Nelson Youth Choir is an independent, auditioned choir of young people from the ages of 12 – 23 years old from schools in the Nelson/Tasman area as well as home schooling, NMIT and paid employment. The choir was established in 2020 and sings a mixture of songs in three or four parts, performing at events and at their own concerts.
The members of Nelson Youth Choir are singing a selection of songs in concert to show their expertise in a range of harmony choral pieces, with extracts from musicals to gospel songs, anthems and a choral suite.
Their programme includes After The Wind by Canadian composer Nicholas Ryan Kelly, a song about finding peace amidst change, and Marta Keen’s gentle, nostalgic anthem Homeward Bound. A change of mood follows with songs from Jekyll & Hyde, a 1990 musical loosely based on the 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Found/Tonight, a mash-up charity single of two popular musical theatre tracks from Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen. Proceeds from the single were donated to the anti gun violence movement. The choir sings the lively gospel song By an’ by, and the haunting Frozen Choral Suite of Heimr Arnadalr, Vuelie, The Great Thaw, used in the Disney animated film Frozen, together with other favourites.
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