About Us
Teapot Summer School is New Zealand’s premier non-auditioned choral school.
Typically about 70–80 choristers get together every January to work with a wonderful international choral conductor to make beautiful music in a beautiful setting. If we want we can get individual coaching from a highly qualified teacher for no extra charge. We perform a wide range of music from classical European Great Works through to shorter contemporary works, including music by New Zealand composers. For nine days we enjoy great company, copious food and have fun making other music in small groups or just lazing about in one of the most stunning parts of New Zealand.
Some of us are hooked and turn up every year to recharge our batteries – we’d love to share the magic of Teapot with you.
Enjoy the finest professional training through:
- Three rehearsals with the conductor each day plus smaller group sessions as needed
- Daily warm-ups and brief clinics with a top voice specialist
- Your own private voice production session
Have fun at the in-house cabaret:
- Perform a musical item, recitation, sketch parody or anything you like whether on your own or with others
- Or just enjoy the talent on offer in the very informal show
Join in other activities during your free time, such as:
- On-campus evening entertainment
- Swimming in the open air pool, tennis, fierce and friendly board and card games
Young student opportunity:
- You can audition for a chance to sing with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain
- The winner receives a return trip to the UK to attend one of the NYCGB’s residential courses culminating in a public concert
Future Teapot Summer Schools
Mark your diaries!
10-19 January 2020 | Conductor Ben Parry, UK
8-17 January 2021 | Conductor Ebbe Munk, Denmark
14–23 January 2022 | Conductor Ebbe Munk, Denmark
End of Summer School Concert Sunday 19 January, 2pm at the Nelson Centre for Musical Arts
Next Teapot Summer School
Friday 10 – Sunday 19 January 2020
Venue
Located not far from Brightwater on the western edge of the Waimea valley, the Camp offers plain but comfortable accommodation and plentiful, healthy food.
Repertoire
- Artley’s Missa Brevis
- Willcocks’s Ceremony of Psalms
- Parry’s Through Bushes and Through Briars: A Folk Song Medley
- Rutter’s Feel the Spirit
Scholarships
In order to make the Summer School more accessible to young people, we offer a range of scholarships.
Musical Leadership
Teaport Summer School is delighted to announce the following will be in attendance
Ben ParryConductor Ben is Artistic Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and contributes to many major film sound tracks as co-director of London Voices. Read More
Rebecca RyanVocal Coach Rebecca is a graduate of Otago University and London’s Royal Academy of Music and has appeared in many concert performances with orchestras and choirs in Europe, UK and Australasia in a varied repertoire from Bach and Handel through to Mozart, Mahler and Brahms. Read More
Jonathan BerkahnRehearsal Accompanist Jonathan is a Wellington-based freelance performer, educator, and composer. He studied organ and harpsichord with Douglas Mews and has accompanied many choirs and soloists around New Zealand. Read More
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