AUSCO Presents: A Festival of Dance ft. GSSO

Name: AUSCO Presents: A Festival of Dance ft. GSSO
Start: 2024-09-27T19:00:00+1200
End: 2024-09-28T17:00:00+1200
Location: Hosted on Humanitix

Fri, 27 Sep, 7pm - 28 Sep, 5pm 2024 NZST

To be announced

Auckland Uni Student Chamber Orchestra

71 followers · Contact host

Event description

Auckland University Student Chamber Orchestra (AUSCO) is proud to present:

A Festival of Dance

In collaboration with Grafton Student Symphony Orchestra (GSSO)

Get ready to experience a celebration of dances, rhythm and movement... 💃

We are excited to bring you our second programme for 2024 in support of Starship. Join us at St Matthews-in-the-City or the School of Music Theatre for an unforgettable show of captivating dance melodies, including Kingdom Dance from Tangled, Nutcracker, Hungarian Dance, and many more!

Don't miss out - buy your tickets for a great cause! All proceeds will be donated to Starship to help support infants, children, young people and their whānau in hospital and the community through paediatric health care.

This Semester we have two concerts to choose from!

Friday 27th September - St Matthew-In-The-City (132 Hobson Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010)

Saturday 28th September (Matinee) - School of Music Theatre (6 Symonds Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010)

Programme:

Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5

Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 2 1st Movement

Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Bacchanale from Samson et Delilah

Alan Menken - Kingdom Dance from Tangled

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a

Arturo Márquez - Danzon No. 2

More about Starship:

Starship is our national children’s hospital and has been helping to ensure all children in Aotearoa New Zealand have access to world-class healthcare since 1992. The Starship Foundation’s vision is to nurture a nation of healthy children. It raises critical funds which are invested in research, technology, equipment and impact programmes that save and improve lives. Recently, this has included an expansion and upgrade of New Zealand’s only dedicated Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Starship and ongoing support for the Starship National Air Ambulance which retrieves a critically ill or injured child every 48 hours and flies them to Starship for specialist care.

Our children. Better health. Brighter futures.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

Hostinformation

Auckland Uni Student Chamber Orchestra

71 followers

Contact host

View profile

About AUSCO:

The Auckland University Student Chamber Orchestra (AUSCO) has been run since 2019 with the goal of bringing students together to perform and bond as a group with like minded interests in classical music and beyond. AUSCO puts on a range of social events like an orchestra camp, dinners, games nights, pub quizzes, and so on for our members. We also have weekly rehearsals leading up to our many orchestral performances throughout the year that our members highlight as the best part of AUSCO. We pride ourselves in creating a fun and enjoyable space for those who predominantly don't study music at University but played instruments all throughout High School.

Our 100% charity concerts are the heart and soul of AUSCO. Each concert importantly donates 100% of all proceeds to a charity of our choice. In Semester 1, 2023 we combined with the Auckland University Student Choir to make our first ever collaborative concert which went in support of the Red Cross Disaster Fund following the Auckland anniversary flooding. With over 200 ticket sales we were extremely grateful to have raised $4,065 for this important cause! In Semester 2 we created a full symphony orchestra, performing "To The Oscars" - with iconic pieces from Star Wars, Studio Ghibli, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dvorak, and so many more. This concert was in support of Youthline and was a raging success, selling out our venue with over 280 people in attendance and raising $4,737 for Youthline. Feel free to watch our entire concert in the video below to get a sense of the calibre and size of our orchestra.