The Gesualdo Six: The Wishing Tree

To make a booking please fill out our Creative Learning Booking Form or contact our Creative Learning Coordinator Kelly Gilbride: schools@aaf.co.nz

Holy Trinity Cathedral
Wednesday 15 March, 7.30pm
Audience Suitability: Intermediate, Secondary (Years 7-13)
Curriculum Links: Music, Pacific Studies

Auckland Arts Festival and The Gesualdo Six are pleased to offer a Masterclass for School Choirs.

Combining choirs across Tāmaki Makaurau to form one ensemble, sopranos, altos, bass and tenors will be divided and their parts workshopped, culminating in a big sing with the world class ensemble singers from The Gesualdo Six.

The Gesualdo Six will rehearse and perform with your music group on a pre-approved piece that must be learnt in advance of the workshop.

Date & Time: Tuesday 14 March, 11am
Venue: Auckland - TBC
Cost: $5 per student.
Participants: This is a masterclass suitable for school choirs ranging from Years 9-13. Choirs must be at an intermediate level.
Length of Masterclass: 60 minutes
To Apply: Please contact our Creative Learning Coordinator with the name of your choir, student count and relevant performance history to schools@aaf.co.nz
What to Bring: A water bottle.

The award-winning British vocal ensemble presents a special choral programme of some of the world’s finest vocal consort works.

Bathe in sacred music from the High Renaissance, written at a time of great change and religious division. Delight in the harmonic shifts and expressive word painting of William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins, alongside works from vital composers Thomas Tallis and Josquin des Prez. Exploring the theme of courage through this lens, The Gesualdo Six trace the evolution of the madrigal form, leading to a selection of contemporary pieces that reinvent these time-honoured compositional techniques.

Exclusive to the Festival, this exquisite performance will also feature a very special finale in collaboration with Seumanu Simon Matāfai and the Auckland Gospel Choir.

★★★★★ “[A] mesmerising contrast between the purity, clarity and beauty of the singing... and its affective ferocity… [An] unforgettable concert.” — Limelight, Perth Festival

“The Gesualdo Six are outstanding, shifting impeccably from Renaissance polyphony to twenty-first century music.” — Seen and Heard International