This concert is the musical highlight of the ANZAC Day commemorations in Nelson. We present a broad range of songs with themes of love and loss, patriotism, heroism, defeat and longing for home. We sing in te reo, Latin, Italian and English. From Negro spirituals to Mozart, Verdi to Te Rangi Pai.

As an extra bonus our concert pianist accompanist Louis Lucas-Perry will also play a virtuoso solo piece. We welcome the wonderful violinist Juliet Ayre as our guest soloist.

Our brilliant conductor Rosemary Galton gets to the heart of every song. Come, listen, contemplate and expect to be moved. Bring a hankie!

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The Nelson Male Voice Choir was founded in 1932 by a group of keen amateur singers in Nelson, a city of over 50,000 people, nestling in the sun at the top of New Zealand's South Island. It gave its first concert at the Nelson School of Music on April 26th, 1933.

The Choir has played a strong role in the city's musical history ever since, stopping only for a few years during World War II, which claimed the lives of five of its members.

In 2000 the Nelson Male Voice Choir made a tour of Wales, but to do so had to cast its net throughout New Zealand for extra singers, thus giving birth to the New Zealand Male Choir.

Today the Choir is in a great heart with thirty singing members and gives concerts for its loyal supporters several times every year. It also leads the singing at civic occasions such as Anzac Day and has given much young, local talent the opportunity to perform in front of a large audience. It is proud of its long tradition.

NMVC can call on a vast repertoire of traditional songs, light classics, show tunes and contemporary favourites. The concerts always include a variety of Nelson's best talent as guest artistes, to delight our audiences.